Axis Praxis
I haven’t been writing much, and that is partly because I have been organizing weekly meetings devoted to computational neuroscience. Between January and July, my friends and I did a series on dynamical systems theory in neuroscience. I created a YouTube channel for the videos. Here’s the playlist for the dynamical systems series: This month [ ]
I ve decided to consolidate my various blogs in one place: yohanjohn.com I ll probably still cross-post philosophical musings here, but that will be my main online presence. I m also going to try out substack. For those who haven t heard about it yet, it s sort of like blogs+rss but you sign up by email and get posts [ ]
Implants + Internet = ImplanTelepathy™! There will be quite a few threats and opportunities facing humanity in the next few decades. They are often relatively easy to speculate about, and even draw historical analogies with. For example, shortages of food and water will cause major strife around the world. Climate change will cause chaos and [ ]
This is the first in a planned series of posts on Terrence Deacon s book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter. I m calling it the Deactionary, since Deacon is fond of coining new terms and redefining old ones. Deacon outlines an ambitious goal: understanding the emergence of consciousness from insensate matter. Of course, not everyone [ ]
Terrence W. Deacon s 2012 book Incomplete Nature is a bold attempt to conceptualize the emergence of life and mind using a consistent physicalist framework. I put the term physicalist in scare-quotes because one of the appealing quirks of the book and perhaps one that isn t given enough attention despite a length of 500+ pages [ ]