Melting Asphalt
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Series

Tour of Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness

  1. Mr. Jaynes' Wild Ride
  2. Accepting Deviant Minds
  3. Neurons Gone Wild
  4. Hallucinated Gods

 

Personality:

  1. The Body in Society
  2. An Ecosystems Perspective
  3. Beyond Social and Beyond Human

 

Ribbonfarm residency

  1. Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups
  2. Honesty and the Human Body
  3. The Economics of Social Status
  4. Consciousness: An Outside View
  5. Projected Presence
  6. UX and the Civilizing Process
  7. Technical Debt of the West

 

Post-atheism

  1. Introduction
  2. Religion Refactored
  3. The Spirituality of Science
Last updated December 30, 2014.

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Melting Asphalt is a col­lec­tion of es­says by Kevin Simler — es­says about phi­los­o­phy, hu­man be­hav­ior, and oc­ca­sion­al­ly soft­ware. It's my ex­cuse for toy­ing around with ideas and prac­tic­ing the craft of writ­ing.

I have to un­der­stand the world, you see. — Richard Feynman

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