A conceptual framework embedding conscious experience in physical processes

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 5249-5255

Author(s):

Muhammad Junaid Mughal ◽

Nasser Karimian

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Conscious Experience ◽

Modern Approach ◽

Cognitive Capacities ◽

Metaphysical Foundation ◽

Logical Conclusion ◽

Naturalistic Approach ◽

Moral Arguments ◽

Epistemological Framework

The paper seeks to explore the hidden assumptions that are imbedded in a modern, atheistic, naturalistic philosophical outlook, and the conclusions of which are often overlooked. Particularly, the authors highlight that a philosophically naturalistic outlook leads to untenable conclusions regarding human morality, volition, and subjective conscious experience. The analysis finds that a modern approach, if taken to its logical conclusion, would leave humanity bereft of meaning. The authors argue that the naturalistic approach requires leaps of faith regarding human cognitive capacities, as it assumes sound reasoning without justification to such a premise. The authors conclude that religious grounding, specifically an Islamic conceptual framework, is necessary to account for consciousness, logic, and morality, while the abandonment of this tradition along with the metaphysical foundation it provides leaves the modern man struggling to justify rationality, moral arguments, and even basic articulation with which he rejects faith in God. Thus, the authors conclude that modernity, while commended for its advancements in the sciences, must not lose the metaphysical underpinnings upon which it is founded.

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Influence of Stokes Drift Decay Scale on Langmuir Turbulence

Journal of Physical Oceanography ◽

10.1175/jpo-d-16-0244.1 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 47 (7) ◽

pp. 1637-1656 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Tobias Kukulka ◽

Ramsey R. Harcourt

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Climate Models ◽

Side Surface ◽

Surface Flux ◽

Stokes Drift ◽

Decay Length ◽

Length Scale ◽

Surface Boundary ◽

Langmuir Turbulence ◽

Physical Processes

AbstractAccurately scaling Langmuir turbulence (LT) in the ocean surface boundary layer (OSBL) is critical for improving ocean, weather, and climate models. The physical processes by which the structure of LT depends on surface waves’ Stokes drift decay length scale are examined. An idealized model for OSBL turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) provides a conceptual framework with three physical processes: TKE transport, dissipation, and production by the Craik–Leibovich (CL) vortex force (VF) associated with the Stokes drift shear. TKE profiles depend on OSBL depth h, surface roughness length z0, and wavenumber k through the nondimensional parameters kh and kz0. These parameters determine the rate and length scale for the dissipation of TKE produced by the CL-VF. For kz0 ≫ 1, TKE input by the CL-VF is governed by a surface flux with TKE rapidly decaying with depth. Only for kz0 < 1 can TKE penetrate deeper into the OSBL, with the TKE penetration depth controlled by kh. Turbulence-resolving large-eddy simulation results support this conceptual framework and indicate that the dominant Langmuir cell size scales with (kh)−1. Within the depth of dominant Langmuir cells, TKE dissipation is approximately balanced by CL-VF production. Shorter waves contribute less to deeper vertical velocity variance 〈w2〉 because the CL-VF is less effective in generating larger-scale LT. Depth-averaged 〈w2〉 scales with a modified Langmuir number Laϕ = (u*/usϕ)1/2, where u* denotes the water-side surface friction velocity and usϕ is a depth-integrated weighted Stokes drift shear or, equivalently, a spectrally filtered surface Stokes drift.

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An Exploratory Analysis of Collective Patterns of Conscious Experience Using a Self-Report Questionnaire

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.634677 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Ovidiu Brazdau ◽

Sona Ahuja ◽

Cristian-Dan Opariuc ◽

Valita Jones ◽

Sadhna Sharma ◽

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Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Normal Distribution ◽

Conscious Experience ◽

Growth Dynamics ◽

Self Report ◽

Self Awareness ◽

Psychological Models ◽

Psychological Maturity

This study is an exploration of collective patterns of conscious experience, as described by various psychological models, using a self-report questionnaire: The Consciousness Quotient Inventory (CQ-i). The CQ-i evaluates patterns of behaviors, attitudes, and attentional styles as well as the usage of conscious skills, awareness, and the capacity to “feel awake and alive,” providing a complex exploration of conscious experience. A set of 237 items covering major aspects of the subjective conscious experience was selected to detect the phenomenal patterns of subjective conscious experience. An exploratory factor analysis on a large sample (N = 2,360), combined with our previous meta-research on conceptual convergence of conscious experiences, revealed that these experiences appear to have 15 patterns common to all of us. A sample with a quasi-normal distribution (n = 2,266) was employed for standardization and classification of scores (M = 100; SD = 15). The study provides a conceptual framework for future in-depth studies on collective patterns of self-awareness, inner growth dynamics, and psychological maturity.

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Robots React, but Can They Feel?

Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-354-8.ch008 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 133-153 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Bruce J. MacLennan

Keyword(s):

Physical State ◽

Emotional Experience ◽

Conscious Experience ◽

Hard Problem ◽

Human Consciousness ◽

Physical Processes ◽

The Hard Problem ◽

Do So

This chapter addresses the “Hard Problem” of consciousness in the context of robot emotions. The Hard Problem, as defined by Chalmers, refers to the task of explaining the relation between conscious experience and the physical processes associated with it. For example, a robot can act afraid, but could it feel fear? Using protophenomenal analysis, which reduces conscious experience to its smallest units and investigates their physical correlates, we consider whether robots could feel their emotions, and the conditions under which they might do so. We find that the conclusion depends on unanswered but empirical questions in the neuropsychology of human consciousness. However, we do conclude that conscious emotional experience will require a robot to have a rich representation of its body and the physical state of its internal processes, which is important even in the absence of conscious experience.

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Feedbacks between Biotic and Abiotic Processes Governing the Development of Foredune Blowouts: A Review

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering ◽

10.3390/jmse7010002 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 2 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Christian Schwarz ◽

Joost Brinkkemper ◽

Gerben Ruessink

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Conceptual Model ◽

Numerical Models ◽

Field Measurements ◽

Physical Processes ◽

Ecological Processes ◽

Model Simulations ◽

Development Stages ◽

Geomorphological Processes ◽

Abiotic Interactions

This paper reviews the initiation, development, and closure of foredune blowouts with focus on biotic-abiotic interactions. There is a rich body of literature describing field measurements and model simulations in and around foredune blowouts. Despite this abundance of data there is no conceptual framework available linking biotic and abiotic observations to pathways of blowout development (e.g., erosional blowout growth or vegetation induced blowout closure). This review identifies morphological and ecological processes facilitating the transition between blowout development stages and sets them in the context of existing conceptual frameworks describing biotic-abiotic systems. By doing so we are able to develop a new conceptual model linking blowout development to the dominance of its governing processes. More specifically we link blowout initiation to the dominance of abiotic (physical) processes, blowout development to the dominance of biotic-abiotic (bio-geomorphological) processes and blowout closure to the dominance of biotic (ecological) processes. Subsequently we identify further steps to test the proposed conceptual model against existing observations and show possibilities to include it in numerical models able to predict blowout development for various abiotic and biotic conditions.

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The Logic of Filtering

The Logic of Filtering ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190070137.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 122-143

Author(s):

Melle Jan Kromhout

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Crucial Importance ◽

Physical Processes ◽

Recorded Music ◽

Leave No Trace ◽

Sound Media ◽

Point Of Reference

Chapter 5 introduces the logic of filtering as the conceptual framework underpinning the noise resonance of sound media. On the basis of the analysis of the noise of sound media developed in the previous chapters, it shows how this logic does away with the idea that technical media should ideally leave no trace of what occurs between sender and receiver. It thereby denounces the fallacy that the reproduction is an incomplete version of some “original.” Instead of taking the input or output of the transmission as the primary point of reference, the logic of filtering emphasizes the crucial importance of all the physical processes that happen in between. By acknowledging that the noise of sound media inherently shapes the sound of recorded music, it thereby shows how the noise resonance of sound media ultimately precipitated the emergence of a new, media technological musical sensibility: an “other music.”

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Models of Thermodynamic Properties of Prominences

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100065799 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

pp. 349-355

Author(s):

R.W. Milkey

Keyword(s):

Thermodynamic Properties ◽

Mass Transport ◽

Emission Spectrum ◽

Thermodynamic Parameters ◽

Working Group ◽

Physical Processes ◽

Theoretical Concepts ◽

Group 3 ◽

Observational Techniques

The focus of discussion in Working Group 3 was on the Thermodynamic Properties as determined spectroscopically, including the observational techniques and the theoretical modeling of physical processes responsible for the emission spectrum. Recent advances in observational techniques and theoretical concepts make this discussion particularly timely. It is wise to remember that the determination of thermodynamic parameters is not an end in itself and that these are interesting chiefly for what they can tell us about the energetics and mass transport in prominences.

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Sampling and analysis of the air-water interface with SEM and EDS of microlayers

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100157000 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 1004-1005

Author(s):

Randall W. Smith ◽

John Dash

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Surface Microlayer ◽

Surface Films ◽

Water Interface ◽

Physical Processes ◽

Infrared Spectroscopic Analysis ◽

Eds Analysis ◽

Air Water Interface ◽

Significant Area ◽

Bulk Chemical

The structure of the air-water interface forms a boundary layer that involves biological ,chemical geological and physical processes in its formation. Freshwater and sea surface microlayers form at the air-water interface and include a diverse assemblage of organic matter, detritus, microorganisms, plankton and heavy metals. The sampling of microlayers and the examination of components is presently a significant area of study because of the input of anthropogenic materials and their accumulation at the air-water interface. The neustonic organisms present in this environment may be sensitive to the toxic components of these inputs. Hardy reports that over 20 different methods have been developed for sampling of microlayers, primarily for bulk chemical analysis. We report here the examination of microlayer films for the documentation of structure and composition.Baier and Gucinski reported the use of Langmuir-Blogett films obtained on germanium prisms for infrared spectroscopic analysis (IR-ATR) of components. The sampling of microlayers has been done by collecting fi1ms on glass plates and teflon drums, We found that microlayers could be collected on 11 mm glass cover slips by pulling a Langmuir-Blogett film from a surface microlayer. Comparative collections were made on methylcel1ulose filter pads. The films could be air-dried or preserved in Lugol's Iodine Several slicks or surface films were sampled in September, 1987 in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland and in August, 1988 in Sequim Bay, Washington, For glass coverslips the films were air-dried, mounted on SEM pegs, ringed with colloidal silver, and sputter coated with Au-Pd, The Langmuir-Blogett film technique maintained the structure of the microlayer intact for examination, SEM observation and EDS analysis were then used to determine organisms and relative concentrations of heavy metals, using a Link AN 10000 EDS system with an ISI SS40 SEM unit. Typical heavy microlayer films are shown in Figure 3.

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