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Ralph.

About Me

An intentional system.

- A sentential system in a transducer-effector overcoat.

- Coalitions of homunculi.

- A modular cognitive system or some otherwise sub-personal realization of cognitive processes.

- Language capacities.

- Reasons, reasoning protocols, hypothesis generation and testing.

My Interests

Epistemology meets philosophy of mind meets philosophy of language. Elucidating, extrapolating, explaining, and (talking about) predicting. Comic books. Battlegrounds. Listing interests in order of preference. Intelligent humor. Juvenile humor.

I'd like to meet:

More sophisticated fake profiles, I guess.

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Music:

Genres. Sub-genres. OSTs. Between the Buried and Me. Ion Dissonance. Decapitated. Music from the astral plane.

Movies:

Ghost in the Shell. Throne of Blood. End of Evangelion. Rashomon. Yojimbo. Akira. Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple. Pi. Buffalo '66. Harakiri. Irreversible. I Stand Alone. Batman Begins. The Weather Man. Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade. Ran. The Seven Samurai. LOTR. Shaun of the Dead.

Television:

A lot. Series collections. Background noise.

Books:

Nonfiction: ^The Problems of Philosophy. ^The Analysis of Mind. ^Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. ^The Blue and Brown Books. ^On Certainty. ^Philosophical Investigations.^ ^The Intentional Stance. ^Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology. ^Consciousness Explained. ^Freedom Evolves. ^Being and Nothingness. ^Mind: a Brief Introduction. Wittgenstein: Lectures and Conversations. Logic Made Easy. Mind, Language, and Society. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays. ^The Making of a Philosopher. Existentialism and Human Emotions. ^Atheism: the Case Against God. ^A History of God. Critical Thinking. Science Texts. Anthropology texts. Semiotics: the Basics. From a Logical Point of View. Methods of Logic. Breaking the Spell. Darwin's Dangerous Idea. The Mind's I. Language and Problems of Knowledge. Meaning and Necessity. The Engine of Reason, Seat of the Soul. The Mysterious Flame. Language and Mind. The Transcendence of the Ego. Godel, Escher, and Bach. ^A Companion to Philosophical Logic. Some Quine, some Popper, more Chomsky... getting around in the literature never ends.
Fiction: Nausea. Blade of the Immortal. The Dark Knight Returns. Grendel. Watchmen. The Stranger. Battle Royale.
*Bold = currently reading, Italic = on the reading list, ^ = to be constantly referenced

Heroes:

Batman, Wittgenstein, the like.

My Blog

Batman vs. Logic

Alright.  I'm trying this out to convince all of the bros and newjacks that Batman is a superhero despite not having powers.  Accept these premises, follow to the conclusion.  Any const...
Posted by Ralph. on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:27:00 PST

Top serialized broadcast narratives and artificial worlds.

Also called television shows.  I've decided that "Top Ten" style lists of literature (no matter how important to me) or film (also important) are moot considering that they're elsewhere on my pro...
Posted by Ralph. on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:48:00 PST

Lists: Ending Discussion

Alright, here's the major caveat about lists.  I don't apply any strict system of aesthetic reasoning to my choices, and chances are, neither do you.*Let's face it, aesthetic discussions seldom g...
Posted by Ralph. on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:09:00 PST

Comics

There is too much here for me to have only a favorite comic book list, so I've divided the field into categories, top story, top character, top series, top art.  Each of these categories could be...
Posted by Ralph. on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 03:49:00 PST

Albums

Re-update:  This should surprise no one:This is where all paths of development have lead.  Update:  Like I said, lists date themselves.  As of August 2007, the top three spots, whi...
Posted by Ralph. on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:30:00 PST