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You, me and I
Identity is a term much used yet hard to define.
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Metaquestions: The Space of Thought in Philosophy and Beyond
This book-length project is tentatively titled Metaquestions: The Space of Thought in Philosophy and Beyond.
Publication
Two theories of action - Edelman’s Neuronal group Selection and the Poetics of Paul Valéry
Faria, Marcella. 2021. Two theories of action - Edelman’s Neuronal group Selection and the Poetics of Paul Valéry. Biosystems, 210, 104549. ...
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Toward a cognitive science of smell: Reconsidering "higher" cognition from the perspective of a "lower" sense
Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary research paradigm that emerged after WWII and that studies the mind at psychological, computational and neurobiological levels of analysis.
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The manipulability theories of causality in the space of the multiple mental representations of time flow: how stable is causal relationship?
Human mind continuously produces explanations because an explained world is perceived as more understandable, more secure, open for forecasting and for planning of successful actions.
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Mind and Matter. In Quanta and Mind
Appleby, Marcus. 2019. Mind and Matter. In Quanta and Mind (pp. 17–29). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978...
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‘Selving’ and Union
McGilchrist, Iain. 2016. ‘Selving’ and Union. Journal of Consciousness Studies 23(1–2):196–213. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/jc...
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The Porcupine is a Monkey
The aim of the work I would undertake while at Stellenbosch would be to complete the argument of a new book, whose title is The Porcupine is a Monkey.