Amateur and Expert Practice - Cognitive Humanities. I recently spoke at a Cognitive Humanities conference in Oxford. Always my favourite conference of the year because of the fascinating talks, challenges to my thinking, and excellent dancing! Oxford Cognitive Humanities 2015. About Our Access to the World.

Ideas for a poetics and aesthetics. This could be read as notes and drafts and a media arts project. Sunday, June 23, 2013. Some more short lyric like fragment for BBQ. I do not see it as a problem or wrong doing to provide an archive with this blog of the way Barbecue. This sort of collage and mosaic method rests as much on the poetics being put together, revised and rewritten as the final printed versions may be. Embellishment as the words are passed along.

The latest news from author Adam Roberts. Adam Roberts is the author of a growing number of science fiction novels, short stories, essays and other writings. This site contains not just his blog, but everything you could ever want to know about everything Adam has ever published. Caroline Edwards and me, 12th May 2015.

Why the Turing Test is Bogus. Something, not just intelligence for its own sake.

Analyses and Essays from a Neo-Aristotelian Point of View. My post of February 17, 2015, I continued my discussion of the problem of universals.

A Little Tag End of the World. Struggling to join the dots between systems theory, transcendental philosophy, aesthetics and other speculations. Saturday, 28 February 2015. In that famous line from The Communist Manifesto. Thursday, 4 September 2014. Mel Brimfield and cosmic jokes.

Civilization creates its own fatal disease which is the predominance of popular notions over realistic ones. This disease proves difficult to diagnose because it is invisible, intangible and omnipresent. Like a virus in a computer network, it spreads through any and every program, elusive in its lack of a center to attack. What is in reality, so it is inherently.

A blog around the idea that metaphysics can take on a notion of reality that is up for grabs - and unbound. Tuesday, 12 May 2015. My talk tomorrow at the Hegel-McDowell conference. Asking ontological questions about what senses deliver. 3 What would be the broader import for perception of the .