Spartan Daily December 1, 2009

Volume 133, Issue 45https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1312/thumbnail.jp

Does Reincarnation Matter?

A "metaphysical perspective" article from Volume I, Issue 1 of the Journal of Metaphysical Thought

Unlikely Heroes in Despair: Existentialist Narrators in the Novels of Albert Camus, Jean Paul Sartre, and Don DeLillo

Existentialism is a field of philosophy concerned with questions about existence, death, God, and consciousness. It is a doctrine that concentrates on the existence of the individual, who, being free and responsible, is held to be what he makes himself by the self-development of his essence through acts of the will (OED Online). Writing by existentialist philosophers often belongs more to literature than to philosophy (Bigelow 173). Existentialist characters in literature are autonomous agents who tend to lack religious faith, constantly ask existentialist questions, and struggle with their own existence and relationship to the world around them. Additionally, existentialist characters struggle with the reality of their own mortality. These struggles are apparent in novels with existentialist protagonists. In the novels of Sartre, Camus, and DeLillo, autodiegetic main characters serve as the heroes of their own existentialist crises in order to realistically chronicle the plight of the existentialist

Experience of novelty: another dimension to subjective memory experience?, The

2014 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.Subjective experiences of memory (e.g., feelings of familiarity) have been a topic of much research. Though novelty might be considered a manifestation of memory (insofar as some form of memory for the past is required in order for novelty recognition or detection to occur), subjective experiences of novelty have largely been ignored in the current memory literature. The present study used a rating scale to measure the subjective feeling of novelty. One goal was to investigate potential mechanisms of feelings of novelty. Another was to determine how feelings of novelty relate to feelings of familiarity; for example, many models assume that novelty is simply the inverse of familiarity. Two experiments reported here examined if this presumed relationship between familiarity and novelty is an accurate assumption. In one experiment, subjects viewed words in a study list and then were tested on cues that potentially shared orthographic features with the study words while duration of cue-prime exposure and cue-match-priming effects were observed. In another, subjects were tested after having repeated the test cues aloud either once or 30 times. Both experiments compared a familiarity rating scale with a novelty rating scale. No effects of duration of exposure (either through priming in Experiments 1 and 2 or repetitions in Experiment 3) were observed, helping to rule out several potential mechanisms of feelings of novelty. Differences in how familiarity ratings and novelty ratings responded to the experimental manipulations were found in both experiments, suggesting that the sense of novelty is not simply the inverse of familiarity

The Nighthawk Review, 2011

An annual publication featuring student work from Utah State University Eastern Campus.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/nighthawkreview/1008/thumbnail.jp

Hindsight

“Time travel is theoretically impossible, but I wouldn\u27t want to give it up as a plot gimmick.”—Isaac Asimov “Of all the concepts in Speculative Fiction, Time Travel is probably the one that, over time, has provided us with the most possibilities for storytelling, and therefore the one that has been (clocked as having been) exploited the most.”—TVtropes.org Hindsight is a one-hour long show with an eight-episode arc per season. It is a story of authenticity and gimmicks, privilege and disadvantage, mediocrity and exceptionalism. These are all pretty big concepts, and yeah, we look at them on a macrocosmic scale, but the main focus is on the microcosmic: the real story is about Tallulah Alford, a millennial who’s been working at the same dead-end job for ten years, in the same dead-end city that she grew up in. One day Tallulah discovers that time travel exists. Tallulah’s not the type of person who should be using a time machine

The Cowl - v.32 - n.17 - Apr 22, 1970

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 32, Number 17 - April 22, 1970. 10 pages