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monkey do : the banana builders

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Dave

What if monkeys descended from us and not vice-versa. Devolution or evolution? It seems to be the case that millions of monkeys typing for millions of years would type zilch. Not even a normal sentence of 40 characters. Not even … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin monkeys, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Daniel Dennett, herb terrace, james marsh project nim, Lucas van Valckenborch, Nim the monkey, Nin the monkey, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, project nim, Tower of Babel | Leave a comment

by the seat of the pants

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Dave

We often think that our intuition, and so called gut reactions, the businessman’s “seat of the pants” reflections leading to a course of action are invariably and intrinsically true and authentic; infallible sources connected to some primal verity embedded within … Continue reading →

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biden: public language private meaning?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Dave

Is speech immaterial to meaning? Is there a self-defeating impossibility of public discourse and are meaning of strings of words simply a ritual in the community sense of the argument? The only way to substantiate the dialog coming from a … Continue reading →