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The University, now - my alma mater - pestering me with worthless stuff.

The University is pleased to announce that Professor Daniel C. Dennett, Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, is the next speaker in our Enlightenment Lecture Series.

Educated at Harvard and Oxford, a fellow of Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dennett is considered one of the pre-eminent philosophers of the 20th/21st century.

His widely-read works include "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life" (1996), "Freedom Evolves" (2003), and an examination of religious belief, "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" (2006).

This event is presented as part of our Enlightenment Lecture Series and is free, but ticketed.You can find out more, and book online at:http://www.ed.ac.uk/enlightenment/?eml

I ask you - why on earth would that be of interest to anybody?

*Ticket booked*

Current Mood: pleased
Current Location: the boxroom
Current Music: NMA - Ballad of Bodmin Pill

A paper on the cutaneous rabbit experiment (among other things) and the many-drafts theory of mind. :

http://www.bbsonline.org/documents/a/00/00/04/50/bbs00000450-00/bbs.dennett.html

Apparently there's an auditory analogue of the cutaneous rabbit experiment, involving placement of sounds in the stereo field.

From this page, todays winner of the "most gratuitous sarcastic comment in an otherwise serious webpage" award :

Allspice takes its name from its aroma, which smells like a combination of spices, especially cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg. In much of the world, allspice is called pimento because the Spanish mistook the fruit for black pepper, which the Spanish called pimienta. This is especially confusing since the Spanish had already called chillies pimientos. Lets also thank the Spanish for centuries of linguistic confusion created by naming all the natives they met ‘Indians’.