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That Little Thing
Completing my undergraduate major requirements in mathematics before I was a senior, I had grown impatient with mathematics largely because it seemed to me at the time so isolating from people. I was utterly naïve of course and had become … Continue reading
My Great Awakening
for Alex Perry I’d been sitting across the desk from him for what seemed an eternity. He was hunched over my paper commenting on every one of the dozens of red notations he had written there. We were still on … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Considering New CU Religion Programs
Not since Gutenberg has a revolution in media impacted the world as greatly as e-media are today. Although invented in the fifteenth century it took many decades for the impact of typography to be widely felt, yet it is clear … Continue reading
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BBM Vol. 4 Imagination, Theory, Story
Our brains come equipped to make up stories
our left brains are habitual prevaricators
Human beings are story-makers and storytellers
the word story … is commonly used to refer to myth, folktale, anecdote, history, as well as an out-and-out lie
people can endure anything if it is rendered into a story
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BBM Vol. 5 Color and Reality
The idea that color does not exist independent of our perception of it, is astounding
We create color in the world as we interact with it
We must explore the world with our moving experiential touch-based bodies to see the world
The sensorimotor patternings that have created the schemas that we unconsciously draw on when
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BBM Vol. 6 Phantom and Reality
A piece of your brain the size of a grain of sand would contain one hundred thousand neurons, two million axons and one billion synapses
The body surface is surely nothing but meat without the interconnection to the brain and the brain area is useless without connection to the body. The skin is the outer surface of the brain. The body is the extension of the brain
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BBM Vol. 7 Making, Agency, Action, Artifice
all making is … motivated by … some projection of the body into the world beyond the body
In a religious tradition seemingly so opposed to the body, it shocks us to find that important exchanges between god and humans, as depicted by the biblical literature, were about bodies
The only, and irresistible, power of femininity is the inverse power of seduction
Seduction is stronger than power because it is reversible and mortal
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BBM Vol. 8 Self and Other: Proprioception and Exteroception
the implications of proprioception are immense for understanding our sense of self, our sense of ownership of our bodies, our relationship with objects and others
Body schema is dependent upon proprioception
proprioception is how we know our body position and posture
We can know or sense our body image because of proprioceptive information
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