• Linking Park: 2006-W39

    edited by Alexander Becker on September 30, 2006 | Link

    Welcome to the latest edition of the carnival of... Defeated Purpose, where the only participant submitting and selecting entries is the host himself... nevermind.

    Happy Birthday G∞gle: How long is 8 years in Internet time? I remember the first sight of Google's bot in the logfiles and how we sent an e-mail to them about what it was...

    Also from Google comes the new reader which is so good that I use it in place of bloglines since I tested it on the first day after the update. Check out the beautifully simple shared items.

    I like to welcome Dethroner... which is introducing itself as: Men's Vogue for men.

    MysticSaint has a roundup on fasting, covering the medical benefits of fasting and beyond. I particularly like the operation without surgery theory.

    On the other hand, sometimes, you gotta eat, for example a staple food around the Mediterranean: Tahini in the WOW Lexicon.

    Another Mediterrasian idea: Mediterranean stew.

    With a few simple variations this delicious and nutritious stew can be turned into a variety of dishes from around the Mediterranean, including a rustic Spanish tuna stew, a hearty Greek stew with shrimp, an exotic Moroccan fish stew, a rich French Provencal chicken stew, and a flavorsome Italian white bean pasta.

    Just in case, Sizeasy offers a new and convenient way to compare sizes with a nice webapp, because size matters.

    Radicalhop has 8 qualities of an expert and the Uncommon Body considers the top 10 ways to recover after physical exercises. While the 8 qualities and the 10 ways do not necessarily go together, they nevertheless flow.

    Didn't I suggest to look the part? Here is some fashion help from Diesel's and Tory Burch's Spring 2007 collections.

    The hard stuff comes towards the end, how about treating your thoughts like the layers of an onion? Exploring the always funny implications of quantum physics with identity and individuality in quantum theory is a fine entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. If you are interested in more stuff to read, consider checking out the new and redesigned bookshelf with recommendations and suggestions around all things WOW.

    A view from a different angle is facing up to the problem of consciousness.

    The really hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. When we think and perceive, there is a whir of information-processing, but there is also a subjective aspect. As Nagel (1974) has put it, there is something it is like to be a conscious organism. This subjective aspect is experience. When we see, for example, we experience visual sensations: the felt quality of redness, the experience of dark and light, the quality of depth in a visual field. Other experiences go along with perception in different modalities: the sound of a clarinet, the smell of mothballs. Then there are bodily sensations, from pains to orgasms; mental images that are conjured up internally; the felt quality of emotion, and the experience of a stream of conscious thought. What unites all of these states is that there is something it is like to be in them. All of them are states of experience.

    To your excellent life.

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