The Reckless Moment (1949) **

Fairly successful noir thriller as the protagonist chain smokes her way through a gauntlet of problems. The great James Mason takes the fall.

Destination Moon (1950) **

Trying to be the 2001 of 1950, this earnest space procedural is light on actual physics but was influential in many respects. Well produced by the great George Pal.

Our Man in Havana (1959) **

It's a top of the line production and its pedigree is impeccable but nearly everbody is miscast. Genteel spy spoof never really takes off.

Rushmore (1998) ****

Anderson's best film, made before he abandoned the idea of portraying human beings and switched to moving dioramas.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) *

Completely forgettable. At least it is lit well. Ms. Blunt steals the picture and I realize that may be damning with faint praise.

The Elephant Man (1980) ****

Despite being a "work for hire" this is unmistakably a David Lynch picture. Superb cast, the great Freddie Francis manning the cameras, all aspects of the production top notch. Shows the gamut of human behavior from the horrible to the sublime. Might be Lynch's most hopeful picture.

Our Town (1940) **

If you can forget the misguided ending this is a successful rendering of the play in late 1930's Hollywood style. Would have been a classic otherwise despite the weakness of the two leads.

There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ - NOEMA

Chalmers claims that experience cannot be accounted for by science. But scientific understanding is not extraneous to experience; it is entirely about experience. Empiricism, the grounding of knowledge in experience, is not alternative to science; it is a main component of science’s traditional conceptual ground. As the Russian intellectual Alexander Bogdanov put it, science is the historical process of a successful collective organization of our experience.

It is misleading to see science, as often naively portrayed, as a direct account of an absolute and objective world, observed and described from its outside. If we think in this manner, we introduce dualism. No surprise, then, that we find dualism down the road: an irreducible gap between subject and object of knowledge. We have introduced it upfront.