http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/30/2010/
Walter (From my phone)
Afghanistan – NYT with Google
Interesting page, finally New York Times has a page that makes sense online! I guess it will update as life goes on, an interesting development. It might help both their business models but not the world. Here is a more pertinent summary.
Summary: In a major policy move, President Obama has committed 30,000 more United States troops to Afghanistan but added he would begin drawing out American forces there starting in July 2011. But administration officials have since scrambled to defend that withdrawal schedule. Some lawmakers voiced skepticism. Mr. Obama’s decision is likely to prove to be a defining one for his administration. The policy also leaves unanswered the question of whether Afghan President Hamid Karzai will met the challenge and how to respond if he does not. The strategy’s success may ultimately be determined in an unruly region that straddles the Afghan-Pakastani border.
Supreme fiction
I listened to a podcast today from the ABC on Claude Levi Strauss (W) and made connections with what I think of as Korzybski’s somewhat phenomenological ideas, so I searched for the connection and found one, guess who?:
(Quote follows & some references to books I’d like to follow up on here too)
Continue reading “Supreme fiction”
Postmodern Thought
A list of philosophers. Links to info and bits about them all. The Frankfurt School is listed in one clump.
Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
I was pleased to see Ivan Illich, Walter Benjamin on the list among dozens whose names are familiar.
J.L. Moreno on Copyright
A snippet quoting Moreno follows from the Federation of Eastern European Psychodrama Training Organisations! (other interesting stuff too in that little journal.)
I think he would have liked the Creative Commons license I use for this blog and my sketches, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License that allows their unaltered non-profit use.
FEPTO – Federation of Eastern European Psychodrama Training Organisation
Quote follows.
classical physics cannot accommodate the phenomenon of consciousness
Stephen Wood is critical of the physical, materialist, linear approach which does not come close to consciousness as an experience. OK, but it does shed light on some things. This essay seems to be a confusion of hypothesis and solution, he returns to mysticism and religion, all fine, it is a mystery… it sure is, but there is not much that is new there.
The Holographic Principle and the Evolution of Consciousness:
By Stephen Wood
Quantum physicist Henry Stapp (1997) has argued persuasively that classical physics cannot accommodate the phenomenon of consciousness, because it deals with independent entities that are localized in spacetime. In classical physics, one can only conceive of disjointed physical events in various places in the brain, with no experiential unity. Our conscious experience demands a quantum theory of the mind, which allows for instantaneous interaction between the various elements of the brain. The Holographic Principle is the information theory of such quantum fields. Let us briefly discuss the nature of quantum theory and its connection with the Holographic Principle.
Dynamical Psychology
Promising website and organisation? Kurt Lewin, Holographic Mind, etc.
Dynamical Psychology, Table of Contents:
Dynamical Psychology An International, Interdisciplinary Journal of Complex Mental Processes
Cyberpsychology Journal 2009
Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace:
Dear colleagues and readers interested in research on Cyberspace, I am glad to introduce you to the latest issue of “Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace” (2-2009, volume 3). I am happy to be able to report that this issue confirms the interdisciplinary and international character of our journal.
Directory of Open Access Journals: Psychology
A comparison of psychoanalytic and psychodramatic theory
A comparison of psychoanalytic and psychodramatic theory from a psychodramatist’s perspective Abstract A comparison of Freud’s and Moreno’s theories with regard to their implications for psychodrama therapy. Basic differences in the theories are discussed with special regard to therapist role, transference and tele, insight and catharsis, the time concept, the body, and developmental psychology. Other topics treated are concepts of drive or energy, psychic structure and role theory, psychic determinism contra the doctrine of spontaneity-creativity and differences between an intrapsychic and an interpersonal approach. An outline of the relationship of psychodrama and its philosophy and practice to other schools of psychotherapy is given.
[stextbox id=”custom” caption=”Lars Tauvon – Citation”]Author: Lars Tauvon DOI: 10.1080/09515070110092316 Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year Published in: journal Counselling Psychology Quarterly, Volume 14, Issue 4 December 2001 , pages 331 – 355 Subjects: Counseling; Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology – Adult; Formats available: PDF (English) Article Requests: Order Reprints : Request Permissions Single Article Purchase: US$30.00[/stextbox]
I’ll see if I can get this through the library.
Later
Yes I got it as a member of the Canterbury Public library, here.