RSA Animate: Dan Ariely - The Truth About Dishonesty

There is a beautiful new RSA Animate clip by behavioral economist Dan Ariely on "the circumstances under which someone would lie and what effect deception has on society at large".

It includes some references to the great Irish 90's sitcom Father Ted, starring the late Dermot Morgan who would've turned 60 this year.

Europa / Europe

Vielleicht ist dies das Europäische daran, dieses unerlöste, nach allen Richtungen ausgreifende Denken, das weder bei den materialistischen Passionen der Neuen Welt noch bei der Spiritualität des Ostens zur Ruhe kommen wird.

(Eberhard Falcke in "Die Zeit" No. 32/12)

Maybe this is the European aspect of it, this unredeemed thinking which reaches out in all directions and which will neither find peace in the materialistic passions of the New World nor in the spirituality of the East.

(my own translation)

Bem Bahia: BembaTrio - Melô do vatapá

The official clip for Melô do Vatapá by BembaTrio from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (via Ley).

Paul Auster on Affordances and Horizons

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

Paul Auster in The Locked Room, the third part of his New York Trilogy.

Djavan - "Serrado" (1979)

More (Neuro-)Phenomenology Resources

The International Association for Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences has a vast collection of web-based resources and references around the topics of (neuro-)phenomenology and cognitive science.

Furthermore, scientist Leslie Marsh runs a blog named manwithoutqualities, where he also treats neurophenomenology-related topics like the extended mind, with a series of posts about Francisco Varela, including the following video with excerpts from Franz Reichle's 2005 documentary "Monte Grande" about Varela's life.

A Cartoon Epistemology for Neuroscientists (via Merlin)

"A Cartoon Epistemology" for neuroscientists in three parts (by ophtalmological cognitive scientist Steve Lehar, 2003), including a selection of follow-up discussions (e.g., a summary of the one with David Chalmers)

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Addendum: Lehan's ideas overlap with Thomas Metzinger's phenomenal self-model and the phenomenal model of the intentionality relation (succinctly described in this 2004 paper The Subjectivity of Subjective Experience: A Representationalist Analysis of the First-Person Perspective) and the seminal approach of sensorimotor contingencies as put forward in 2000 by Alva Noë and Kevin O'Regan (who also prefers hand-drawn manikins to illustrate his theories).