{"id":2361,"date":"2011-09-21T10:25:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2011-09-21T10:26:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T18:26:05","slug":"mystery-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Meat"},"content":{"rendered":"

…being a term generally applied to the entree at South Residence back at the University of Guelph.\u00a0 This time, though, I’m talking about the mysteries of thinking <\/em>meat, and a couple of thoughts thereupon which have sprung up elsewhere since I got back.<\/p>\n

The first is over at ChiZine<\/a>‘s blog, which is currently running a series of guest posts as a lead-in to their upcoming SpecFic Colloquium<\/a> on October 15th.\u00a0 The overall theme for the day is “Modern Mythologies”, but recoiling from the faint stench of anything Classical I have opted to twist it around to suit my own interests.\u00a0 You can see what I’m on about over here<\/a>; it won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who knows my stuff. (I should probably get started on that talk, now that I think of it…)<\/p>\n

The second is an installment of “Too Hard for Science<\/a>“, another continuing series of blog postings over at Scientific American<\/a>.\u00a0 Blog-wrangler Charles Choi grills a variety of luminaries (and me) for their wish-list of cool scientific questions they’d love to see explored, but which are currently out of reach for reasons of technology, ethics, or the lack of a particle-accelerator the size of the Andromeda galaxy.\u00a0 Given my interest in consciousness issues, it was for me an easy call:\u00a0 I advocated a breeding program for conjoined twins fused at the head.\u00a0 And to give cqchoi his due, he actually included the bit where I insisted there couldn’t be any kind of down side…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…being a term generally applied to the entree at South Residence back at the University of Guelph.\u00a0 This time, though, I’m talking about the mysteries of thinking meat, and a couple of thoughts thereupon which have sprung up elsewhere since I got back. The first is over at ChiZine‘s blog, which is currently running a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuro","category-public-interface","category-sentiencecognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}