Descartes' embodied psychology: Descartes' or Damasio's error?

Damasio (1994) claims that Descartes imagined thinking as an activity separate from the body, and that the effort to understand the mind in general biological terms was retarded as a consequence of Descartes' dualism. These claims do not hold; they are "Damasio's error". Descartes never considered what we today call thinking or cognition without taking the body into account. His new dualism required an embodied understanding of cognition. The article gives an historical overview of the development of Descartes' radically new psychology from his account of algebraic reasoning in the early Regulae (1628) to his "neurobiology of rationality" in the late Passions of the soul (1649). The author argues that Descartes' dualism opens the way for mechanistic and mathematical explanations of all kinds of physiological and psychological phenomena, including the kind of phenomena Damasio discusses in Descartes' error. The models of understanding Damasio puts forward can be seen as advanced version of models which Descartes introduced in the 1640s. A far better title for his book would have been Descartes' vision.     

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以赛亚·伯林和其他历史主义的代表人物把启蒙与反启蒙运动塑造成了两种对立的文化。反启蒙是从启蒙内部而起的批判,因此在许多方面两者是重叠的。不过,在关于时间的看法方面,两者是相互冲突的。启蒙的时间更多倾向于年代学意义上的,可以被打上"空洞的"标签。而反启蒙对时间的感知却是"具体的"且与历史时间如出一辙。这两种不同的时间必然造成了在同时性问题方面不同的结果。     

鸟老栖枝,人老恋家——记全国政协委员、西藏自治区政协常委谢文根多·格列嘉措

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在当今全球化和国际形势竞争越发激烈的时代背景中,加强群众文化建设是增强民族凝聚力与使命感和提高民族自信让群众的重要举措,而且针对于新疆地区来说,加强群众文化的建设更是促进新疆地区各少数民族团结起来,促进当地经济和文化发展的必要举措,所以,文章便针对于新形势下如何解决群众文化建设中存在的不利问题以及如何建设提出了策略构想。     

川西高原上的云上羌寨

经过2008年汶川地震后,萝卜寨的古寨不同程度地受到了地震的影响,许多古寨建筑倒塌,祖祖辈辈生活在这里的人们不得不在古寨对面的山上建设新寨居住,由此,古寨慢慢变成了一个空寨,而寨中那些完好的房屋也改成了一些客寨和旅游的观光茶馆.如今,随着寨子的重建和修复,又逐渐热闹了起来,现如今家家户户都种植车厘子,每年的5、6月份,随着车厘子的成熟,越来越多的游客都愿意到这里来采摘、游玩,萝卜寨也渐渐恢复了生机.