Anaxagoras on Mind

The Concept of Fractal Cosmos: I. Anaxagoras’ Cosmology

Despite the lack of empirical evidence some presocratic Greek thinkers did not hesitate to speculate on a spacially infinite universe. This should not come as a surprise, since the idea of infinite appears tightly bound with the concept of an universe, though not necessarily with the construct of the cosmos. Ancient thinkers did not reach this idea easily, however, since the concept did not app...

Moore on the Mind

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DARPA on your mind.

Applied science may once again play a decisive role in changing the face of armed conflict, and the rest of human affairs, by shifting the battlefield to our very brains. The national-security establishment--and particularly the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)--supports research at the intersection of neuroscience and national security that could ultimately enable a...

On Poetry and Mind

Windows on the mind.

flicking from left to right in small hops, bringing each word sequentially into focus. When you stare at a person’s face, your eyes will similarly dart here and there, resting momentarily on one eye, the other eye, nose, mouth and other features. With a little introspection, you can detect this frequent flexing of your eye muscles as you scan a page, face or scene. But these large voluntary eye...