Tag Archives: cybernetics
13 Jun The Mind and its Brain
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Mind-Brain Dualism While brains can be weighed, minds are weightless. Despite some differences of opinion about what all to put on the scale, we can get usable numbers about brain weight and changes in brain weight due to certain phenomena such as changes in age. Of course, the mind and brain may be one and the same – there […]
11 Jun Dawn of The Age of Knowledge
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Sunset in The Information Age We stand in the waning days of the Information Age. Certainly the information already available to the searching mind through printed, recorded, and encoded electronic media spans the universe of fact and imagination. I have been told that we are now entering the Age of Context. This is exciting to […]
09 Jun What’s the Point (of this blog)?
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Knowledge Glut? Too many of us are stuck on the on-ramp of the information superhighway, waiting to get on. The highway seems to be moving from my vantage point, but there is this guy stopped at the top of the ramp. Sometimes you just have to get out and walk. By the way, this photo shows […]