Connectedness: Linguistic and Genetic Roots of Human Identity

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin E. Morf
Keyword(s):  
Human Identity

Bioethics In Neurospinal Patient Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Andi Asadul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Time Frame ◽  
Hippocratic Oath ◽  
Moral Vision ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Harvey Cushing ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
Realistic Approach ◽  
Cord Injury

Neurosurgery is among the newest of surgical disciplines, appearing in its modern incarnation at the dawn of twentieth century with the work of Harvey Cushing and contemporaries. Neurosurgical ethics involves challenges of manipulating anatomical locus of human identity and concerns of surgeons and patients who find themselves bound together in that venture.In recent years, neurosurgery ethics has taken on greater relevance as changes in society and technology have brought novel questions into sharp focus. Change of expanded armamentarium of techniques for interfacing with the human brain and spine— demand that we use philosophical reasoning to assess merits of technical innovations.Bioethics can be defined as systematic study of moral challenges in medicine, including moral vision, decisions, conduct, and policies related to medicine. Every surgeon should still take the Hippocratic Oath seriously and consider it a basic guide to follow good medical ethics in medical practice. It is simple and embodies three of the four modern bioethics principles – Respecting autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition often affecting young and healthy individuals around the world. Currently, scientists are pressured on many fronts to develop an all-encompassing “cure” for paralysis. While scientific understanding of central nervous system (CNS) regeneration has advanced greatly in the past years, there are still many unknowns with regard to inducing successful regeneration. A more realistic approach is required if we are interested in improving the quality of life of a large proportion of the paralyzed population in a more expedient time frame.

Hand Shape Coding: A Robust Approach for Human Identity Verification

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Shefali Sharma ◽  
◽  
Ashutosh Kumar Singh ◽  
Rajiv Saxena ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Identity ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Robust Approach ◽  
Hand Shape ◽  
Shape Coding

iZombie Cyborg Dancers

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Hall ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Movement Patterns ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Psychological Profile ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Ways Of Being

Compulsive smartphone users’ psyches, today, are increasingly directed away from their bodies and onto their devices. This phenomenon has now entered our global vocabulary as “smartphone zombies,” or what I will call “iZombies.” Given the importance of mind to virtually all conceptions of human identity, these compulsive users could thus be productively understood as a kind of human-machine hybrid entity, the cyborg. Assuming for the sake of argument that this hybridization is at worst axiologically neutral, I will construct a kind of phenomenological psychological profile of the type of cyborg which engages in these patterns of behavior. I follow Judith Butler in seeing this identity as the result of performance practices, which as such can be modified or replaced using other performances. Pursing one such alternative, I compose a dancing critique that “reverse engineers” the choreographies implied by these cyborgs’ survival practices. The upshot of this critique is that their movement patterns do indeed align closely to those of horror cinema’s zombies. I therefore conclude by suggesting a few possible choreographic imperatives to facilitate more enabling ways of being for iZombie cyborgs today.

Humanity as Homo Culturus

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-102
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Homo Oeconomicus ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
Collective Behaviors

This paper claims that human beings are first of all Homo Culturus and only then Homo Politicus, Homo Sociologus, or Homo Oeconomicus. Human beings are distinguished from all other species by what I call human symbols (HS), namely, language, thought, religion, knowledge/science, myths, laws, and cultural values and norms. As such, they are central to the human identity of individuals, groups, and societies and therefore basic keys for understanding and explaining individual as well as collective behaviors in human societies. The theoretical framework/paradigm of Homo Culturus also helps to explain the phenomenon of the human mind in its various forms: the illiterate mind, the educated mind, and the highly intellectual minds of scientists and scholars such as Ibn Khaldun.

Ascertaining Human Identity in Night Environments

2011 ◽  
pp. 451-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Bourlai ◽  
N. Kalka ◽  
D. Cao ◽  
B. Decann ◽  
Z. Jafri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Identity

Bezier Cohort Fusion in Doubling States for Human Identity Recognition with Multifaceted Constrained Faces

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 3271-3287
Author(s):  
Jogendra Garain ◽  
Soumya Ranjan Mishra ◽  
Ravi Kant Kumar ◽  
Dakshina Ranjan Kisku ◽  
Goutam Sanyal
Keyword(s):  
Human Identity ◽  
Identity Recognition
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