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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:
    Franti kickin it in Iraq...

    The preview was fuckin A

    Did you checkout the .....Bomb The World video posted from the march in DC? Tell me what ya think of this one? I'm seeing his shows in Times Square, NYC....Norfolk, VA.....Richmond, VA....and Philly, PA.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Congratulations!

    Perhaps you can tell me the standard delay between a stimulus and a readiness potential then?

    Or maybe you'd like to take a crack at explaining how the V1 striate cortex encodes for projections to V4.

    Or maybe, you are just a literary critic and don't know a damn thing about brains.

    I could do what you do, and provide critically inept paraphasings of links:

    http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=65109BEE76D6792CDB3FDAA3471E0FC8.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=85825

    http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=980799422&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=980799422.pdf

    Get the point?
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    I'm making a documentary I'm calling, I'm the Smartest Guy Here Except Baraka is Smarter. Coming to a theater near you! :)
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I could do what you do, and provide critically inept paraphasings of links:

    http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=65109BEE76D6792CDB3FDAA3471E0FC8.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=85825

    http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=980799422&dok_var=d1&dok_ext=pdf&filename=980799422.pdf

    Get the point?

    I could answer both of those questions I asked without consulting any sources. I know. That is the point.

    You know what you know, which is how to be a literary critic. You got 3 fancy papers to back it up, congratulations. I have knowledge backing up my knowledge and when I talk, it's evident. You have the bug of academia, the holier-than-thou complex all too common.

    "You are a pack of neurons" - Francis Crick (The Astonishing Hypothesis)

    You want to challenge that knowledge, shoot yourself in the brain. Otherwise, stick to what you do know and respect those that know otherwise.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    g under p wrote:
    Did you checkout the .....Bomb The World video posted from the march in DC? Tell me what ya think of this one? I'm seeing his shows in Times Square, NYC....Norfolk, VA.....Richmond, VA....and Philly, PA.

    Peace


    It was good. I like the level of punch his drummer gets dials in on the snare.

    He's got a bit of funk and Caribbean patois going on in there. I can play that kind of stuff quite well so I like to jam to it.
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    gue_barium wrote:
    I'm making a documentary I'm calling, I'm the Smartest Guy Here Except Baraka is Smarter. Coming to a theater near you! :)

    I'm pretty sure Baraka is smarter than me or Fins.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • baraka
    baraka Posts: 1,268
    gue_barium wrote:
    I'm making a documentary I'm calling, I'm the Smartest Guy Here Except Baraka is Smarter. Coming to a theater near you! :)

    I'm pretty average really............I'm just a better 'con-man' than Ahnimus. Ha ha.... Just kidding guys ;)

    Dunkman mentioned the Heart of Darkness doc, I loved that one too.
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

    Only a life lived for others is worth living.
    ~Albert Einstein
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_ascent_of_man

    Ahnimus should watch this.

    http://www.guba.com/watch/2000989072

    I actually like the documentary in the end. It doesn't really have anything to do with me though.

    There are a few points I disagree with Bonowsky, but mostly it's on fallacious inferences, such as "Heissenberg's uncertainty princple" I don't think it has a damn thing to do with pattern recognition or human communication skills. That's a straw bridge, IMO. Nor do I agree with his entire interpretation of quantum mechanics.

    But what he says at the end "when people believe they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality"

    Bingo!

    That's what tips the scales in favor of science as the best method for aquiring information about reality. That is the entire point of this documentary.

    In that regard, I am in line with Bonowsky, not against him.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    I would say The Ascent of Man is aimed more at religious dogmatist, or those that claim Aristotle, Aquinas or any philosopher preneuroscience had anything proven about human wills or Gods. The documentary is directly aimed at traditional dogmatism. Be that Hopi prophecy, the pillars of islam or the ideology of the third reich.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • momofglynn
    momofglynn Posts: 849
    I like the documentary that the 2 french brothers made about the rookie fireman in NY when 9/11 happened. It's sad of course but I like it because it is so raw. It really captures the feelings of the people that were there more than any "news" or reporter could ever provide. I just think it was really well done and very very respectful.

    I also like the Nova special tracking each and every step of pregnancy within the womb. I think Time magazine did an article on the woman that they used within the study. It was really amazing.

    Have a good night.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun
    LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    ah! i found the name of the doc i was talking about. its really great, and scary...

    "Darwin's Nightmare"


    http://worldfilm.about.com/od/documentaryfilms/fr/darwnsnightmare.htm
  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    pulp fiction.
    d'oh!!!!!!

    http://www.myspace.com/brain_of_c
  • Abuskedti
    Abuskedti Posts: 1,917
    Abuskedti wrote:
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282864/

    I never get any love for "Promises" :(

    had anyone seen it?
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    dunkman wrote:
    I love Hearts of Darkness about the making of Apocalypse Now :)

    Good call!

    I think my favourite documentary is one which was, and continues to be, banned. It was about the U.S invasion of Panama. I saw it on the 'Banned season' late one night years ago on Channel 4.
    Either that or 'Manufacturing Consent' - a documenatry chronicling the life and career of Noam Chomsky.

    Edit: Then again 'Zeitgeist' was pretty impressive.
    And a documentary made by the French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy about the intellectual tradition and politics in the 20th century called 'The Spirit of Freedom'

    Edit..Edit: or could it be the film/documentary made by Wener Herzog called 'Grizzly man'? A truly great film.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427312/
    Or perhaps the classic Vietnam documentary which was banned for some time called 'Hearts and Minds'.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071604/

    Third Edit: Or is it Ken Burn's documentary on the American civil war? Another great piece of work, as is his documentary on the first black heavyweight champ Jack Johnson.

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