This is Your Brain On Fiction – Stories are a way of hacking your own brain<\/p>\n
Thanks to Capitalism, We Can All Get Hit On Like Hot Babes – We are all hit on all the time by people who want our investment<\/p>\n
Super-normal, Part I – Superheroes are what we admire, only more so<\/p>\n
Super-normal, Part II –\u00a0<\/p>\n
limen – a threshold beneath which stimulus is not perceived or distinguished from another<\/p>\n
Cambridge professor Alan Macfarlane is studying the lives of 100 modern scientists, historians, and explorers to try to find out what conditions created their “Eureka!” breakthrough moments. The study won’t come out until next year but for now he says that creativity is often found in “people who live on the margins or the border between different cultures.”<\/p>\n
Sf vs Fantasy – sf inspired by physics (what could prove true), fantasy by superstitions (what feels true but we know isn’t)<\/p>\n
Using Science in Fantasy – not to make the magic scientific\u00a0<\/p>\n
I Cannot Pass the Turing Test – I’m sure a story has covered this already, but how long until humans must pass the Turing Test and manage to convince other humans we are human too?<\/p>\n
Sale Figure for the Bible Don’t Count – I don’t care how many books you sell compared to the Bible. The Bible, the Qu’ran, these are not books. They are PR for God. Please do not tell me people buy the Bible, “because I’d seen the movie and had to find out if the book was better” or because “you won’t believe how it ends.” C’mon, people. And I don’t mean this post to be insulting to the Bible. My real point was this. If you found out no one one wanted to buy a book it would and should change your \u00a0opinion of the contents of the book. If you found out no \u00a0one wanted to read the Bible, it shouldn’t change your opinion of contents of the Bible.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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