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Mind is not Brain

Jeff Carreira November 3, 2011 Blog Posts, Evolving Self 7 Comments

What is the mind? Most of us think about it as a storehouse of ideas and memories. It is the place where we experience the world. Sometimes we think about it as a movie screen …

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Alva Noe

Learning to be a Self

Jeff Carreira October 6, 2011 Blog Posts, Evolving Self 5 Comments

George Herbert Mead said a self is a subject that is an object to itself. A subject is a perceiving thing and a self is a perceiving thing that can perceive itself.  Human beings are …

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George Herbert Mead

Into The Human Flow

Jeff Carreira September 29, 2011 Blog Posts, Evolving Self 3 Comments

I am currently completely captivated by the image of a Human Flow. The American Pragmatist philosophers developed a view of humanity as a constant flow of activity and society was a flow of flows. There …

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George Herbert MeadJohn DeweyWilliam James

Worldviews and Ways of Being

Jeff Carreira September 22, 2011 Blog Posts, Evolving Self 10 Comments

Immanuel Kant, the great German philosopher of the 18th Century, presented the radical idea that the world is not the way it appears to be. What we see as the world is not a real …

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Mead, Mind and World

Jeff Carreira September 16, 2011 Blog Posts, Evolving Self 5 Comments

George Herbert Mead is the fourth major figure in Classical American Pragmatism. Mead studied philosophy at Harvard while William James chaired the department. He taught with John Dewey at the University of Michigan before they …

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George Herbert MeadKen WilberWilliam James

The Soul Evolves

Jeff Carreira June 10, 2011 Blog Posts, Evolving Self 20 Comments

The human soul is not the procession of any single individual; it is the ground of awareness that is the essence of the entire human experience. It is a field of pure knowing. At least …

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Ralph Waldo EmersonSamuel Taylor Coleridge
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