Matthew Eades

These colours remind me of the Morestran ship approaching Zeta Minor. Could this be Season 13? The red in the centre could be the red of Doctor’s jacket as worn in the first two serials of S13.

Hi, yes it was added last Tuesday. Thanks!

So far they haven’t replied

Yes, all the bookazines and special editions as well as the regular issues of DWM. It was advertised as being available digitally but it hasn’t er, materialised

Unfortunately it doesn’t appear to be available digitally.

Love Blues and Roots!

Listening to Chris Potter Underground’s 2009 album: Ultrahang. It’s still a favourite! Chris Potter - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Adam Rogers − guitar
Craig Taborn - Fender Rhodes
Nate Smith - drums

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Love the Yeti one with Snowdonia in the background

2/2 The conscious organism initiates its own actions but is causally constrained by everything that came before. I agree with you that the interplay between our conscious and non-conscious parts makes us who we are but I don’t think any free will is to be found there.

1/2 Conscious organisms have access to information unavailable to non-conscious organisms, enabling better predictions and more nuanced, fine tuned responses to their environment. Whilst any such response may be highly characteristic of that particular organism, it must still be causally determined.

The 2013 film, Romeo and Juliet, replaced much of Shakespeare’s language with Julian Fellowes’ inferior text - he felt the Bard is inaccessible without “a very expensive education”. Yet 1996’s Romeo + Juliet was hugely popular without patronising its audience. Zeffirelli’s 1968 film is my favourite.

Stunning!

In split brain patients, when one hemisphere does not have access to information available to the other, it confabulates. All brain do this. Conscious processes don’t have all access to all unconscious processes. Can we be sure we truly understand our intentions, let alone consciously control them?

Interesting. I understand what you’re saying but I’m not convinced. I don’t think we can ever have conscious control over intention. I’m certain that conscious experience will inform non-conscious processes over time, but that’s not free will.

2/2 I think this is where the illusion of free will arises. We know we are making choices based on our own experience. But as Robert Sapolsky says: you cannot intend to have an intention. We have no conscious control over what that intention is.

For free will to exist, consciousness would need direct agency in violation of causality. However, consciousness amplifies the effect of certain stimuli precisely because there’s ‘something it’s like’ to experience the stimuli. Conscious experience influences non-conscious processes 1/2

“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”

Shakespeare’s ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ is a feast of dazzling wit and wordplay. I particularly enjoy the pleonastic verbosity of the schoolmaster Holoferness. Jeremy Brett is superb as Berowne in a 1960’s audio version available through Harper Collins which also stars Derek Jacobi and Geraldine McEwan

I couldn’t imagine a philosopher’s zombie seeking out pleasure for its own sake since, by definition, there would be no capacity for pleasure. It would be driven by basic survival imperatives.

A philosopher’s zombie wouldn’t behave like you or me. Consciousness has no direct causal power but encoded experiential knowledge informs future behaviour. It amplifies certain stimuli precisely because there’s something it’s like to experience the stimuli. Stronger experience = stronger memory.

Lovely birds. They don’t seem to appear as often as blue tits and great tits etc. One day last summer, I recognised the sound of a long tailed tit, so I played a recording of their calls on my phone and suddenly I was surrounded by them on the branches mere feet away! A magical moment!

Since we cannot be 100% certain either way, ultimately it must boil down to personal preference which is not very helpful, I know.

I’d be inclined to go with Innogen. The Riverside and Pelican Shakespeare editions follow the Folio whereas Oxford, Norton and RSC all choose Innogen. Shakespeare’s contemporary, Simon Forman, describing a 1611 performance, gave the name as Innogen. Imogen could be a compositor’s error in the F.

Shakespeare’s shortest play, The Comedy Of Errors, is a very funny madcap farce involving a pair of identical twins separated at infancy who, unbeknownst to each other, end up in the same place, triggering the snowballing chaos of mistaken identities to which the title alludes.

Of the 55 thrillers I’ve read this year, these 10 by #LyndaLaPlante have been the most enthralling and enjoyable and I’m looking forward to reading more. There are a further 4 books in the Jane Tennison series and a new Jack Warr novel due next year. Highly recommended!

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I think it’s a lovely way of making the archive episodes more appealing to modern younger viewers. It helps keep the show’s legacy alive. We can still enjoy the original versions but as you say, we also have new versions to enjoy. What’s not to like?

Thank you, that was really interesting. I have no musical knowledge but what I love about Mingus’ music is its emotional range; its moods and attitudes. His sound palette draws from the whole history of jazz from trad to avant garde as well as utilising other idioms such as blues and classical.

I nearly added Pithecanthropus Erectus. I was listening to it earlier. Also The Clown and Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert.

Are there any Charles Mingus fans here? He was the greatest Jazz composer IMO. These are my favourite Mingus albums:

Mingus Ah Um
Tijuana Moods
Oh Yeah
The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Mingus x 5
Let My Children Hear Music
Changes One
Changes Two