Interaction Matters - From Materials to Mind
Interaction Matters - From Materials to Mind

Author: Goutam Ghosh

Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 9390543878

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The universe got created through a massive explosion called Big Bang, of a tiny body dispersing enormous energy. Then it started inflating and cooling rapidly. Some energy got converted into elementary particles, the ‘embryos’ of all matters from microscopic objects to gigantic galaxies. Earth was born much later as a barren rocky protoplanet. Afterward evolved gloriously as a blue-green sphere with several layers of rock structures, and water on the surface. Molecules of life got synthesized under the water through an abiogenesis process. Then unicellular organisms evolved and advanced to multicellular organisms. Finally, human beings came. The human body has superb physiology of several organ systems whose functions vis-á-vis dysfunctions and medicinal interference get supervised by the brain. The brain also helps thinking, communicating with the environment through a nonmaterialistic mind that builds our creativity and human relationships using neural signals. Does interaction matter from materials to mind? Let’s find the answer.

Mind-Matter Interaction
Mind-Matter Interaction

Author: Pamela Rae Heath, M.D.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 078645668X

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The power of the mind to influence the physical world has long been debated, debunked, studied for military applications, and used in science fiction. This historical and theoretical study of mind-matter interaction, or MMI, explores the phenomena of levitation, stigmata, inedia, paranormal activity, bilocation, fire immunity, luminosity, and the teleportation of matter. The results of more than a century of formal experimental research are discussed, as are resultant training techniques, theories, and controlled experiments used to test or bolster psychokinetic abilities.

The Artistic Mind
The Artistic Mind

Author: Goutam Ghosh

Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com

Published:

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9356670102

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The human mind is a mysterious article of an individual; how it develops and works that trail a longstanding debate. Some people do not even accept the existence of the mind. But it does exist, without which a human being loses identity. This book apprises the origin and development of the mind and its different states, such as Creative and Wise minds. How do nature and nurture help develop a human mind? Can science artificially improve a natural human brain or develop a super-intelligent artificial brain? Does the universe, or our nature, have a mind? The mind mingles consciousness. Is our universe conscious? It’s a great question, which fuels the name of this book, The Artistic Mind.

Proportioned Geometrics
Proportioned Geometrics

Author: Frank Arca

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006-03

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 059539017X

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The contents of this book propose a solution to the current problem in physics, specifically concerning the areas of Grand Unification of space-time, matter, and force. Grand unification describes the nature of combining the known forces in nature, the Electro-magnetic, strong, weak, and Gravitational forces, into a singular equilibrium. That is, the need for a framework to predict the behavior of systems at very small scales, such as atoms and particles, and those of the very large scales, such as galaxies, stars, planets, etc., and thus far within the articles of physics, there is still no reasonable explanation of the origins of space-time and matter. The current difficulty in physics is the incompatibility of the two theories, which define space-time at different levels; quantum mechanics predicts the behavior of systems of the atomic world, and general relativity, which predicts the behavior of systems on the cosmic scale. There exists an element in reality which makes it a paradox, that is, it is not seemingly consistent if small matter is imputed into the equations of large matter, and vice versa. If for example, the information of the moon is inserted into an equation defining its physical properties, and if the same is done for an electron, then the outcomes of both ought yield an equivalent solution.

Consciousness Unbound
Consciousness Unbound

Author: Edward F. Kelly

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 531

ISBN-13: 153813943X

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Building on the groundbreaking research of Irreducible Mind and Beyond Physicalism, Edward Kelly and Paul Marshall gather a cohort of leading scholars to address the most recent advances in the psychology of consciousness. Currently emerging as a middle ground between warring fundamentalisms of religion andscience, an expanded science-based understanding of nature finally accommodates empirical realities of spiritual sorts while also rejecting rationally untenable overbeliefs. The vision sketched here provides an antidote to the prevailing postmodern disenchantment of the world and demeaning of human possibilities. It not only more accurately and fully reflects our human condition but engenders hope and encourages ego-surpassing forms of human flourishing. It offers reasons for us to believe that freedom is real, that our human choices matter, and that we have barely scratched the surface of our human potentials. It also addresses the urgent need for a greater sense of worldwide community and interdependence - a sustainable ethos - by demonstrating that under the surface we and the world are much more extensively interconnected than previously recognized.

The Downfall of Cartesianism 1673–1712
The Downfall of Cartesianism 1673–1712

Author: R. A. Watson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9401575576

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Phenomenalism, idealism, spiritualism, and other contemporary philo sophical movements originating in the reflective experience of the cogito witness to the immense influence of Descartes. However, Carte sianism as a complete metaphysical system in the image of that of the master collapsed early in the 18th century. A small school of brilliant Cartesians, almost all expert in the new mechanistic science, flashed like meteors upon the intellectual world of late 17th century France to win well-deserved recognition for Cartesianism. They were accompanied by a scintillating comet, Ma1ebranche, the deviant Cartesian, now remembered as the orthodox Cartesians are not. However, all these bright lights faded upon the philosophical horizon, almost as soon as they appeared. The metaphysical dualism of Des cartes was, as such, neither to be preserved nor reconstructed. There are many reasons why the Cartesian system did not survive the victory over Scholasticism which Descartes, Malebranche, and the others had won. Newtonian physics very soon replaced Cartesian physics. The practical interest and success of the new science which the Cartesians themselves had nurtured drew men down from the lofty realms of metaphysics. On the popular front, Cartesianism was attacked and ridiculed for the view that animals are unthinking machines. In the schools of Paris and elsewhere, there was the general but severe opposition of pedants, which is perhaps of more historical than philosophical interest.

Intuition in Kant
Intuition in Kant

Author: Daniel Smyth

Publisher:

Published: 2024-03-06

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1009330276

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In this book Daniel Smyth offers a comprehensive overview of Immanuel Kant's conception of intuition in all its species - divine, receptive, sensible, and human. Kant considers sense perception a paradigm of intuition, yet claims that we can represent infinities in intuition, despite the finitude of sense perception. Smyth examines this heterodox combination of commitments and argues that the various features Kant ascribes to intuition are meant to remedy specific cognitive shortcomings that arise from the discursivity of our intellect Intuition acting as the intellect's cognitive partner to make knowledge possible. He reconstructs Kant's conception of intuition and its role in his philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of mathematics, and shows that Kant's conception of sensibility is as innovative and revolutionary as his much-debated theory of the understanding.

Computational Drama Analysis
Computational Drama Analysis

Author: Melanie Andresen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-07

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 3111071820

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Dramatic texts come with a natural structure of acts, scenes and speech clearly assigned to characters that lends itself to computational analysis: These explicit structures allow for straightforward formalizations without extensive preparatory work. Work on drama has therefore always been at the forefront of research in computational literary studies, with its pioneers analyzing drama quantitatively long before the digital age. Today, increasingly large digital text corpora are available and computational literary studies aims at a higher-scaled view on literary history, promising to analyze thousands of literary texts simultaneously. After decades of exploring the possibilities offered by computational methods, the field is now undergoing a phase of consolidation that takes stock of achievements and opportunities and critically reflects the computational methods and interpretations derived from data. Building on insights from the fields' tradition and current research approaches, this volume provides an overview of the status quo of computational drama analysis and explores possible routes for the future.