Category Archives: PhD

Authentic Potentiality-for-Being|Anticipatory Resoluteness

Posted on June 9, 2011 by

Reading Heidegger’s Being and Time as if for the very first time… anticipation reveals to Dasein its lostness in the they-self, and brings it face to face with the possibility of being itself, primarily unsupported by concernful solicitude, but of … Continue reading →

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Getting back to work…

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

Getting back to work… Originally uploaded by XhyraGraf Funny how my mind works. Can actually relax & make something. Using Kitely cloud/facebook opensim.

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Rearranging my Second Life

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

To follow up on this post finally… I’ve had this home for a bit. Well, since the first moments that SecondLife began offering them to premium members. However, I never really used it. Why? There are several reasons, the primary … Continue reading →

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Digitally Extended Memory Aids within the Visual Artist’s Creative Process

Posted on November 8, 2010 by

Fuck it.  NOT to be presented at the 3rd Global Conference on Digital Memories because I still haven’t received the money for the 2010 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Arts Fellowship. Posted this update on 03/06/2011 because I … Continue reading →

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Fodder II

Posted on June 13, 2010 by

Or is it Cosmoscope III? Pfft! Wonders if the research proposal could be facilitated by simple cut and paste from this blog, doh! Also wonder if this qualifies as part of my penchant for verbalizing things before I’m ready and screwing … Continue reading →

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Ineffability of Insight III

Posted on June 13, 2010 by

Schooler & Melcher[1995]. Ineffability of Insight, pp 97-133 in The Creative Cognitive Approach, Smith et al - Editors A Comparison of Insight and Analytic Problem Solving Protocols Note here mostly because this is when I had the thought – There is something notable … Continue reading →

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Cosmoscope II

Posted on June 11, 2010 by

From Chalmers’ Locke Lectures, Oxford 2010: Definitional Scrutability: All truths logically entailed by base truths and definitions. Analytic Scrutability: All truths analytically entailed by base truths. Primitive Scrutability: All truths a priori (analytically?) scrutable from truths involving primitive concepts. ____________________________________________________________________ … Continue reading →

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Fodder

Posted on June 11, 2010 by

Email not [yet] sent.  Worth keeping around though.   My artwork itself is a form of journalling as I make work in the attempt to document and delineate the ‘structure’ in the phenomenology of creating. I was interested in verbal overshadowing because … Continue reading →

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Ineffability of Insight II

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

Schooler & Melcher[1995]. Ineffability of Insight, pp 97-133 in The Creative Cognitive Approach, Smith et al - Editors Reconceptualizing Insight Constructs Using Current Theories of Cognition  Restructuring p104: “..insight solutions may require shifting to a new problem space (Ohlsson 1984) Mechanisms: memory search … Continue reading →

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Ineffability of Insight

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

Schooler & Melcher[1995]. Ineffability of Insight, pp 97-133 in The Creative Cognitive Approach, Smith et al - Editors Intro-Yay! p98: “If insight represents only a small portion of the full creative process, it nevertheless constitutes one of the major sources of ineffability with which discussions … Continue reading →

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