What's the engine, what's the deed?
I am pondering the relationship, sethren, but I’ll be brief, between act and concept. Which is at the heart of human behaviour? Like, among human beings, ordinary human beings, us, not great...
View ArticleHalf-second stutter in the metaverse
Forget, for the moment, the previous taxonomy, sethren.Demon thing act concept mapnarrative praxis CultureIf knapping a flint is the act, and arrow-head is the concept, then the...
View ArticleMythrule
Consider this paradox, sethren. We are, as far as we know, the most intelligent species in our universe. The history of our evolution goes back nine billion years, older than our sun. I say this...
View ArticleDual inheritance, Sir Isaac Newton and the tale of Nob
The myth at the centre of Shakespeare’s Othello is that of the cuckold, the husband with horns on his head whose wife is playing elsewhere. There is a deep biological root here. A child has two...
View ArticleCharisma
Quick aside, sethren, nowt to do with Othello. Natural pedagogy, in fact. Aphorisms, like.A charismatic human being is the best environment Evoculture can exploit. The charisma is part of the...
View ArticlePraxis, the root of theory
Sethren, winter is back again and where I have been I know not. My robes are stained, I have a copious and hacking cough, my mouth is dry, I shiver, I have a significant contusion on my left temple,...
View ArticleGroup selection poleaxed
Not a red herring - Britannica 1911 Sethren, there is a little more to say on Praxis, but there is a beast lurking beyond the ringroad, a lumpen beast, shapeless, miasmic, rough, slouching towards us,...
View ArticleThe Pentecostal bicycle
Sethren, I have gone up to the mountain. Not Sinai, but Malham Cove, where many pilgrims were gathered for Whit Sunday. And I saw miracles of nature, the breeding Peregrine, skylarks, the mountain...
View ArticleNeither group nor kin: how altruism arises in Homo sapiens
Sethren, I have spent the night reading. You must excuse me if I forego the usual honeyed pleasantries. I'm fucked. Here is the final word on group selection. The red herring is rotten, good...
View ArticleWhat next?
Sethren, that’s the Jeroan taxonomy dealt with. So what? you will say. Just stood up like that, it don’t amount to a can of beans. Why you should say that in an American accent, sethren, I do not...
View ArticleFor the short months of summer, adieu
Moi Sethren, summer has come at last, and it is time for me to go on pilgrimage, to wend eastward from Huddersfield, beyond even Grimsby, further than the North Sea, to the lands of the Franks, the...
View ArticleFlipped
et encore, moe - Brtiannica 1911Should you for some reason wish to read all this in the right order, sethren, it is here: each word set down by my faithful amanuensis in the order that I spake it.
View ArticlePhoto of a demon
Quick post, sethren, in some haste. The wolves are after me, because I am about to reveal the idiocy of the symbolic realm, as in, "there is evidence that Neanderthals entered the symbolic realm"....
View ArticleJero's Demon
Jero's demon at rest Sethren, one of my disciples, oh yes, that learned lady with the complicated name, has pointed out that in my last revelation concerning how a piece of kindling wood may become a...
View ArticleTour de France, Yorkshire, 2014
Tour. What tour? Tour of where?France thou numbskull. What other TourMight you find in Yorkshire, it’s silver cliffs of limestoneTurning to mustard and brown somewhere around Malham?What other Tour...
View ArticleRunning ape meets Evoculture
Knuckle, senescent white male Time, sethren, to consider the organism. The organism. Raise your right index finger where you can see it clearly. Keep it there, and rotate it clockwise as seen if...
View ArticleThrottle people, make bread and love
Skellig Michael - Wikimedia commons Supposing all you say is so, so what? We are still beset by unwholesome weather, and eat muck. And now we have been told by our noble leader that social...
View ArticleConcepts. And hyperbollocks in eleven dimensions
Sethren, I return even thinner than I left. MadamMeMe’sMeatyBits will seem to me as the cherries of Paradise. No fucker told me that the holy monastery of Skellig Michael has been a ruin since the...
View ArticleDemon, act, concept; a circularity appears
What, you may ask, is the difference between a concept and an act?Apple tree; damn concept, damn demonThe high-jumper clears the bar before she starts her run-up. It is an act that takes place...
View ArticleThe neural substrate; astrocytes and information theory
How the brain was in 1911 - Encyclopaedia Britannica I left concept and demon as a Mobius strip. That way is disaster. Salvation may lie, I suspect, sethren, in information theory and astrocytes....
View ArticleThe Mobius strip untwisted, enter the ideoverse
Sethren, through the long hours of the night I wrestled, and could see no way forward, and was in despair. Then this morning, creeping into the town library for a little warmth, I read a review by...
View ArticleSee God, time to play
Shiva and Parvati (and Nandi, leant on) - Wiki Sethren, it has been a long climb. Now we are at the top of the mountain, face to face with God. Who is a very big demon indeed. About the same size...
View ArticleOur Story
A thingA bit of prophecy, you put a finger on the source of doom, and they block their ears, turn their backs on you and shamble off. Nothing for it but reason. And what is reason? It is a praxis,...
View ArticleJesus Saves, Kill Sodomites: a note on narrative function
A narrative is a distributed locus of stability. It is a structure that inhibits variation. It is an agglomeration of acts in the metaverse from which stories can be derived. A story evolves by...
View ArticleDear Alex
Here’s where I am. All theory must be built on physical data, sensorily perceived. Faraday did the experiments, Maxwell developed equations to describe those data, Einstein explored the equations...
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