windershoppin ... in the seedy backstreets of westminster

i'm still trying for the complete set of sculptures on vauxhall bridge

i need a longer lens




















science ?




















local government ?

a deterring ultimatum at hartfield in pooh country

i'm beginning to wonder if i am quite human ... as i haven't watched any soap operas lately, and i'm struggling to finish this book

Steven Mithen is a university professor who thinks about that period when people first started to think like people. In his book The Prehistory Of The Mind, he discusses the limits of how chimpanzees and monkeys think about their own kind, compared to the ways in which social humans understand one another, and he quotes a modern philosopher, in the following part of a longer explanation.

“Orders of Intentionality” is a term that the philosopher Daniel Dennett introduced to help us think about how social intelligence works. If I believe you to know something, then I can cope with one ‘order of intentionality’. If I believe that you believe that I know something, then I can cope with two orders of intentionality. If I believe that you believe that my wife believes that I know something, then I can cope with three orders of intentionality.

We modern humans regularly encounter three orders of intentionality … or at least we do if we believe soap operas, which often revolve around beliefs of what others believe a third party believes, and which often turn out to be false beliefs. Five orders of intentionality seem to be our limit. Daniel Dennett demonstrated this quite effectively when he asked

if “you wonder whether I realize how hard it is for you to be sure that you understand whether I mean to be saying that you recognize that I can believe you to want me to explain that most of us can keep track of only about five or six orders of intentionality under the best of conditions”.

Under the best of conditions chimpanzees are likely to manage just two orders of intentionality.

red stuff, grey stuff

back to the west side of vauxhall bridge to try harder ... agriculture and architecture again

vauxhall bridge ... west side

Bob Speel informs us that : On the upstream side, F. W. Pomeroy was the sculptor. From the south-east side, the first allegorical figure is Pottery, holding a pot, of course, and with very nice drapes; second is Engineering, and holds a Mamod-like fixed steam engine, with 1 cylinder and a big flywheel. Her right hand holds a mallet resting on an anvil next to her. Architecture is next, holding a model of St Paul's Cathedral in her left hand - the fact that the model is about 2 ft long indicates the scale of the statue - and callipers in her right hand. Finally, closest to the north-west bank is Agriculture, with rather magnificent shepherd's crook and a sheaf of corn.

It looks like a scythe to me !

burgeoning excitement between billingshurst and pulborough

turned out nice again in climping

fair to middlin' off rottingdean

bromley-by-bow ... one of my favourite gasworks

snapped one-handed through the rattler's grimy windscreen ... who invited robin ?

star players, posing & in action, at the h&b picnic in battersea park

carters fun fair ... victory dive bomber

carters fun fair ... the coconut shy

carters fun fair again ... the steam yachts

happy

strap on the electrodes luv

carters fun fair is in battersea park until the 19th August

cor blimey ! an irresistably alluring magnolia at ockenden manor

i was delivering sacks of flour along the street & couldn't stop ...

max miller lived 'ere

astonishing and delightful portraits by julian cash

http://flickr.com/photos/juliancash/sets/72157600572658621/show/

sunday morning chores ... the washing of re-discovered spectacles

one year on ... the jack daniel's remains unopened

a bit of local colour beneath vauxhall bridge

the bus is crossing lambeth bridge

allegorical figures by drury on the downstream side of vauxhall bridge

if you are curious about municipal art in london, bob speel is your man ...

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/london/vauxbr.htm

from coombe wood on bury hill, looking down the arun valley

the sea is just a smudge on the horizon

the blasted tree is named "joe bialik's tree" after the best workmate in the universe

... and the image is grainy because i'd left the "film speed" on ASA 1600 by mistake

battersea reference library on lavender hill

in the park at leeds castle in kent

wandsworth road becomes religious

the church at ticehurst