Bad Philosophy

What do trees, brains, and pants have in common? Kevin, Stephen, John Elliott, and Matt Epperson explore our complex world through the works of Manuel Lima.

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Amazon, Amsterdam, Anatta, brain, Buddhism, Charles C. Mann, complex networks, complexity, connectome, consciousness, cyborgs, data, data visualization, dialup, Dunbar's Number, education, emergence, Facebook, functionalism, Google Fiber, identity, Inca, individualism, intelligence, Janet Jackson, John Elliott, Kevin, Leonhard Euler, Manuel Lima, Matt Epperson, memory, Monkeysphere, network visualization, New Hampshire, philosophy of mind, rhizome, Royal Society of the Arts, self-awareness, SkyNet, Star Wars, Stephen, stock market, The Internet, The Power of Networks, Traveling Salesman Problem, trees, Visual Complexity

Imagine if falling in love was as easy as taking a pill. Scary? Exciting? Kind of rad? Well, to make up for the distinct lack of anything resembling actual philosophy last week, we decided to delve straight into this and other hardcore questions, courtesy of George Saunders and his recent short story in The New […]

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Anathem, apocalypse, Battlefield Earth, brain, connectome, consequentialism, Cryptonomicon, deontology, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, drugs, emotion, Escape from Spiderhead, ethics, experimentation, George Saunders, harm principle, identity theory, Kevin, love, MLK Day, Neal Stephenson, Panera Bread, personal identity, phenomenology, Philip K. Dick, philosophy of mind, psychotropic drugs, Rifftrax, science, scientology, sex, Snow Crash, Stephen, The Baroque Cycle, The Giver, The New Yorker, zombies

For no particular reason we’ve decided to try something *BRAND NEW* on this week’s episode of Bad Philosophy. Kevin and I pulled a few articles and a comic out of the news, grabbed a couple of beers, and dove in to the stories for an hour. What came was something of a nice balance between […]

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advertising, age, Apple, babies, beer, brain, Choose Your Own Adventure, CNN, Corky's, corporatism, Dan 3.0, Dan Brown, E!, epistemology, Facebook, fate, Firefox, gay marriage, Groupon, Hank Green, homosexuality, How I Met Your Mother, Japan, Josh Stevens, Kevin, marketing, Mashable, Massachusetts, Memphis, Neil Patrick Harris, Newton, patronage, philosophy of mind, Prop 8, QuakeCon, reality TV, Red Stripe, Risk, scams, Shiner, society, Squarespace, Stephen, SubNormality, Texas, TiVo, Todd TV, TV, Ulysses, VirusComix, Will and Grace

It should come as no surprise to y’all out there that a great percentage of the world indulges in the wily wonders of psychotropic drugs. Whether it’s that requisite pot of coffee in the morning or just… pot, lots of folks like to take a walk on the wild side of the mind every now […]

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alcohol, Amarillo, brain, Bryan M, caffeine, cocaine, Dallas, drugs, dualism, Fathead, Formspring, free will, Grapevine, harm principle, heroin, identity, Kevin, kittens, LSD, Lubbock, marijuana, marijuana legalization, monism, Nation States, nicotine, pharmaceuticals, philosophy of law, philosophy of mind, physicalism, prohibition, psychotropics, Rene Descartes, responsibility, Schrodinger's Cat, smoking, Stephen, Super Size Me, supervenience