Tag: Tolstoy

• Post Adolescent Idealism? Why psychologizing behavior is APSD: Acute Pseudo-Science Disorder

  

  The travesty that was Bradley Manning’s trial is a topic for another forum. Reading about the court proceedings, what immediately struck me was the psychotherapist’s verdict on Manning’s behavior. He was suffering from “Post Adolescent Idealism”, said the therapist. His bashers took this and other psychological judgements that were passed on Manning (narcissism, obsessive compulsive…

  rrameez

  August 18, 2013

  Abuse of Science, Science Debates, Social Science

  American Psychiatric Association, Bradley Manning, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Dostoevsky, Einstein, Elizabeth Spelke, Galileo, George Miller, Herbert Simon, Human Behavior, Marlon Brando, Passive Aggressive Personality, Post Adolescent Idealism, Psychiatry, Psychology, Susan Carey, Tolstoy

• Bombs, Sectarianism and Blasphemy: What’s Art Got To Do With It?

  March 4, 2013 Was coming back from an “Art Event” at the Karachi Arts council. I don’t go to such events but mom insisted (emotionally blackmailed to be precise), so I went. While coming back we started getting messages and calls on our cellphones that there had been two bomb blasts a few hundred meters…

  rrameez

  March 11, 2013

  Modeling

  art, art under duress, blasphemy, Bombings, Habib Jalib, Krishna Chandra, orwell, Pablo Neruda, resistance art, Salman Khan, Sectarianism, shakespeare, Tolstoy, war and peace, What is art

• Leo Tolstoy: The Supreme Agent Based Modeler OR What is Agent Based Modeling All About?

  I am fond of saying to myself that science is not like art, it is art. However, upon hearing the late Iris Murdoch say that the aims of science and literature are divergent, in that science seeks to clarify whereas literature seeks to mystify, I have been forced to reevaluate my statement. Apparently, some (much?)…

  rrameez

  November 9, 2012

  Agent Based Modeling, Science

  Models, Science, Tolstoy