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Lectures done!

By evolvingthoughts on October 21, 2007.

Today was the final lecture in my Introduction to Cognitive Science course. Thank the fates it is over.

I started this having no real idea of the topic, never having taught what Americans are pleased to call "freshmen" and we call "first-years", and with the first two lectures occurring in my absence as I was at a conference in the UK. So it has been a bit like surfing a wave of magma.

Anyway, I dropped my hindbrain (17" MacPowerBook G4) on Friday and shattered the LCD. This has made it hard to (i) prepare the lecture, (ii) give the lecture, and (iii) post blog entries. Now that I have time, and it is being repaired, I am to fix this.

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I used to think it was a terrible thing that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'what if life *were* fair, and all of the terrible things that happen to us came because we really deserved them?' Now I take great comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe.

Marcus Cole

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By Ian H Spedding FCD (not verified) on 22 Oct 2007 #permalink

You don't know the convenience of a laptop until you are without it, for whatever reason.

Craig Venter has done some terrific work on DNA, and artificial life is getting closer.

How will Philosophy handle that side of science?