CUNY Academic Commons | David Liburd | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/dliburd/activity/ Activity feed for David Liburd. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 e65363075254228978b834568f3cacec David Liburd changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/448551/ Fri, 18 Nov 2016 23:51:38 -0500 fabd8df924ba79ec9283e4253e0f3670 David Liburd wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=798 Sun, 24 May 2015 17:38:25 -0400 I am about to complete my first semester at graduate school. It is encouraging to see peers of the same age, and older. This class was not what I had in mind for a first semester offering. Neuroscience and […]

]]> 2bed07c81eed5052531994de326b3ba0 David Liburd wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=712 Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:14:57 -0400 If there is a strong suggestion that there is no essential self to be found in the human brain, then what would you say are the determining characteristics that define us as “unique individuals”? If in fact we […]

]]> fc83df76cc11a92a0e51ccd30d75b0dd David Liburd wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=661 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:30:26 -0400 It was refreshing to read that this form of illness diagnoses and treatment is being redefined, as it should be. Dosing patients with pills, making them lethargic and more vulnerable has for far too long been […]

]]> 820e4bf1c980b047105c30797bcc9aa3 David Liburd commented on the post, There Was This Goat., on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/30/there-was-this-goat-3/#comment-171 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 19:24:29 -0400 I wanted to share this recent atrocity. I neglected to add this link to the end of my post. It is a link to a recent lynching that took place at the beginning of this month in Mississippi. […]

]]> 5cae976df7f0900417442bf2b2b88abc David Liburd wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=551 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:44:08 -0400 A disturbing period of racism in our times, coterminous to slavery, Apartheid in South Africa was another way to reject and humiliate part of the human race because of colour. Apartheid has been dissolved for a […]

]]> 23e9ab0582ad9f90d8c3708ffe4dd0fd David Liburd commented on the post, Prompt #1: Lieberman analyzed and illustrated à la Gaipa, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/24/prompt-1-lieberman-analyzed-and-illustrated-a-la-gaipa/#comment-138 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:15:58 -0400 You have embodied the critical thinking genre most artistically and have succeeded in giving it countenance. Wonderful.

]]> 12d76f7141ebaa37d4e4602883013d77 David Liburd commented on the post, Prompt 2., on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/23/prompt-2/#comment-133 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:23:49 -0400 Thank you for your input professor and I will indeed reach out to Alycia regarding sources. I will check the blogs and maybe glean information from our “sister” class, if possible.

]]> 617bca0b76fdb9d94bcf50f8cd2b707d David Liburd wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=484 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 01:56:29 -0400 My research paper is in a very early fledgling stage. I changed my initial topic and now my focus will be, Social Media Networking as an Institution, the title still needs a bit of rewording. I intend on making […]

]]> 5586d3f4dde0f125467fca671a4356d6 David Liburd wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=482 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 01:41:50 -0400 I found the history of baby gender colours to be quite an interesting tidbit that I didn’t know. How the colour blue used to be associated with girls and pink with boys. The colour pink was thought to be a strong […]

]]> 22b226e2675616f81bbf8b35ca69432d David Liburd commented on the post, Lieberman makes brain science approachable, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/22/lieberman-makes-brain-science-approachable/#comment-110 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:04:46 -0400 I too enjoyed the way Lieberman’s explanation and interpretation, his use of quotes and the quotes he used, were in compliance with his analogous views. I especially liked part 4 chapter 8, Harmonizing. Seeing as […]

]]> 14e2bf750c1751ce02600bc6c40cba30 David Liburd commented on the post, Viegener, 2500 Random Things/Miller, Memoir?, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/15/viegener-2500-random-thingsmiller-memoir/#comment-98 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:42:23 -0400 Yes Mari, maybe I need to compose a memoir?

]]> 17218f56165abec0eec16b1b9f8ae49b David Liburd wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=374 Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:23:22 -0400 Not been one for “eavesdropping” on other peoples lives much, unless they are somewhat closely related to me. In consequence information and or circumstances would need to have an adverse effect on my life. Yes I […]

]]> aff2640c6cf92a1e5d0eabc2f192d677 David Liburd commented on the post, Buckle me, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/01/buckle-me/#comment-71 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 23:32:09 -0500 I could have replied to anyone of the posts as they are all certainly worthy of a response. My response can serve as a generic one. Maud Casey writes so poetically as everyone has rightly commented and her writing […]

]]> ccee21d34005d795c824d6505f47e091 David Liburd wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=298 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:30:00 -0500 The interview merely backed up Noe’s words on paper. It was interesting to see the man behind the words, his body language his facial expressions and himself trying to convince the interviewer and the viewing […]

]]> 7fc814d5d291ad03c8bb406250f48e06 David Liburd commented on the post, Reading critically, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/14/reading-critically/#comment-33 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:08:23 -0500 Frustration sums it up. Damasio’s information although very interesting with all of his the biological, scientific and psychological information that is posited it is difficult to bypass anything more than a […]

]]> 2f6250b064035235aa084410b89e26c8 David Liburd wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=155 Sun, 08 Feb 2015 18:46:14 -0500 Eakin’s passage begins with a Walt Whitman quote which is as dramatic as the content of his argument about the self.
Eakin offers conjecture coupled with ideas from noted neurobiological thinkers. The content is […]

]]> 4c887aebe73fb8913871bf7564886815 David Liburd posted an update: Eakin. Autobiographical Consciousness. Eakin offers […] https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/325996/ Sun, 08 Feb 2015 16:16:27 -0500 Eakin. Autobiographical Consciousness.

Eakin offers conjecture coupled with ideas from noted neurobiological thinkers. The content is difficult to fully grasp as much of this chapter relies on work that we have to take his word for, as readers we would need to read the complete text of quoted works or already have a semblance of those works to…[Read more]

]]> 5bbaf8be85af9a3492bab050ee5132c6 David Liburd became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/323105/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:33:23 -0500