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Philosopher Evan Thompson brings new technology to old questions by Jenny Hall

Who are you? A funny person who loses her temper easily? A hard-working late-bloomer who tends to run late? Or maybe you have a deeper sense of self beneath these kinds of traits.

Evan Thompson wants to know how you know.

As a philosopher of the mind, he grapples with some of the oldest and most enduring questions around: What is the mind? What is the relationship between the mind and the world? Thanks in no small part to advances in brain imaging technology, these timeless questions are being examined anew with insights from such seemingly disparate fields as neuroscience, psychology and linguistics.

Thompson’s particular interest is the self. “What is the self?” he asks. “What are the different ways we experience being a self?”

One sense of self we have is autobiographical. “We have a sense of our life as a storyline. We project ourselves back into the past though memory and into the future. This sense of self is very much bound up with personality traits we attribute to ourselves: I’m confident, I’m easygoing, I’m anxious.”

Another completely different sense of self is our awareness of being in our bodies in the present moment.

Thompson collaborates with neuroscientists who use the minds of meditators to help illuminate the self. If you or I tried to meditate, we would likely find our minds wandering, typically because our autobiographical sense of self kicks in. We mentally compose our grocery list for later, or replay conversations from earlier in the day. Skilled meditators can turn off this autobiographical sense of self and shift into the embodied sense of self. Switching between these two senses of self while having their brains imaged can show researchers which parts of the brain govern which senses of self.

For his part, Thompson wants to understand our overall sense of self. A book due out in 2013 will explore how sense of self changes across different states of consciousness like daydreaming, being attentive, sleeping, dreaming and different kinds of meditation.

“There’s never been a better time to be a philosopher of the mind,” says Thompson. As a member of the Mind and Life Institute, he works with researchers studying the minds of Tibetan monks as they meditate, and believes that as much as philosophy benefits from advances in neurosciences, it also contributes a great deal in return. In the case of studies of meditation, for example, “Neuroscientists need people who know the philosophical tradition of the meditators and theoretical underpinnings of the practices that come from that tradition.”

In other words, it’s not just about the brain.

“Saying that you can understand the mind in terms of the brain is like saying you can understand a Gothic cathedral in terms of the stones that make it up,” he says. “Stones are crucial, but so is architecture, iconographic traditions, the overall environment—that’s what makes it a Gothic cathedral.

“Our identity as persons isn’t just a matter of the brain.”

In: Edge / Winter 2013.

The vision of the brain as a computer, which I still champion, is changing so fast. The brain’s a computer, but it’s so different from any computer that you’re used to. It’s not like your desktop or your laptop at all, and it’s not like your iPhone except in some ways. It’s a much more interesting phenomenon. What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn’t do any of this) is a way of thinking about in a disciplined way and taking seriously phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts. Until late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It’s just mind-boggling.

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Bolívar Echeverría, El discurso crítico de Marx

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Presentación / 2

El materialismo de Marx / 10

Definición del discurso crítico / 34

Esquema de El Capital / 50

Comentario sobre “El punto de partida” de El Capital / 65

Valor y plusvalor / 89

Clasificación del plusvalor / 107

La crisis estructural según Marx / 147

Rosa Luxemburgo: Espontaneidad / 161

Revolucionaria e Internacionalismo / 161

El problema de la nación desde la Crítica de la Economía Política / 199

Cuestionario sobre lo político / 231

The first version of Noesis added greater control over document classification and allowed users to search organized subsets of its central database. Here, links were manually catalogued by individuals who did a preliminary scan for credentialed authorship. From this broader base, a board of editors arranged independently-searchable topic trees, simultaneously vetting resources while determining the project’s topical shape. Quality was controlled by considering links one at a time or by indexing resources en masse if they were part of a peer-reviewed initiative. Search return sets were sharp, on topic and all academic, a decided improvement in quality control and organization over earlier models, but, for that, the labor was intensive.

The current version of Noesis runs on the backbone of Google through an interface provided as part of the Google Co-op. In addition to allowing designers to specify individual documents for inclusion in a particular search engine, the interface also allows them to include whole websites in a single pass and to label them for subset searching. This feature results in greater flexibility for shaping a search space, while inviting a more regional approach to the problems mentioned above.

Noesis’s ultimate target is academic scholarship in philosophy that is freely available online. The design task, comprehended regionally, is to determine where in cyberspace one is likely to find it, and search there, hoping to cast a net broadly enough to catch what we are looking for, while minimalizing the prospects of a bad catch, to fish in the richest waters. One sensible strategy to do this is to map those areas of the Internet where professionals in philosophy are overwhelmingly likely to appear, principally, their home bases on the web, the academic departments where they teach, the organizations and conferences they populate, and the online versions of traditional forums through which they publish (e.g., journals, reference works, etc.)

By indexing regions, in effect, directories and subdirectories, rather than their contents, Noesis passes editorial control of its search space over to the individuals who, in managing their own web resources, add to, edit, and delete from the content searchable by Noesis. Because the strategy outlined in the previous paragraph follows institutional boundaries, these individuals are overwhelmingly professional philosophers. The result is that the shape and texture of Noesis’s search space is determined organically by credentialed scholars whose actions directly determine content.

At these horizons, we have intentionally cast the net widely, with some fortunate consequences and some additional work to do. A preliminary search in Noesis will turn up not only scholarly articles, but also lecture notes, course schedules, conference announcements, and an array of miscellaneous information coming from the profession. Though not quite the target, resources in return sets are, often, of likely interest to our users. From this larger set, however, we can locate and catalogue regions in the search space dedicated to scholarly content and make them collectively searchable.

For this purpose, Noesis uses two labels: author archives and scholarship. “Author archives” are directories set aside by authors for the purpose of collecting and disseminating their work. The space of “scholarship” includes author directories, online journals, reference works, and article archives coming from professional associations and philosophy departments. As Noesis develops, filtering content to these regions will effectively reduce search return sets to our target, academic scholarship in philosophy.

A side effect of this cataloging strategy, which is useful enough to be called a feature, is that users can filter searches to the various regions that this project maps. Users can, for instance, search at once the collective webspace of all indexed philosophy departments, or search faculty webspace in a single pass. Searches can also be filtered to content coming only from professional organizations, online journals or reference works. We hope that the power of regional searching will here prove useful for scholarly purposes, not only as a tool for finding academic scholarship, but also as a medium for exploring the terrain of professional philosophy more broadly.

Noesis: Philosophical Research Online

Markus Gabriel (1980) es el profesor de filosofía, con rango de catedrático, más joven de Alemania. Su larga lista de publicaciones incluye nueve libros, uno de ellos en coautoría con Slavoj Žižek, y una cincuentena de artículos.

Las siguientes tres conferencias en video del spekulatives Wunderkind, como ha sido llamado por la prensa alemana, están para ser vistas en el sitio Uni Bonn.tv:

[1] Der Sinn des Ganzen

[2] Was ist Wahrheit?

[3] Ontological Realism