Bruce Charlton's Notions

* No spoilers. I bought this novella having seen the recommendation from Adam Greenwood: http://www.jrganymede.com/2014/04/14/awake-in...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/all-modern-geniuses-will-probably-be.html *

* As someone who was raised as a socialist, who imbibed the history of the movement and the legends of Trades Unions struggle, I was appal...

* Robert Conquest's Second Law states that: Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. http://w...

* Is Hobbes alive, or is the whole thing in Calvin's imagination - and therefore a delusion? Does it matter? Or, is there another ...

* Unlike the (solar) day and year and the (lunar) month - the week (of seven days) is a socio-cultural construct of arbitrary length - pre...

* Continuing from: http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-bass-part-of-music.html * Double Bass It has great, unmatche...

* Francis Schaeffer used to say - I am casting stones into a pond and making ripples that go on forever... I think about [my family] - e...

* Posted, with Comments - at: http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-evolution-of-genius-solved.html **

* The use of the term The Cathedral to refer to the complex of modern upper class institutions (focused on elite universities, media, offi...

* It is worth drawing-attention to the neglected fact that modern advertizing, as a Mass Media phenomenon, is evil in its overall motivat...

* It is the mainstream, high status and ruling elite position nowadays to disbelieve in 'the supernatural' as a matter of prior co...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/cognitive-neurointelligence-agenda-for.html *

* A few days ago I watched the pilot episode of the TV comedy M*A*S*H - viewed now (in contrast with my atheist teenage impression) it was...

* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ap9sNjz8L0 There are plenty of versions on YouTube which are better sung (or sung at all ) but this ve...

* An excerpt from my forthcoming book http://addictedtodistraction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/excerpt-from-conclusions-withdrawal-and.html ...

* http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-need-for-case-studies-in.html *

* We are such entities and we live in such a world that we will do wrong, over and again, in small things and in large.Life is a process o...

* There has been, for about 60 years, a constant and unidirectional falling into apostasy among Christian religious leaders - they become ...

* Atheists are unserious, but then so are Christians and so am I. Face it: Human beings are not serious - or, at least, not for long and...

* It is interesting, and probably significant, that as a society we have a prominent rhetoric of the importance of the individual - and an...