Book Review: The Most Human Human (in short: read it!)
After seeing the an interview with author on The Daily Show, and reading a glowing notice in The New Yorker, I made a priority of finishing The Most Human Human before I ended family leave. It’s a delightful and discursive book, wending its way through cognitive science, philosophy, poetry, artificial intelligence, embodied experience, and more. [...]
Synesthesia
Boing Boing recently pointed to a video that explains the neurology and experience of synesthesia, the condition where some people’s sensory perception crosses wires, where numbers and letters have colors, flavors have shapes, words have tastes. At UX Week a couple weeks ago, we had a day devoted to perception, keynoted by Dr. Temple Grandin. [...]
