International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems
2017
K. R. Shylaja, M.V. Vijayakumar, E. Vani Prasad et al.
3 citations
The research work presented in this article investigates and explains the conceptual mechanisms of consciousness and common-sense thinking of animates. These mechanisms are computationally simulated on artificial agents as strategic rules to analyze and compare the performance of agents in critical and dynamic environments. Awareness and attention to specific parameters that affect the...
Voice of Intellectual Man- An International Journal
2017
Eulalia M. Tome
The transnational movement of people around the globe has challenged migrants’ belief systems and their quest for well-being. The movement of people in itself is a form of ritual performance, a journey towards a dream and the aspiration to acquire a new sense of self and identity. The goal of this research is to illumine how Filipino migrants living in South Korea reconstruct their ethnicity...
Liverpool John Moores University
2017
Steve Taylor
4 citations
Appendix 4: Transcripts of Interviews with Participants Interview Transcript -Pl Q: Was there a particular point at which you underwent transformation?Yes, it happened after a terrible breakup with my last girlfriend, and I was for the first time in my life thinking of giving up fighting for getting better from my deep depression.It was a sudden, and in fact brutal transformation induced in a...
Philosophy East and West
2017
David Nowakowski
Reviewed by: Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception by Eviatar Shulman David Nowakowski (bio) Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception. By Eviatar Shulman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 206. isbn 978-1-107-06239-9. Eviatar Shulman’s Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative...
Spiritus
2017
Shannon M. McAlister
Reviewed by: The Thirst of God: Contemplating God's Love with Three Women Mystics by Wendy Farley Shannon M. McAlister (bio) The Thirst of God: Contemplating God's Love with Three Women Mystics. By Wendy Farley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2015. 182 pp. $25.00 In The Thirst of God, Wendy Farley introduces "frustrated Christians" to the works of Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite...
2017
Benno Alexander Blaschke
2 citations
In this study I aim to give an alternative approach to the way we theorise in the philosophy and comparative study of mysticism. Specifically, I aim to shift debate on the phenomenal nature of contemplative states of consciousness away from textual sources and towards reliable and descriptively rich first-person data originating in contemporary practices of lived traditions. The heart of this...
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
2017
Shawn. M. Aarde, Michael A. Taffe
Animal models of drug self-administration are currently the gold standard for making predictions regarding the relative likelihood that a recreational drug substance will lead to continued use and addiction. Such models have been found to have high predictive accuracy and discriminative validity for a number of drug classes including ethanol, nicotine, opioids, and psychostimulants such as...
Progress in Brain Research
2017
Max Stadler
This essay is concerned with the fate of the so-called "computer metaphor" of the mind in the age of mass computing. As such, it is concerned with the ways the mighty metaphor of the rational, rule-based, and serial "information processor," which dominated neurological and psychological theorizing in the early post-WW2 era, came apart during the 1970s and 1980s; and how it was, step by step,...
The Journal of Hellenic Studies
2017
Jonas Grethlein, Luuk Huitink
173 citations
Abstract The vividness of Homeric poetry has been admired since antiquity, but has been difficult to pin down with precision. It is usually thought to come about because readers are prompted to visualize the storyworld in the form of mental images seen with the mind's eye. But this cannot be right, both because there are serious scientific problems with the concept of ‘pictures in the head’ and...
UC Research Repository
2017
James Schofield
Errol E. Harris devoted his life to grappling with the big questions concerning the relationship between nature and mind. Harris’s career was distinguished, his works were widely published, and yet his metaphysics has until now been excluded from mainstream discourse. The purpose of this work is to outline Harris’s philosophies of nature, mind, and science so as to provide his overarching...