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Newsletter Nr. 611
Amsterdam, March 28th, 2016


GALILEO'S TELESCOPE ON CONSCIOUSNESS - A Closer Look at Giulio Tononi's text, Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul - ANDREA DIEM-LANE

In Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul Giulio Tononi explores consciousness in a very unusual way. While most books on this topic either offer technical details of neural anatomy that may allow for consciousness or philosophically scrutinize its overall meaning, this author approaches it as a story and one told from the viewpoint of Galileo. Yet, unlike his usual role of objectively studying nature, here Galileo examines his own consciousness, and in a dream-like, almost psychedelic, way he ventures on a journey to understand what it is all about. Along his way, Galileo goes in and out of conversations with others and multiple analogies and stories are told. Perhaps Tononi's nomadic style makes sense as this is what consciousness itself does, experiencing the world not as third person but subjectively.

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http://www.integralworld.net/diem-lane25.html


DECONSTRUCTIONISM 101 - A Dream of Derrida - DAVID LANE

When I first heard that there was a documentary on Derrida showing at the NuArt in Santa Monica, I was interested enough that I made plans to travel an hour or so to see it. But my teaching schedule was such that I couldn't swing it. I am happy I didn't make it. Why?
Well, I finally got a chance to watch the film via my Netflix addiction and I am stunned that anybody thinks that Derrida is a "deep" thinker. The trite that passes as philosophy makes one ashamed to even be a part of the profession. Steven Weinberg is right about deconstructionist writing. Most of it is either obvious or obscure. Derrida talks about how the Other is the unexpected and the unpredictable. He and his writings are anything but.

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http://www.integralworld.net/lane109.html