This is a very interesting article from Julie Sedivy at Nautilus that riffs on another article from Nautilus, by Elizabeth Svoboda, The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus. The latter article presents recent genetic research that weakens (at best) or refutes (at worst) Noam Chomsky’s universal grammar hypothesis (which, aside from Geoffrey Sampson, George Lakoff, and … Read more
Cool video, posted at Mind Hacks (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License). About the film: Info: facebook.com/narcosebluenery Deep water freediving exposes its practitioners to a form of narcosis, which induces several symptoms, among which a feeling of euphoria and levity that earned this phenomenon its nickname of “raptures of the deep”. The short film relates … Read more
This is a very cool article in which philosopher Alva Noë looks at one of my favorite films through a perspective I have never taken or even considered – the film is about the act of coming to realize that something is wrong. It’s clear something is wrong long before Rosemary is able to … Read more