• Dr. Edwin May, "Remote Viewing" Houston experiment
• with visual agnosia you have percepts without concepts
• with ESP do you have concepts without percepts?
  
• For investigations on Paranormal Phenomena see
  • James Randi Educational Foundation: An Educational Resource on the Paranormal, Pseudoscientific, and the Supernatural

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cognition:

per-ception / con-ception

…an introduction

 

"Last night I dreamed I was a butterfly.

How do I know that I am not a butterfly now dreaming I'm a man?"

"Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Zhuangzi. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Zhuangzi. But he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi. Between Zhuangzi and a butterfly there must be some distinction! This is called the Transformation of Things." -- (2, tr. Burton Watson 1968:49)

[From The Taoist book "Zhuangzi dreamed he was a butterfly" (莊周夢蝶 Zhuāng Zhōu mèng dié) -- Wikipedia]

莊子
Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)
(4th Century B.C./B.C.E.)

"Zhuangzi's philosophy was very influential in the development of Chinese Buddhism, especially Chán (also known as Zen)."

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Cognition = Perception + Conception

Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia
(60 min., 1993, VC 2464)
[From NOVA ]

Cognition = Perception + Conception

cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per-cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
		extra - sensory (ESP)	6th ?	"?"
	conception			"con-cepts"

Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

• What is re - cognition?
• And re - cog - nize?
  
  
  • And "pattern re-cognition?"
  • And "pattern re-cogni-za-tion?"
    
    
• What is re - call?
  
  
  • And "pattern re-call?"
  • And "pattern re-call-i-za-tion?"
  • Or is it "pattern re-call-ing-i-za-tion?"
    
    
• How does "phantom pain" enter into this?
  
  
How does "synaesthesia" fit in?


• "joint perception"
  
  
• syn-thetics
  
  
• Hearing Colours, Eating Sounds -- BBC

How one synaesthete sees 'Saturday'

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cognition	perception	sensory	vision	"per-cepts"
			hearing
			touch
			taste
			smell
		extra - sensory (ESP)	6th ?	"?"
	conception			"con-cepts"

Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans
(San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.


• How does aesthetics fit in?
  
  
• And an-esthetics?
  

  
  

• How do cultural bound syndroms fit in?
  
  
• "Latah" (cf., Week 09 Day 18)
• and native healing? (cf., Day 20-Day 23)
  
  
  
• How do other cultural practices fit in, like Alejandro Mamani (cf., Week 10 Day 19) being possessed?
  
  
• video: "Alejandro Mamani"
  
  
• How does déjà vu fit in?
  
  
• How does déjà vu syndrom fit in?
  
  
• people seem to remember images first, then feelings (MPR 26 February 2006)
  
  
  • Useful observations on from Yogi Berra
  • "This is like deja vu all over again"
  • "It ain't over till it's over"
  • "When you come to a fork in the road, take it"
  • "I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question"
  • "I didn't really say everything I said"
    
    
    
• How does this relate to odor research?
  
  
• How do altered states of consciousness (ASC) fit in?
  
  
  • we will have a closer look at ASCs Week 10 Day 19
    
    
    
• How would you compare this research with Dr. Edwin May's "Remote Viewing" Houston research in the "ESP" segment from Science Frontiers: Put to the Test? (cf., Week 06 Day 11)
  
  
  • with visual agnosia you have percepts without concepts
    
    
    • Cf., Stranger in the Mirror: An Examination of Visual Agnosia (60 min., 1993, VC 2464) [From NOVA ]
      
      
  • with ESP do you have concepts without percepts?

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A tiny little wee abridged short synoptic précis introduction to
(or, a sneak preview of coming attractions of the middle third of the semester . . .)

Perceptual and Conceptual Cognitive Processes

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Per-cept--ual and Con-cept--ual Cog-ni[to]--tive Processes

Percept--ual and Concept--ual Cogni--tive Processes

REM: Cognition = Perception + Conception

Cogni-tion = Per-cept-ion + Con-cept-ion

Cogni-tion = Percept-ion + Concept-ion

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REM?:

per-son-ality
through - the sound - the essence or quality of


Dionysus,
Greek Theatrical Mask

Cognition = Perception + Conception

Cogni-tion = Per-cept-ion + Con-cept-ion

Cogni-tion = Percept-ion + Concept-ion

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• Orientation to Cog-nition: Per-ception and Con-ception
  
  
  • Cogito ergo sum

  "Latin: 'I am thinking, therefore I exist', or traditionally 'I think, therefore I am') is a philosophical statement by René Descartes, which became a foundational element of Western philosophy. 'Cogito ergo sum' is a translation of Descartes' original French statement: 'Je pense, donc je suis', which occurs in his Discourse on Method (1637)."

  
  René Descartes (1596–1650)

  "Although the idea expressed in 'cogito ergo sum' is widely attributed to Descartes, many predecessors offer similar arguments—particularly St. Augustine of Hippo in De Civitate Dei (books XI, 26), who also anticipates modern refutations of the concept. (See Principles of Philosophy, §7: 'Ac proinde haec cognitio, ego cogito, ergo sum, est omnium prima et certissima etc.')." -- Wikipedia

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Questions...


• How do you think?
  
  
• What role does culture and learning play?
  
  
• More specifically, what role does language play?
  
  
• "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes":
  
  
  • perception
    
    
    • ([late ME < L perceptiôn- (s. of perceptiô) comprehension, lit., a taking in]
      
      
  • perceive
    
    
    • ([ME perceive(n) . . . per- PER- + -cipere, comb. form of capere to take]
      
      
      • re-ceive
        
        
      • re-cept-or
        
        
  • percepts
    
    

• "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes"
  
  

  • con-ception
    
    
  • con-ceive
    
    
  • con-cepts
    
    

cognition perception sensory vision "per-cepts" hearing touch taste smell extra - sensory (ESP) 6th ? "?" conception "con-cepts" Cf., "Foundations of Cultural Knowledge," in Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans (San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), pp. 3-38.

Percepts Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans (San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 9. The Brain: A Road Map to the Mind -- MSNBC

The Formation of Concepts Source: James P. Spradley (Ed.), Culture and Cognition: Rules, Maps, and Plans (San Francisco, CA: Chandler, 1972), p. 10.   Species Specific Behavioral Environment (The original B-EYE site seems to be off of the web. An archived site, courtesy of Pandora: Australia's Web Archive, can be found at <http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/1999/O1999-Sep-6/http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye/beyehome.html> Image #1 . / Original of Image #1 . Image #2 . / Original of Image #2 . Image #3 . / Original of Image #3 . Image #4 . / Original of Image #4 . B-EYE -- Andrew Giger Original Site:   Image #1 / Original of Image #1 Image #2 / Original of Image #2 Image #3 / Original of Image #3 Image #4 / Original of Image #4     B-EYE -- Andrew Gige See the World As Your Pets Do. How does your pet experience its environment Understanding some differences between ... facts how animals perceive reallity See World Your Pets ... isn necessarily same what our pets do Here latest ... we may observe our pets shouldn dismissed simply ... animal human senses can offer insight world Sarah Wilson Brian read story (From October 15, 2006 Parade Magazine) Animals Eyes -- An "Topic in Depth" report from the NSDL Scout Report (1 November 2002 -- Volume 1, Number 21) Sex Specific Behavioral Environment Do men and women see color the same way, or are women more sensitive to variation and intensity? —Leo Campbell, Portland, Ore. The only difference is that color blindness affects about 20 times as many males as females. (2 March 2008) Creamer Color Chart -- John Creamer, M.D. RICK SAPHIRE'S TEST Culturally Constituted Behavioral Environment (CCBE) A.I. Hallowell Plato, "Allegory of the Cave"   Pheew!

The Midsemester Exam will be on Monday, 1 March 2010

Midsemester Examination

How to write an essay exam

Purdue University Online Writing Lab

Anthropology 4616: Culture and Personality
Midsemester Exam
Spring 2009
2 March 2009

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  Ch. 1 "The Sociocultural Nature of Human Beings

  Ch. 2 "Cross-Cultural Research: Scope and Methods

  Ch. 3 "Human Development and Informal Education

  Ch. 4 "Perceptual and Cognitive Processes"

  Ch. 5 "Alternative Views on Human Competence…"