Clairement le pire manuel qu'on puisse imaginer sur le son, certains chapitres sur l'acoustique ou l'audition sont lacunaires voire carrément absents, l'auteur crée des notions qui n'existent pas dans la discipline, et disserte sur des aspects secondaires, avec force références cinématographiques ou littéraires en oubliant de parler de l'essentiel. À déconseiller aux étudiants et étudiantes donc. En revanche pour les chercheur.euses du domaine il y a quelques idées intéressantes ou amusantes à grappiller ça et là.
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Léo Varnet rated Introduction aux sciences cognitives: 5 stars
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Léo Varnet rated Le son: 1 star
From the Preface...
I have never met a person who is not interested in language. …
Thinking of language as an instinct inverts the popular wisdom, especially as it has been passed down in the canon of the humanities and social sciences. Language is no more a cultural invention than is upright posture. [..] Some kinds of bats home in on flying insects using Doppler sonar. Some kinds of migratory birds navigate thousands of miles by calibrating the positions of the constellations against the time of day and year. In nature's talent show we are simply a species of primate with our own act, a knack for communicating information about who did what to whom by modulating the sounds we make when we exhale.
— The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker, Steven Pinker
Léo Varnet quoted The Mind's I (Penguin Press Science) by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Penguin Press Science)
With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's …
While I recovered my equilibrium and composure, I thought to myself: “Well, here I am, sitting on a folding chair, staring through a piece of plate glass at my own brain … But wait,” I said to myself, “shouldn’t I have thought, ‘Here I am, suspended in a bubbling fluid, being stared at by my own eyes’?” I tried to think this latter thought. I tried to project it into the tank, offering it hopefully to my brain, but I failed to carry off the exercise with any conviction. I tried again. “Here am I, Daniel Dennett, suspended in a bubbling fluid, being stared at by my own eyes.” No, it just didn’t work. Most puzzling and confusing. Being a philosopher of firm physicalist conviction, I believed unswervingly that the tokening of my thoughts was occurring somewhere in my brain: yet, when I thought “Here I am,” where the thought occurred to me was here, outside the vat, where I, Dennett, was standing staring at my brain.
— The Mind's I (Penguin Press Science) by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett (Penguin Press Science)
from Dennett's story "Where Am I?"
Léo Varnet finished reading La question by Henri Alleg
Léo Varnet rated The Sparrow: 5 stars
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow, #1)
In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing …
Léo Varnet rated L'Enchâssement: 5 stars
Léo Varnet quoted Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie
So much relies on science. But what if science itself can’t be relied on?
Medicine, …
It is not just that the system fails to deal with all the kinds of malpractice we've discussed. In fact, the way academic research is currently set up incentivises these problems, encouraging researchers to obsess about prestige, fame, funding and reputation at the expense of rigorous, reliable results.
