Andy Duncan-Brown Portraits Boys

LBI

Liderazgo integral [por] Andy Javier Correa Montejo

Tesis (Maestría en Administración de Empresas) U.A.N.L.

Andy Vowles library photos 2009

Photos of the library by Andy Vowles

Andy : an Alaskan tale.

Un cuento de Alaska. Relata las aventuras de un perro ovejero que va a vivir con sus dueños, maestros de escuela, a una remota aldea esquimal y cómo él y los habitantes se acostumbran a convivir. Los niños juegan con el perro y un día éste se pierde en las montañas. Todo el mundo en el pueblo lo busca hasta que un vecino de otro pueblo lo lleva a la aldea montando en una moto de nieve.

Emotion and anticipation in an enactive framework for cognition (response to Andy Clark)

Undeniably, anticipation plays a crucial role in cognition. By what means, to what extent, and what it achieves remain open questions. In a recent BBS target article, Clark (in press) depicts an integrative model of the brain that builds on hierarchical Bayesian models of neural processing (Rao and Ballard, 1999; Friston, 2005; Brown et al., 2011), and their most recent formulation using the free-energy principle borrowed from thermodynamics (Feldman and Friston, 2010; Friston, 2010; Friston et al., 2010). Hierarchical generative models of cognition, such as those described by Clark, presuppose the manipulation of representations and internal models of the world, in as much detail as is perceptually available. Perhaps surprisingly, Clark acknowledges the existence of a “virtual version of the sensory data” (p. 4), but with no reference to some of the historical debates that shaped cognitive science, related to the storage, manipulation, and retrieval of representations in a cognitive system (Shanahan, 1997), or accounting for the emergence of intentionality within such a system (Searle, 1980; Preston and Bishop, 2002). Instead of demonstrating how this Bayesian framework responds to these foundational questions, Clark describes the structure and the functional properties of an action-oriented, multi-level system that is meant to combine perception, learning, and experience (Niedenthal, 2007).

Methodological Report on Kaul and Wolf's Working Papers on the Effect of Plain Packaging on Smoking Prevalence in Australia and the Criticism Raised by OxyRomandie

This report contains a methodological assessment of two working papers by Ashok Kaul and Michael Wolf on the effect of plain packaging on smoking prevalence in Australia and the criticism raised against these working papers by OxyRomandie. First, the potential of the data used by Kaul and Wolf for identifying causal effects is discussed. Second, a reanalysis of the data is provided. Third, the criticism raised by OxyRomandie is commented.

Escribiendo urbanismos sociales: a propósito del trabajo de Andy Merrifield

El desconcierto invadirá al lector impróvido que se aproxime al trabajo de Andy Merrifi eld sin noticia de su periplo existencial y, especialmente, de su deriva vital en la última década: varios libros de teoría urbanística crítica, dos análisis, entre lo biográfi co y lo fi lológico, de pensadores franceses de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, la crónica de un retiro rural simbolizada en la fi gura de un asno y un «cuento de hadas dialéctico» sobre las miserias y futuros de la izquierda radical. Desde luego hay hilos comunes en estas intervenciones —la ciudad, el marxismo, la refl exión sobre ambos y su rechazo en sus formas actuales—, pero no son fáciles de advertir y, menos aún, de componer o explicar