MetaFilter posts tagged with thought

Thought Suppression

homunculus — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:21:52 -0800

Why Thought Suppression is Counter-Productive: How pushing a thought out of consciousness can bring it back with a vengeance. [Via]

Beyond the Reach of God

WCityMike — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:25:36 -0800

Beyond the Reach of God. Thought experiments involving the God-universe and the Nature-universe, the Turing-complete Game of Life, and a lot of insightful back-and-forth in the comment section, to boot. One of the most interesting and thought-provoking essays I've read on the Internet in a very long time, by Eliezer Yudkowsky on his blog, Overcoming Bias (via).

Literacy & Thought

Gyan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:03:06 -0800

Twilight of the Books - What will life be like if people stop reading? [print version] [NEA's report To Read or Not To Read] [Walter J. Ong digital collection]

Metafilter has a front page. This is a post. Post is on the front page. Post is about language.

Gyan — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:00:00 -0800

Recursion and Human Thought - Why the Piraha don't have numbers

In My Language

maudlin — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:13:08 -0800

An autistic woman "speaks" her language, then ours. (YouTube) "My language is not about designing words or even visual symbols for people to interpret. It is about being in a constant conversation with every aspect of my environment, reacting physically to all parts of my surroundings." [more inside]

What Are They Thinking?

MarshallPoe — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:49:38 -0800

Vegetative Patient 'Communicates' Sort of.

Meaning of Life

andrew cooke — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:29:27 -0800

The Meaning of Life according to various rather famous people (Dennett, Fukuyama, etc). I'm watching the Dennett video at the moment and it starts rather weakly, but, by midway through, is rolling along nicely. With topics like "being good without god" and "the anthropic principle" it struck me as relevant to a couple of recent askmefi threads.
Dennett: [pause] i guess i'll say it again, more slowly...
(oh, and the player interface is rather delicate - give it time to load and click play a few times...)

The Philosophers' Magazine

anastasiav — Mon, 10 May 2004 17:44:31 -0800

Interactive Philosophy Games :: Construct a God, explore your morals, take a new look at what it means to be alive, plus Shakespeare vs. Britney Spears. Or, you can just read it for the articles.

You've come a long way, baby....

anastasiav — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 06:11:34 -0800

Classic Feminist Writings : an archive

yes, but what about the cigar?

anastasiav — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:20:22 -0800

Iakov Levi analyzes history and literature using a very Freudian approach.
Some highlights:
Pinocchio - The Puberty Rite of a Puppet
Medusa, the Female Genital and the Nazis
Killing God: From the Assassination of Moses to the Murder of Rabin
Without Borders: The Borderline Case of United Europe
::warning! geocities links!::

paladin — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:48:05 -0800

Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science - From the publisher's summary, "Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments — illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics — Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe." May be big. Thoughts?

fable — Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:37:53 -0800

How Culture Molds Habits is a fascinating article. Read this article, tally another point for nurture. I've long thought this was true, but Nisbett's supposedly gathered rather a lot of data proving it is so. The article raises some interesting parts of the study, but I think the ramifications bear some considering. I'd be interested in reading the full study when it's published, but I haven't a clue where to get the Psychological Review. And can you imagine what the advertising execs will do with this stuff? Ads tailored to the way you think. Wheee. It does, of course, raise some fun questions about religion and politics.