Category Archives: Mind and Brain

Reading Response to Paul John Eakin’s Autobiographical Consciousness: Body, Brain, Self, and Narrative

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Justin Wenhan Luo

In this interesting interdisciplinary writing, Eakin is trying to draw on Antonio Damasio’s neurobiological theories on consciousness to shed new light on our reading of autobiography, especially on our understanding of narrative identify. Eakin was fascinated by Damasio’s “the movie-in-the-brain” … Continue reading →

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Reflections–2/10/15

Posted on February 8, 2015 by V.Andrews

“It is impossible to separate nature and nurture. You cannot isolate a person from the world in which he lives, but more than that, notions of outside and inside, subject and object become entwined.” (P 69 Hustvedt) “The faculty of … Continue reading →

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The “I” is our own.

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Andrew Ude

This is certainly an interesting way to being the semester. This first week we are asked to take describe what it is we are and the reading assigned really digs in deeper leaving us, or at least me, more confused … Continue reading →

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