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• The last Welsh speakers of the Black Mountains
  On my most recent excursion to the hills I have no new agenda following on from the ‘how long can you stay focused on anything at all’ theme, which, to be honest, turned out to be something of... Read More The post The last Welsh speakers of the Black Mountains appeared first on Richard Gwyn.
• Reflections on Borges, recursion, and the many worlds hypothesis
  My apologies to subscribers who received a version of this post yesterday, without either the video or the text that follows. This was due to some technical issues (incompetence) on my part. The talk is delivered in Spanish;... Read More The post Reflections on Borges, recursion, and the many worlds hypothesis appeared first on Richard […]
• Narrative Horror
  A conversation with an old friend, while driving to Bristol airport earlier this month, led me back along the wild mountain tracks of memory, and an introduction to what psychologist Martin Conway refers to as the self-memory system... Read More The post Narrative Horror appeared first on Richard Gwyn.
• What’s in a name?
  Regular readers of these posts — and if you do not already subscribe to the email, please do so in the space provided on the right — will have noticed that last week I dropped the moniker Ricardo... Read More The post What’s in a name? appeared first on Richard Gwyn.
• The problem of who you were
  Continuing my series of Walks in the Black Mountains. Content warning: alongside description of the actual walks, these extracts also contain my thoughts about writing as well as an amateur’s excursions into the study of consciousness, philosophy of... Read More The post The problem of who you were appeared first on Richard Gwyn.