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Fridays Are For Frank: "Luck Be a Lady"
Sure it's nearly Valentine's Day, so we COULD serve up one of Frank Sinatra's more romantic melodies—"I've Got a Crush on You," "Let's Fall in Love," "My Funny Valentine"…
But its also Friday the 13th, and we could all use a little luck.
"Luck Be a Lady" was written by Frank Loesser in 1950 and featured in the musical Guys and Dolls.
Brando sang the song in the 1955 film version, but it later became a signature song for Frank Sinatra.
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Dave Chappelle set to host benefit concert for Ohio shooting
FILE – In this Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, Dave Chappelle speaks at the press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. Chappelle plans to host a special block party and benefit concert in southwest Ohio for those affected by the recent mass shooting. Chappelle will be among national and local entertainers planned for the main stage at the "Gem City Shine" event in Dayton on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019.(Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Comedian Dave Chappelle plans to host a special block party and benefit concert in Ohio for those affected by the recent mass shooting.
Chappelle will be among national and local entertainers planned for the main stage at the "Gem City Shine" event in Dayton on Sunday.
WDTN-TV reports the City of Dayton along with the Downtown Dayton Partnership and the Chamber of Commerce will help organize the tribute.
The organizers say the event will be an effort to "reclaim" the entertainment district after 24-year-old Connor Betts' 32-second rampage in front of Ned Peppers that killed nine people and left dozens injured on Aug. 4.
Chappelle, a resident of nearby Yellow Springs, urges attendees to "live in the moment" by enjoying the experience live rather than recording it on their cellphones.
'Downton Abbey' creator's new TV show is painfully accurate
by LYNN ELBER, Associated Press / Jan 20, 2020
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The period costumes of a Julian Fellowes drama can be excruciatingly accurate, as an actress in his new series "Belgravia" discovered.
The Epix drama from "Downton Abbey" creator Fellowes and executive producer Gareth Neame is set in 19th-century London and features Tamsin Greig, who starred in the TV comedy "Episodes," and Philip Glenister ("Cranford").

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Don't mess with Texas.. especially when it comes to Secret Santa! These fine sticks came courtesy of Jerad with some CigarFed swag, some Texas made Titos vodka, and a jar delicious jam that unfortunately didn't survive the trip to California- but not to worry- one of these lucky cigars will be enjoyed in the jar's honor :) Thanks Jerad!!!! Happy holidays to you and yours!!
The ziplock kept the cigars safe, sound, and humidified! Thanks again!


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HomeBusinessForeign capital inflow to production sector up 83% to $457.7m
Foreign capital inflow to production sector up 83% to $457.7m
Foreign capital inflow into the production sector rose by 83 percent, Year-on-Year (Y-on-Y) to $457.66 million in the first half year ended June 2022 (H1'22) from $245.22 million in the corresponding period in 2021.
Vanguard analysis of the Nigerian Capital Importation report for Q2'2022 showed that the inflow to the production sector recorded the highest growth H1'22 with the banking and the financing sectors trailing behind, while inflow to shares took a downward turn.
Breakdown showed that capital inflow into the banking sector rose 47 per cent to $1.46 billion in H1'22 from $1.00 billion in H1'21, while inflow into the financing sector rose by 26 percent to $396.67 million from $315.11 million in H1'21.
On the other hand, foreign capital inflow into equities declined massively by 66 percent to $301.89 million from $901.3 million in the corresponding period in 2021, reflecting apathy towards portfolio investment by foreign investors.
Furthermore, the share of inflow to the production sector rose to 14.7 per cent in H1'22 from 8.9 per cent in H1'21, representing a 6.1 percentage point increase.
On a Quarter-Quarter (QoQ) basis, the flow into the production sector rose by 4.6 per cent to $233.99 million in Q2'22 from $223.67 million in Q1'22.
Meanwhile, analysts at Afrinvest have indicated that the total foreign capital inflow into the country would fall further at the end of year following the heightened risk environment occasioned by pre-election activities.
They stated this in a report titled: "Nigerian Banking Sector Report: Brace for Impact" saying that the inflow would decline to $5.9 billion in H1'22 from $6.7 billion 2021, representing an 11.9 percent decrease.
They noted that the unsuccessful attempt by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to convince the market to accept its exchange rate management strategy has continued to have a negative impact on foreign capital flows.
They said: "Despite the over 30% increase in the average price of crude oil to $104.62/bbl over the 12 months to September 2022, Nigeria's foreign reserves which peaked at $41.8 billion in October 2021 (supported by proceeds from SDR: $3.5bn and Eurobond: $3.bn) fell to $38.3 billion at the end of Q3:2022. Based on our estimate of unsettled obligations (c.$8.0bn), actual reserves could be below c.$32.0bn.
"While the pressure points on the foreign exchange (FX) reserves cannot be entirely blamed on the CBN, it has not convinced the market to accept its exchange rate management strategy. This has had a negative impact on foreign capital flows. For instance, foreign capital flows that peaked at $24 billion in 2019 fell to $9.7 billion and $6.7 billion in 2020 and 2021, respectively. "Given the disappointing $3.1 billion inflows recorded in H1'22 and the heightened risk environment due to pre-election activities, our base case estimate suggests an annualised inflow of about $5.9bn in 2022."
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This field of study involves several concerns. Among many others, we focus on two of them which is more related to our research in the next subsection.
It seems "involve" is not a suitable word here. Do you have any suggestions for this?

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Unleashed a whole can of worms over the weekend. The weather wasn't the best for heading out of town so we decided to stay home and I decided to purge and re-arrange my office.
Because of this purge I am doing a mini virtual garage sale!
As I clear more out I will list those items that are for sale.
This big scrapbooking cabinet went to my mom's. It was placed to the left of me and I always felt that it was encroaching on my computer work space. I also never used it to scrapbook or sew on (it has a pull desk) so my mom snatched it up for her craft room.
It is now replaced with a PB/IKEA work top - the base is the PB Bedford 3 drawer cabinet and the top is the IKEA Galant desk top. This is where I can spread out my work, sew, and make jewelry. Kind of an all purpose work space. Since the cabinet is gone it has created much more 'AIR' in here. But I also needed to come up with some other storage solutions. IKEA to the rescue!


I am quite pleased to announce that I was hired to write music for a very special advert.
The Innsbruck tourism board hired me to write and produce a track for their upcoming advertising campaign. It is going to feature a modern ballet choreography by Enrique Gaza Valga shot in 360°. The location is quite impressive too… It is the historical "Riesen Saal" of the Hofburg in Innsbruck. A really beautiful location. It is a true honour to deliver the soundtrack for such a history charged place.


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Greater Toronto home sales up 1.9 per cent from a year ago as supply falls
Linda Nguyen
PMN Canada
TORONTO — The Toronto Real Estate Board says the housing market is becoming "tighter" as the number of new listings across the Greater Toronto Area dropped in September, while home sale prices climbed compared with a year ago.
"As the GTA population continues to grow, the real challenge in the housing market will be supply rather than demand," said TREB president Garry Bhaura in a statement Wednesday.
The board says home sales last month in its region climbed 1.9 per cent compared with a year ago, with the average selling price up 2.9 per cent to $796,786 from $774,489 a year earlier.
Sales through its multiple-listings system totalled 6,455, up from 6,334 in the same month last year.
The MLS HPI composite benchmark price jumped by two per cent year-over-year.
Meanwhile, new listings totalled 15,920, down 3.1 per cent compared with 16,433 in September 2017.
Bhaura said although it was "healthy" to see sales and prices up from last year's lows, market conditions have unfolded differently across various communities.
"With sales up year-over-year and new listings down, market conditions became tighter. Many buyers may have found it more difficult to find a home meeting their needs," said the board, which represents more than 50,000 realtors across the region.
TREB said price growth has also become stronger for higher-density properties such as condos, townhouses and semi-detached houses because they have become more affordable options for homebuyers.
BMO senior economist Sal Guatieri said in a note to investors that the GTA market remains soft but "continues to stabilize" after plunging earlier this year following the introduction of tighter mortgage rules as well as a foreign buyers tax and speculation fees on vacant homes.
"The market should remain on a steady footing in coming months as healthy demographic demand tempers the downward pull from rising interest rates," Guatieri wrote.
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Now, let's go to the canal bridge. Follow me! The place is amazing. It's a 630 metres long bridge, made of steel in 1896 by Daydé and Pillé firm. It looks like the Alexander-III bridge in Paris, inaugurated 4 years ago.
And, by the way, let's rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's: Eiffel firm only worked on foundations, they didn't raise all the bridge!
Well, do you feel tiny, here? I feel the same thing! And it's quite normal... This bridge is colossal. Look! We're walking on the lateral canal, literally hanging, and the river Loire is running below us. Wow! The canal bridge directly links the Seine's sailing basin to the Saône's one, and crosses the Loire. And despite the river's width here in Briare, the place was chosen because it saved 7 locks!


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Anne Rice, 'Interview with the Vampire' author, dies at 80
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Anne Rice, influential author of "Interview with the Vampire," died on Saturday due to complications resulting from a stroke. She was 80.
The author's son Christopher revealed the news on Facebook and said that she would be interred in the family mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans in a private ceremony.
Earlier tonight, my mother, Anne Rice, passed away due to complications resulting from a stroke. She left us almost nineteen years to the day my father, her husband Stan, died. Below is a statement I posted to her Facebook page moments ago. pic.twitter.com/g2VAK2XZjc
— Christopher Rice (@chrisricewriter) December 12, 2021
Born in New Orleans in 1941, Rice became renowned the world over as a writer of gothic fiction, with her books selling more than 150 million copies globally. In the early 1970s, while grieving the death of her daughter Michelle, she began converting one of her stories into what became her first novel, the gothic horror "Interview with the Vampire," which was published by Knopf in 1976.
The novel turns on vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, who tells the story of his life to a reporter. Michelle served as an inspiration for the child vampire Claudia.
The book was the first of 10 in what is collectively known as "The Vampire Chronicles." It was adapted by Neil Jordan as a 1994 film starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas and Christian Slater, with Kirsten Dunst playing Claudia. Rice adapted the screenplay from her novel and the film gathered two Oscar nominations and a brace of BAFTA wins.
"Queen of the Damned," based on one of the bestselling sequels to "Interview with the Vampire," was adapted as a film in 2002. Other adaptations of Rice's novels include Garry Marshall's "Exit to Eden" (1994), starring Dana Delany, Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell and Emmy-winning Showtime original "The Feast of All Saints" (2001).
Earlier this month, AMC ordered a series based on Rice's "Lives of the Mayfair Witches." As revealed by Variety, AMC had acquired rights to "Lives of the Mayfair Witches" and "The Vampire Chronicles" last year, and casting was recently finalized on the latter.
There is no good way to introduce 'Harry Potter' to the next generation
15 Nov 2021 15 Nov 2021 · Leave a comment ·
"Harry Potter" can't be the same magical series it once was. Warner Bros.; Marianne Ayala/Insider
by Pam Segall, Insider
"Harry Potter" needs no introduction. It was a once-in-a-generation phenomenon.
As the millennial Potterheads grew up, the books provided an idealist escape to the less complicated world of childhood. The Wizarding World became a safe place where magic was real and bravery, brains, and friendship always won.
For early and late adopters alike, it seemed like a given that such a treasured series would be passed lovingly along to the next generation. But as often happens as we age, the real world began to seep in.
J.K. Rowling's transphobic viewpoints left many Potter fans disenchanted
In 2020, in a now-infamous series of tweets and a subsequent essay, the controversial "Harry Potter" author issued a spate of contentious statements about biological sex and gender. Rowling's opinions led many to label her a trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
A TERF is generally characterized as a person who says they're a feminist while espousing trans-exclusionary views. Common examples include saying that trans women aren't women, barring trans women from women's spaces, and conflating sex with gender.
These comments weren't her first foray into transphobia. In addition to liking a couple of offensive tweets in 2018, she also tweeted in 2019 in support of a British woman who was fired over making transphobic comments.
Then, amid the backlash of her 2020 tweets and essay, the author published a poorly received book under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, that follows a male serial killer who lures his victims by dressing as a woman.
Her actions disenchanted scores of fans, who have struggled to figure out what to do with their love for the series given the controversy around its creator.
As Rowling's personal beliefs became harder to ignore so, too, did the biases embedded in her books
Many fans take issue with Cho Chang's name. Warner Bros.
As fans reexamine the books and amplify long-quieted critiques in the wake of this backlash, it's become increasingly clear that Rowling's personal views and biases made their way into the subtext of the series.
Like so much of the media of yesteryear, the books are rightfully subjected to critiques and criticisms. Everything from the naming of Cho Chang, to the injustice that was the Patil twins' Yule Ball look, to the absence of prominent Black and queer characters dulls the series' luster.
Rowling's attempts to revise history by sharing postcanonical details about characters and the Wizarding World at large – such as Dumbledore being gay and a minor, unknown character being Jewish – did little to quell these claims.
In a series that spans thousands of pages and often provides minute details, the thought that Rowling couldn't spare a few words to mention a character's race or sexuality already seems preposterous. But to imply that these facts were always present and that fans merely missed or failed to imagine them feels mildly insulting.
Rowling, like any person, is only human. Although some of the series' flaws exist as overt bigotry, other coded messages may have been the result of unconscious biases or internalized stereotypes.
But intentional or not, the implications of these problematic portrayals left a stain on the series that even the most ardent Potterphiles can no longer ignore.
With each offensive comment Rowling shares, the Wizarding World becomes less of an escape.
Some fans who were raised on 'Harry Potter' faced an existential reckoning, and the path forward isn't clear
Suddenly, fans were reckoning with the literary equivalent of having a racist uncle: What do you do when someone or something problematic is unwittingly and inextricably entwined with your world?
It's difficult to truly separate art from the artist when the artist's views color her world in so many fundamental ways.
Some fans treasure their existing copies of the beloved series while refusing to purchase anything new to support Rowling financially. For others, the books lie obscured and discarded, awaiting a fate yet to be determined.
As the original generation of fans has children, some may choose to omit the books entirely, opting for more inclusive family reading. Others may still introduce the series but ensure that it's accompanied by disclaimers and caveats.
This intrusion of real life means the series can't be a safe haven for the next generation. When we introduce the real world to the Wizarding World, we inherently drain some of its magic.
'Harry Potter' can never be what it once was for the next generation of readers
As we look for ways to carry the best of the books into the future, we'll have to leave some of their splendor in the past – like a literary "you had to be there" moment.
We don't have a Time-Turner to rectify these wrongs, so we'll look upon "Harry Potter" with the kind of melancholy nostalgia that accompanies the lost days of childhood – a yearning for a time when the series was unburdened and uncomplicated.
As we look to the future, the best we can hope is that these conversations inspire the next generation to foster fully inclusive magic and create a more perfect version of this fantasy world.
Rowling and her representatives have declined to comment.
L.W. Barker's New book is coming soon!
1 Nov 2021 · Leave a comment ·
Final Weapon image credit Stephan Mattson. Model: C Rael
Kassandra comes out of the shadows in 2022!
A Slave's Dream
7 Jun 2020 6 Aug 2020 · Leave a comment ·
For my ancestors and their struggle to be free
Running through brush,
free as the Wind,
An heir of royal heritage
– captured, chained, dragged, beaten,
separated from African shores,
bound for distant lands.
Tied in bondage,
deep below the ship's deck,
pondering escape
– rebellion!
The struggle for freedom,
from the chains, and the whip,
diving overboard to be free
– food for the sharks!
White shore arrival,
chained, washed, dragged,
to the auction block
– let the bidding begin!
Generations torn apart. \
Plantation days, invasive nights,
slaves on the run
from horseback hot pursuit,
dogs barking; feet bitten,
the lash of the whip
– a return to bondage!
Cold nights, hot days,
but always pondering,
on the future of the children
– a slave's dream to be free.
Copyright ©2007 – Present L.W. Barker
Total Failure
1 Jun 2020 · Leave a comment ·
by L.W. Barker
I waited a few days to write this…
What Derek Chauvin did…having George Floyd lie face-down with his hands cuffed behind his back with Chauvin's knee applying pressure on Floyd's neck is beyond evil. And you can see it in his face…cold, and without compassion for a fellow human being.
So cause and effect…
Floyd being prone on his stomach, couldn't fully breathe and was only able to draw enough breath to gasp or speak in spurts as his body lost oxygen and fell unconscious. And the placing of a knee on his neck made things worse as it caused fatal damage to that area.
Chauvin knew this, and even amid pleas from bystanders, (and his victim) to "stop", he continued to apply pressure to the man's neck for upwards of 9 minutes.
No police department condones such a maneuver which makes Chauvin's use of it on a restrained George Floyd even more damning.
While working with the USAF Security Forces, I learned to never keep restrained individuals in this type of prone position for long. So to ensure their safety, I would keep them in that position just long enough to apply restraint. I would then take them out of it by rolling them onto their side, sitting them up or having them stand.
Derek Chauvin failed to uphold the sworn oath of his badge "to serve and protect". And that, for a police officer, is a failure on all levels.
#RIPGeorgeFloyd #JusticeWillBeServed
Black Panther IS Black Culture
18 Apr 2018 19 Apr 2018 · Leave a comment ·
February 16, 2018, dubbed 'the blackest night in America' by the black community was the opening night of Marvel Studios' newest superhero film, Black Panther. And black audiences showed up en masse (some over a dozen family/friends strong) to support the film and embrace the mythos of Black Panther.
A brief history…Wakanda is a place untouched by slavery, but blessed with Vibranium, a rare and virtually indestructible metal derived from an ancient meteor that hit the area long ago. Thus, Black Panther's costume and Wakanda are technologically-advanced products of Vibranium.
Now, seeing Wakanda onscreen, a black centric mythical kingdom of doctors, scientists, inventors, etc., you have to wonder, what we as a people would have been like minus the forced separation and bondage of slavery. It is a symbol of who we were as a people in Africa, who we could have been as a culture, and most importantly, it also shows the wonders that could be accomplished if we all came together once and for all as a people.
A bit more history…the Dora Milaje are a pool of highly-skilled special forces like women who are recruited from every tribe in Wakanda. The Dora Milaje is also an ancient tribal tradition in which maidens were assembled as potential queens for an unmarried king. However, the daughters of Wakanda, Nakia and Okoye, became the first Dora Milaje to serve under T'Challa, and were viewed by the king as sisters, instead of wives-in-training.
The strong willingness and overall strength of the Dora Milaje represents the daily toll and labor that every black woman goes through in our society. And their natural beauty reminds us that black is beautiful, and society's negative views on the matter have always been null and void. Today's black women are also natural protectors who will go all-out, no matter the cost to keep their loved ones safe, much like the Dora Milaje's selfless protection of Black Panther.
Which brings us to King T'Challa, who is also a brilliant scientist and inventor, and a descendent of a warrior-class of ancient fighters. He is very proficient in both armed and unarmed combat, and also highly-skilled with just about every weapon known to man.
And so its T'Challa, the Black Panther, the hero and protector of Wakanda, whom we black men see in ourselves. For like T'Challa, who does whatever it takes to protect his people, we have scraped and hustled in the bowels of society for generations to protect and provide for our families. With many of us paying the ultimate price, much like the generations of Black Panthers before the time of T'Challa.
T'Challa and his fictionalized kingdom are symbols of all that is good about black culture. Black Panther IS black culture, and Wakanda and its people are us…past, present, and future.
Black Panther releases on DVD and Blu-ray on May 15, 2018, and is available on Digital HD from Amazon Prime Video and Apple iTunes on May 8, 2018.
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Break up – Surviving a failed relationship
5 Feb 2018 19 Apr 2018 · Leave a comment ·
Break ups and failed relationships are a part of life. They are as common as living and dying. They take place daily, and so you must be prepared for them when they occur in your life. A few years ago I broke up with a girlfriend of a few months. My days and nights were ones of torment and bad memories. It is very easy to fall in love, but even easier to fall out of love. And when the latter happens, life can feel like a living hell. But all is not lost for there are things that you can do to get through this most difficult of times.
In the months following my break up, I was lost to the fact that there is more to life than this girl. I would come home after work, not bothering to turn on my lights, and lay there on the bed listening to sad love songs. I noticed that I only felt this way after work though, and so I got more involved with work. I stayed late for most of the time I had to work, just to keep my mind off of what could have been. I also needed time to devise a similar plan as to what to do when I went home.
However, one night it dawned that I had to go out and have fun to forget about my failed relationship. And so, I went cruising through the town that night and eventually ended up at the local movie theater where I decided to see a new film. This routine enabled me to focus on the present instead of dwelling in limbo on the past. It also gave me the key to open the door to a new and improved relationship which I eventually found.
Breaking up is hard to do, but with the right mindset, the pain of it can be overcome. By keeping yourself occupied, whether by work and or play, you too will be able to emerge from the darkness and pain of a failed relationship.


The Mysteriously Unsuccessful Boy is an autobiographical adventure of just one life: the author's. It is written for inquisitive adult and young adult readers. We can all find a story weaving together related threads of adventure, avoidance, evasion, overcoming obstacles and finding happiness. This is also a story of exploration, of both the world we live in, and of the world of the mind. What happens when we discover that what we think determines what we do.
What can possibly come after motorcycles, backpacking, general aviation, astronomy, programming, music and reading, rock climbing, camping and whitewater rafting? Using the same forensic tools as a good detective mystery, we'll look inside the box.
At some point, we ask: are ideas just tools for better understanding what the others think? Learning the hard way is better than never learning at all. The excitement of exploring nature and peering at outer space through telescopes awaits the biggest challenge of all: exploring inner space and building a new life from what we discover.


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Bayesian Cognitive Science, Unification, and Explanation.Stephan Hartmann & Matteo Colombo - 2017 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 68 (2).details
It is often claimed that the greatest value of the Bayesian framework in cognitive science consists in its unifying power. Several Bayesian cognitive scientists assume that unification is obviously linked to explanatory power. But this link is not obvious, as unification in science is a heterogeneous notion, which may have little to do with explanation. While a crucial feature of most adequate explanations in cognitive science is that they reveal aspects of the causal mechanism (...) that produces the phenomenon to be explained, the kind of unification afforded by the Bayesian framework to cognitive science does not necessarily reveal aspects of a mechanism. Bayesian unification, nonetheless, can place fruitful constraints on causal–mechanical explanation. 1 Introduction2 What a Great Many Phenomena Bayesian Decision Theory Can Model3 The Case of Information Integration4 How Do Bayesian Models Unify?5 Bayesian Unification: What Constraints Are There on Mechanistic Explanation?5.1 Unification constrains mechanism discovery5.2 Unification constrains the identification of relevant mechanistic factors5.3 Unification constrains confirmation of competitive mechanistic models6 ConclusionAppendix. (shrink)
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Cognitive Science of Religion and the Study of Theological Concepts.Helen De Cruz - 2014 - Topoi 33 (2):487-497.details
The cultural transmission of theological concepts remains an underexplored topic in the cognitive science of religion (CSR). In this paper, I examine whether approaches from CSR, especially the study of content biases in the transmission of beliefs, can help explain the cultural success of some theological concepts. This approach reveals that there is more continuity between theological beliefs and ordinary religious beliefs than CSR authors have hitherto recognized: the cultural transmission of theological concepts is influenced by content biases (...) that also underlie the reception of ordinary religious concepts. (shrink)
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Cognitive Science for the Revisionary Metaphysician.David Rose - forthcoming - In Alvin Goldman & Brian P. McLaughlin (eds.), Cognitive Science and Metaphysics. Oxford University Press.details
Many philosophers insist that the revisionary metaphysician—i.e., the metaphysician who offers a metaphysical theory which conflicts with folk intuitions—bears a special burden to explain why certain folk intuitions are mistaken. I show how evidence from cognitive science can help revisionist discharge this explanatory burden. Focusing on composition and persistence, I argue that empirical evidence indicates that the folk operate with a promiscuous teleomentalist view of composition and persistence. The folk view, I argue, deserves to be debunked. In this (...) way, I take myself to have illustrated one key role cognitive science can play in metaphysics; namely by helping the revisionary metaphysician discharge the explanatory burden of providing a plausible explanation of how the folk have gone wrong. (shrink)
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Representation in Cognitive Science.Nicholas Shea - 2018 - Oxford University Press.details
How can we think about things in the outside world? There is still no widely accepted theory of how mental representations get their meaning. In light of pioneering research, Nicholas Shea develops a naturalistic account of the nature of mental representation with a firm focus on the subpersonal representations that pervade the cognitive sciences.
Human Reasoning and Cognitive Science.Keith Stenning & Michiel van Lambalgen - 2008 - Boston, USA: MIT Press.details
In the late summer of 1998, the authors, a cognitive scientist and a logician, started talking about the relevance of modern mathematical logic to the study of human reasoning, and we have been talking ever since. This book is an interim report of that conversation. It argues that results such as those on the Wason selection task, purportedly showing the irrelevance of formal logic to actual human reasoning, have been widely misinterpreted, mainly because the picture of logic current in (...) psychology and cognitive science is completely mistaken. We aim to give the reader a more accurate picture of mathematical logic and, in doing so, hope to show that logic, properly conceived, is still a very helpful tool in cognitive science. The main thrust of the book is therefore constructive. We give a number of examples in which logical theorizing helps in understanding and modeling observed behavior in reasoning tasks, deviations of that behavior in a psychiatric disorder (autism), and even the roots of that behavior in the evolution of the brain. (shrink)
Embodied Cognitive Science and its Implications for Psychopathology.Zoe Drayson - 2009 - Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 16 (4):329-340.details
The past twenty years have seen an increase in the importance of the body in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind. This 'embodied' trend challenges the orthodox view in cognitive science in several ways: it downplays the traditional 'mind-as-computer' approach and emphasizes the role of interactions between the brain, body, and environment. In this article, I review recent work in the area of embodied cognitive science and explore the approaches each takes to the ideas of consciousness, (...) computation and representation. Finally, I look at the current relationship between orthodox cognitive science and the study of mental disorder, and consider the implications that the embodied trend could have for issues in psychopathology. (shrink)
Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics.Mark JOHNSON - 1993 - University of Chicago Press.details
Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation. Expanding his innovative studies of human reason (...) in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, Johnson provides the tools for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection. (shrink)
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Unification Strategies in Cognitive Science.Marcin Miłkowski - 2016 - Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 48 (1):13–33.details
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary conglomerate of various research fields and disciplines, which increases the risk of fragmentation of cognitive theories. However, while most previous work has focused on theoretical integration, some kinds of integration may turn out to be monstrous, or result in superficially lumped and unrelated bodies of knowledge. In this paper, I distinguish theoretical integration from theoretical unification, and propose some analyses of theoretical unification dimensions. Moreover, two research strategies that are supposed to lead (...) to unification are analyzed in terms of the mechanistic account of explanation. Finally, I argue that theoretical unification is not an absolute requirement from the mechanistic perspective, and that strategies aiming at unification may be premature in fields where there are multiple conflicting explanatory models. (shrink)
Explanatory Pluralism in Cognitive Science.Rick Dale, Eric Dietrich & Anthony Chemero - 2009 - Cognitive Science 33 (2):739-742.details
This brief commentary has three goals. The first is to argue that ''framework debate'' in cognitive science is unresolvable. The idea that one theory or framework can singly account for the vast complexity and variety of cognitive processes seems unlikely if not impossible. The second goal is a consequence of this: We should consider how the various theories on offer work together in diverse contexts of investigation. A final goal is to supply a brief review for readers (...) who are compelled by these points to explore existing literature on the topic. Despite this literature, pluralism has garnered very little attention from broader cognitive science. We end by briefly considering what it might mean for theoretical cognitive science. (shrink)
Historical Roots of Cognitive Science: The Rise of a Cognitive Theory of Perception From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. Theo C. Meyering.Gary Hatfield - 1993 - Philosophy of Science 60 (4):662-666.details
Review of THEO C. MEYERING, Historical Roots of Cognitive Science : The Rise of a Cognitive Theory of Perception from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. Boston: Kluwer, xix + 250 pp. $69.00. Examines the author's interpretation of Aristotelian theories of perceptual cognition, early modern theories, and Helmholtz's theory.
The Rise of Cognitive Science in the 20th Century.Carrie Figdor - 2018 - In Amy Kind (ed.), Philosophy of Mind in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Volume 6. Abingdon, UK and New York: Routledge. pp. 280-302.details
This chapter describes the conceptual foundations of cognitive science during its establishment as a science in the 20th century. It is organized around the core ideas of individual agency as its basic explanans and information-processing as its basic explanandum. The latter consists of a package of ideas that provide a mathematico-engineering framework for the philosophical theory of materialism.
Breathing New Life Into Cognitive Science.Tom Froese - 2011 - Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 2 (1):113–129.details
In this article I take an unusual starting point from which to argue for a unified cognitive science, namely a position defined by what is sometimes called the 'life-mind continuity thesis'. Accordingly, rather than taking a widely accepted starting point for granted and using it in order to propose answers to some well defined questions, I must first establish that the idea of life-mind continuity can amount to a proper starting point at all. To begin with, I therefore (...) assess the conceptual tools which are available to construct a theory of mind on this basis. By drawing on insights from a variety of disciplines, especially from a combination of existential phenomenology and organism-centered biology, I argue that mind can indeed be conceived as rooted in life, but only if we accept at the same time that social interaction plays a constitutive role for our cognitive capacities. (shrink)
A Natural History of Natural Theology. The Cognitive Science of Theology and Philosophy of Religion.Helen De Cruz & Johan De Smedt - 2015 - MIT Press.details
[from the publisher's website] Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology, which seeks to gain knowledge of the divine by relying on reason and experience of the world. Arguments in natural theology rely largely on intuitions and inferences that seem natural to us, occurring spontaneously—at the sight of a beautiful landscape, perhaps, or in wonderment at the complexity of the cosmos—even to a nonphilosopher. In this book, Helen De Cruz and Johan De (...) Smedt examine the cognitive origins of arguments in natural theology. They find that although natural theological arguments can be very sophisticated, they are rooted in everyday intuitions about purpose, causation, agency, and morality. Using evidence and theories from disciplines including the cognitive science of religion, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary aesthetics, and the cognitive science of testimony, they show that these intuitions emerge early in development and are a stable part of human cognition. -/- De Cruz and De Smedt analyze the cognitive underpinnings of five well-known arguments for the existence of God: the argument from design, the cosmological argument, the moral argument, the argument from beauty, and the argument from miracles. Finally, they consider whether the cognitive origins of these natural theological arguments should affect their rationality. (shrink)
Husserl, Intentionality, and Cognitive Science.Hubert L. Dreyfus & Harrison Hall (eds.) - 1982 - MIT Press.details
Against Functional Reductionism in Cognitive Science.Muhammad Ali Khalidi - 2005 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 19 (3):319 – 333.details
Functional reductionism concerning mental properties has recently been advocated by Jaegwon Kim in order to solve the problem of the 'causal exclusion' of the mental. Adopting a reductionist strategy first proposed by David Lewis, he regards psychological properties as being 'higher-order' properties functionally defined over 'lower-order' properties, which are causally efficacious. Though functional reductionism is compatible with the multiple realizability of psychological properties, it is blocked if psychological properties are subdivided or crosscut by neurophysiological properties. I argue that there is (...) recent evidence from cognitive neuroscience that shows that this is the case for the psychological property of fear. Though this may suggest that some psychological properties should be revised in order to conform to those of neurophysiology, the history of science demonstrates that this is not always the outcome, particularly with properties that play an important role in our folk theories and are central to human concerns. (shrink)
An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Science.John T. Sanders - 1996 - Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy 1996 (Spring).details
Cognitive science is ready for a major reconceptualization. This is not at all because efforts by its practitioners have failed, but rather because so much progress has been made. The need for reconceptualization arises from the fact that this progress has come at greater cost than necessary, largely because of more or less philosophical (at least metatheoretical) straightjackets still worn - whether wittingly or not - by those doing the work. These bonds are extremely hard to break. Even (...) some of those who have directed powerful arguments against them have failed entirely to shake them off. The bonds are often attributed to the work of René Descartes, but they are really much older than that. If even in the present effort, I fail entirely to remove the straightjacket myself (even though I am making every attempt to get it off), this will testify to its tight grip. The straightjacket I am thinking about, of course, is the vague picture of the human situation that imagines centralized, internal minds in control of bodily machines. While almost no one in the contemporary cognitive science arena imagines minds to be the kind of thing Descartes took them to be - instantiations of a unique, fully non-material substance - there is nevertheless a deep resistance, even among the most fervent professed "materialists," to giving up this picture. In what follows, I shall try to offer an approach which on the one hand capitalizes on the excellent progress that has been made in cognitive science in the last few decades, and which on the other hand offers a general approach that may help at some level in the attempt to shake "Cartesian" bonds. The approach, as the alert reader already knows from the title of the essay, is an "ecological" approach. (shrink)
Representational Unification in Cognitive Science: Is Embodied Cognition a Unifying Perspective?Marcin Miłkowski & Przemysław Nowakowski - forthcoming - Synthese.details
In this paper, we defend a novel, multidimensional account of representational unification, which we distinguish from integration. The dimensions of unity are simplicity, generality and scope, non-monstrosity, and systematization. In our account, unification is a graded property. The account is used to investigate the issue of how research traditions contribute to representational unification, focusing on embodied cognition in cognitive science. Embodied cognition contributes to unification even if it fails to offer a grand unification of cognitive science. (...) The study of this failure shows that unification, contrary to what defenders of mechanistic explanation claim, is an important mechanistic virtue of research traditions. (shrink)
Steps to a "Properly Embodied" Cognitive Science.Mog Stapleton - 2013 - Cognitive Systems Research 22 (June):1-11.details
Cognitive systems research has predominantly been guided by the historical distinction between emotion and cognition, and has focused its efforts on modelling the "cognitive" aspects of behaviour. While this initially meant modelling only the control system of cognitive creatures, with the advent of "embodied" cognitive science this expanded to also modelling the interactions between the control system and the external environment. What did not seem to change with this embodiment revolution, however, was the attitude towards (...) affect and emotion in cognitive science. This paper argues that cognitive systems research is now beginning to integrate these aspects of natural cognitive systems into cognitive science proper, not in virtue of traditional "embodied cognitive science", which focuses predominantly on the body's gross morphology, but rather in virtue of research into the interoceptive, organismic basis of natural cognitive systems. (shrink)
Aesthetics and Cognitive Science.Dustin Stokes - 2009 - Philosophy Compass 4 (5):715-733.details
Experiences of art involve exercise of ordinary cognitive and perceptual capacities but in unique ways. These two features of experiences of art imply the mutual importance of aesthetics and cognitive science. Cognitive science provides empirical and theoretical analysis of the relevant cognitive capacities. Aesthetics thus does well to incorporate cognitive scientific research. Aesthetics also offers philosophical analysis of the uniqueness of the experience of art. Thus, cognitive science does well to incorporate (...) the explanations of aesthetics. This paper explores this general framework of expansionism : a research strategy that suggests that the explanatory goals and resources of both aesthetics and cognitive science should expand to include those of the other. Two relations are considered. First, what is the relation between aesthetics and more traditional cognitive science? Second, what is the relation between aesthetics and new developments in cognitive science that de-emphasize mental representation and emphasize body and action? (shrink)
Minds Online: The Interface Between Web Science, Cognitive Science, and the Philosophy of Mind.Paul Smart, Robert William Clowes & Richard Heersmink - 2017 - Foundations and Trends in Web Science 6 (1-2):1-234.details
Alongside existing research into the social, political and economic impacts of the Web, there is a need to study the Web from a cognitive and epistemic perspective. This is particularly so as new and emerging technologies alter the nature of our interactive engagements with the Web, transforming the extent to which our thoughts and actions are shaped by the online environment. Situated and ecological approaches to cognition are relevant to understanding the cognitive significance of the Web because of (...) the emphasis they place on forces and factors that reside at the level of agent–world interactions. In particular, by adopting a situated or ecological approach to cognition, we are able to assess the significance of the Web from the perspective of research into embodied, extended, embedded, social and collective cognition. The results of this analysis help to reshape the interdisciplinary configuration of Web Science, expanding its theoretical and empirical remit to include the disciplines of both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. (shrink)
Content is Pragmatic: Comments on Nicholas Shea's Representation in Cognitive Science.Frances Egan - 2020 - Mind and Language 35 (3):368-376.details
Nicholas Shea offers Varitel Semantics as a naturalistic account of mental content. I argue that the account secures determinate content only by appeal to pragmatic considerations, and so it fails to respect naturalism. But that is fine, because representational content is not, strictly speaking, necessary for explanation in cognitive science. Even in Shea's own account, content serves only a variety of heuristic functions.
Intellectualism and the Argument From Cognitive Science.Arieh Schwartz & Zoe Drayson - 2019 - Philosophical Psychology 32 (5):662-692.details
Intellectualism is the claim that practical knowledge or 'know-how' is a kind of propositional knowledge. The debate over Intellectualism has appealed to two different kinds of evidence, semantic and scientific. This paper concerns the relationship between Intellectualist arguments based on truth-conditional semantics of practical knowledge ascriptions, and anti-Intellectualist arguments based on cognitive science and propositional representation. The first half of the paper argues that the anti-Intellectualist argument from cognitive science rests on a naturalistic approach to metaphysics: (...) its proponents assume that findings from cognitive science provide evidence about the nature of mental states. We demonstrate that this fact has been overlooked in the ensuing debate, resulting in inconsistency and confusion. Defenders of the semantic approach to Intellectualism engage with the argument from cognitive science in a way that implicitly endorses this naturalistic metaphysics, and even rely on it to claim that cognitive science support Intellectualism. In the course of their arguments, however, they also reject that scientific findings can have metaphysical import. We argue that this situation is preventing productive debate about Intellectualism, which would benefit from both sides being more transparent about their metaphilosophical assumptions. (shrink)
Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science.Barry Smith - 1994 - In Carola Eschenbach, Christopher Habel & Barry Smith (eds.), Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science. Hamburg: Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft. pp. 3-22.details
This is a revised version of the introductory essay in C. Eschenbach, C. Habel and B. Smith (eds.), Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Hamburg: Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft, 1994, the text of a talk delivered at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science in Buffalo in July 1994.
Hume and Cognitive Science: The Current Status of the Controversy Over Abstract Ideas.Mark Collier - 2005 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 4 (2):197-207.details
In Book I, Part I, Section VII of the Treatise, Hume sets out to settle, once and for all, the early modern controversy over abstract ideas. In order to do so, he tries to accomplish two tasks: (1) he attempts to defend an exemplar-based theory of general language and thought, and (2) he sets out to refute the rival abstraction-based account. This paper examines the successes and failures of these two projects. I argue that Hume manages to articulate a plausible (...) theory of general ideas; indeed, a version of his account has defenders in contemporary cognitive science. But Hume fails to refute the abstraction-based account, and as a result, the early modern controversy ends in a stalemate, with both sides able to explain how we manage to speak and think in general terms. Although Hume fails to settle the controversy, he nevertheless advances it to a point from which we have yet to progress: the contemporary debate over abstract ideas in cognitive science has stalled on precisely this point. (shrink)
Memory, Natural Kinds, and Cognitive Extension; or, Martians Don'T Remember, and Cognitive Science Is Not About Cognition.Robert D. Rupert - 2013 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 4 (1):25-47.details
This paper evaluates the Natural-Kinds Argument for cognitive extension, which purports to show that the kinds presupposed by our best cognitive science have instances external to human organism. Various interpretations of the argument are articulated and evaluated, using the overarching categories of memory and cognition as test cases. Particular emphasis is placed on criteria for the scientific legitimacy of generic kinds, that is, kinds characterized in very broad terms rather than in terms of their fine-grained causal roles. (...) Given the current state of cognitive science, I conclude that we have no reason to think memory or cognition are generic natural kinds that can ground an argument for cognitive extension. (shrink)
Metaphysics and Computational Cognitive Science: Let's Not Let the Tail Wag the Dog.Frances Egan - 2012 - Journal of Cognitive Science 13:39-49.details
The New Tweety Puzzle: Arguments Against Monistic Bayesian Approaches in Epistemology and Cognitive Science.Matthias Unterhuber & Gerhard Schurz - 2013 - Synthese 190 (8):1407-1435.details
In this paper we discuss the new Tweety puzzle. The original Tweety puzzle was addressed by approaches in non-monotonic logic, which aim to adequately represent the Tweety case, namely that Tweety is a penguin and, thus, an exceptional bird, which cannot fly, although in general birds can fly. The new Tweety puzzle is intended as a challenge for probabilistic theories of epistemic states. In the first part of the paper we argue against monistic Bayesians, who assume that epistemic states can (...) at any given time be adequately described by a single subjective probability function. We show that monistic Bayesians cannot provide an adequate solution to the new Tweety puzzle, because this requires one to refer to a frequency-based probability function. We conclude that monistic Bayesianism cannot be a fully adequate theory of epistemic states. In the second part we describe an empirical study, which provides support for the thesis that monistic Bayesianism is also inadequate as a descriptive theory of cognitive states. In the final part of the paper we criticize Bayesian approaches in cognitive science, insofar as their monistic tendency cannot adequately address the new Tweety puzzle. We, further, argue against monistic Bayesianism in cognitive science by means of a case study. In this case study we show that Oaksford and Chater's (2007, 2008) model of conditional inference—contrary to the authors' theoretical position—has to refer also to a frequency-based probability function. (shrink)
A COGNITIVE SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE OF YOGA SYSTEM OF THOUGHT.Varanasi Ramabrahmam - 2011 - In The proceedings of the national conference on "Opportunities and Challenges of Ayurveda (including Siddha) and Yoga in the Present Milieu" (AYURYOG 2011) between 21-23 January, 2011 at Dept. of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, at Hyder.details
A cognitive science perspective of yoga system of thought will be developed in conjugation with the Samkhya Darsana. This development will be further advanced using Advaita Vedanta and will be translated into modern scientific terms to arrive at an idea about cognition process. The stalling of the cognitive process and stilling the mind will be critically discussed in the light of this perspective. This critical analysis and translation into cognitive science and modern scientific terms will (...) be presented together with its implications and applications to the disciplines of mind-machine modeling, natural language comprehension branch of artificial intelligence and physiological psychology. (shrink)
Reverse-Engineering in Cognitive-Science.Marcin Miłkowski - 2013 - In Marcin Miłkowski & Konrad Talmont-Kaminski (eds.), Regarding Mind, Naturally. Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 12-29.details
I discuss whether there are some lessons for philosophical inquiry over the nature of simulation to be learnt from the practical methodology of reengineering. I will argue that reengineering serves a similar purpose as simulations in theoretical science such as computational neuroscience or neurorobotics, and that the procedures and heuristics of reengineering help to develop solutions to outstanding problems of simulation.
Merleau-Ponty and Embodied Cognitive Science.Christopher Pollard - 2014 - Discipline Filosofiche 24 (2):67-90.details
What would the Merleau-Ponty of Phenomenology of Perception have thought of the use of his phenomenology in the cognitive sciences? This question raises the issue of Merleau-Ponty's conception of the relationship between the sciences and philosophy, and of what he took the philosophical significance of his phenomenology to be. In this article I suggest an answer to this question through a discussion of certain claims made in connection to the "post-cognitivist" approach to cognitive science by Hubert Dreyfus, (...) Shaun Gallagher and Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch. I suggest that these claims are indicative of an appropriation of Merleau-Ponty's thought that he would have welcomed as innovative science. Despite this, I argue that he would have viewed this use of his work as potentially occluding the full philosophical significance that he believed his phenomenological investigations to contain. (shrink)
The Relevance of Hume's Natural History of Religion for Cognitive Science of Religion.Helen De Cruz - 2015 - Res Philosophica 92 (3):653-674.details
Hume was a cognitive scientist of religion avant la lettre. His Natural History of Religion (1757 [2007]) locates the origins of religion in human nature. This paper explores similarities between some of his ideas and the cognitive science of religion, the multidisciplinary study of the psychological origins of religious beliefs. It also considers Hume's distinction between two questions about religion: its foundation in reason (the domain of natural theology and philosophy of religion) and its origin in human (...) nature (the domain of cognitive science of religion). (shrink)
In Defense of Proper Functionalism: Cognitive Science Takes on Swampman.Kenny Boyce & Andrew Moon - 2016 - Synthese 193 (9):2987–3001.details
According to proper functionalist theories of warrant, a belief is warranted only if it is formed by cognitive faculties that are properly functioning according to a good, truth-aimed design plan, one that is often thought to be specified either by intentional design or by natural selection. A formidable challenge to proper functionalist theories is the Swampman objection, according to which there are scenarios involving creatures who have warranted beliefs but whose cognitive faculties are not properly functioning, or are (...) poorly designed, or are not aimed at truth. In this paper, we draw lessons from cognitive science in order to develop a novel argument for the conclusion that the Swampman objection fails against proper functionalist theories of warrant. Our argument not only shows that the underlying, central intuition motivating Swampman-like scenarios is false but also motivates proper function as a necessary condition for warrant, thereby lending support to the claim that any theory of knowledge that lacks a proper function requirement is false. (shrink)
Embodiment, Consciousness, and Neurophenomenology: Embodied Cognitive Science Puts the (First) Person in Its Place.Robert D. Rupert - 2015 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 22 (3-4):148-180.details
This paper asks about the ways in which embodimentoriented cognitive science contributes to our understanding of phenomenal consciousness. It is first argued that central work in the field of embodied cognitive science does not solve the hard problem of consciousness head on. It is then argued that an embodied turn toward neurophenomenology makes no distinctive headway on the puzzle of consciousness; for neurophenomenology either concedes dualism in the face of the hard problem or represents only a (...) slight methodological variation on extant cognitive-scientific approaches to the easy problems of consciousness. The paper closes with the positive suggestion that embodied cognitive science supports a different approach to phenomenal consciousness, according to which the mind is massively representational, cognitive science has no use for the personal-level posits that tend to drive philosophical theorizing about consciousness and mind, and the hard problem is illusory. (shrink)
The Self in the Age of Cognitive Science: Decoupling the Self From the Personal Level.Robert D. Rupert - 2018 - Philosophic Exchange 2018.details
Philosophers of mind commonly draw a distinction between the personal level – the distinctive realm of conscious experience and reasoned deliberation – and the subpersonal level, the domain of mindless mechanism and brute cause and effect. Moreover, they tend to view cognitive science through the lens of this distinction. Facts about the personal level are given a priori, by introspection, or by common sense; the job of cognitive science is merely to investigate the mechanistic basis of (...) these facts. I argue that this view misrepresents the structure of cognitive-scientific enquiry. Taken at face value, cognitive science makes no commitment to the existence of a distinctive level at which persons or selves appear. Thus, in the age of cognitive science, we should not expect to find the self in an ontologically distinct realm. Instead, we should expect to locate it in cognitive-scientific models themselves. In closing, I indicate likely results of this approach. (shrink)
The Concept Concept: The Wayward Path of Cognitive Science. [REVIEW]Frank C. Keil & Robert A. Wilson - 2000 - Mind and Language 15 (2-3):308-318.details
Critical discussion of Jerry Fodor's Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (1998).
A COGNITIVE SCIENCE CORRELATION OF THE MEANING OF PADAARTHA IN RELATION TO HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS, MIND AND THEIR FUNCTIONS.Varanasi Ramabrahmam - 2013 - In Proceedings of International Conference on Indic Studies, 2013, on the theme – Ancient Indian wisdom and modern world, March 29-31, 2013, Delhi, India. Sub-theme: Ancient Indian Vision and Cognitive Science.details
Abstract The word Padaartha, used as a technical term by different Indian schools of thought with different senses will be brought out. The meaning and intonation of the word Padaartha as used in the Upanishads, Brahmajnaana, Advaitha Philosophy, Sabdabrahma Siddhanta (Vyaakarana), the Shaddarshanas will be discussed. A comprehensive gist of this discussion will be presented relating to human consciousness, mind and their functions. The supplementary and complementary nature of these apparently "different" definitions will be conformed from cognitive science (...) point of view in understanding and a modern scientific model of human cognition and communication, language acquisition and in terms of brain modulation and demodulation will be presented. (shrink)
Formal Ontology, Common Sense, and Cognitive Science.Barry Smith - 1995 - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 43 (5-6):641–667.details
Common sense is on the one hand a certain set of processes of natural cognition - of speaking, reasoning, seeing, and so on. On the other hand common sense is a system of beliefs (of folk physics, folk psychology and so on). Over against both of these is the world of common sense, the world of objects to which the processes of natural cognition and the corresponding belief-contents standardly relate. What are the structures of this world? How does the scientific (...) treatment of this world relate to traditional and contemporary metaphysics and formal ontology? Can we embrace a thesis of common-sense realism to the effect that the world of common sense exists uniquely? Or must we adopt instead a position of cultural relativism which would assign distinct worlds of common sense to each group and epoch? The present paper draws on recent work in computer science (especially in the fields of naive and qualitative physics), in perceptual and developmental psychology, and in cognitive anthropology, in order to consider in a new light these and related questions and to draw conclusions for the methodology and philosophical foundations of the cognitive sciences. (shrink)
Cognitive Science of Religion and the Nature of the Divine: A Pluralist Non-Confessional Approach.Johan De Smedt & Helen De Cruz - 2020 - In Jerry L. Martin (ed.), Theology without walls: The transreligious imperative. New York, USA: Taylor and Francis. pp. 128-137.details
According to cognitive science of religion (CSR) people naturally veer toward beliefs that are quite divergent from Anselmian monotheism or Christian theism. Some authors have taken this view as a starting point for a debunking argument against religion, while others have tried to vindicate Christian theism by appeal to the noetic effects of sin or the Fall. In this paper, we ask what theologians can learn from CSR about the nature of the divine, by looking at the CSR (...) literature and what it identifies as commonalities across religions. We use a pluralist, non-confessional approach to outline properties of the divine. We connect our approach to Hick's religious pluralism, Ramakrishna's realization of God through multiple spiritual paths, and Gellman's inexhaustible plenitude. (shrink)
Pragmatism and the Pragmatic Turn in Cognitive Science.Richard Menary - 2016 - In Karl Friston, Andreas Andreas & Danika Kragic (eds.), Pragmatism and the Pragmatic Turn in Cognitive Science. Cambridge MA: M.I.T. Press. pp. 219-236.details
This chapter examines the pragmatist approach to cognition and experience and provides some of the conceptual background to the "pragmatic turn" currently underway in cognitive science. Classical pragmatists wrote extensively on cognition from a naturalistic perspective, and many of their views are compatible with contemporary pragmatist approaches such as enactivist, extended, and embodied-Bayesian approaches to cognition. Three principles of a pragmatic approach to cognition frame the discussion: First, thinking is structured by the interaction of an organism with its (...) environment. Second, cognition develops via exploratory inference, which remains a core cognitive ability throughout the life cycle. Finally, inquiry/problem solving begins with genuinely irritating doubts that arise in a situation and is carried out by exploratory inference. (shrink)
From the Five Aggregates to Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science.Jake H. Davis & Evan Thompson - 2013 - In Steven M. Emmanuel (ed.), A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy. Wiley.details
Buddhism originated and developed in an Indian cultural context that featured many first-person practices for producing and exploring states of consciousness through the systematic training of attention. In contrast, the dominant methods of investigating the mind in Western cognitive science have emphasized third-person observation of the brain and behavior. In this chapter, we explore how these two different projects might prove mutually beneficial. We lay the groundwork for a cross-cultural cognitive science by using one traditional Buddhist (...) model of the mind – that of the five aggregates – as a lens for examining contemporary cognitive science conceptions of consciousness. (shrink)
Implications of Action-Oriented Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive Science.Peter F. Dominey, Tony J. Prescott, Jeannette Bohg, Andreas K. Engel, Shaun Gallagher, Tobias Heed, Matej Hoffmann, Gunther Knoblich, Wolfgang Prinz & Andrew Schwartz - 2016 - In Andreas K. Engel, Karl J. Friston & Danica Kragic (eds.), The Pragmatic Turn: Toward Action-Oriented Views in Cognitive Science. MIT Press. pp. 333-356.details
An action-oriented perspective changes the role of an individual from a passive observer to an actively engaged agent interacting in a closed loop with the world as well as with others. Cognition exists to serve action within a landscape that contains both. This chapter surveys this landscape and addresses the status of the pragmatic turn. Its potential influence on science and the study of cognition are considered (including perception, social cognition, social interaction, sensorimotor entrainment, and language acquisition) and its (...) impact on how neuroscience is studied is also investigated (with the notion that brains do not passively build models, but instead support the guidance of action). A review of its implications in robotics and engineering includes a discussion of the application of enactive control principles to couple action and perception in robotics as well as the conceptualization of system design in a more holistic, less modular manner. Practical applications that can impact the human condition are reviewed (e.g., educational applications, treatment possibilities for developmental and psychopathological disorders, the development of neural prostheses). All of this foreshadows the potential societal implications of the pragmatic turn. The chapter concludes that an action-oriented approach emphasizes a continuum of interaction between technical aspects of cognitive systems and robotics, biology, psychology, the social sciences, and the humanities, where the individual is part of a grounded cultural system. (shrink)
Metacognition and Reflection by Interdisciplinary Experts: Insights From Cognitive Science and Philosophy.Machiel Keestra - 2017 - Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies 35:121-169.details
Interdisciplinary understanding requires integration of insights from different perspectives, yet it appears questionable whether disciplinary experts are well prepared for this. Indeed, psychological and cognitive scientific studies suggest that expertise can be disadvantageous because experts are often more biased than non-experts, for example, or fixed on certain approaches, and less flexible in novel situations or situations outside their domain of expertise. An explanation is that experts' conscious and unconscious cognition and behavior depend upon their learning and acquisition of a (...) set of mental representations or knowledge structures. Compared to beginners in a field, experts have assembled a much larger set of representations that are also more complex, facilitating fast and adequate perception in responding to relevant situations. This article argues how metacognition should be employed in order to mitigate such disadvantages of expertise: By metacognitively monitoring and regulating their own cognitive processes and representations, experts can prepare themselves for interdisciplinary understanding. Interdisciplinary collaboration is further facilitated by team metacognition about the team, tasks, process, goals, and representations developed in the team. Drawing attention to the need for metacognition, the article explains how philosophical reflection on the assumptions involved in different disciplinary perspectives must also be considered in a process complementary to metacognition and not completely overlapping with it. (Disciplinary assumptions are here understood as determining and constraining how the complex mental representations of experts are chunked and structured.) The article concludes with a brief reflection on how the process of Reflective Equilibrium should be added to the processes of metacognition and philosophical reflection in order for experts involved in interdisciplinary collaboration to reach a justifiable and coherent form of interdisciplinary integration. An Appendix of "Prompts or Questions for Metacognition" that can elicit metacognitive knowledge, monitoring, or regulation in individuals or teams is included at the end of the article. (shrink)
Knowledge and the Objection to Religious Belief From Cognitive Science.Kelly James Clark & Dani Rabinowitz - 2011 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3 (1):67 - 81.details
A large chorus of voices has grown around the claim that theistic belief is epistemically suspect since, as some cognitive scientists have hypothesized, such beliefs are a byproduct of cognitive mechanisms which evolved for rather different adaptive purposes. This paper begins with an overview of the pertinent cognitive science followed by a short discussion of some relevant epistemic concepts. Working from within a largely Williamsonian framework, we then present two different ways in which this research can (...) be formulated into an argument against theistic belief. We argue that neither version works. (shrink)
Sense-Making and Symmetry-Breaking: Merleau-Ponty, Cognitive Science, and Dynamic Systems Theory.Noah Moss Brender - 2013 - Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 17 (2):247-273.details
From his earliest work forward, phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty attempted to develop a new ontology of nature that would avoid the antinomies of realism and idealism by showing that nature has its own intrinsic sense which is prior to reflection. The key to this new ontology was the concept of form, which he appropriated from Gestalt psychology. However, Merleau-Ponty struggled to give a positive characterization of the phenomenon of form which would clarify its ontological status. Evan Thompson has recently taken up (...) Merleau-Ponty's ontology as the basis for a new, "enactive" approach to cognitive science, synthesizing it with concepts from dynamic systems theory and Francisco Varela's theory of autopoiesis. However, Thompson does not quite succeed in resolving the ambiguities in Merleau-Ponty's account of form. This article builds on an indication from Thompson in order to propose a new account of form as asymmetry, and of the genesis of form in nature as symmetry-breaking. These concepts help us to escape the antinomies of Modern thought by showing how nature is the autoproduction of a sense which can only be known by an embodied perceiver. (shrink)
The Diverging Force of Imitation. Integrating Cognitive Science and Hermeneutics.Machiel Keestra - 2008 - Review of General Psychology 12 (2):127-136.details
Recent research on infant and animal imitation and on mirror neuron systems has
brought imitation back in focus in psychology and cognitive science. This topic has
always been important for philosophical hermeneutics as well, focusing on theory and
method of understanding. Unfortunately, relations between the scientific and the
hermeneutic approaches to imitation and understanding have scarcely been investigated,
to the loss of both disciplines. In contrast to the cognitive scientific emphasis on
sharing and convergence of representations, the hermeneutic analysis emphasizes the
indeterminacy and openness (...) of action understanding due to preunderstanding, action
configuration, and the processual nature of understanding. This article discusses empirical
evidence in support of these aspects and concludes that hermeneutics can
contribute to the scientific investigation of imitation and understanding. Since, conversely,
some grounding—and constraining—aspects of hermeneutics may be derived
from cognitive science, both should be integrated in a multilevel explanation of
imitation and understanding. This holds also for explanations that are largely based on
mirror neuron systems, since these appear to be sensitive to developmental and
experiential factors, too. (shrink)
Hume's Legacy: A Cognitive Science Perspective.Mark Collier - 2018 - In Angela Coventry & Alex Sager (eds.), The Humean Mind. Routledge. pp. 434-445.details
Hume is an experimental philosopher who attempts to understand why we think, feel, and act as we do. But how should we evaluate the adequacy of his proposals? This chapter examines Hume's account from the perspective of interdisciplinary work in cognitive science.
Developing Attention and Decreasing Affective Bias: Towards a Cross-Cultural Cognitive Science of Mindfulness.Jake H. Davis & Evan Thompson - 2015 - In John D. Creswell Kirk W. Brown (ed.), Handbook of Mindfulness: Theory and Research,. Guilford Press.details
Tolerant Enactivist Cognitive Science.Thomas Raleigh - 2018 - Philosophical Explorations 21 (2):226-244.details
Enactivist (Embodied, Embedded, etc.) approaches in cognitive science and philosophy of mind are sometimes, though not always, conjoined with an anti-representational commitment. A weaker anti-representational claim is that ascribing representational content to internal/sub-personal processes is not compulsory when giving psychological explanations. A stronger anti-representational claim is that the very idea of ascribing representational content to internal/sub-personal processes is a theoretical confusion. This paper criticises some of the arguments made by Hutto & Myin (2013, 2017) for the stronger anti-representational (...) claim and suggests that the default Enactivist view should be the weaker non-representational position. (shrink)
Faces and Brains: The Limitations of Brain Scanning in Cognitive Science.Christopher Mole, Corey Kubatzky, Jan Plate, Rawdon Waller, Marilee Dobbs & Marc Nardone - 2007 - Philosophical Psychology 20 (2):197 – 207.details
The use of brain scanning now dominates the cognitive sciences, but important questions remain to be answered about what, exactly, scanning can tell us. One corner of cognitive science that has been transformed by the use of neuroimaging, and that a scanning enthusiast might point to as proof of scanning's importance, is the study of face perception. Against this view, we argue that the use of scanning has, in fact, told us rather little about the information processing (...) underlying face perception and that it is not likely to tell us much more. (shrink)
A Phenomenology of Skill Acquisition as the Basis for a Merleau-Pontian Nonrepresentational Cognitive Science.Hubert L. Dreyfus - manuscriptdetails
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I Wrote a Poem (What's the big deal, I'm a poet, right? Well...)
I wrote a poem, in the wee hours of this morning. I hadn't written any poetry for a while. Checking in with Word, I see that my most recently written poem file before this was saved on February 20. It's not that I haven't been writing, because I've been more consumed with writing in recent months than has been the case for a couple of years. I'm just not writing poetry. These days, when I have impulse or measured intent to write, I find myself doing this.
Yes, you know, this thing that I'm doing here; this blog-essays thing. Blog-muse has apparently mugged and taken poet-muse hostage and locked her in a closet. When I decided to write a poem this morning, I had to be quite stern with blog-muse in convincing her that she had to let poet-muse out to sit with me for a while. The way that my mind has been automatically turned toward writing whole sentences and paragraphs lately, I had some small, niggling worry that maybe I was losing touch with my poetic place to be. In retrospect, it was silly to worry, but it was shortly before 4am…on a day off…and I wasn't sleeping…so worry is what I did.
While this was going on, I left the bed and came to the computer, and to Facebook. After checking notifications, I began scrolling the newsfeed, and was taken by a photo of a strikingly beautiful young woman in a scenic place, on a link to a news article. I stared blankly at her through the dull fog of 3:58am for a handful of heartbeats before deciding that it was time to face down the impulse to essay and find my way to a place of poetry. I opened a new Word file, flexed my fingers, leaned forward in my chair, closed my eyes and brought the photo into view, and strained to reach for the poem.
Huh. That was not what I unexpected.
No resistance. It was like leaning in to push a door just as someone pulls it open from the other side. The first few lines nearly wrote themselves, and I was in the groove. For the next blanked out piece of time, I was choosing and fitting and re-fitting and retro-fitting and turning upside down and back to front, until the moment came when the poem cried out for mercy and final relief from the pains of its birth, and I relented. Yep, there it was, a little bit of a thing, as poems go, kind of lean in the phrasing and light on the imagery, but worthy of adoption and of public display with my name.
Now, I had to re-read the poem with intent to find its title. It's not always easy to find, but every poem provides its own title, in my world, even if it's only a reflection not easily noted. This one was as easy to find as the poem was to write. It was balanced right there between L3 and L4, all it needed was the addition of one word. I said it out loud as I typed it across the top, "Little poem, you shall go out into the world and be known as: She Smiles, Unaware."
With that, I noted that it was now 4:37am, it had taken less than an hour to prove to myself that I could still find a that place without trouble. Oh, yeah! I pushed back from the computer and surged from my chair to dance a lively jig around the basement while chanting, "Yew-betcha folks! Here he is, the One-Hour Poet! That's right, I'm bad. Yoo-Hoo!"
Okay, that's not true. It wasn't a jig, it was more of a staggering limp-shuffle-and reach for a door frame. And, it wasn't so much a chant as it was a groaning sigh of combined relief and pain. Okay, so it was really a matter of not realizing how badly I had to pee until I had finished the poem, and the "yoo-hoo" at the end was because I made it to the bathroom in time.
All right, time to go. No, not that, I mean I'm finished here, I already went. The poem is below the sign-off. Stop speculating about my coffee consumption and go look at it so its feelings aren't hurt. Poems hate to be ignored, you know.
See y'all next time.
She Smiles, Unaware
Mystery lurks behind
sensual innocence
of a sweet, serene smile,
unaware of its power
to please, and to create
gentle imaginings
of playful passions,
explored in soft grasses
of a mountain meadow
beneath a sapphire sky,
in wishful memories
of impossible love.
Kevin R. Carr (2017)
Michael H Phillips
Hey that doesn't rhyme, we discussed this before Kevin now stop writing poems that don't rhyme dammit. All of the time! Don't make me report you to the "rhymers" are poetry guys. ;)
Vernon Lovdokken
Thank you for sharing this window where the reader can easily imagine the meaning behind the words. You have managed to catch the essence of the feminine mystique which is as timeless as man kind itself.


The wonderful Laura Pacino of Simply Adorning has a brand new tutorial out. It's labeled Beginning Metals Fabrication-Bezeled Toggle Clasp. I had the opportunity to preview this ebook and let me just say it's wonderful.
I've had very little experience with metal fabrication. I took a class six years ago, but due to time restraints I never made anything other than some disks at a friends house, which means I barely remember anything. Oh, I vaguely recall filing and sawing and pickling, but if I were to sit down and try to make something, disaster would ensue. But I didn't have any trouble following along with this tutorial. Laura even gives you part numbers for tools and materials so it's easy to find the items she is talking about. I love that! Especially since I am such a noob.
The tutorial is how to set a stone, but she also discuses tips and tricks for glass beads. See the picture on the left? The bead on the right is one of mine. Doesn't it look gorgeous? Laura makes everything look awesome.
Anyway, the tutorial is clear, the pictures are awesome, and since part numbers are listed, tools and supplies are easy to find. I'd say it's well worth the $25 price tag. Check it out!


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Kevin Stass
Jeremy Knight
Alan Woolven
Tony Poole
Robert Arbuthnott
Robina Arbuthnott
Michael Vickers
Beat Merchants
Phil Skingsley
Terri LeFavre
Sir Michael Checkland
Peter Lyon
Gilbert Saunders
Adam Leszczar
Jack Cottingham
Andy Hepworth
Brenda Howlett-Nye
Jim Hills
Brian Sturt
Doug Eaton
Peter Wynne
Willie Austen
Alma Cook
Ron Warburton
Roy Flodgell
Michael Dalrymple
Joan Ward
John Snelling
Andrew Bernardi
Victoria Eisermann
Roger Liley
Ron Cheesman
Pam Goodall
Henry Bessinger
Bhasker Patel
Olive Thornton
Ted Lynch
Lynda: Great British Sewing...
Hugh Pryor
Kenneth Alwyn
Dave Degens
Andrew Crofts
Joe Grout
Dr Annabelle Hughes
Sara Leighton
Virginia McKenna
Paul Bellringer
Jim Duggan
Natalie van de Braam
Violet Phillips
Dulcie Kup
Mary Villiers
Dr David Skipp
Bill Lucas
Victor Jannels
Sir Peter Hordern
Ted Streeter
Bob Piper
Shirley Rae
John Jochimsen
Ted Streeter of Roffey
I was born in 1936. My dad was a railwayman and we moved to Horsham when I was less than a year old.
We lived in Bethune Road and it was a great childhood. We would go to the woods to make camps, or play football and cricket in the street because there weren't any cars around. None of us had any money but it didn't matter - if we had a tennis ball to kick about we were happy.
We had a great deal of freedom back in those days, which kids today do not have. I remember we had a few bombs dropped nearby during the war, but as a boy it was exciting.
I went to Clarence Road and Denne Road schools, then I passed my 11-plus and went to Collyer's. I was a small lad but I played cricket and football for the school.
I got the cane twice. The headmaster at Collyer's punished about 40 of us for throwing snowballs. The other time was for interrupting my history teacher. He gave me a note to take to the headmaster which said I should receive two beatings. I put the note in the bin and went back to class pretending I'd been caned. I thought I'd got away with it, but the next day my name was called in assembly and I got six of the best for that stunt!
I joined Horsham Football Club when I was 14. I played for Horsham 'A' men's team. One of the first teams I played against was West Ham A in the Metropolitan league. I made my first team debut for Horsham when I was 17.
I broke my leg when I was 18, which was a huge setback. I was at the hospital for four hours waiting to be seen to. Eventually they slapped my whole leg in plaster. I was covered in mud, and all my subsequent problems with my knee were caused by that as it was never properly re-aligned.
After Collyer's I went to Brighton Technical College to study building and surveying. When I was 20 I got a job with John Laing's construction business, and my first job was building flats in Birmingham. From there I went to the Shell Haven oil refinery, and then to Newport Pagnell to help build the M1 motorway.
In 1958, I married June in Southwater. I couldn't have done all that I have without her. She's put up with me being away with work for many years and going off to football every weekend from the day we met. I think if we were a modern couple she would not have put up with it! My children, Julie, John and Martin, have also been tremendously supportive over the years.
My National Service had been deferred, but they caught up with me in 1959. Once you got over the 'square bashing' it was great fun. I was never posted anywhere because I played for the camp football team. Young men these days could do with something like National Service, as I think discipline is sadly lacking.
After National Service, June and I decided to settle in Horsham. I got a building job with Y. J. Lovell for three years, and started playing for Horsham regularly again. In those days, Horsham had a really good side so I only used to get a game for the Firsts when the likes of Don Cocozza, Mick Browning and Dave Collyer played for the county team. It didn't matter what I did. I scored 35 goals by Christmas for the Reserves, and still I couldn't force my way in. They were good times and I made friends then that I still see now.
I went to Worthing to play first team football and the manager, Dick Tarrant, got me interested in coaching. I started taking my coaching badges.
Over the years, I coached and played for many teams. I went to various clubs - Wick, Petworth, Portfield, and Worthing for a time. But I was always running coaching for young players. I returned to Horsham in 1983 as first team manager but it was a very difficult time for the club. The Board of Directors wanted to disband the team and hire the ground out.
As manager, I fought like mad to keep the club going, along with chairman John Laker. In the end, I gave up the manager's job to become treasurer. I called on some old players and friends and concentrated on pulling the club together financially. After just one year we got the club back in the black.
I had been running my own civil engineering company called Oakley Construction but it all went wrong in 1981. We were sub-contracted by a company doing the drainage on the new Southwater bypass. But they went bust and took me for a lot of money.
We had to sell our house and move to a smaller place in Crawley Road, taking on a bigger mortgage that lasted until I was 72. My company was forced to close. Those were dark days.
I had promised June I would quit football when I turned 50. But then I was offered a job by Brighton and Hove Albion manager Barry Lloyd to be Youth Development Officer. It was what I had always wanted to do - coach at a professional club. I went there in 1987 full time and I was there until 1994.
They were great times. I was on the bench at Wembley for the play-off final in 1991 and my youth team played on the pitch before the main match. We started two centres of excellence and Gareth Barry was one of the youngsters coming through then. We won the Southern Counties Youth League Cup, beating Chelsea on the way.
It ended when Liam Brady came in as manager with his own people. I could have sat back and retired but I felt I still had a lot to offer. That's when I started the North Sussex Soccer Academy. After 18 years we still get 60 or 70 on a Saturday morning in Horsham Park - but at one time it was 120 or so.
We should promote skills and technique with fewer players at youth level. Under-7 is too early to start playing competitive matches - they call them friendlies but there is still pressure to win. Teams shouldn't play 11-a-side until they are 14.
I hear parents saying 'my son's going Chelsea training' and all that. Yes, they may be going to a satellite training camp which you normally have to pay for, but to 'make it' is very hard. Parents give kids these big ideas that they are going to be professional footballers.
It should be an honour to play for your hometown team. That should be what they strive for.
1991 was a significant year in my life as I became a Christian. On TV, they were talking about the Gulf War, and I had a tremendous feeling to go back to the Baptists Church, where I went to Sunday School as a kid to pray that there would not be a war.
If you've ever worked on a building site or been in a football changing room, you'll know what the language is like. I used to swear like a trooper, shout at the kids and lacked patience, but that all changed. I started finding the good in people.
There's no point having faith if you're not going to make use of it by helping and supporting other people.
Being a Christian helped me when it came to having to release young players. I decided which boys would join the Youth Training Scheme at Brighton. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done - these boys dream only of playing football.
Last November, I was getting an indigestion-like pain coming on every time I exercised. I went to the doctor and he sent me up to Redhill for check-ups, where I was told I'd need coronary artery bypass surgery.
I was shocked as I'm a healthy person, don't smoke and my cholesterol levels are good. But still, I went to London and ended up having a quadruple bypass.
It's tough to take that you're getting old.
I'm 76 this year, so I've had my three score and ten and then another six. I don't know how long God has got for me, but I do know that all the time I feel I can do the football coaching for the youngsters, then I believe it's the right thing to do. I'd be lost without it.


After much begging and a little nagging, I finally got my partner to agree to take a road trip to see what people are calling the Great American Eclipse. We decided to take a chance on a risky weather forecast. We drove to St. Joseph, Missouri, which turned out to be an interesting historical town. We were there for the eclipse, but we also visited the house where Jesse James was killed and drove around some really nice historic neighborhoods. Watch our video to find out how it turned out.