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707The First Person Perspective and Beyond: Commentary on AlmaasJournal of Consciousness Studies 23 (1-2): 158-178. 2016.In this commentary, we engage with Almaas’s contribution from the perspective of phenomenology and its idea of a ‘minimal self’. We attempt to clarify Almaas’s claims about ‘phenomenological givens’ and ‘non-dual’, ‘pure consciousness’, and then show how they might be reconciled with phenomenological approaches to consciousness and self. We conclude by briefly indicating some of the ways a comparative analysis of this sort is mutually beneficial.
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3896Extended cognition and the space of social interactionConsciousness and Cognition 20 (3): 643-657. 2011.The extended mind thesis (EM) asserts that some cognitive processes are (partially) composed of actions consisting of the manipulation and exploitation of environmental structures. Might some processes at the root of social cognition have a similarly extended structure? In this paper, I argue that social cognition is fundamentally an interactive form of space management—the negotiation and management of ‘‘we-space”—and that some of the expressive actions involved in the negotiation and managemen…Read more
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| Japanese Philosophy |
| William James |
| John Dewey |
| Asian Philosophy |
| American Pragmatism, Misc |
| Musical Experience |