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How To Determine The Boundaries Of The Mind: A Markov Blanket Proposal, Michael D. Kirchhoff, Julian Kiverstein
How To Determine The Boundaries Of The Mind: A Markov Blanket Proposal, Michael D. Kirchhoff, Julian Kiverstein
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We develop a truism of commonsense psychology that perception and action constitute the boundaries of the mind. We do so however not on the basis of commonsense psychology, but by using the notion of a Markov blanket originally employed to describe the topological properties of causal networks. We employ the Markov blanket formalism to propose precise criteria for demarcating the boundaries of the mind that unlike other rival candidates for "marks of the cognitive" avoids begging the question in the extended mind debate. Our criteria imply that the boundary of the mind is nested and multiscale sometimes extending beyond the …
Economic Cognitive Institutions, Enrico Petracca, Shaun Gallagher
Economic Cognitive Institutions, Enrico Petracca, Shaun Gallagher
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Copyright © Millennium Economics Ltd 2020. This paper introduces the notion of 'cognitive' institution and discusses its relevance to institutional economics. Cognitive institutions are conceptually founded on the philosophy of mind notion of extended mind, broadened to also include the distinctly social, institutional, and normative dimensions. Cognitive institutions are defined as institutions that not just allow agents to perform certain cognitive processes in the social domain but, more importantly, without which some of the agents' cognitive processes would not exist or even be possible. The externalist point of view of the extended mind has already had some influence in institutional …
Miss Fisher And Her Fans: How A Heroine On Australia's Small Screen Became A Global Phenomenon, Sue Turnbull
Miss Fisher And Her Fans: How A Heroine On Australia's Small Screen Became A Global Phenomenon, Sue Turnbull
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A heavily disguised Phryne (Essie Davis) is racing through the streets of Palestine, pursued by armed men. Excitement mounts. Having athletically eluded all attempts to capture her, Phryne sheds her indigo robes to emerge in a sparkling gold dress framed against the skyline like the superhero she has indubitably become.
Great Time To Try: 5½ Ways To Make Movie Masterpieces At Home, Aaron L. Burton
Great Time To Try: 5½ Ways To Make Movie Masterpieces At Home, Aaron L. Burton
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Isolation is a common theme in cinema: stranded on an island (Cast Away), in space (Gravity or The Martian), on a boat (Life of Pi), stuck in the desert (127 hours), or simply confined to an apartment (Rear Window). But what about when the filmmakers themselves are stranded?
Anchoring Know-How: Action, Affordance, And Anticipation, Shaun Gallagher, Benjamin Aguda
Anchoring Know-How: Action, Affordance, And Anticipation, Shaun Gallagher, Benjamin Aguda
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© 2020, Imprint Academic. All rights reserved. Action is always situated, always tied to specific contexts, and this is the case with respect to both the non-conscious — and largely subpersonal — processes or mechanisms that make action possible, and the person-level — and sometimes conscious — aspects of action that make action more than mere behaviour. According to one theory about the kind of know-how that we require to do what we do, the ‘automatic mechanisms’ that support action are ‘perfectly general’ (Stanley, 2011, p. 84), in contrast to the detailed propositional knowledge that informs action. We will argue, …
Anticipatory Action: Active Inference In Embodied Cognitive Activity, Ian Robertson, Michael D. Kirchhoff
Anticipatory Action: Active Inference In Embodied Cognitive Activity, Ian Robertson, Michael D. Kirchhoff
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This paper addresses the cognitive basis of anticipatory action. It does so by taking up what we call the acuity problem: the problem of explaining how skilled action seems, on the one hand, to be executed and unfold automatically and reflexively and, on the other hand, to involve anticipation of context-sensitive and constantly changing conditions in performance. The acuity problem invites two contemporary forms of reply, which we label non-inferential enactivism and Helmholtzian inference, respectively. We advance a third avenue for replying to the acuity problem, which takes active inference under the free energy principle as its theoretical starting point. …
Should I Use My 'Weak' Social Capital Or 'Strong' Guanxi? Reviewing And Critiquing Two Theories In The Context Of Western-Chinese Migration, Zhuqin Feng, Roger Patulny
Should I Use My 'Weak' Social Capital Or 'Strong' Guanxi? Reviewing And Critiquing Two Theories In The Context Of Western-Chinese Migration, Zhuqin Feng, Roger Patulny
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The Author(s) 2020. Social network dynamics are complex in the context of Chinese overseas migration because of the unique dynamics of guanxi, which are distinctly different from 'Western' social capital. The few migration studies comparing guanxi and social capital suggest that the former largely consists 'strong ties', while the latter is comprised of 'weak ties'. However, most apply only a cursory comparison of one network facet. We review core literature in the two fields to contrast what each says about network norms, structures and practices. We find that: (i) guanxi is characterised by dynamics of 'face' and renqing; (ii) guanxi …
"They Should Have Never Given Us Uniforms If They Didn't Want Us To Be An Army": The Handmaid's Tale As Transmedia Feminism, Amy Boyle
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Even prior to its premier in April 2017, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale inspired a series of cosplay protests against antiabortion legislation at the Texas State Capitol. The red robes and white bonnets have since been popularized by the critically acclaimed series, and handmaid-style cosplay protests have continued transnationally, with the handmaid heralded as what the BBC calls "an international protest symbol" against heteropatriarchal oppression. Due to a surge of visible feminisms in popular media, it has become good business to create such female-centric, avowedly feminist texts. As the television industry has evolved from a broadcast network to a subscription market, …
Developing A Short-Term Phenomenological Training Program: A Report Of Methodological Lessons, Katsunori Miyahara, Takuya Niikawa, Hiro Hamada, Satoshi Nishida
Developing A Short-Term Phenomenological Training Program: A Report Of Methodological Lessons, Katsunori Miyahara, Takuya Niikawa, Hiro Hamada, Satoshi Nishida
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2020 Elsevier Ltd We discuss our attempts to develop a short-term phenomenological training program for training naïve participants in phenomenological skills. After reviewing existing methodologies for collecting phenomenological data and clarifying the benefit of the short-term training approach, we present two training programs and two experiments that tested their effectiveness. Experiment 1 tested the two-stage training program, which consists of (i) the illusion training which instructs participants to describe the experience of a visual illusion and (ii) the guidance training which offers individualized feedbacks for improving their description. This program proved effective, but also excessively skill-demanding. Experiment 2 tested the …
Capitalized Money, Austerity And The Math Of Capitalism, Timothy Dimuzio, Richard Robbins
Capitalized Money, Austerity And The Math Of Capitalism, Timothy Dimuzio, Richard Robbins
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The Author(s) 2020. This article seeks to contribute to the existing critical debates on money and debt by advancing three main arguments. First, largely due to such debates' tendency for description, the article argues that in in the heterodox literature on money and debt there is no convincing critical theory of money creation. For this reason the authors introduce the theory of capital as power and how it can help us theorize the consequences of present money creation. Second, the authors demonstrate how the capitalization of money creation by a minority of investors not only leads to the political chase …
Does Social Media Make Us More Or Less Lonely? Depends On How You Use It, Roger Patulny
Does Social Media Make Us More Or Less Lonely? Depends On How You Use It, Roger Patulny
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Humans are more connected to each other than ever, thanks to smartphones, the web and social media. At the same time, loneliness is a huge and growing social problem. Why is this so? Research shows social media use alone can't cure loneliness - but it can be a tool to build and strengthen our genuine connections with others, which are important for a happy life. To understand why this is the case, we need to understand more about loneliness, its harmful impact, and what this has to do with social media.
Claims, Confusion, And Status: Which City Is New Zealand's Oldest?, Andre Brett
Claims, Confusion, And Status: Which City Is New Zealand's Oldest?, Andre Brett
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2019 New Zealand Geographical Society There is little clarity as to which city is New Zealand's "oldest" or "first." Scholars, journalists, and websites make competing claims. This article examines various categories by which cities can claim to be oldest, and reveals that Auckland, Christchurch, and Wellington have valid claims but Dunedin and Nelson do not. Most claims are bound up in the inconsistent development of New Zealand's municipal authorities and representative institutions. I conclude that although the status of "oldest city" has no legal significance, this detail provides an accessible entry point to important historical narratives and to understanding urban …
At A Performance Of The White Album, I Found The Community I Needed In A Time Of Crisis, Karen Cummings
At A Performance Of The White Album, I Found The Community I Needed In A Time Of Crisis, Karen Cummings
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Theatre can be many things. It can provide a catalyst to action, help us make sense of the world, make us feel part of a broader human experience. Sometimes, what happens on stage is the catalyst. Other times it happens because of the gathering theatre creates.
Integrating Fisheries, Food And Nutrition - Insights From People And Policies In Timor-Leste, Anna K. Farmery, Lana Kajlich, Michelle A. Voyer, Jessica Bogard, Augustinha Duarte
Integrating Fisheries, Food And Nutrition - Insights From People And Policies In Timor-Leste, Anna K. Farmery, Lana Kajlich, Michelle A. Voyer, Jessica Bogard, Augustinha Duarte
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2020 Elsevier Ltd The important role of fish in food and nutrition security is becoming more widely acknowledged by the fishery sector and within food policy. Integration of fish and food policy, at national, regional or global levels, is required to ensure the contribution of fisheries and aquaculture to human health is supported through governance arrangements. We explore this aspect of food policy integration in Timor-Leste, where malnutrition is a critical health problem. Consumption of fish is low by international standards and only a small proportion of the population engages in fishing. We used a mixed method approach involving desktop …
Distal Engagement: Intentions In Perception, Nick Brancazio, Miguel Segundo Ortin
Distal Engagement: Intentions In Perception, Nick Brancazio, Miguel Segundo Ortin
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2020 Elsevier Inc. Non-representational approaches to cognition have struggled to provide accounts of long-term planning that forgo the use of representations. An explanation comes easier for cognitivist accounts, which hold that we concoct and use contentful mental representations as guides to coordinate a series of actions towards an end state. One non-representational approach, ecological-enactivism, has recently seen several proposals that account for "high-level" or "representation-hungry" capacities, including long-term planning and action coordination. In this paper, we demonstrate the explanatory gap in these accounts that stems from avoiding the incorporation of long-term intentions, as they play an important role both in …
Getting Creative With Less. Recipe Lessons From The Australian Women's Weekly During Wartime, Lauren Samuelsson
Getting Creative With Less. Recipe Lessons From The Australian Women's Weekly During Wartime, Lauren Samuelsson
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Over the past few weeks, Australians have become used to seeing empty shelves in their local supermarkets. Coronavirus-induced panic buying has quickly depleted stocks of products like pasta, rice and flour. Major supermarket chains Coles and Woolworths have introduced restrictions on the purchase of these staple ingredients. Coles has also introduced "rationing" of minced meats. While this is not a genuine food crisis, these limitations will lead Australians to ponder the culinary possibilities of their pantries. Looking at Australia's most widely read women's magazine, the Australian Women's Weekly, shows us how Australians have dealt with food shortages in the past: …
Institutions And Other Things: Critical Hermeneutics, Postphenomenology And Material Engagement Theory, Tailer Ransom, Shaun Gallagher
Institutions And Other Things: Critical Hermeneutics, Postphenomenology And Material Engagement Theory, Tailer Ransom, Shaun Gallagher
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© 2020, The Author(s). Don Ihde and Lambros Malafouris (Philosophy and Technology 32:195–214, 2019) have argued that “we are homo faber not just because we make things but also because we are made by them.” The emphasis falls on the idea that the things that we create, use, rely on—that is, those things with which we engage—have a recursive effect on human existence. We make things, but we also make arrangements, many of which are long-standing, material, social, normative, economic, institutional, and/or political, and many of which are supported by various technologies, including AI, more and more. Critical theorists, such …
Malnutrition In Rural Solomon Islands: An Analysis Of The Problem And Its Drivers, Joelle Albert, Jessica Bogard, Faye Siota, Joe Mccarter, Salome Diatalau, Josephine Maelaua, Thomas D. Brewer, Neil L. Andrew
Malnutrition In Rural Solomon Islands: An Analysis Of The Problem And Its Drivers, Joelle Albert, Jessica Bogard, Faye Siota, Joe Mccarter, Salome Diatalau, Josephine Maelaua, Thomas D. Brewer, Neil L. Andrew
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2020 The Authors. Maternal & Child Nutrition published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Solomon Islands, like many Pacific Island nations, suffer from the burden of malnutrition. External drivers including population growth, declining agriculture and fisheries productivity and global food trade have contributed to the transition to greater reliance on imported foods. Globally, diets are recognized as both a cause of and solution to the burden of malnutrition. Using a mixed-method approach this study assessed nutritional status and key determinants of malnutrition among women and young children in rural Solomon Island communities. Quantitative 24-hour recall surveys identified diets of women …
South-South Cooperation In Southeast Asia: From Bandung And Solidarity To Norms And Rivalry, Susan N. Engel
South-South Cooperation In Southeast Asia: From Bandung And Solidarity To Norms And Rivalry, Susan N. Engel
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This article demonstrates how South-South Cooperation (SSC), as it is now constituted in Southeast Asia, is little more than a liberal norm retaining only echoes of its origins in the 1955 Bandung Conference that first created SSC based on solidarity, common interests, and sovereignty. Southeast Asia is a useful case study of SSC's evolution, as its states have been major players over the decades - with Indonesia proposing the Bandung Conference, Malaysia playing a key role in the 1980s, and Indonesia again at the forefront of the region from the first years of the new century onwards. Thailand and Singapore …
A Soul Divided: The Un's Misconduct Over West Papua, Julian Mckinlay King
A Soul Divided: The Un's Misconduct Over West Papua, Julian Mckinlay King
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2019 by the author(s). The soul of the Papuan people is divided. Separated by an arbitrary line established during the early colonial period-dissecting language groups, tribal lands, gardens, and villages-the people to the west of this line are regarded as Indonesian and live under a military dictatorship described by legal scholars and human rights advocates as systemic terror and alleged genocide while those people to the east of this line enjoy freedom within the independent state of Papua New Guinea. This paper revisits the range of agreements between the United Nations, Indonesia, and the Netherlands from 1962, which include the …
Belonging, Being, Becoming: Exploring The Value Of A Statement Of Law Student Ideals, Karina Murray, Trish Mundy
Belonging, Being, Becoming: Exploring The Value Of A Statement Of Law Student Ideals, Karina Murray, Trish Mundy
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In 2017, the School of Law at the University of Wollongong commenced an educational 'experiment', designed to make an important symbolic message to students that their career as a legal professional starts from the day they begin their law studies. It invited First Year Students to commit to core values, attitudes and practices that are seen as important to developing a positive legal professional identity. As part of the evaluation and review process, in 2018 the original 'Pledge' was redesigned as the Law Student Statement of Ideals. This article reports on the learnings gained through adopting the Law Student Statement …
Misplacing Memories? An Enactive Approach To The Virtual Memory Palace, Anco Peeters, Miguel Segundo Ortin
Misplacing Memories? An Enactive Approach To The Virtual Memory Palace, Anco Peeters, Miguel Segundo Ortin
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In this paper, we evaluate the pragmatic turn towards embodied, enactive thinking in cognitive science, in the context of recent empirical research on the memory palace technique. The memory palace is a powerful method for remembering yet it faces two problems. First, cognitive scientists are currently unable to clarify its efficacy. Second, the technique faces significant practical challenges to its users. Virtual reality devices are sometimes presented as a way to solve these practical challenges, but currently fall short of delivering on that promise. We address both issues in this paper. First, we argue that an embodied, enactive approach to …
Enactive Pain And Its Sociocultural Embeddedness, Katsunori Miyahara
Enactive Pain And Its Sociocultural Embeddedness, Katsunori Miyahara
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This paper disputes the theoretical assumptions of mainstream approaches in philosophy of pain, representationalism and imperativism, and advances an enactive approach as an alternative. It begins by identifying three shared assumptions in the mainstream approaches: the internalist assumption, the brain-body assumption, and the semantic assumption. It then articulates an alternative, enactive approach that considers pain as an embodied response to the situation. This approach entails the hypothesis of the sociocultural embeddedness of pain, which states against the brain-body assumption that the intentional character of pain depends on the agent's sociocultural background. The paper then proceeds to consider two objections. The …
Australian Wool And Chinese Industrialization, 1901-41, Peter Gibson, Simon Ville
Australian Wool And Chinese Industrialization, 1901-41, Peter Gibson, Simon Ville
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Chinese industrialization has been understood chiefly in terms of China's engagement with more powerful countries, especially Japan and Britain. During the early twentieth century, nevertheless, the development of China's woolen industry-part of a broader program of Chinese industrial development-depended largely on an import trade in raw wool from Australia. Through our study of this industry and trade, we show that a minor world power was more significant to Chinese industrialization than previously imagined.
Ecological Psychology Is Radical Enough: A Reply To Radical Enactivists, Miguel Segundo Ortin, Manuel Heras-Escribano, Vicente Raja
Ecological Psychology Is Radical Enough: A Reply To Radical Enactivists, Miguel Segundo Ortin, Manuel Heras-Escribano, Vicente Raja
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Ecological psychology is one of the most influential theories of perception in the embodied, anti-representational, and situated cognitive sciences. However, radical enactivists claim that Gibsonians tend to describe ecological information and its 'pick up' in ways that make ecological psychology close to representational theories of perception and cognition. Motivated by worries about the tenability of classical views of informational content and its processing, these authors claim that ecological psychology needs to be "RECtified" so as to explicitly resist representational readings. In this paper, we argue against this call for RECtification. To do so, we offer a detailed analysis of the …
"Ask For More Time": Big Data Chronopolitics In The Australian Welfare Bureaucracy, Andrew M. Whelan
"Ask For More Time": Big Data Chronopolitics In The Australian Welfare Bureaucracy, Andrew M. Whelan
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Since 2016, welfare recipients in Australia have been subject to the Online Compliance Intervention (OCI), implemented through the national income support agency, Centrelink. This is a big data initiative, matching reported income to tax records to recoup welfare overpayments. The OCI proved controversial, notably for a "reverse onus," requiring that claimants disprove debts, and for data-matching design leading frequently to incorrect debts. As algorithmic governance, the OCI directs attention to the chronopolitics of contemporary welfare bureaucracies. It outsources labor previously conducted by Centrelink to clients, compelling them to submit documentation lest debts be raised against them. It imposes an active …
Sonic Havens: How We Use Music To Make Ourselves Feel At Home, Michael J. Walsh, Eduardo De La Fuente
Sonic Havens: How We Use Music To Make Ourselves Feel At Home, Michael J. Walsh, Eduardo De La Fuente
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The concept of "home" refers to more than bricks and mortar. Just as cities are more than buildings and infrastructure, our homes carry all manner of emotional, aesthetic and socio-cultural significance. Our research investigates music and sound across five settings: home, work, retail spaces, private vehicle travel and public transport.
The Vowel /U/ Before Deleted Word-Final /S/, /R/, And /Θ/ In Eastern Andalusian Spanish, Alfredo Herrero De Haro
The Vowel /U/ Before Deleted Word-Final /S/, /R/, And /Θ/ In Eastern Andalusian Spanish, Alfredo Herrero De Haro
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Eastern Andalusian Spanish deletes all coda consonants; yet, coda deletion analyses have focused on /-s/. The acoustic and statistical analyses of 317 tokens of /u/ in 24 Eastern Andalusian speakers confirm that the differences in quality between word-final /u/ and /u/ preceding deleted /-s/, /-r/, and /-θ/ are statistically significant. Furthermore, /-s/, /-r/, and /-θ/ deletion changes the quality of a preceding /u/ in different degrees but the difference of quality between these three realisations of /u/ is not statistically significant. Likewise, a perception experiment confirms that Eastern Andalusian speakers can identify whether or not /u/ is followed by an …
Language And Attitude Shift Of Young Mauritians In Secondary Education, Anu Bissoonauth-Bedford
Language And Attitude Shift Of Young Mauritians In Secondary Education, Anu Bissoonauth-Bedford
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This study investigated the changing patterns of language use and language attitudes of younger generations of Mauritians over the last two decades. This article discusses the shift in language attitudes of students in secondary education with special emphasis on Kreol*, taught since 2012 in primary schools and from 2018 in secondary schools. A comparison with results from earlier studies suggests a positive attitude shift towards Kreol in education as well as an acceptance of multilingualism and multiculturalism as an integral part of being Mauritian. Asian heritage languages lag behind in the multi-diglossic patterns of language use. Nonetheless, despite a steady …
Boycott Them! No, Boycott This! Do Choice Overload And Small-Agent Rationalization Inhibit The Signing Of Anti‐Consumption Petitions?, Ulku Yuksel, Nguyen T. Thai, Michael S. Lee
Boycott Them! No, Boycott This! Do Choice Overload And Small-Agent Rationalization Inhibit The Signing Of Anti‐Consumption Petitions?, Ulku Yuksel, Nguyen T. Thai, Michael S. Lee
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The Internet and social media have increased the number of organizations and individuals asking consumers to sign petitions against transgressing brands. This raises a question as to whether such increases in requests to sign a petition to support a boycott positively or negatively impact on consumer willingness to enact anti-consumption. Via experiments, this study investigates the effect that choice overload has on consumers signing a petition in support of a boycott call. The findings establish that individuals who need to make a choice from numerous boycott calls (i.e., large choice-sets) are less likely to sign a petition to support a …