Cultural Patterns And Neurocognitive Circuits East West Connections
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Cultural Patterns And Neurocognitive Circuits East West Connections
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Author : Jan Wouter Vasbinder
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2016-09-16
Cultural Patterns And Neurocognitive Circuits East West Connections written by Jan Wouter Vasbinder and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-16 with Social Science categories.
Our age is characterized by global access to information, places and cultures: we can gain more and more knowledge about 'the others': other people and their cultures by 'indirect knowledge' — learning about them via the global information net assisted by electronic and other high-tech communication channels, as well as by 'direct knowledge': personally visiting various parts of the world and meeting local people in their own natural and social environments.East and West, two major worlds of aspirations, cultures, world-views, theoretical and practical approaches to life and death, have come closer by personal experiences of both Westerners and Easterners. But do we really understand the similarities and differences between the cultural-cognitive-behavioural-emotional patterns of the East and the West, with special regard to their neurobiological underpinnings in the human brain?The contents of this book focus on cultural patterns and cognitive patterns in the East and West, with special regard to those patterns which are determined by our natural-genetic endownments in contrast to those patterns which are influenced by our cultural ('East-West') influences, and within this context a unique flavour is given to the 'good life' aspects of adapting to this global community.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.
Cultural Patterns And Neurocognitive Circuits Ii East West Connections
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Author : Balazs Gulyas
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2017-12-26
Cultural Patterns And Neurocognitive Circuits Ii East West Connections written by Balazs Gulyas and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-26 with Science categories.
The contents of this book continues the theme as in the previous volume on cultural patterns and cognitive patterns in the East and West, with special regard to those patterns which are determined by our natural-genetic endownments in contrast to those patterns which are influenced by our cultural ('East-West') influences, and within this context a unique flavour is given to the 'good life' aspects of adapting to this global community.The chapters written by leading neuroscientists, give an overarching picture from the elementary organisational principles of the human brain through the basic perceptual and motor functions of the brain to the highest levels of cognition, including aesthetical or moral judgments, with an eye on what can be called 'good life' in both Eastern and Western cultures. A unique compilation of state-of-the-art overviews of how the human brain is organised and functions in order to achieve high level of social, moral or aesthetic thoughts across cultures.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.
Crude Look At The Whole A A Decade Later Insights Into Real World Complexity That Still Resonate
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Author : Jan Wouter Vasbinder
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2024-11-15
Crude Look At The Whole A A Decade Later Insights Into Real World Complexity That Still Resonate written by Jan Wouter Vasbinder and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-15 with Science categories.
In March 2013, Para Limes organized the conference A Crude look at the Whole. It turned out to be an extraordinary meeting, even more so eleven years later. During the conference the speakers, all giants on their own turf, captured the excitement about what the new field of complexity science could mean for understanding our world and molded it in approaches to extract meaning from these budding insights. Now, eleven years later, the (video's of the) talks create a thrill, that may be similar to what Newton felt when he realized that standing on the shoulders of giants allowed him to see what he saw.In this book we have tried to capture that whole, while at the same time keeping the individual parts in view. We have done so by transcribing and editing the individual presentations, adding a summary to all of them and indicating the relevance of each of the presentations to ongoing and further explorations.
Surveillance Architecture And Control
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Author : Susan Flynn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-21
Surveillance Architecture And Control written by Susan Flynn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-21 with Social Science categories.
This edited collection examines the culture of surveillance as it is expressed in the built environment. Expanding on discussions from previous collections; Spaces of Surveillance: States and Selves (2017) and Surveillance, Race, Culture (2018), this book seeks to explore instances of surveillance within and around specific architectural entities, both historical and fictitious, buildings with specific social purposes and those existing in fiction, film, photography, performance and art. Providing new readings of, and expanding on Foucault’s work on the panopticon, these essays examine the role of surveillance via disparate fields of enquiry, such as the humanities, social sciences, technological studies, design and environmental disciplines. Surveillance, Architecture and Control seeks to engender new debates about the nature of the surveilled environment through detailed analyses of architectural structures and spaces; examining how cultural, geographical and built space buttress and produce power relations. The various essays address the ongoing fascination with contemporary notions of surveillance and control.
Landscapes Of Realism
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Author : Svend Erik Larsen
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Landscapes Of Realism written by Svend Erik Larsen and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary investigation of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this second volume shows in its four core essays and twenty-four case studies four major pathways through the landscapes of realism: The psychological pathways focusing on emotion and memory, the referential pathways highlighting the role of materiality, the formal pathways demonstrating the dynamics of formal experiments, and the geographical pathways exploring the worlding of realism through the encounters between European and non-European languages from the nineteenth century to the present.This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount:
Between Truth And Trust
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Author : Svend Erik Larsen
language : en
Publisher: Ethics International Press
Release Date : 2024-11-05
Between Truth And Trust written by Svend Erik Larsen and has been published by Ethics International Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Radical wrongdoing can have devastating effects for entire communities, beyond individual trauma. Across cultures, different coping strategies that help victims to get on with their lives range from individual therapy to collective rituals and ceremonies. This new book distances itself from the predominantly individual take on forgiveness, and concentrates on its collective and cultural dimensions in a broad historical, religious and cultural context. By developing forgiveness as a particular speech act based on a precarious mutual acceptance between victims and perpetrators, the book suggests a new approach to forgiveness. Framed by this challenging reciprocity, forgiveness becomes an ongoing experiment in mutual understanding, which, to be successful, requires the imagination of a shared future. Literature, as a creative and imaginary medium of expression, is integrated throughout the book as a vehicle to explore a deeper understanding of the cultural practice of forgiveness. The book draws on literary texts from different cultures and religions across the globe; from antiquity and early Christianity to the present. In looking at forgiveness through this lens, the book offers a broader and more comprehensive approach than most of the existing scholarly literature and debates on forgiveness.
Glossary Of Cognitive Action For A Not So Distant Future
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Author : Warren Neidich
language : en
Publisher: ERIS
Release Date : 2024-02-27
Glossary Of Cognitive Action For A Not So Distant Future written by Warren Neidich and has been published by ERIS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-27 with Philosophy categories.
We are at one of those turning points that divide history into a ‘before’ and an ‘after.’ The ongoing transition from an information economy to an economy based in the workings of the brain and the mind has radical implications for human freedom and creativity, both of which are under threat from a rapacious form of technological capitalism. Such moments require new languages in order for the unnamed, the unsayable, and the misunderstood to become known. This is the task taken on by Warren Neidich’s Glossary of Cognitive Activism, now appearing in an expanded and fully revised fourth edition. Each of its entries—which range in topic from the central nervous system and brain-computer interfaces to ChatGPT and conceptual art—explicates a key term in contemporary culture. The cumulative effect is astonishing: while every entry can profitably be read in isolation, the Glossary as a whole amounts to a brilliant account of the material brain’s entanglement with its surrounding environment. For Neidich the human brain is far more than grey matter encased in a skull: it is profoundly integrated with the social, political, and cultural phenomena that constitute the world in which we live. For this reason, human cognition is profoundly vulnerable to the new despotism that is seeking in various ways to reshape it, but it also has the capacity to serve as the site of potent acts of resistance. Forging connections between such apparently disparate domains as neuroscience, ecology, political economy, and aesthetics, Neidich’s Glossary restores human cognition to its rightful status: not as the passive object of technological interventions or reductive theorizing, but as the starting point for any viable form of egalitarian and liberatory politics.
Selected Papers Of John H Holland
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Author : Jan Wouter Vasbinder
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Release Date : 2017-11-24
Selected Papers Of John H Holland written by Jan Wouter Vasbinder and has been published by World Scientific Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-24 with Science categories.
With his work on computer logic, John H Holland became one of the most important founders of modern computer science. People who knew John H Holland were all amazed and deeply influenced by his incredibly imaginative and creative mind. He produced many more ideas than he could follow up in his life time. This selection of his papers in the field of computer logic entails many of his explored and unexplored ideas. Revisiting the explored ideas and exploring the unexplored ones should be of great interest to scientists of all ages, and of great value to the current research not only in computer science but in many other fields as well.
43 Visions For Complexity
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Author : Stefan Thurner
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2016-11-11
43 Visions For Complexity written by Stefan Thurner and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-11 with Science categories.
Coping with the complexities of the social world in the 21st century requires deeper quantitative and predictive understanding. Forty-three internationally acclaimed scientists and thinkers share their vision for complexity science in the next decade in this invaluable book. Topics cover how complexity and big data science could help society to tackle the great challenges ahead, and how the newly established Complexity Science Hub Vienna might be a facilitator on this path.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.
Neuroaesthetics Exploring Beauty Within And Around Us
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Author : Yan Bao
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2024-12-13
Neuroaesthetics Exploring Beauty Within And Around Us written by Yan Bao and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-13 with Science categories.
Neuroaesthetics has become an important new field in the sciences bringing together researchers from cognitive science (as a general term including brain science, psychology, anthropology, ethology, artificial intelligence), the humanities (including linguistics, philosophy), and the arts (artists from the visual arts, music and poetry). Thus, neuroaesthetics is a prime example of successful interdisciplinarity. In the book Neuroaesthetics: Exploring Beauty Within and Around Us we distinguish and represent in several articles two different kinds of interdisciplinarity: 'Horizontal interdisciplinarity' brings together in a complementary way different fields like (as an example) psychology, linguistics and poetry. 'Vertical interdisciplinarity' refers to research on data generating mechanisms like (as an example) neural activities in the brain being associated with subjective experiences of 'beauty'. In the book articles refer to the visual arts ('art in space'), to 'faces in art', to poetry and music ('art in time'), and to general ideas (bridging art and science). This is a unique collection of articles with a broad scope.