By engaging in bailout after bailout, government bureaucrats in both parties perpetuate the system that is not working: special interest groups getting special treatment. Follow the consequences! By subsidizing failed but well-connected losers with a bailout we collectively are confiscating the necessary resources from productive and successful companies and tax paying members of the economy. [...]
Archive for November 26th, 2008
Bailouts support bad behavior… Don’t do it!
Posted in analysis of behavior, business strategy, economics, politics, tagged accountability, billions, bonuses, consequences, free markets, learning, special interest groups, successful work for the unsuccessful on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Consciousness Explained?
Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, brain, intelligent agent, philosophy, research, science, tagged alva noe, consciousness, philosophy on November 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is just about the best dialogue I’ve read on consciousness. Alva Noë’s model is plausible and falsifiable. And it correctly rejects the notion of internal motive events and the good ol’ mind/body duality. In many ways, the new thinking about consciousness and the brain is really just the old-fashioned style of traditional philosophical thinking [...]
