Category Archives: Commonalities

MindSpace

Posted on September 29, 2009 by

MindSpace III, originally uploaded by XhyraGraf. Morning, the first day of her 31st year-Kenmore, Scotland: As she quietly contemplated the water in the loch, something familiar caught her eye. “Well here it is,” she thought. “Right here in this moment.” … Continue reading →

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Poster 4 Flow Exhibition

Posted on June 1, 2009 by

 

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Flow:Triangulation

Posted on December 10, 2008 by

Flow:Triangulation exhibition featuring Jose Polet – France, Policarpo Ribeiro – Brazil, Tonietta Walters – USA Graham Center Art Gallery @ Florida International University January 6th through February 6th, 2009 Reception: February 5th 6pm – 9pm

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MindSpace III

Posted on February 22, 2008 by

MindSpace III Originally uploaded by XM: Autopoiesis. I long for these moments…

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James-Mysticism

Posted on February 11, 2007 by

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JamVari.html Lectures XVI and XVII MYSTICISM  One may say truly, I think, that personal religious experience has its root and centre in mystical states of consciousness; so for us, who in these lectures are treating personal experience as the exclusive … Continue reading →

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Emergent Properties

Posted on February 7, 2007 by

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/ Emergence is a notorious philosophical term of art. A variety of theorists have appropriated it for their purposes ever since George Henry Lewes gave it a philosophical sense in his 1875 Problems of Life and Mind. We might roughly … Continue reading →

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Mental Causation

Posted on January 28, 2007 by

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-causation/ 3. From Substance to Property Mind-body causation is problematic for a substance dualist, but it appears to be less so for a materialist, someone who believes that the mind, if it is a substance at all, is a material … Continue reading →

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Mysticism

Posted on January 20, 2007 by

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mysticism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mysticism/#1: 1.1 The Wide Sense of Mystical Experience In the wide sense, let us say that a mystical experience is: A (purportedly) super sense-perceptual or sub sense-perceptual experience granting acquaintance of realities or states of affairs that are of … Continue reading →

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Specious Present

Posted on January 20, 2007 by

The experience and perception of time Also reread paper on tensed beliefs What is ‘the perception of time’? But what sense or senses do we use when perceiving time? The very expression ‘the perception of time’ invites objection. Insofar as … Continue reading →

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William James

Posted on January 20, 2007 by

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james/#5 5. The Varieties of Religious Experience Like The Principles of Psychology, Varieties is “A Study in Human Nature,” as its subtitle says. But at some five hundred pages it is only half the length of The Principles of Psychology, … Continue reading →

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