congeries

Aug. 13th, 2002

"the western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe... is, however incorrigible it may seem to us, a rather peculiar idea within the context of the world's cultures" clifford geertz, local knowledge: further essays in interpretive anthropology

"an open slate emerges on which persons may inscribe, erase, and rewrite their identities as the ever-shifting, ever-expanding, and incoherent network of relationships invites or permits" kenneth gergen, the saturated self: dilemmas of identity in contemporary life

"...at any given instant i experience an "i" and can summon up a horde of memories that support the image of what is sometimes called “the autobiographical self”, but the "i" may feel, think, and behave differently at different times. and it is quite clear that in different situations … i may remember things differently.

i may revise points of fact in my autobiography, forget some things i had once remembered, remember some thins i had forgotten. or – over the course of successful psychotherapy or simply in the process of growing older – i may leave the factual data pretty much intact but greatly change the meanings and interpretations of the event that make up the story of my life. in the same memories i step and i do not step, i am and i am not" walter truett anderson, the future of the self: inventing the postmodern person

"so we naturally come to think that we have selves the way we have heads or arms, and inner depths the way we have hearts and livers, as a matter of hard, inpretation-free fact" charles taylor, sources of the self: the making of modern identity

"what we call the self - one's inclusive sense for symbolization of one's being - is enormously sensitive to the flow of history" robert jay lifton, the protean self: human resilience in an age of fragmentation

"...each of us must also learn not only that different people have their own identities, but that the same person can entertain different beliefs, plans, and dispositions at the same time" marvin minsky, the society of mind

xerox develops program that automatically produces aesthetically pleasing customized documents

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"ещё аристотель говорил…" или "уже аристотель говорил..." ?

ISDA (Intelligent Systems Design and Applications). а что, если они псевдо-интеллигентные системы дизайнировать начнут?