http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs A garden full of ideas which will be hopefully selected and nurtured by the collective intelligence of cyberspace Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:12:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jonah Leher’article on willpower is a perfect exemple of the utter emptiness of the current brain rethoric which endlessly repeat that the brain is THE cause of any mental phenomena. Where do you go with such an idea ? Seemingly nowhere since neuropreach has just this one leitmotiv : « it happens ... http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs/?p=15 The first paragraph is a beautiful piece of propaganda for neuroscience :   Recent advances in the neuroscience of emotions are high­lighting connections between cognitive and emotional func­tions that have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of learning in the context of schools. (p.3)   Nothing explains such a statement, so this paragraph ... http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs/?p=12 Let's come to deal with the first article's abstract . It's a gold mine with nice sprinkles. Immordino-Yang & Damasio make here two strong assertions. This is the first: "the neurobiological evidence suggests that the aspects of cognition that we recruit most heavily in schools, namely learning, attention, memory, decision making, and social ... http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs/?p=11 A colleague of mine recently handed me two articles dealing with neurosciences and education. After their takeover bid attempt of psychology, neurosciences are coveting education as a possible conquest for their empire. Sadly enough, less and less people seems able to judge this discourse for what it is: a pure rhetoric ... http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs/?p=10 Salvador@ECAP2008 (follow the link for the slides) Sorry for my long absence. I’m that kind of man who can deal with only one task at a time, and I have had too many of them recently. I gave a talk on values in Marocco four weeks ago and some days later, ... http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs/?p=8 In 1963, Magoroh Maruyama issued in the American Scientist a beautiful article devoted to positive feedback processes. It was entitled "The Second Cybernetics: Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes » and had been refused 10 times before acceptance (see Per Nyfelt). Maruyama’s idea was that « since its inception, cybernetics ... http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs/?p=7 As I said in my previous post, the essence of life is... reproduction ! But what about creativity? Sure enough, life is the most creative process ever. But no one can deny that the whole process of life is supported by reproduction. Don't you think there is a paradox here ... http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs/?p=6 Thanks to the gentle pressure of Jean Sallantin, the organizer of the next European Conference on Computing and Philosophy that will take place in Montpellier, France from 16 to 18th of June, I have tried to express more precisely what is a garden of ideas. You will find below ... http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs/?p=5 Ideas have a life of their own. They reproduce, develop and die. Hence the possibility of a garden of ideas. But what are ideas? I would here suggest that ideas are just a part of action, since "the deed is everything" as Nietzsche said. Ideas are important because they determine (and propel us ... http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs/?p=4 I love this sentence. It's seems meaningless, with a scent of foolishness. But it is so profound. It goes deep into the mysteries of the human psyche. It goes straight to the essence of human cognition, which is .... recognition, i.e., the fact that we are constantly checking our perception ... http://www.theinvariantgardener.org/blogs/?p=3