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Interface Design, Cognition, and Creativity

I just finished watching Bruce Sterling’s speech at the “Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign” conference. Though a science fiction writer by profession, he’s become more and more immersed in the world of design, first as a vehicle into his fiction and eventually as the direct object of his study and thinking. Primary Point: Reducing Cognitive Load The main thesis [...]

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Zoom: Errol Morris

I had the privilege of meeting with Errol Morris back in the late ’90s.  He came to Mary Washington College to speak at an engagement that Professor Gardner Campbell had arranged.  I was in Professor Campbell’s film theory class at the time, and we had viewed a number of Morris’s films.1  At the time, Morris [...]

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Evolutionary Theories of God

If you haven’t already seen it, there’s a great article in the New York Times’ Magazine called “Darwin’s God.” It spells out the various sides of an ongoing scientific debate about why religious beliefs are so pervasive across time and culture. It’s long, but well worth the read. Here’s my diigo highlights and annotations.

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Fiction and Consciousness

I’ve been reading 2012 and just came across a passage that struck me as particularly helpful in thinking about how and why fiction works. The author, Daniel Pinchbeck, is quoting F. David Peat and discussing the concept of synchronicity, that phenomenon that is usually brushed off as “just a weird coincidence.” Peat says: It [...]

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