For the City Mice who have no idea what you’re looking at, I shall explain. These stumps are evidence of beavers. Using their rather large incisors, they have ‘chopped’ down a whole bunch of trees and have dragged them to the location of their lodge. These are actually rather small sized trees– I’ve seen much
“The turkey vulture not only acts but looks as if it had been born in a garbage can and doused with slop and ashes.” American Wildlife Illustrated (1953) These are black vultures, which are described as “another unbeautiful bird.” Little known fact, vultures are protected by law because they are migratory birds. In some regions,
I am at a meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SSPP). This particular session is on Neural Tools. I was going to skip the first talk but I’m glad I didn’t. The image is of the inside of a cell, taken with some fancy crystallography tool. Beautiful, isn’t it? If you remember
Chat with some famous… [checks email] Japanese neuroscientist coming up shortly. Need to buy a new television. Feel as if I need to look forward to something being delivered to day but cannot remember what. Listened to Dvořák’s New World Symphony last evening. That was nice.
Looks as if it must have been delivered to E. 5th St. at least twice if not three times. Arrived at E. 10th St. today. Miss M advises me to put the apartment # on separate line. No idea who lives at 2505 E. 5th St. but it was nice of them to not just
So this is how I compromised: That pic of a slide rule is gone. I can do much better. In the read through of The Companion Book Mr. Big Food took exception to my exposition of how slide rules work. And I did not want to omit talk of logarithms. so this is what I
Late yesterday afternoon I thought I had finished The Companion Book. The Prairie voles were a struggle. Access to the Mississippi State Library requires that some algorithm sends Mr. Big Food’s phone a push– whatever that is… blah blah blah. The 1978 paper I needed and searched for is only in the stacks. That was
In the next book, which is currently being written in my brain, Miss Missy’s School will take a field trip to Rainwater Observatory in French Camp, Mississippi. The question is, which of these two programs should we request? There are telescopes under the domes!
Not a single primary primary reference regarding their behavior. Larry & Zuoxin. 2004. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I think I’m going to go pick Hungarian peppers and try to not think about the state of the universe.
Also did this over the weekend in between video taping the Italian post-doc and Mr. Big Food’s 3-minute 200mb poster blurb which had to be whittled down to 44mb. A slide rule is a handheld mechanical devise used to make mathematical calculations. The modern version was invented in 1859, but older versions were around in
I am not kidding, I have tears in my eyes. This is such a beautiful study. And they just don’t do it this way anymore which is a real shame. Yeah, yeah. It has confounds galore and probably no power but so what? Think of what’s to come.
I can’t say I’m proud of this– except for the fact that most of the 17 books on my desk right now were employed in finishing Miss Missy’s School— but this is real life. The bottom left was a nice change of pace. Mr. Big Food is giving a poster presentation at the Philosophy of
2 X 3 = 6 Came with a very nice leather case. I GOT IT!! Kinda sorta. Oh. For you youngins, it’s called a slide rule. It’s how we did math– all math– before the invention of the handheld calculator. Also in the mail today, Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book 1766-1826. Carry on!
This actually sounds interesting but it started an hour ago and I’m not inclined to jump into a zoom meeting an hour late and two cups down. Mr. Big Food is in the Bunkhouse participating. He can tell me all about it. Title: Temporal Binding as a Marker of Causal Cognition in Non Human Animals
Originally posted February 2018. Do try the exercise. It’s fun! For every observable property φ conceived by us to be an objective feature of the world, we must concede the possibility that φ be sensorily detected by means other than the particular means used by us. Paul Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, Cambridge University
“I can remember Bertrand Russell telling me of a horrible dream. He was in the top floor of the University Library, about A.D. 2100 . A library assistant was going round the shelves carrying an enormous bucket, taking down books, glancing at them, restoring them to the shelves or dumping them into the bucket. At
The Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Workshop III has concluded. “Life returns to normal,” she said rolling on the floor and laughing her a*^ off.
And crappy old books. Get this. Mr. Big Food has [shudder] two empty bookshelves. Headphones ran out of electrons. Fortunately, I brought along a few extra packages of them. Department of Redundancy Department. More highlights of the day– just as we were walking out of the house today the lights went out. Will they be
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