Saturday, October 27, 2007
No Smoking
Saw the film after a particularly poor review on Rediff.com. I found it interesting enough to mull over watching it again. The second half was a bit disorganised but the general idea appealed to the Roald Dahl sensibility that I assure myself that I posess. Take a Bow, Vishal Bharadwaj ( the producer ), for the display of courage in putting your money where your mouth is ...
Friday, October 19, 2007
Furthermore, Damasio and Bargh both found, as Michael Gazzaniga had years before, that people couldn't stop themselves from making up post-hoc explanations for whatever it was they had just done for unconscious reasons. Combine these developments and suddenly Kohlbergian moral psychology seemed to be studying the wagging tail, rather than the dog. If the building blocks of morality were shaped by natural selection long before language arose, and if those evolved structures work largely by giving us feelings that shape our behavior automatically, then why should we be focusing on the verbal reasons that people give to explain their judgments in hypothetical moral dilemmas?
This is something that has generally tended to lie dormant within for as long as I can remember ...
This is something that has generally tended to lie dormant within for as long as I can remember ...
From Here
Monday, October 15, 2007
Nobody's worth keeping an account of ...
How can someone be as right as he is and yet feel so wrong?
~ Self-Reflexive
