The tides of human consciousness: descriptions and questions

1982 ◽  
Vol 242 (3) ◽  
pp. R163-R166
Author(s):  
A. T. Winfree
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mathematical Biology ◽  
Experimental Test ◽  
Mathematical Description ◽  
Circadian System ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Sleep Timing ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
Temperature Rhythm

A Rosetta Stone has appeared in our midst in the form of R. A. Wever's monograph The Circadian System of Man (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1979), describing the results of 20 years' experiments with J. Aschoff. In the January 1982 issue of this journal, Kronauer, Czeisler, Pilato, Moore-Ede, and Weitzman offer their decipherment: a mathematical description of man's circadian temperature rhythm and sleep timing based on their own experimental observations in the Bronx, confirming and substantially extending Wever's in Bavaria. This paper might have been as happily received by the Journal of Mathematical Biology or Biological Cybernetics. Accordingly I here attempt to disentangle numerical description from physiological hypothesis, emphasizing items that seem, at least in principle, susceptible to experimental test.

2. Egypt on display

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Riggs
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
The Temple

Museums have played an important role in shaping how we think about ancient Egyptian culture. When the Napoleonic wars ended and European governments established links with Muhammad Ali, the viceroy of Egypt, the collection of objects for worldwide museums took off. ‘Egypt on display’ looks at the key objects held in collections today: shabtis (‘servant statuettes’); the Rosetta Stone; statues of the goddess Sekhmet; mummies; and the temple of Dendur, now in New York. Artwork on statues and coffins, and the architecture and decoration of a temple expressed their symbolic importance. But did these objects have the same role in antiquity as we portray in museums today?

scholarly journals A Review of “A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness,” by Merlin Donald.

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anoop Gupta
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Consciousness

A review of A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness, by Merlin Donald, 2001. New York: Norton, xiv + 371 pp. ISBN 0‐393‐04950‐7. $18.95 USD

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