Twentieth-century neuroscience fixed the brain as the basis of consciousness, the self, identity, individuality, even life itself, obscuring the fundamental relationships between bodies and the worlds that they inhabit. In Unraveling: […]
There comes a time when “theory” just stops working. The one thing that was once seen (and used) as a weapon against the crushing stupidity of common sense (or ideology, […]
Andy Clark is a professor of philosophy and Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. “To unravel the workings of these embodied, embedded, and sometimes […]
“The myth of cognitive agency: subpersonal thinking as a cyclically recurring loss of mental autonomy” | Thomas Metzinger EXCERPTS: “[G]iven empirical constraints, most of what we call “conscious thought” is […]
Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism (PDF) by Claire Colebrook Necessary reading for our purposes here: “Hypo-hyper-hapto-neuro-mysticism: this awful portmanteau word, in all its ungainly confusion, captures something crucial about the present. In the essay […]
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