Has God ever been bored, or is currently bored, or might, at some stage, become bored? In a 2017 paper for the scholarly journal Religious Studies (Volume 53, Issue 1, pp. 51-70) authors Vuko Andrić (Akademischer Rat., University of Bayreuth, Germany) and Attila Tanyi (University of Tromsø, Norway) suggest that if God is omnitemporal [i.e. […]
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The attempt to automatically recognize boredom [podcast 67]
Can a machine reliably recognize when a human is bored? That is the central question in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Nicole Sharp — tells about: How to automatically recognize boredom — “A Preliminary System for Recognizing Boredom,” Allison M. Jacobs, Benjamin Fransen, J. Malcolm McCurry, Frederick W.P. Heckel, […]
A Theoretically Interesting Opinion About Boredom
You may, depending on your boredom threshold, find this study to be of little interest: “The bright side of boredom,” Andreas Elpidorou, Frontiers in Psychology, November 3, 2014. (Thanks to investigator Neil Martin for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, explains: “I wish to suggest that one […]
Philosophy? Tedious?
In his Presidential Address at the 53nd [sic] Annual Meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, professor David McNaughton, of Florida State University, US, revealed that he had been inspired by a 2007 Guardian article by Jonathan Wolff (head of philosophy at University College London) which began: “Why is academic writing so boring?” Professor McNaughton refined […]