Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 02, 2010, 10:13 AM

I'm fascinated by experimental psychology experiments that reveal that we know almost nothing about ourselves--or that our "selves" reveal far more about "us" than we ever imagined in our rationalist paradigms.  The West has been clinging, against odds, to the mind v. body dualism for thousands of years, gave it a few booster shots in the Enlightenment, and now requires psychologists with cagey experiments to trick us into seeing that the mind and body are, in fact, not opposites but all part of the same thing.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 16, 2008, 07:14 AM
Yesterday I was telling someone about the book I'm working on, a new model of mind for the digital age, and she asked how I spent my days. Was it at a lab conducting experiments? Or interviewing subjects? Doing ethnography? Sorting through archives? It was an excellent question. If I had been one notch more pretentious, I think my answer might have been: I've spent the last eighteen months making like Kant.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 18, 2008, 02:09 AM
When I lectutred last week in Italy on digital youth, someone asked me how I made the connection between digitality and neuroscience. That's an easy question and an extremely difficult one and the path from one to the other is: learning.