Some recent “Extended Mind” papers

Blow Your Mind

Extended mind and after: socially extended mind and actor-network
by Kono, Tetsuya
Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science

Personal Identity, Functionalism and the Extended Mind
by Stanciu, Marius M
Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences

Minds as social institutions
by Castelfranchi, Cristiano
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Extended cognition and the explosion of knowledge
by Ludwig, David
Philosophical Psychology

A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 62

The grandeur of my physique, the complexity of my worldview, the decency and taste implicit in my carriage, the grace with which I function in the mire of today’s world — all of these at once confuse and astound Clyde. Now he has relegated me to working in the French Quarter, an area which houses every vice that man has ever conceived in his wildest aberrations, including, I would imagine, several modern variants made possible through the wonders of science.

Clearly an area like the French Quarter is not the proper environment for a clean-living, chaste, prudent, and impressionable Working Boy.

I am apparently trapped in a limbo of lost souls. However, the simple fact that they have been resounding failures in our century does give them a certain spiritual quality (p. 195).

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Walker Percy’s “Lost in the Cosmos”

On the eve of the Walker Percy Weekend here is Chris Turner-Neal assessing one of WP’s later works that will be discussed on one of the WPW panels. Here also is Adam Frank on Lost in the Cosmos.

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Percy’s progress

Bill Binnings has nearly finished the textured clay statue of his friend Walker Percy.

I remember one man who hitchhiked all the way from California to meet Walker

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The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings of Louis Armstrong and the All Stars

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Soon to be released. Co-produced by Scott Wenzel and Ricky Riccardi. Liner notes by Ricky Riccardi.

 

Diamond Dogs @ 40

One of the more thoughtful assessments of an album that met with almost universal derision in 1974 both in terms of the presentation (pipping the Stones’ Guy Peellaert cover for “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll” to the post) and the “raw” sound. Though I concede it’s not one of Bowie’s best, Diamond Dogs retains a powerful allure that his other 70s albums somehow don’t engender. Few, if any, DB aficionados will know that DB was cited in a chum’s academic review.

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Walker Percy — born on this day

IMHO the greatest post-war writer in English and no slouch at philosophy either, each uniquely fused together. Without any doubt I’d put him up there with Kafka, Mann and Musil. The best (most elegant and most informed) biography of Percy is by the very excellent Patrick  Samway, S. J. Samway also by the way was the most meticulous of editors for Percy’s Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays.

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