Jason, thanks for the article, which seems very cool! Yes indeed, the scholars of my sources are mostly sympathetic to the extended mind/self idea, so I do need more materials on the other side.
Jen, I entirely share your feeling about SI. Last year I worked in the UN as an inter. Occasionally I would do SI or consecutive interpreting (the speakers stop) for my colleagues and clients, between Chinese and […]
It took me quite a while to determine my project topic, though it now still seems a little broad. I was fascinated with Alva Noe’s thesis that our mind (probably our […]
1. When I read Mrs. Konile’s testimony before TRC, it reminded me of Cassandra in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, who prophesies her and Agamemnon’s death in a language full of broken flashes and metaphors to an extent […]
According to Noe, consciousness is not constructed by our brains and thus happens inside our heads or skins, which is an ungrounded assumption that has been taken for granted by most scientists nowadays (including […]
Liz and Berni, I feel not very comfortable with Damasio’s evolutionist story. If the ultimate purpose for all organisms is to attain biological value by persistently pursuing life homeostasis individually and […]
Hi Yael, I really appreciate your bringing up the issue of “free will”. Of Damasio’s saying “the oddest thing about the upper reaches of consciousness performance is the conspicuous absence of a conductor before […]
Hi Mari, I felt the same frustration when I found Damasio’s framework couldn’t provide a satisfactory account of how the brain patterns engenders our various mental states (images). Even Damasio himself had to […]
In this interesting interdisciplinary writing, Eakin is trying to draw on Antonio Damasio’s neurobiological theories on consciousness to shed new light on our reading of autobiography, especially on our […]
