Spacecog

Friday, December 12, 2003

JimF has just enlightened me on his use and etymology of the phrase: "I don't say anything". Something about Hemingway starting it and Bret Easton Ellis taking it and overusing it.

I haven't read anything by this Ellis guy, so i'm unable to comment infallibly on this information. So, official Deckchair Rating:

Plausible

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Books wormed through in 2007

Peter Gärdenfors: How Homo became Sapiens
William Bechtel: Discovering Cell Mechanisms
Pentti Haikonen: Robot Brains - Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines
William Bechtel & Adele Abrahamsen: Connectionism and the Mind
Mark Wagner: The Geometries of Visual Space
C. Freksa, W. Brauer, C. Habel & K.F. Wender (eds.): Spatial Cognition II: Integrating Abstract Theories, Empirical Studies, Formal Methods, and Practical Applications.
Shah & Miyake (eds.): The Cambridge Handbook of Visuospatial Thinking
Evan Thompson: Mind in Life
Jean Petitot et al. (eds): Naturalizing Phenomenology
Colin Tudge: The Variety of Life
Michael Morgan: The Space Between our Ears
Graham Nerlich: The Shape of Space
Max Jammer: Concepts of Space
Henry Stapp: Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics
Richard Sole & Brian Goodwin: Signs of Life
Uri Alon: An Introduction to Systems Biology
Peter Gärdenfors: Conceptual Spaces: the Geometry of Thought
Simon Conway Morris: The Crucible of Creation
Pentti Haikonen: The Cognitive Approach to Conscious Machines
Charles Spence & Jon Driver (eds.): Crossmodal Space and Crossmodal Attention
Kim Sterelny: Thought in a Hostile World
Andy Clark: Being There
Andrew Knoll: Life on a Young Planet
Ronald Langacker: Concept, Image, and Symbol
Gilles Fauconnier & Mark Turner: The Way We Think
Steve Quartz &Terry Sejnowski: Liars, Lovers and Heroes
Scott Camazine et al.:Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Evan Thompson: Colour Vision
Terrence Deacon: The Symbolic Species
Rafael Nunez & Walter Freeman (eds.): Reclaiming Cognition