Thought this was pretty interesting: A psychologist called David Smith, who works at the University of Buffalo in New York state, has been working for some years with a bottlenose dolphin called Natua in a harbour in Florida. He trained the animal to press buttons depending upon the frequency of the sounds it was hearing. When the differences between the sounds was obvious, the dolphin had no problem (a snack ...
In an economic marketplace (at least in theory), the prices of goods and services are emergent. Market forces determine the relative worth of a product or service through a larger conversation about value, scarcity, transaction costs... This recent piece in the New York Times (written by a woman) on why 'guys' have more relationship value than 'men' really has me thinking: Guys are often in between things like jobs and ...
We know quite a bit about Bruce Lee. We know he began learning Wing Chun under Yip Man at age 13. We know he studied techniques from fencing, boxing and bodybuilding to develop his insane training regimen. We know he developed a fighting system called Jeet Kune Do that he was very reluctant to name. As a Bruce Lee fan, however, I am impatiently waiting for a neuroscientist to tell us ...
Between the perceiving mind and the perceived world, is there nothing in common? We call them disparate and incommensurable. Nature in evolving us makes them two parts of one mind, and that one mind is our own. We are the tie between them. Perhaps that is why we exist. Sir Charles Sherrington, 1935 --- Via Zann Gill Google talk, "Designing Innovation Networks Modeled on Life's Origins & Evolution"