" A wide variety of claims, both scientific and philosophical, have come from the results of what has come to be known as “Mirror Self Recognition” tests/tasks. Examining the claims regarding MRS researchers' "object of study", it is... more
" A wide variety of claims, both scientific and philosophical, have come from the results of what has come to be known as “Mirror Self Recognition” tests/tasks. Examining the claims regarding MRS researchers' "object of study", it is concluded that, though a truly unique behavioural evaluation method, the conclusions drawn from MSR tests are hasty at best."
The most difficult question with respect to the study of “the self” is; “What is being studied?”. What the self is cannot be simply stated. Is the self an object and if it is, does it actually participate in physical or logical nature in... more
The most difficult question with respect to the study of “the self” is; “What is being studied?”. What the self is cannot be simply stated. Is the self an object and if it is, does it actually participate in physical or logical nature in the way that sub-atomic particles or mathematical systems do?
A summary of the time I spent working under the SIM grant (Summer 2014) at the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine
Throughout the history of both linguistic and the psychic concepts, there have been points of extreme proximity, and points of departure. The history of “madness”, particularly those events which brought forth language's own... more
Throughout the history of both linguistic and the psychic concepts, there have been points of extreme proximity, and points of departure. The history of “madness”, particularly those events which brought forth language's own pathology, exposes a unique aspect of this relationship. In the
pages following, I discuss linguistic pathology, particularly aphasia, utilizing the image of madness (psychopathology) Foucault presents in Madness and Civilization as a point of comparison (Foucault, 1988).
This account aims to examine the neurolinguistic approach most often taken towards modeling the brain-language relationship, in hopes of remedying a near century-long stagnation in broader theory. I conclude that some failures of... more
This account aims to examine the neurolinguistic approach most often taken towards modeling the brain-language relationship, in hopes of remedying a near century-long stagnation in broader theory. I conclude that some failures of Cartesian linguistics and Localist neurology can be solved by shifting analysis into what I coin the Anatomic-Performance Analysis Network (APAN). The APAN arises out of re-assembled modern approaches as well as several alternative viewpoints, collectively comprising Concomitant-Actor-Network Theory. This aggregate approach address the challenges posed by level-differences, feed-back, and feed-forward in analyzing correlations between performance (language) and anatomy in manners the contemporary Cartesian-Localist paradigm simply cannot.
