So I'm making my way through The Black Swan; highly recommended. IAONAN (I Am Obviously Not A Neuroscientist), but Taleb's argument that our brains just aren't wired for outliers seems to be the flip side (in a good way) of Jeff Hawkins' descriptions of conscious thought in On Intelligence. Our brains are constantly doing pattern recognition, looking for how things fit...and being (quite literally) surprised when they don't. (And "click" went my brain.) Plus, I haven't come across more descriptive terms than "mediocristan" and "extremistan." Perfect.
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Did you miss his conference last week?
Posted by: Yann | Feb 11, 2008 at 06:55 PM
There was a conference last week? So, um, yeah. I obviously missed it.
Posted by: Michael Sippey | Feb 12, 2008 at 03:19 AM
Yes, he gave a talk at the LongNow foundation, which I unfortunately missed too. They haven't posted the archive yet, but assume they will soon. Here's the link:
http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/
Cheers,
-Todd
p.s. LongNow also provides high-quality video archives of it's talks for members...
Posted by: Todd Gehring | Feb 12, 2008 at 02:45 PM
@todd -- thanks for the pointer!
Posted by: Michael Sippey | Feb 17, 2008 at 04:56 PM
Pattern recognition... well this is something kinda new to me. Sound like interesting.
Posted by: ty smith | Feb 25, 2008 at 07:34 AM