Toward a Synthetic Physiological Psychology

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Teitelbaum ◽  
Sergio M. Pellis
Keyword(s):  
Physiological Psychology ◽  
Human Tissue ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Simple Procedure ◽  
Analytic Approach ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Deductive Method

The word “synthetic” in the title of this paper has three meanings, each of which highlights a fundamental problem with physiological psychology, and. at the same time, offers a solution. (1) Synthetic means artificial—made by man, not by nature. To separate physiological psychology from medicine, and to build a science of pure function in humans (which is what psychology is), apart from a science of the mechanics of living human tissue (which is what medicine is), synthetic physiological psychology adopts a physically achieved analytic approach to the design, not of people, but of robots that behave like people. This avoids the misuse of reductionism. (2) Analysis by itself is not adequate; every analysis must be validated immediately by synthesis. Some forms of physically achieved analysis and resynthesis, particularly appropriate for synthetic physiological psychology, are contrasted with the hypothetico-deductive method, as a complementary scientific method of arriving at simple facts about complex living systems. (3) Synthetic also means integrative—at present, the various subfields of psychology are not united by principles based on the action of common units of function, derived by a physically achieved analysis. A simple procedure is described that can provide them.

Putting Data Before Theory

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-64
Author(s):  
Gary Smith ◽  
Jay Cordes
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Good Data

The traditional statistical analysis of data follows what has come to be known as the scientific method: collecting reliable data to test plausible theories. Data mining goes in the other direction, analyzing data without being motivated or encumbered by theories. The fundamental problem with data mining is simple: We think that data patterns are unusual and therefore meaningful. Patterns are, in fact, inevitable and therefore meaningless. This is why data mining is not usually knowledge discovery, but noise discovery. Finding correlations is easy. Good data scientists are not seduced by discovered patterns because they don’t put data before theory. They do not commit Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies or fall into the Feynman Trap.

Confirmation and Explanation in Archaeology

1975 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merrilee H. Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Narrow View ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Force Systems ◽  
Systems Models ◽  
Scientific Nature ◽  
Scientific Archaeology

In recent discussions by archaeologists who are committed to the scientific nature of archaeology, philosophic commitment to an excessively narrow view of “the scientific method” is common. These narrow conceptions can be broadened, clarified, and made more adequate without diminishing a commitment to scientific archaeology.The hypothetico-deductive method of confirmation is an oversimplified account of scientific reasoning. There are severe limitations for its application, particularly in archaeology. The deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation likewise has serious drawbacks for explaining the sorts of phenomena which interest archaeologists. Understanding of the problems with this model is hampered by trying to force systems models of explanation into the deductive-nomological mold. Worse still, the separate issues of confirmation and explanation are not kept distinct.

scholarly journals قاعدة الضـرورات تبـيح الـمحـظـورات وتـطـبيقها في جـواز كـشف وجه الـمتـنـقـبة

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-134
Author(s):  
Mukran Usman ◽  
Askar Patahuddin ◽  
Andi Muhammad Ihsan Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Basic Principle ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Company Directors ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Descriptive Method

Research presented in front of dear readers talks about the law of using and disclosing the niqab in necessity in implementing the rules of al-dharuratu tubiihul mahzhuraat. Among the objectives are identifying the laws of wearing the niqab, the dhabith of necessity, and the application of the principle of al-dharuratu tubiihul mahzhuraat. Researchers limit the application of the principle to four situations, namely: First, in the making of ID cards, passports, or other things that required photographs. Second, in the medical field and when a disaster strikes. Third, the husband and his family forced the wife to remove the veil. Fourth, what has recently emerged is the coercion of several universities or company directors on students or employees to remove their niqab. The scientific method that the researcher followed in this study to achieve the results of these problems were as follows: descriptive method, inductive method, and deductive method. The results showed: First, the preponderant one concerning wearing the niqab is that it is obligatory based on the strength of this argument, and it is closer to chastity in the time of fitnah spreading and the amount of immorality that is happening today. Second, the basic principle of a woman when she leaves her home or appears to strangers is the obligation to cover her face and the prohibition of opening it, whether she is worried about temptation in herself or against her, or even though she feels safe from temptation, but is allowed to remove it in a necessity because in a necessity, forbidden things are allowed, but it is important to know consideration of a situation so that it is called a necessity by which it can be known to what extent the implementation of the rule regarding the permissibility of showing one's face so that it is not used as an excuse for committing forbidden acts.

Russell and McTaggart

Philosophy ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 11 (43) ◽  
pp. 322-335
Author(s):  
Margaret Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Deductive Systems ◽  
Special Sciences ◽  
The World ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Good And Evil

In his Introduction to McTaggart's Philosophical Studies, Dr. S. V. Keeling complains that in the interests of a prejudice in favour of science and scientific methods, Russell and his followers have denied the possibility of solving metaphysical problems without giving any philosophical reason for this proscription. And by “metaphysical problems,” Dr. Keeling seems to mean (as against Russell and in agreement with McTaggart) ethical problems about the amount of good and evil in the world, the nature of human beings and their destiny, the hopes of men about immortality, and hence the “ultimate analysis of Time,” etc. Science is not concerned with such problems, and moreover it is the business of philosophy to “justify” induction and cannot itself employ a scientific method. Dr. Keeling therefore urges a return to the rationalism of McTaggart and the attempt to solve such problems by the deductive method. I want to say why this seems to me impossible and why such problems are insoluble unless they can be interpreted empirically and left to the investigation of the special sciences. I shall refer first to the most important feature of present empirical philosophy, then discuss metaphysical and other deductive systems, and finally dispute McTaggart's claim that the Self must be known by acquaintance and not by description, which Dr. Keeling regards, mistakenly, as it seems to me, the final refutation of this part of “positivistic phenomenalism.“ By this procedure I do not intend to justify or defend analytic philosophy but merely to re-compare its method with that of McTaggart.

Redox Reactions in Lipid Membranes as a Model for Primordial Energy-Conserving Systems

1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 437-442
Author(s):  
Salvatore Di Bernardo ◽  
Romana Fato ◽  
Giorgio Lenaz
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Lipid Membranes ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Redox Reactions ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Asymmetric Distribution ◽  
Conservation Of Energy ◽  
Asymmetrical Distribution ◽  
Energy Conserving ◽  
Living Organisms

AbstractOne of the peculiar aspects of living systems is the production and conservation of energy. This aspect is provided by specialized organelles, such as the mitochondria and chloroplasts, in developed living organisms. In primordial systems lacking specialized enzymatic complexes the energy supply was probably bound to the generation and maintenance of an asymmetric distribution of charged molecules in compartmentalized systems. On the basis of experimental evidence, we suggest that lipophilic quinones were involved in the generation of this asymmetrical distribution of charges through vectorial redox reactions across lipid membranes.

Prolonged Fixation Studies For Spaceflight

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 332-333
Author(s):  
Robert Corbett ◽  
Delbert E. Philpott ◽  
Sam Black
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Living Systems ◽  
Prolonged Storage ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Early Signs ◽  
Large Numbers

Observation of subtle or early signs of change in spaceflight induced alterations on living systems require precise methods of sampling. In-flight analysis would be preferable but constraints of time, equipment, personnel and cost dictate the necessity for prolonged storage before retrieval. Because of this, various tissues have been stored in fixatives and combinations of fixatives and observed at various time intervals. High pressure and the effect of buffer alone have also been tried.Of the various tissues embedded, muscle, cartilage and liver, liver has been the most extensively studied because it contains large numbers of organelles common to all tissues (Fig. 1).

Synaptic organization of the gustatory NST

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 150-151
Author(s):  
M. C. Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Dendritic Spines ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Excitatory Synapses ◽  
Solitary Tract ◽  
Synaptic Organization ◽  
Synaptic Junctions ◽  
Afferent Terminals

A fundamental problem in taste research is to determine how gustatory signals are processed and disseminated in the mammalian central nervous system. An important first step toward understanding information processing is the identification of cell types in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NST) and their synaptic relationships with oral primary afferent terminals. Facial and glossopharyngeal (LIX) terminals in the hamster were labelled with HRP, examined with EM, and characterized as containing moderate concentrations of medium-sized round vesicles, and engaging in asymmetrical synaptic junctions. Ultrastructurally the endings resemble excitatory synapses in other brain regions.Labelled facial afferent endings in the RC subdivision synapse almost exclusively with distal dendrites and dendritic spines of NST cells. Most synaptic relationships between the facial synapses and the dendrites are simple. However, 40% of facial endings engage in complex synaptic relationships within glomeruli containing unlabelled axon endings particularly ones termed "SP" endings. SP endings are densely packed with small, pleomorphic vesicles and synapse with both the facial endings and their postsynaptic dendrites by means of nearly symmetrical junctions.

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