If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A good friend forwarded me this wonderful and very popular TED talk from a couple of years ago:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html
It’s well worth watching – she’s a brain researcher who had a massive stroke – and studied it as it happened.  A fascinating [...]

Tuli Kupferberg died yesterday.  While his contribution to the history of punk music, the antiwar movement, the American counterculture and Lower East Side scene of the 60′s is immeasurable, he’s played a special role in my life.  In November 1994, a friend of mine liberated a few albums from the vault of a certain college [...]

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View From The Strangers’ Gallery is an oratorio that illustrates important current topics in cognitive science.  I set out to find a musical language to represent the simultaneous and “multitrack” nature of “processes of interpretation and elaboration of sensory inputs” as described by the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett in Consciousness Explained and other works.  By [...]

My art photography and short films have been exhibited throughout the country at art galleries, film festivals, and philosophy conferences.  These include several gallery showings, as well as presentations at the SciArt festival in London, the ASCI festival in New York, and a lecture on philosophy of mind at the Association for the Scientific Studies [...]