Entrenando el tren de las ideas (Training the Train of Ideas)
miércoles, 28 de octubre de 2015
Entrenando el tren de las ideas (Training the Train of Ideas)
Comentamos la relevancia actual de la teoría de la asociación de las ideas de Locke en su 'Ensayo sobre el entendimiento humano', y su desarrollo en la psicología de Herbert Spencer, comparándolas con el tratamiento dado al mismo fenómeno mental en las teorías neurológicas de Ramón y Cajal, Hebb, y otros.
English Abstract: This paper examines the current relevance Locke's theory of the association of ideas as presented in his 'Essay concerning human understanding', and its development in Herbert Spencer's psychology, comparing these with the treatment given to the same phenomenon in the neurological theories of Ramón y Cajal, Hebb, and others.
Querella por sedición contra los nacis catalanes
miércoles, 28 de octubre de 2015
Querella por sedición contra los nacis catalanes
Frente el golpe al Estado dado por la Mesa del Parlament, nos querellamos contra los firmantes por sedición: https://t.co/CJ6DmT4knJ — UPYD (@UPYD) octubre 28, 2015
Los promotores del brote naci, que vayan A LA CÁRCEL y sean inhabilitados políticamente. Y allí, que escriban si quieren "La Meva Lluita".
Pero aquí se aplicará justicia a la catalana—como si la española no fuese bastante endeble.
Volador solitario
Sobre la evolución humana, Juan Luis Arsuaga, y El Enigma de la Esfinge
martes, 27 de octubre de 2015
Sobre la evolución humana, Juan Luis Arsuaga, y El Enigma de la Esfinge
Criticamos en este artículo algunas preconcepciones de la paleoantropología contemporánea y la teoría sobre la evolución humana que la acompaña, en particular en lo referente al papel y desarrollo del lenguaje y de la cognición, tal como aparecen ejemplificadas en las teorías de Juan Luis Arsuaga sobre el Homo Antecessor y su libro 'El Enigma de la Esfinge'. En particular planteamos algunas objeciones, desde el punto de vista de la teoría narrativa, al papel que juega la distorsión retrospectiva en la interpretación de los datos, y sobre el status de la complejidad y de la teleología.
Jose Angel Garcia Landa
Universidad de Zaragoza
January 20, 2005
Abstract:
On Human Evolution, Juan Luis Arsuaga and The Riddle of the Sphinx
Note: Downloadable document is in Spanish. Number of Pages in PDF File: 3
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Operación contra los Pujol
martes, 27 de octubre de 2015
Operación contra los Pujol
Operación Ubú, la podrían llamar. Operación Hades, la llaman. A ver si es cierto y mandan al infierno a estos mangantes y a toda la morralla política que han montado, y se derrumba de una vez tanto casteller farsante:
AUDIO DE ESRADIO
Aunque si nos atenemos a la última declaración de Rajoy, de momento no va a hacer él nada sobre la declaración republicana del parlamento catalán. Cuando hagan algo en concreto dice. La sedición y golpe de estado no le parece nada en concreto. Otro Ubú éste, que cuanto antes acabe en el Hades, mejor.
Más sobre la operación contra la mafia catalana.
Cien fólobuers
martes, 27 de octubre de 2015
Cien fólobuers
No es mucho, pero en esto como en todo celebro lo que puedo.
The Earl of Rochester
martes, 27 de octubre de 2015
The Earl of Rochester
From The Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble:
Rochester, John Wilmot, second earl of (1647-80), lyric poet, satirist, and a leading member of the group of 'court wits' surrounding Charles II. He was born at Ditchley in Oxfordshire, his father was a Cavalier hero and his mother a deeply religious woman related to many prominent Puritans. In his early teens he was sent to Wadham College, Oxford, the home of the *Royal Society, and then went on a European tour, returning to the court late in 1664. At the age of 18 he romantically abducted the sought-after heiress Elizabeth Malet in a coach-and-six. Despite the resistance of her family, and after a delay of 18 months (during which Rochester fought with conspicuous gallantry in the war against the Dutch), she married him. Subsequently his time was divided between periods of domesticity with Elizabeth at his mother's home in the country (the couple had four children), and fashionable life in London with, among several mistresses, the brilliant actress Elizabeth *Barry, and his riotous male friends, who included the earl of Dorset (C. *Sackville) and the duke of *Buckingham. Wherever he was staying he tried to keep up the other side of his life through letters, many of which survive.
Although Dr. *Johnson dismissed Rochester's lyrics, their wit and emotional complexity give him some claim to be considered one of the last important *Metaphysical poets of the 17th cent., and he was one of the first of the *Augustans, with his social and literary verse satires. He wrote scurrilous lampoons—some of them impromptu—dramatic prologues and epilogues, 'imitations' and translations of classical authors, and several other brilliant poems which are hard to categorize, such as his tough self-dramatization 'The Maimed Debauchee' and the grimly funny 'Upon Nothing'. He wrote more frankly about sex than anyone in English before the 20th cent., and is one of the most witty poets in the language. Although his output was small (he died young), it was very varied. *Marvell admired him, *Dryden, *Swift, and *Pope were all influenced by him (he was Dryden's patron for a time), and he has made an impression on many subsequent poets—*Goethe and *Tennyson, for example, and in modern Britain, *Empson and P. *Porter.
Rochester is famous for having, in Johnson's words, 'blazed out his youth and health in lavish voluptuousness'. He became very ill in his early thirties and engaged in discussions and correspondence with a number of theologians, particularly the deist Charles Blount and the rising Anglican churchman G. *Burnet, an outspoken royal chaplain who superintended and subsequently wrote up the poet's deathbed conversion. It was the final contradiction in a personality whose many oppositions—often elegantly or comically half-concealed—produced and important body of poems. See Complete Poems, ed. D. M. Vieth (1968); Poems, ed. K. Walker (1984); Letters, ed. J. Treglown (1980). There is a life by V. de Sola Pinto (1953, 2nd ed. 1964); see also Lord Rochester's Monkey (1974) by G. *Greene.
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