CUNY Academic Commons | Justin Wenhan Luo | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/justinluo/activity/ Activity feed for Justin Wenhan Luo. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 d87289c3590e91f4388308482f52fa13 Justin Wenhan Luo commented on the post, Prompt #2: My research topic and the self, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/31/prompt-2-my-research-topic-and-the-self/#comment-177 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:35:38 -0400 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.

]]> 81b2f37473732b08fea34a7c738b1d30 Justin Wenhan Luo commented on the post, There was this Goat: to Understand and Live with Mrs. Konile, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/03/30/there-was-this-goat-to-understand-and-live-with-mrs-konile/#comment-168 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:27:24 -0400 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 […]

]]> cd6cbbf25640a43f646af7d849413aba Justin Wenhan Luo wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=574 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 17:19:23 -0400 Research Project: Extended Mind and Self

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 […]

]]> 423ba265ae6f1a9db2b5553596f1837d Justin Wenhan Luo wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=571 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 06:59:33 -0400 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 […]

]]> d126688bdeb788169d2a93897bdd3e9a Justin Wenhan Luo wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=353 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:50:48 -0500 “Piece by piece, piece by piece, this is how the story will reveal itself.” (Casey, 202)

Albert in this novel is just like the Doctor, Walter, Marian and the rest of us, when he is striving to recall his life […]

]]> 5057594b4d7e7ce66da38e59e6838c68 Justin Wenhan Luo wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=305 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:59:50 -0500 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 […]

]]> 05385cada7d006bd15f9888d5ad68b72 Justin Wenhan Luo commented on the post, A Mind on its Own, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/16/a-mind-on-its-own/#comment-32 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 04:28:14 -0500 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 […]

]]> 91313c9bd617cadc7bd69b11340b8cd0 Justin Wenhan Luo commented on the post, Pondering, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/15/pondering/#comment-31 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 03:47:35 -0500 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 […]

]]> 2a9421092a02e9ca8b4dd727f782e38a Justin Wenhan Luo commented on the post, Reading critically, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self https://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/02/14/reading-critically/#comment-30 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 02:27:05 -0500 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 […]

]]> 2c3d9b1cef3fbbc9bfdaf151c64786b1 Justin Wenhan Luo wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=182 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 05:05:05 -0500 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 […]

]]> 9592534182209a3b44b71dee2eadbf5a Justin Wenhan Luo became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/323149/ Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:04:36 -0500