Posts Tagged ‘intelligence’
The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars: (Ch. 14) The Rules of Life and War According to Ronald Surry
Brian Fawcett learns the rules and wisdom of life and war, at least according to Ronald Surry, on a pig farm in England in 1962. Yes, a coming-of-age story but, more important, a story of coming-into-intelligence, which belongs to the world, not to the individual. Ch. 14 of “The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars.”
Read MoreThe Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 6): Intelligence, Personality, Personhood, Being, and some genuine Woo-Woo
On a Sussex pig farm in 1963, Brian Fawcett is thinking about the intelligence of pigs, dogs, humans, and nuclear missiles.
Read MoreIs Mark Kingwell Getting Dumber?
A “modest proposal” by philosophy professor Mark Kingwell is too clever by half.
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