brainstorms

Wednesday August 31, 2005

statistically interesting phrases...

have to love amazon: a click-rotten poster child of the times, it can at once be amazing and aggressively inane. its pedestrian statistically improbable phrase [improbable where] extractor has thus far produced more chuckles for me than insight. some random selections [excluding meaningless phrases]:

Common Sense, Science and Scepticism : A Historical Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

ideally rational inquirer, hallucinate pink rats, coin from the side, biggest prime number, see pink rats, straight oar, evil genius hypothesis, empirical basis for knowledge, rationalist alternative, reductio proof, sceptical objection, criterion philosophy, inductive validity, infinite regress argument, unobserved cases, sceptical worries, rationalist dream, conjectural knowledge

darwin's dangerous idea

constant speedism, tossing tournament, artifact hermeneutics, awful stretcher, greedy reductionism, amber strings, pervasive adaptation, adaptationist reasoning, adaptationist thinking, universal acid, somatic line, mindless purposeless forces, real intentionality, habitat tracking, original intentionality, hidden constraints, feasible algorithm, biological possibility, typographical change, human mathematicians, adaptationist explanation, daughter species, language organ

dark age ahead

cultural winners, mass amnesia, scientific state, fiscal accountability, assisted housing, fruitful question

consciousness explained

electrochemical happenings, pinkish glowing ring, hysterically blind people, spatial referral, phenomenological items, heterophenomenological worlds, color phi, discriminative states, epistemic hunger, neuronal adequacy, meme vehicles, reactive dispositions, intervening motion, blindsight subjects, imagined cow, strong hallucinations, preverbal message, inverted qualia, conscious robot, subjective sequence, virtus dormitiva, phenomenal space, user illusion, belief environment, absolute timing

peace war

bobble generators, bobble burst, been bobbled, sortie craft, banana wagons, recon satellites, satellite net, four thousand meters

cryptonomicon

grand wazir, substitution alphabet, data haven, hive mind, dive plan, making license plates, strange information, main vault, math whizzes

tunelessness in itunes

foiled again. i can load up my ipods directly from a mac in my home lab hosting a music library of several hundred CDs, but if that library is shared to our ibooks upstairs, no loads: shuffle playlist does not show the shared library, nor is it possible to drag-drop. [ok, so i can drag my ipod downstairs to the lab and drop it onto the library cradle.]

itunes will pass. music will remain.