Category Archives: SEER Model

Authentic Potentiality-for-Being|Anticipatory Resoluteness

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

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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Cosmoscope II

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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Wandering Minds

Discovery article referencing Schooler Default Networks & Self-Referential Thinking: “Allows us to work through important thinking” — seems to be related to insight. Zoning out: “[Default Network and Executive Control [areas of the brain] more active]”

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Cosmoscope

From Chalmers’ Locke Lectures, Oxford 2010: P: microphysical/macrophysical truths in (final plus classical) physical vocabulary. Q: phenomenal truths (optional: secondary quality truths, intentional truths). T: a that’s-all truth I: indexical truths PQTI: P, Q, T, I plus laws/counterfactuals in PQTI … Continue reading

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The Virtual SEER

Presenting at University of AZ-TSC2010, Wednesday, April 14th @8:20pm

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MindSpace

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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Maintenance…

I need a place like this to go and sit for a while. It’s hard work; and simply because I haven’t been doing it regularly. [08/09/10: Still tedious because of the amount that I’ve allowed to pile up - I really have to … Continue reading

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Sensorium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ2hY6Fetw0 The quiet brings colour… and these are the colours of solitude.

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Quiet Space

Quiet Space Originally uploaded by Xhyra Graf. So the Blue Room/NoumenArt Lounge has been painted a rich dark blue and I went through my boxes of books, etc. to move to the studio today. I feel almost whole… I will … Continue reading

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