CUNY Academic Commons | Berni Moestafa | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/bmoestafa/activity/ Activity feed for Berni Moestafa. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 f75344e5b35b6a457c347d9edc3d0103 Berni Moestafa commented on the post, About this course, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/05/20/about-this-course/#comment-215 Tue, 26 May 2015 00:35:28 -0400 Hi Liz, great comments, I enjoyed your writing! And I agree with you on the reading list. However come to think of it, one Siri novel might have been enough as I’m sure there are many other writers who can shed an […]

]]> 691367f47eeaccb03637995d259f78d5 Berni Moestafa wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=802 Tue, 26 May 2015 00:25:05 -0400 This course’s reading lists provided a good balance of books in what is a broad and ambitious subject to tackle. In fact, just as Liz pointed out, I would not have read many of the readings on my own but am glad […]

]]> 0f741a39982f8f8315c596162f18cfd0 Berni Moestafa wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=676 Sun, 26 Apr 2015 16:55:15 -0400 Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin is a novel that contains a novel and, while not as obvious as Atwood’s approach, Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World felt like a similar experience by containing a character […]

]]> e68561852fe49754d31fe8b7572e0a7c Berni Moestafa commented on the post, Controversial Medical/Mental Health, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/04/19/controversial-medicalmental-health/#comment-194 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 04:09:05 -0400 Hi Andrew,

It’s an interesting point you raise about how people with mental disorder are not given the same treatment when they try to live on with their illness as those with physical injury or disability. It […]

]]> d2f7cc3acf57ce958494c8966b8bf999 Berni Moestafa commented on the post, Post One-Sentence Descriptions of Your Research Projects Here, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/04/11/post-one-sentence-descriptions-of-your-research-projects-here/#comment-184 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 02:24:28 -0400 My paper is about how our Self dissolves into the identity of fictional characters and what happens to the Self as the characters grow so that in Antjie Krog’s words “at the end of the story we do not want to be […]

]]> 2b92d52addc8bcab562a1ffc62cddb45 Berni Moestafa commented on the post, Input needed, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/04/07/input-needed/#comment-183 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 02:16:23 -0400 Hi Dag,

Yes, I remember now. I’ve read about it in an article somewhere on the Internet. I wonder whether people with Synesthesia have a more expanded Qualia which has to do with experiencing sensory […]

]]> 72ba4512ac1f385e4b3b237da85a39a7 Berni Moestafa commented on the post, Input needed, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/04/07/input-needed/#comment-178 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:16:24 -0400 Hi Dag,

This sounds interesting. By art of knowing and illusion, I’m thinking of mind tricks or how the brain often blocks us from seeing what’s happening in front of our eyes. Does your topic relate to […]

]]> 3d1772b5efe758f32566c21f8c47403d Berni Moestafa commented on the post, Prompt #2 The Self and Fictional Characters, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/23/prompt-2-the-self-and-fictional-characters/#comment-161 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:04:27 -0400 Thanks Jen, Prof. Tougaw, I’ve just ordered Campbell’s Power of Myth and Vermeule’s Why we Care About Fictional Characters from Amazon. There’s tons of material out there about characters in fiction and the self, […]

]]> d034e3c912600393ce0c313ce25ad195 Berni Moestafa wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=545 Sat, 28 Mar 2015 19:58:07 -0400 First of all, I could not help but compare the book with my own experience as a former journalist and how the mundane job of transcribing and translating could, in this book, become the central task out of which […]

]]> 2c1e4206a2e982661a2ab9ca8c559d85 Berni Moestafa wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=454 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:06:35 -0400 My planned research topic looks at how the Self blurs with the identities of fictional characters when reading a novel. A good story compels readers to suspend their Self as they become another person. A group of […]

]]> 5b51bfd1a2cc6803451d5c14a4290fd6 Berni Moestafa wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=449 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 13:51:34 -0400 1. Find an idea or claim that Lieberman can only make in response to a source. Describe how he uses the source, using Mark Gaipa’s categories:

Lieberman cites Friedrich Nietzsche as saying that: “Whatever they […]

]]> ebdec1aaaca3ade1f04fddef7a007bf1 Berni Moestafa wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=439 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 23:10:01 -0400 While both have their root in neuroscience, Matthew Lieberman and Antonio Damasio differ about the idea of Self. Damasio sees the Self as an elaborated tool the brain concocts to ensure the hemostasis of an […]

]]> 050f4035bdf4adcc8ef5d71c35c9f45b Berni Moestafa commented on the post, random 25, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/14/random-25/#comment-87 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:20:07 -0400 Hi Yael,

I can related to item 1 on your list not because I wonder about the same thing but because sometimes I have similar bouts of curiosity about everyday objects or experiences too mundane to really think […]

]]> a267e0f8fdbcf1c344ba7245e61d7bf4 Berni Moestafa wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=336 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:20:34 -0500 Maud Casey’s novel contains plenty of pieces that, just like Elizabeth’s puzzle, shapes one’s identity into a whole. Among these pieces what strikes me as central, at least to the Doctor’s attempt in helping […]

]]> ba8508ea0cb93d4ae5121a368cf72141 Berni Moestafa commented on the post, Out of our heads, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/22/out-of-our-heads/#comment-52 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:23:14 -0500 Hi Dag,
When Noe tries to explain that consciousness is an activity through interaction with the environment, I wonder whether he wants to say that consciousness is a form of energy. That seems to be the natural […]

]]> 55d96295afa7f7fd3119c9ae051538e1 Berni Moestafa commented on the post, Noe, Damasio and Stelarc, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/22/noe-damasio-and-stelarc/#comment-48 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:40:33 -0500 Hi Amber,
I had the same reaction about Damasio and Noe. Despite their opposing arguments, they seem to have much in common by the way they refer to each other’s domains. Damasio, being a neuroscientist, builds […]

]]> 3a4f4876faced25c4eb8d7bed94cc579 Berni Moestafa wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=225 Mon, 16 Feb 2015 07:28:39 -0500 In the first few chapters of the books The Feeling of What Happens and Self Comes to Mind, Antonio Damasio takes on the mystery of consciousness by grounding his answers to the biological foundation of the mind. […]

]]> 84a944309e15d36dbe52d4f414611edf Berni Moestafa commented on the post, Hustvedt and interdisciplinarity, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/08/hustvedt-and-interdisciplinarity/#comment-14 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:14:16 -0500 Hi Liz,
Your comments on the interdisciplinary approach in Hustvedt’s book is helpful in that they summarize the different disciplines she combined to write her book, something she did not bother to explain to […]

]]> 96d1d6d31aa020e35870204b9a78da3d Berni Moestafa commented on the post, Some thoughts on The Shaking Woman, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/08/some-thoughts-on-the-shaking-woman/#comment-13 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:51:02 -0500 The theme of a self that is transcendence runs throughout Hustvedt’s book. But in writing this book she’s stuck in dwelling between two places, the self as the contained object and identity and the self that is […]

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