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via neuronarrative.wordpress.com A the­ory that emo­tion is one of the ear­li­est attrib­utes that evolved in the genome. Emo­tion is, in fact, a rudi­men­tary sys­tem that we have to adapt to the more com­plex sys­tems, such as cul­ture and civ­i­liza­tion, that have evolved to help assure the best pos­si­ble behav­iors for the prop­a­ga­tion of the species.

via ahistoryofnewyork.com An adver­tise­ment for the first Macy’s Thanks­giv­ing Day Parade. Ele­phants! Bears! Mon­keys! The first bal­loon? Felix the Cat in 1927. Live ani­mals fell by the way­side. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream

Some months later, after going on with the Cen­sus Bureau full-time, Ade­laide will be sit­ting in a vast room in Man­hat­tan with a hun­dred other women, work­ing through the cen­sus sheets from other dis­tricts in New York City, cal­cu­lat­ing the sums of each page and plac­ing the sheets in great binders that are orga­nized by […]

Just how bound up nat­ural beauty is with art beauty is con­firmed by the expe­ri­ence of the for­mer. For it, nature is exclu­sively appear­ance, never the stuff of labor and the repro­duc­tion of life, let alone the sub-stratum of sci­ence. Like the expe­ri­ence of art, the aes­thetic expe­ri­ence is that of images. Nature, as appearing […]

via mjperry.blogspot.com More peo­ple, liv­ing longer, con­sum­ing more resources, increas­ing com­pe­ti­tion, dri­ves inno­va­tion. I look back over my life­time and believe that the sin­gle biggest force of change has been the growth of the U.S. pop­u­la­tion from 150 mil­lion to 300 mil­lion and the global pop­u­la­tion from about 3 bil­lion to 7 bil­lion. One major […]

via tsutpen.blogspot.com Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream

Seed Mag­a­zine has a post elab­o­rat­ing on the phe­nom­e­non of the uncanny val­ley, and con­nect­ing the writ­ing of Freud and the gen­e­sis of the con­cept of the uncanny val­ley from Masahiro Mori with the recent work from Asif Ghaz­an­far. The hypoth­e­siz­ing about the uncanny value has focused on the premise of human­ness, the essence of […]

“At the moment when human beings cut them­selves off from the con­scious­ness of them­selves as nature, all pur­poses for which they keep them­selves alive — social progress, the height­en­ing of mate­r­ial and intel­lec­tual forces, indeed con­scious­ness itself — becomes void, and the enthrone­ment of the means as an end, which in late cap­i­tal­ism is taking […]

I have looked in a mir­ror and won­dered who that is. I’ve caught a glimpse of a man­nequin as I’ve turned a cor­ner on a dark, wet night and felt uneasy. This is the val­ley effect. The object looks too real but is too flawed. It is encroach­ing on the space of human­ness. The discomfort […]

via behance.net “The con­trol of inter­nal and exter­nal nature has been made the absolute pur­pose of life.“ The Dialec­tic of Enlight­en­ment If we had a brain that was orga­nized into Socratic func­tions, the ten­sion between Nature and nature would be less con­flicted… Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream