Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Is anyone interested in starting this?

I am but it takes two.

The most advice I ever get about being a father are from those who are not fathers.

This is not intended to be as facetious as it sounds but the ones who aren't do indeed think about fatherhood more than those that are. Those that are don't have time to think.

When love with one another so Interinanimates two souls, That abler soul, which thence doth flow, Defects of loneliness controls. We then, who are this new soul, know Of what we are compos'd and made, For th' atomies of which we grow Are souls. whom no change can invade. But oh alas, so long, so fa...

Well, it wasn't necessary.

I was just curious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace

This was written almost two years before his death. I first learned about it from a drunk friend who called to tell me. His,my drunk friend, words still ring with a certain truth for me, "He was the best writer of our generation."

Matt Yglesias, in a recent post about the administration's "debate" over whether to bomb Iran, wisely included a random photograph of an Iranian street with civilians walking on it. These are the people Norm Podhoretz and his comrades want to slaughter: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_MnYI3_FRbbQ/SjeGInJp...

sometimes i look at prose style work, chopped up into lines and i wonder why. I prefer that to half-formed thoughts put on a page with no real syntactical arrangement at all. I could be wrong, but I think the attempt here is to create a tension between the sentence and the line. That's what I usual...

okay

People, they are smaller than they're used to Being, aren't they? David Foster Wallace Thinks so. Wallace doesn't say it, not in Essays written for Atlantic Monthly , Rolling Stone , Premier , or Harper's ― "Host" is Wildly post-post-something, wear your glasses When perusing that one. No, he doesn'...

The essential difference between the two is cognitive limitation and chance, where the Determinists view everything has a cause but it's our limitations as thinking human beings which present the difficulty of reasoning. The Indeterminists view Evolutionary Theory as something too complex to fully ...

The irony of probability

There is no irony here. Did you not read the same essay I read?

irrelevant to the point that Shanahan made.

You posted it. Not me.

Okay.

I don't understand.

Why post it if not to read it?

I've read it. Is that a bad thing?

Not sure why you posted this here but it looks like fun. I haven't had time to read the whole article yet but I'll try to give you my initial stance: Because mutation takes place at the quantum level, evolution is, at bottom, indeterministic. The problem with this stance is that indeterminism is oft...