The New Sense

Bibliography

The following is a list of books, articles and weblogs which relate to B—'s sense and his view of the world. If anyone has other suggestions, then please email me here.


Richard Rorty - Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1979). About different versions of what Truth means.

Steven Pinker - The Language Instinct (William Morrow, New York, 1994). Pages 351 to 354 about the evolution of language, including whether Neanderthals had speech. Chapter 11, which starts of with a passage about elephants and their unique organ the trunk, is also very interesting. Do they have a 'trunk sense'?

Terence W. Deacon - The Symbolic Species - The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain (Norton, New York, 1998). More stuff about Neanderthals, but interesting in general.

Mario Livio - The Accelerating Universe (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2000). Book B— refers to in one of his emails, about how scientists and mathematicians are poets at heart and want the universe to be balanced and beautiful, when it isn't. I haven't read it.

Antonio R. Damasio - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (Hearst Book Group of Canada, 1995). Book recommended by a visitor to the blog.

News story from April 24 2002 (Japan Times, Washington Post) - Neanderthals were just like us.

Website which explores Neanderthal-human hybridization and even seems to suggest that certain human 'races' (Jews, Kurds, Gypsies) carry more Neanderthal genes than 'normal' humans. Loads of links to other research.

Web article by Patrick Quinney, University of Liverpool, entitled The Last Neanderthal, which appears to dispute the claim that Neanderthals and humans interbred.

Scientific American, August 2002. Article about dark matter, which B— thought might have something to do with his sense. A pdf of the article can be downloaded for free from www.sciam.com

Halloween (!) 2002 USA Today article about Bigfoot.

The Economist article from October 2002 about the discovery of a new species of ape.

Article from the web about how identical twins are more alike than clones could ever be.

Article from the New York Times about a group of artists who have grown 'wings' made from live pig cells. Not cloning, but not far away.

Weblogs

The Philosophers' Magazine
Missing Matter
Weblogs.com
Technorati
Sociate.com

These two are run by John, who helped program and design the New Sense site:
Good Things From Spam
Network Infinity