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Strong Interaction And Self-Agency, Shaun Gallagher
Strong Interaction And Self-Agency, Shaun Gallagher
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The interaction theory of social cognition contends that intersubjective interaction is characterized by both immersion and irreducibility. This motivates a question about autonomy and self-agency: If I am always caught up in processes of interaction, and interaction always goes beyond me and my ultimate control, is there any room for self-agency? I outline an answer to this question that points to the importance of communicative and narrative practices.
Scanning The Lifeworld: Toward A Critical Neuroscience Of Action And Interaction, Shaun Gallagher
Scanning The Lifeworld: Toward A Critical Neuroscience Of Action And Interaction, Shaun Gallagher
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
A recent report published in Neuron, a leading journal of neuroscience, by researchers at Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories (Miyawaki et al., 2008) has been the basis for a claim that new technology able to analyze signals in the brain "can reconstruct the images inside a person's mind and display them on a computer monitor." Although claims made in the actual research paper were much more modest, in the media the standard, optimistic predictions were quick to come. "These results are a breakthrough in terms of understanding brain activity. In as little as 10 years, advances in this field of …