The Elusive Self

A shorter form of this review might be appearing in The Psychologist at some point, but I thought I’d post the whole thing here so that books on consciousness can fill some stockings this Christmas…

At the beginning of The Ravenous Brain, Daniel Bor reminds us “There is nothing more important to us than our own awareness”. Western society’s focus on brain, rather than cardiac, death as the natural endpoint to a meaningful life is testament to this assertion.

But only 20 years ago, consciousness science was regarded as a fringe endeavour. Now, particularly in the UK, consciousness is going mainstream, spearheaded by the Sackler Center for Consciousness Science at the Universtiy of Sussex, where Bor is based. Of course, in varying degrees, all psychologists study consciousness: attention and working memory are core components of high-level conscious function. But only recently has a deeper question been tackled: how…

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From Early Employees: Paul McNamara & The Red Hat Experience – a great interview by Hunter Walk:

Q: When you look at how open source technology has evolved, what’s consistent with your original thinking and what surprises you?

A: I knew from the beginning that Open Source Software (OSS) would change the world. Before OSS, software development was a feudal system where only an elite few could contribute. OSS democratized software development and upending the power structures of the industry. Anyone with interest, energy and skill (whether obtained formally or not) could contribute. This was a powerful idea.

But I’m still surprised by how fundamentally OSS has changed the technology landscape. It is safe to say that without OSS, the Internet would today be a mere shadow of itself. Most people outside of the tech industry don’t realize that most of the internet is built on OSS. By extension…

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