… without even realizing it? Dan Dennet, philosopher and cognitive scientist, opens our eyes, and makes us wondering why the heck we allocate causes in such a decisive way. Our Western rational tradition created a reality = world of evidences and reasoning, endless lines of cause-relationships. Doubts are sparsely spread along these lines. Dan Dennet shows us how arbitrarily the cause-relation loop is punctured and straightened out by us into a line with a starting and an endpoint. On TED he talks about our post-hoc reasoning and Darwin’s role in this game.
One of our most important living philosophers, Dan Dennett is best known for his provocative and controversial arguments that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes in the brain. He argues that the brain’s computational circuitry fools us into thinking we know more than we do, and that what we call consciousness — isn’t.
Remark: Our Biestmilch universe is very much built on thoughts and reasoning like those of Dan Dennet, thanks to him. It is always encouraging to listen to poeple of his kind.
Chris he had to give uo all his hopes to defend his title in Hawaii 08
For all of those who are not familiar with triathlon. Chri sMcCormack is one of the best triathletes worldwide. He won the IRONMAN worldchampionship in 2007, and had to quit the race in 2008 because of a technical defect. Chris is a very close friend of mine.
Before Chris and I start our journey around the world “Macca09″ next Wednesday (March 18) I made some sound recording with him. We talk to each other twice a week. Here you can listen to a short sound clip. He talks about his competitors, about his competitive nature and about the fact that he favors unpredictability to boredom.
[Audio:http://biestmilch.com/pulp-research/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/chris_aboutcomeptitors_1.mp3]
Wolfi Schmatz who is coaching triathletes sent me this mail from the training camp on Lanzarote. He is on Biestmilch since one year, and he knows very well who to use the booster.
Hi Susann, tja was soll ich erzählen! Wenn die Leute passen, das Wetter stimmt und auch noch das Hotel klasse ist! Was will man mehr?
Ich habe den Leuten an zwei verschiedenen Tagen die Booster zur Verfügung gestellt und ihre Fragen beantwortet. In meiner Radgruppe war Biestmilch immer “am Mann” und das Produkt ist wie ich glaube, sehr gut angekommen.
Wo ich es halt am haufigsten einsetze, und das habe ich auch so den Teilnehmern vermittelt, ist, wenn man einen anstrengenden Tag vor sich hat, z.B. Training am Morgen, dann Arbeit und vielleicht noch mal ne Einheit am Abend. Dann hilft mir der Booster über dieses viel viel leichter hinweg zu kommen und hält mich “am Damm”!
Ich nehme einen Booster z.B. immer am Sonntag, da ich morgens oder vormittags 2 bis 4 Std trainiere, dann Pause habe und abends um 18 Uhr noch 75 min Schwimmen habe. So bin ich super drauf beim Schwimmen und ganz besonders in dieser Jahreszeit.
Außerdem bin ich davon überzeugt, dass ich meine Magenprobleme mit den Lutschtabletten von euch in den Griff bekommen habe und immer motiviert bin, entweder bei der Arbeit oder dann im Training.
So habe ich das auch rüber gebracht.
Ja und außerdem wenn dann nach 6 Std RR noch die Frau ihr Recht will, dann erst einen Booster und deine Frau ist dein Freund 
Da haben sie gelacht!!!!
Here a summary in English:
Wolfi recommends the booster if you have a tough day ahead of you: Training in the morning, then a consuming day on the job, and in the evening a training session again. In situation like this the booster is for Wolfi an ideal thing to come over the much much easier.
Moreover he takes the Biest Booster on Sundays, because on Sunday he is training 2 to 4 hours in the morning, then he takes a break and goes swimming for 75 minutes in the evening. With the booster he feels top fit in the swim especially during winter time.
Moreover he is convinced that the biestmilch chewies helped him to control his stomach problems… with Biestmilch, he says he feels motivated to train and to do his job. And that is what he tells his athletes too!
His final remark was: And, if after 6 hours on the bike your wife ask her right, then take a booster and your wife is happy Everybody laughed!
Thank you for your support Wolfi!
Instead of following a path of hyperlinks meta-information is available anywhere at any time about everything!
Pattie Maes from the MIT presents in her talk a device they consider as a kind of Sixth Sense. It is a wearable device with a projection screen that paves the way for profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. As she explains to us this device still under construction should help us to make decisions in a world submerging in data, should give us more certainty – decisiveness is probably the better choice of a word – in our decision-making processes.
It is by no means a thrilling thing that her group is developping but I am hesitant whether it will have the effect of a relief on us who live in a flood of stimuli every day. Could an apparatus like this potentially accelerate the imminent alienation process with our environment? But please, don’t get me wrong I don’t want to be cynical.
Pattie Maes was the key architect behind what was once called “collaborative filtering” and has become a key to Web 2.0: the immense engine of recommendations (things like this) fueled by other users. In the 1990s, Maes’ Software Agents program at MIT created Firefly, a technology that let users choose songs they liked, and find similar songs they’d never heard of, by taking cues from others with similar taste.
»Perfect practice makes perfect«
On Thursday I had this telephone talk with Chris. We were talking about training issues, about the racing season 2009, and about his very personal views on life and his sport. If you listen to this conversation you hear an incredible relaxed and sincere Chris McCormack. From his words you can learn a lot what it takes to grow older as a pro athlete, how to adjust to this inevitable fact. As a young guy he had to prove himself to others, today he wants to prove to himself that he can deliver the perfect race for himself. Up to now he says, he did not experience this perfect race that you will keep in mind for ever.
[audio:http://biestmilch.com/pulp-research/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/chris-interview_12_05-03-09.mp3]
Camera work with the badcam for rich: drugstore walk from susann kräftner on Vimeo.
This is my first trial with this camera. It is a nice small wide-angle tool that allows you to work rather carelessly 
. In this short clip I try to get used to this little creature, and I myself I try to slip into a new role, the role of a story-teller and traveler. More is about to come.
First drafts of our Biestos
Just in time, when inflation is all over the town already, we coe with our new currency. The only thing that we have to do is to mutually agree upon its value
Since yesterday, let’s say 4:30 pm, the switch was executed. With the universe biestmilch got a new structure, more transparent than ever before, a new store, the first Typogento (a merge between Typo3 and Magento) store in Germany, it is really awesome. They guys did such a great job. The layout is new, yeah everything is new except the content. It is more a revision, a re-structuring that took place, a shift of focus.
Of course, it still a beta-version, there is still a lot of fine-tuning that has to be done. But anyhow, I think, we made a huge step ahead. Until now the monster as we call biestmilch and its universe is running smoothly. I hope it stays this way!
Thanks to all my loyal combatants.