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In: Left of the blue wall  — view comment
I saw an experiment investigating rats color discrimination. In it the rats are trained to associate food in a specific location with a blue light, th...
November 25, 2015 at 00:07
In: On the Essay: There is no Progress in Philosophy  — view comment
Hi Monitor, just teasing a little. I think science is expanding with new disciplines all the time, new areas of study. We seem driven to want to know,...
November 24, 2015 at 05:13
In: On the Essay: There is no Progress in Philosophy  — view comment
Answering that question.
November 24, 2015 at 03:26
In: On the Essay: There is no Progress in Philosophy  — view comment
Science's progress is divergent and human progress is convergent.
November 24, 2015 at 03:11
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Brussels is going through some anxious times. The public there has found a form of relief from its anxiety with cat photos! https://pbs.twimg.com/twee...
November 23, 2015 at 13:49
In: What's cookin?  — view comment
Sounds great! Bacon, sausage and brown sugar, are all naturals. What you might want to consider is a few different types of dipping sauces as a way to...
November 23, 2015 at 00:20
In: Is an armed society a polite society?  — view comment
BC Well, supposing along with you. Suppose you go into that same park with a gun handy, and ready. You see someone sitting on that rail fence. You go ...
November 22, 2015 at 22:26
In: Is an armed society a polite society?  — view comment
We live in the age of progress. Progress has become a secular Ideal. We collectively and individually strive/desire to become richer, healthier, happi...
November 22, 2015 at 21:54
In: Is an armed society a polite society?  — view comment
"In both cases we are judging the whole on the basis of the irrational actions of a minority of participants". — Cavacava --Sapientia Yes, I agree wit...
November 22, 2015 at 20:14
In: Is an armed society a polite society?  — view comment
I still don't know how to delete a post. Hit the wrong button. But I do want to say something about this. My father used to go to bed with a 38 at his...
November 21, 2015 at 19:58
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Coco Chanel's -Chanel
November 20, 2015 at 13:55
In: The Babble of Babies  — view comment
Yes, I agree with what you wrote. I think simple things such as an infants instinctual grasping of objects become cognitive over its maturation. If I ...
November 19, 2015 at 22:10
In: The Babble of Babies  — view comment
I don't think it is all about discrimination or elimination. It starts off as mimicry, cooing back to the mother. Discrimination or elimination seem t...
November 19, 2015 at 02:02
In: Just for kicks: Debate Fascism  — view comment
I think both Fascism and Totalitarianism are about control of the state, but Fascism seems to go beyond caring about the state, the state is only a me...
November 19, 2015 at 00:45
In: Missing features, bugs, questions about how to do stuff  — view comment
Note that my membership says subscription cancelled...not big deal, but I didn't cancel it.
November 18, 2015 at 19:27
In: Just for kicks: Debate Fascism  — view comment
Levinas wrote an essay around 1933, "Hitlerism", in it he suggests that Marx's transformation of German Idealism was interpreted by these Fascists as ...
November 18, 2015 at 06:10
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Antoine Leiris lost his wife in the Bataclan club. On Monday, he posted this message on Facebook: https://youtu.be/KaNdaajwhys
November 17, 2015 at 13:45
In: The Barycenter  — view comment
I find the physical description of the Barycenter center fantastic. The Barycenter of the earth and the moon is that point where these two celestial b...
November 17, 2015 at 05:59
In: Liberté, égalité, fraternité, et la solidarité.  — view comment
These attacks will force world governments to be more concerned about their security, more secretive and push us more towards a totalitarian form of s...
November 16, 2015 at 22:28
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
http://www.jeanjullien.com/img/news/1447459374-peace-for-paris/12243032-10156185695635693-8962473270057554752-n.jpg Peace for Paris Jean Jullen
November 15, 2015 at 20:41
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Hi John, I post on Tumblr because I find it is a convenient way to keep a virtual file of my work. Once it is on there it is easy to copy and paste to...
November 15, 2015 at 02:01
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Hey John, I like the painting very much. The color palette, all the forms, it looks very orgasmic and symbolic. What is the media?
November 14, 2015 at 00:39
In: The Ultimate Game of Hide and Seek  — view comment
BC, I agree with what you have said. The question: "Does the spirit of a congregation create the spirit of god, or is it "the call of the spirit of go...
November 13, 2015 at 18:39
In: Squirrels and philosophy: 11 degrees of separation  — view comment
Toffee, 21 to Philosophy 24 to Ontology
November 13, 2015 at 14:14
In: Welders or Philosophers?  — view comment
I saw this and I thought its sentiment kinda fits: An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that...
November 13, 2015 at 13:40
In: Bad Art  — view comment
MOS "I sort of have the feeling that "Warhol's laconic" is itself a 'readymade'" Yep. :) His color palette reflected the advertising colors used at th...
November 12, 2015 at 00:56
In: Bad Art  — view comment
Warhol's laconic "Art is what you can get away with" I think was directed at Duchamp's use of readymades. Warhol always played his bumbly persona for ...
November 11, 2015 at 13:35
In: Mr. Bean  — view comment
The Millennium Park has much to offer residents and visitors to the city. Jaume Piensa's Crown Fountains also create public space, but in a very diffe...
November 09, 2015 at 13:54
In: Particularism and Practical reason  — view comment
Several interesting views, and I agree with much that has been said. Kant (and others) ask what it means to be a moral agent, for him this must involv...
November 07, 2015 at 20:22
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
Hi BC thanks. I will look for 'Smart' Chicken. Temperature should not be a problem, chicken, turkey and duck are good from 165 to 175 degrees F. And s...
November 07, 2015 at 18:07
In: How should one think about Abstract Expressionism?  — view comment
Mark Rothko "From one angle I find works by Rothko and Pollock visually pleasing, but from other angles they can seem empty and dull. They attract con...
November 07, 2015 at 01:21
In: The Shoutbox  — view comment
I don't watch TV shows, except on Netflix, but she is hot. She does not have to say a thing, it wrecks the persona I have already imagined. ..so yea s...
November 07, 2015 at 01:02
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
Hi Baden, most of my work (3 yrs) is posted on Tumblr under name "Mermonk" an old PT Barnum scam, no web site.
November 04, 2015 at 23:36
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
I saw this tree on Palm Beach Island last March. It sits directly across from West Palm Beach and it reminded me of a kind of universe. https://40.med...
November 04, 2015 at 02:00
In: How should one think about Abstract Expressionism?  — view comment
In 1963 Robert Rauschenberg was on a bus trip in Texas, touring with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. He was the art director. Here is his statemen...
November 03, 2015 at 23:32
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
I put them on Tumblr first and then copy the URL on to the image box above.
November 03, 2015 at 01:41
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams, 1883 - 1963 so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. htt...
November 02, 2015 at 23:48
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
https://40.media.tumblr.com/90a66897bb0b5d5e90f6b0c08ade44bc/tumblr_nx73vvyHmb1rkbhqwo1_1280.jpg Baltimore, Ireland in September https://40.media.tumb...
November 02, 2015 at 16:21
In: Bad Art  — view comment
Duchamp's Fountain is anti-aesthetic. Duchamp's contextualizes a found object as art, many do not find it aesthetically pleasing, but as a conceptuali...
November 02, 2015 at 13:57
In: Get Creative!  — view comment
In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound, 1885 - 1972 The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. https://36.media.tumblr.co...
November 02, 2015 at 04:36
In: Dreaming.  — view comment
From Psychology Today 10/28/10 Dream time seems to enable our memory to consolidate what it has experienced during the day. If our experience of ficti...
November 01, 2015 at 21:48
In: Bad Art  — view comment
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ojCmnlX3--/18k1n4blnxg6kjpg.jpg From Gawker John Cook Filed to: MEMORIALS8/22/11 4:31pm Good or ba...
October 31, 2015 at 20:23
In: How should one think about Abstract Expressionism?  — view comment
Posted to wrong thread. Not sure how to delete.
October 31, 2015 at 20:18
In: How should one think about Abstract Expressionism?  — view comment
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October 31, 2015 at 20:05
In: Bad Art  — view comment
http://www.museumofbadart.org/coll3/image08.jpg "In the Cat's Mouth" part of the collection of the Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) http://www.museumofbadart....
October 31, 2015 at 14:54
In: Whose History?  — view comment
"1. The "common trait" between all histories involves the sense of consubstantiality of being ("everything is interlocked")." I wonder what is entaile...
October 29, 2015 at 21:45
In: bye!  — view comment
Hey Mongrel, I just got here and you are leaving? Best of wishes and good luck always! Maybe you will come back someday...soon.
October 29, 2015 at 20:12
In: The compatibility between science and spirituality  — view comment
All life is impressionable, and all life is part of the universe/nature, therefore Nature is in part impressionable. Nature changes and with the comin...
October 29, 2015 at 13:01
In: The Ultimate Game of Hide and Seek  — view comment
Child developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik: "The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life" "It...
October 29, 2015 at 03:31
In: Why be moral?  — view comment
"To make it simple. Explain to me the difference between these possible worlds: 1. No morality. 2. It is immoral to kill babies. 3. It is moral to kil...
October 28, 2015 at 22:14
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