another fascinating article that I just liberated from Instapaper, about the implications of modern brain science for the justice system. Don't take as long as I did to read it.

I just released this from instapaper jail! It's very good. It was published nine months ago.

This is strange and confusing. "Our natural visual experience is like watching a movie," says the lead researcher, but what they tested with was trailers. (<a href="http://waxy.org">via</a>)

'"Society of Mind" - the idea that the conscious mind is an emergent process resulting from multiple independent sub-cognitive processes working in parallel'

I'm not sure I buy it.

too true

reactionary but thought-provoking. bare minimum answer = basic media literacy

argues that brain training games don't work, and that physical exercise is better

"pure reason is a disease"

some of these are OBVIOUS

strange! I just watched the Buffy episode "Hush" last night, about the whole town losing their voices