Michael Cassady
Academic PositionOther
Bio:
My calling card describes me as "Practicing Ordinary Person." I think I've often failed to live up to my own pretentions in this regard, but the failures have been rewarding, if humbling, and so stimulating. In an age that has been transformed by social and economic integration at a pace only war and a carry-over mobilization reflex could possibly explain, resisting institutionalization has been a rewarding exercise in trying to think historically in spite of the siren calls to think process and system, Sparta's answer to Athens— to be anaythic and instrumental. My weapon of choice is synthesis, formal off-pause active minding, which I perform mostly as "Poetry."
Why You Joined the Lab:
Cognitive science suggests culture and networking have moved the mind outside the hard walls of the skull to activate public mental space (Merlin Donald, "Origins of the Modern Mind."). The Humanities and liberal education, in turn, would do well to copy the model, and move beyond bricks and morter, to allow neurons to find a sunny welcome, not alone for ivy.
Alonso M. Reategui
Academic PositionGraduate Student
Bio:
Graduate student of Philosophy from Peru. Interested in doing research on Philosophy of Mind, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Society, Metaphysics.
Why You Joined the Lab:
I am interested in Interdisciplinary Studies.
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