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I'm dodging programming in @*#@& C on @#!@# linux so i can have &#$^ program to run a #$@#$ user study on!

Ha! found it! From this lecture. I don't necessarily agree with everything (the guy's a bit of a weirdo) but nonetheless I think this is sort of the standard view of embodiment with regard to technology, in the engineering/CS fields.

haha, don't worry about it. just poking you a bit.

hohoho. gee thanks ;)

Well you'll be happy to know that there are a lot of people in the computer science world who are very keen on things like "distributed cognition" and embodiment, whereby technology comes to be considered part of the body and even our thought process (or even better, when our thought processes...

hahaha, how unlke your usual trusting, unquestioning self. but wasn't there some kid in south korea who played WOW for something like 50 hours straight without eating or drinking and then died? Surely that's about as dissasociated with the needs/desires of teh body as you can get.

would things live avatars in MMO games like world of warcraft or second life count? (i'm not really sure what ur talking about here...)

I guess I'm just trying steal "health" back after its been coopted by capitalism

though to bring this back to my first comment. I was trying to say how (I think) I would actually fit the model of what is supposed to be normal and healthy in a capitalist society pretty well, while simultaneously realizing the problems with those definitions. So criticizing a position (such as...

Yeah I like this (though agree with nomad on the "no spirits" front) that really the issue is how we're defining "health" and that what passes for health (especially mental health) in our society really is a form of sickness. I'm sure this point has been made by many people before but it bears...

thanks gavin, nomad. I guess i'm just going on the rather trite observation that positive emotions are better than negative emotions, and especially given the frequent critique that leftists are all negative criticism and no positive solutions, I think love as a force for positive...

This damn thread is moving too fast! Can we bring it back to this: and this: and also some of gek's comments about parental love. I guess I have a rough understanding of what you people are trying to get at here, Resisting arbitrary, culturally determined emotions that clearly play a role in...

agreed with...everyone! (well haven't heard the bruno pronsato yet, will have to get on it). Was kinda underwhelmed by the 'classics' disc too (except for Amael--swoon), but loved 'conemporary'. and I must have listened to that melchior album-taster mix about 5-6 times since i downloaded it...

I liked it pretty good but got a bit overwhelmed by his aesthetic in the album format. I mean, all his tracks are so free form and constantly evolving and mutating that after a while you feel like you could kinda just sub in one part of one song into another part of another song and it wouldn't...

Okay the advance mixed version of the new Melchior Productions Ltd lp "No Disco Future" that just got posted at ohmygosh is amazing, at least at first listen on headphones. Melodic, intricate, warm, funky, spacious, all the good stuff. I'm not sure but I guess the final cd version will be...

hohoho i'd supply some quality bc hydro for everyone except i think approximately half of BC's population is already employed in doing so. (must discover way of sending dru9s via email)

wow this thread just keeps getting better. of course we are now 100% screwed as soon as the feds show up given that we are officially running an international t3rr0r1sm and drug tr4ff1ck1ng cartell :D (damn i can't figure out how to l33t spell drugs)

Hmmm but I guess I'm getting at, was it that you just remember how awful it tasted when you ate it, or we're you actually sort of "re-tasting" it, in the imaginary mouth in your brain? OK so psychology via introspection is a pretty unrelaiable technique (especially perceptual psychology), but I...

Anyone wanna talk bout how we can remember (in terms of "playing back in your head") visual and auditory stimuli, but not touch, taste or smell--which is likely part of why it's hard to remember good sex? I hadn't ever really thought about it in that context, but you can recall various scenes...

I'm really of two minds when it comes to this kind of stuff. While access to the data is one thing, the ability to find the right data is another, and I think is the true purpose of things like gapminder, and also one of their main problems. Having fiddled around with this (and a lot of other...