Category Archives: Expanded|Extended Cognition

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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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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SEER

So, as I prepare to teach this semester I’ve been reminded that I actually have fairly important [to me] things to work on.  The [SEER] Model of Creative Practice is at best in the sketch phase. I need to take … Continue reading

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Layers of Experience Series

Layers of Experience #4 Originally uploaded by Xhyra Graf. This series of nine took me about a year to complete. Mixed media including pencil, pastels, watercolour, acrylic, latex, tulle and china markers.  In the stretched and peeled back layers lies … Continue reading

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Multiple Intelligences

I was reading In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind by Bernard Baars yesterday.  In Chapter 3 to illustrate a point about prototypes and imagery he gave a list of words to read and asked what came … Continue reading

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Unity of Consciousness

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-unity/#ConMusUni On the other side, there are theorists who maintain not only that conscious states in a subject are unified but that they must be unified. Bayne and Chalmers (2003, p. 24) call this the unity thesis: necessarily, any set … Continue reading

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Reflective self-consciousness & temporality

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-consciousness-phenomenological/#TemLimRefSelCon: Husserl claims that we actually do perceive melodies in opposition to an earlier view of Brentano, viz., that we construct or reconstruct such unities out of a synthesis of mental acts (e.g., perception of the current note plus memoryof … Continue reading

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Noesis

[Realizing the value of this thing.  I finished the detailed outline/chart of the paper including how many pages each section would take. Looking through the blog reminded that I had left something out] Although I’m just adding another ‘elaborate’ post, … Continue reading

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