Thanks to T. Ryan Gregory, I have just discovered Todd Oakley's new blog, Evolutionary Novelties. It's only a few months old and only has a few entries, but go on, encourage him to write more.
More like this
Play cognitive engineer: if you were designing an intelligent system, you'd probably use the same system to detect novelty as that used to detect familiarity.
To efficiently direct learning, it may be useful for the brain to attend to those items which are maximally novel - this novelty may obscure some predictive or rewarding value that has not yet been learned or exploited.
We've got an interesting seminar coming to Morris next Thursday.
Very nice blog. But hey, I've been blogging my tush off for two months now. What am I -- a potted plant? [mumble, grumble ...]
I have enjoyed Todd's blog, and he has apparently found a tidbit he liked on mine. From March 6th:
I've got a new blog, too. Check out The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Big Lie which deals with the very same issue my main blog deals with concerning the creationist idiot beliefs on dinosaurs.
That really is one great blog. Read for instance
this article on Stephen J. Gould: Pluralism by monism. Great reading, for me at least a totally different way to look at Gould.
And I don't have a blog of my own to sell. Too busy reading those of others.
Grmphff. I was trying to link to this:
http://evolutionarynovelty.blogspot.com/2008/05/gould-pluralism-by-moni… Sorry about that.
It's an excellent start! Great blog, I hope he intends to expand it greatly.
Well, if we're going to spruik our blogs I might as well mention my own blog, on which I discuss superstitions and religion as a natural cognitive phenomenon. It's at http://deisidaimon.wordpress.com