colloquium

Over the holidays some of us will be gathered in the Dee.

I watched the Almaden Institute’s Conference on Cognitive Computing; fucking blew me away ( V. S. Ramachandran, Gerald Edelman, Christof Koch, and John Searle to name some). Researchers who aren’t often united were brought together to share their work. They inspired each other, and inspired me.

I would love to listen to presentations, ramblings, bamblings, blunderlusts, readings--what not, by us—a Friar’s colloquium. And I would love to put something together about say European intellectual culture between the world wars, or the development of South American literature. I can imagine any variety of topics—the east/west mentality of the Dee, creative works, the whole lot—to celebrate each other and that which takes our interest.

l'a-ro