Moby Dick and the Question of Mind

Another entry from my masters journal. This one is from February 12, 2014. I had been reading/listening to Moby Dick and felt that there were some themes therein connected to the ideas of mind, brain, and the homunculus. I’ve been reading Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville this week. Aside...

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Autopoesis, Design, and the Chair

I originally wrote this on November 7, 2013 for my masters seminar. It’s some of my early thoughts on how the idea of autopoesis might apply to problems. In this case, the problem of how to design a comfortable chair … I am sitting here in my garret office, the sound...

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