The Supernatural Factory: Elaboration of Supernatural Beings in Ayahuasca Practices, a Crag talk by David Dupuis
Category Archives: Ideas and Papers
Politics and the Grammar of Reality, a Crag Talk by Nicholas G.S. Saul
Politics and the Grammar of Reality, Collective Intention as a Potential Praxis of Democracy, a Crag Talk by Nicholas G.S. Saul
The Vastness of the Embodied Self, a Crag talk by Camille Buttingsrud
The Vastness of the Embodied Self, a Phenomenological Investigation of dancers’ self consciousness, a Crag talk by Camille Buttingsrud
‘How real does the world feel for you?’ Ontological commitments on Psychotropic Experiences, a Crag talk by Martin Fortier
‘How real does the world feel for you?’ Ontological Commitments From Psychiatric to Psychotropic Experiences, a Crag talk by Martin Fortier
Humain consciousness like honeybee swarms
Stop Signals Provide Cross Inhibition in Collective Decision-Making by Honeybee Swarms Seeley TD1, Visscher PK, Schlegel T, Hogan PM, Franks NR, Marshall JA. Image curtesy of Kyle Szostek Honeybee swarms and complex brains show many parallels in how they make decisions. In both, separate populations of units (bees or neurons) integrate noisy evidence for alternatives, […]
Analytic-Bridge-Continental + (ABC+) Process Philosophy Workshop
29th October 2016 University of Liverpool, Department of Philosophy, School of the Arts Call for Papers The ABC+ organising committee welcomes papers which will contribute to a developing dialogue about the metaphysics of process and how it can attract the concerns of researchers from across the range of contemporary philosophical currents. Invited Speakers: Christopher Norris, […]
‘Perception: Experienced Reality is Always Created’, a Crag talk by Laura Gow
Laura Gow, University of Antwerp
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — The Startup — Medium
Western Culture is built around ideals of individual choice and freedom. Millions of us fiercely defend our right to make “free” choices, while we ignore how those choices are manipulated upstream by menus we didn’t choose in the first place. This is exactly what magicians do. They give people the illusion of free choice while […]
The ‘Rough edge of deterritorialisation’: Contemplation, by van Bever Donker
Parallax Volume 22, Issue 2, 2016 Special Issue: Red Assembly: East London Calling, Guest Edited by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, Gary Minkley, John Mowitt and Leslie Witz Simon Gush Red (Mandela Car) Mercedes 500SE car body 2014 Maurits van Bever Donker’s current book project is titled Texturing Difference: Black Consciousness Philosophy and the Script of Man. He […]
Creation Stories | Early Fantasy and the Making of Worlds, a Crag Talk by Anna Vaninskaya
Creation Stories: Early Fantasy and the Making of Worlds, a Crag Talk by Anna Vaninskaya Wednesday 20 April 2016 from 5.30 to 6.30 Project Room 50 George Square ‘All works of fiction ‘create reality’, but none do so in a more literal sense than works of imaginary-world fantasy. Many of the latter employ the imaginary […]