scholarly journals Perception and hallucination: from an analytical approach to an enactive approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-108
Author(s):  
Ana Lorena Domínguez Rojas

In this opinion, I examine the benefits of the enactivist approach in the study of perception and hallucination, which have traditionally been studied in the context of analytic philosophy. I consider some arguments that rescue the role of objects and the body in the perceptual experience, which allow certain clarities regarding the case of hallucination.

Author(s):  
Adil Ali Aiyush Al Zeen

ملخص البحث: يعرض هذا البحث موضوع  الخلود في الشعر الجاهلي، ودوره في تكوين شخصية الرجل المثال؛ إذ إن الجاهليين أرَّقَتهم مسألة الفناء، فبحثوا عن الخلود الجسدي وأدركوا أنه لا يمكن تحقيقه، وأمام رفضهم للفناء، اتضح لهم أن الخلود المعنوي هو السبيل الوحيد لبقاء الذكر بعد فناء الجسد، فعمد الرجل المثال في العصر الجاهلي إلى القيام بأفعالٍ حميدةٍ يذكره الشعراء في قصائدهم بها، ويفخر بها هو في أشعاره، كشهرة عنترة بالشجاعة، وحاتم بالكرم، والسموأل بالوفاء. ولإدراكهم أن أفعالهم تلك ستُبْقِي ذكرهم سائر العصور. توصل البحث إلى نماذج من أشعار الجاهليين، ليصل في النهاية إلى أنهم أدركوا أن خلودهم يتحقق معنوياً لا جسدياً. فيظهر لنا - من خلال الشعر – معنى الخلود ومعنى المثال، وإدراكهم لحقيقة الفناء بعد أن لمسوه في أنفسهم وفي مشاهد الطبيعة من حولهم، وطريقتهم في البحث عن الخلود المعنوي، ودور الشعر في تحقيق هذه الغاية. ثم يتبيَّنُ لنا إدراكهم أن الخلود لا يكون إلا من خلال المُثُلِ والقِيَمِ العربية التي كانوا يأتونها ويفخرون بها. الكلمات المفتاحية: الجاهلي - الشعر - الرجل - المثال - الخلود.         Abstract     The paper discusses the topic of immortality in the pre-Islamic period and its role in constructing the character of an ideal man. Since the Arabs before Islam were softened by the issue of death, they dwelled on the topic of immortality though they knew it too well its impossibility. As they rejected mortality, they realized that the abstract immortality is the only way for them to be remembered after the mortality of the body that enticed the ideal man in the pre-historic period to do commendable deeds that other poets would mention them with or he would make it as a virtue in his poems; as ‘Antarah was known for his bravery, Hatim with his generosity and Samuel with his loyalty as they realized that their deeds will be remembered for the rest of the ages. The study highlighted on a number of the Pre-Islamic poems and concluded that those poets realized that their mortality was achievable in a subtle way but not physically. This seems to us- from the poems- the meaning of immortality, idealism and their realization of the meaning of mortality from what they witnessed from the natural scenes that take place around them; the means to immortalize themselves in a subtle way and the role of poems in achieving this aim. We also learned that they themselves were fully aware that immortality is possible only through the Arabic virtues that they so proudly adhered to.   Keywords: Pre-Islamic period, Poem, Man, Ideal, Immortality     Abstrak   Makalah ini membincangkan tema keabadian hidup dalam era Jahiliah dan peranannya dalam membentuk keperibadian manusia ideal. Memandangkan bangsa Arab sebelum Islam mudah dilunakkan dengan isu kematian, mereka tetap mencanangkan tema keabadian walaupun sedar tentang kemustahilan untuk mengelaknya. Apablila mereka cuba menolak kematian, mereka menyedari bahawa keabadian secara abstrak ialah satu-satunya cara untuk mereka diingati selepas kematian dan meninggalkan legasi manusia ideal  dalam era Jahiliah ialah dengan menjadikan ingatan terhadap mereka itu ialah dengan kebaikan apa yang mereka lakukan dalam sebutan penyair-penyair lain ataupun dengan mereka sendiri menyebutnya dalam karya syair mereka sendiri. Demikianlah ‘Antarah dikenali dengan keberaniannya, Hatim dengan kemurahan hatinya, Samuel dengan kesetiaannya kerana kebaikan mereka akan dikenali sehingga bila-bila. Kajian ini menumpukan  kepada beberapa syair Jahiliah dan menyimpulkan bahawa penyair-penyair tersebut menyedari bahawa keabadian mereka boleh dicapai secara halus dan bukan secara fizikal. Kita dapat merumuskan daripada syair-syair tersebut bahawa pernyataan maksud keabadian dan idealisma serta penyerlahan maksud keabadian oleh mereka melalui apa yang mereka lihat berlaku di sekeliling mereka; cara untuk mengabadikan diri mereka ialah dengan melalui syair. Kami juga memperoleh maklumat bahawa mereka juga amat menyedari yang keabadian adalah sesuatu yang dapat dicapai melalui nilai-nilai budaya Arab yang amat mereka banggakan.   Kata kunci: Era jahiliah, Syair, Manusia, Keabadian


2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Laroche ◽  
Ilan Kaddouch

Abstract Embodied mind theories underline the role of the body in the act of knowing. According to the enactive approach, we learn to perceive and to know through our bodily interactions with the world (Varela, Thompson & Rosch, 1991). However, such an approach remains incomplete as long as sociality is not taken into account (Froese & Di Paolo, 2009). Recently, an inter-enactive approach has accordingly been proposed. Social interactions are seen as processes of coordinated sense-making that emerge from the dynamics of the inter-action process itself (De Jaegher & Di Paolo, 2007). As learning mainly takes place in intersubjective contexts (e.g. as an effect of teaching), this approach is relevant to the issue of pedagogy. Teaching settings are a special case though: cognitive interactions are reciprocal but asymmetrically guided by the teacher. In this paper, the question of the relations between body and education is thus addressed from the point of view of the inter-enactive approach. To this end, we first sketch out the phenomenological and theoretical contours of embodied intersubjectivity and intersubjective embodiment. Then, we present an interactive pedagogical method for musical learning (free spontaneous four-hand improvisations in the context of the Kaddouch pedagogy) and discuss it using illustrative case studies. The teacher’s role appears to operate directly within the dynamics of the interaction process, a source of knowing and skill enaction for the learner


Author(s):  
Stefano Di Tore ◽  
Paola Aiello ◽  
Pio Alfredo Di Tore ◽  
Maurizio Sibilio

This chapter focuses on the relationship between technology and education, starting from the consideration that the software design explicitly dedicated to the teaching-learning process is, for the most part, still anchored to a discreet information processing model. This model underestimates the role of the body and corporeality in the teaching and learning process and fails to capitalize on the potential offered by enactive interaction devices already present and widely used in schools and learning-dedicated centers. The opportunities offered by the NUIs in school contexts represent the natural consequence of an embodied and enactive approach to knowledge, valued in school contexts in which the skills of perception and the action are enhanced to foster learning.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-49
Author(s):  
Ana Lorena Dominguez Rojas

This article reviews the enactive approach to perception, which defends the role of objects, the subject and the environment in the configuration of the phenomenal character of perception, that is, the qualitative dimension of experience. Initially the case of hallucination and its implications in the understanding of the phenomenal character of perception is retaken. Then, two positions within analytic philosophy of perception, representationalism and disjunctivism, are critically explored. Finally, enactivism is presented as a more promising alternative.


2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Serafini ◽  
Giuseppa Morabito

Dietary polyphenols have been shown to scavenge free radicals, modulating cellular redox transcription factors in different in vitro and ex vivo models. Dietary intervention studies have shown that consumption of plant foods modulates plasma Non-Enzymatic Antioxidant Capacity (NEAC), a biomarker of the endogenous antioxidant network, in human subjects. However, the identification of the molecules responsible for this effect are yet to be obtained and evidences of an antioxidant in vivo action of polyphenols are conflicting. There is a clear discrepancy between polyphenols (PP) concentration in body fluids and the extent of increase of plasma NEAC. The low degree of absorption and the extensive metabolism of PP within the body have raised questions about their contribution to the endogenous antioxidant network. This work will discuss the role of polyphenols from galenic preparation, food extracts, and selected dietary sources as modulators of plasma NEAC in humans.


1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 282-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. van Oosterom

AbstractThis paper introduces some levels at which the computer has been incorporated in the research into the basis of electrocardiography. The emphasis lies on the modeling of the heart as an electrical current generator and of the properties of the body as a volume conductor, both playing a major role in the shaping of the electrocardiographic waveforms recorded at the body surface. It is claimed that the Forward-Problem of electrocardiography is no longer a problem. Several source models of cardiac electrical activity are considered, one of which can be directly interpreted in terms of the underlying electrophysiology (the depolarization sequence of the ventricles). The importance of using tailored rather than textbook geometry in inverse procedures is stressed.


2016 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Pier Giuseppe Rossi

The subject of alignment is not new to the world of education. Today however, it has come to mean different things and to have a heuristic value in education according to research in different areas, not least for neuroscience, and to attention to skills and to the alternation framework.This paper, after looking at the classic references that already attributed an important role to alignment in education processes, looks at the strategic role of alignment in the current context, outlining the shared construction processes and focusing on some of the ways in which this is put into effect.Alignment is part of a participatory, enactive approach that gives a central role to the interaction between teaching and learning, avoiding the limits of behaviourism, which has a greater bias towards teaching, and cognitivism/constructivism, which focus their attention on learning and in any case, on that which separates a teacher preparing the environment and a student working in it.


2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-383
Author(s):  
Vasily N. Afonyushkin ◽  
N. A. Donchenko ◽  
Ju. N. Kozlova ◽  
N. A. Davidova ◽  
V. Yu. Koptev ◽  
...  

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a widely represented species of bacteria possessing of a pathogenic potential. This infectious agent is causing wound infections, fibrotic cystitis, fibrosing pneumonia, bacterial sepsis, etc. The microorganism is highly resistant to antiseptics, disinfectants, immune system responses of the body. The responses of a quorum sense of this kind of bacteria ensure the inclusion of many pathogenicity factors. The analysis of the scientific literature made it possible to formulate four questions concerning the role of biofilms for the adaptation of P. aeruginosa to adverse environmental factors: Is another person appears to be predominantly of a source an etiological agent or the source of P. aeruginosa infection in the environment? Does the formation of biofilms influence on the antibiotic resistance? How the antagonistic activity of microorganisms is realized in biofilm form? What is the main function of biofilms in the functioning of bacteria? A hypothesis has been put forward the effect of biofilms on the increase of antibiotic resistance of bacteria and, in particular, P. aeruginosa to be secondary in charcter. It is more likely a biofilmboth to fulfill the function of storing nutrients and provide topical competition in the face of food scarcity. In connection with the incompatibility of the molecular radii of most antibiotics and pores in biofilm, biofilm is doubtful to be capable of performing a barrier function for protecting against antibiotics. However, with respect to antibodies and immunocompetent cells, the barrier function is beyond doubt. The biofilm is more likely to fulfill the function of storing nutrients and providing topical competition in conditions of scarcity of food resources.


Somatechnics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-303
Author(s):  
Michael Connors Jackman

This article investigates the ways in which the work of The Body Politic (TBP), the first major lesbian and gay newspaper in Canada, comes to be commemorated in queer publics and how it figures in the memories of those who were involved in producing the paper. In revisiting a critical point in the history of TBP from 1985 when controversy erupted over race and racism within the editorial collective, this discussion considers the role of memory in the reproduction of whiteness and in the rupture of standard narratives about the past. As the controversy continues to haunt contemporary queer activism in Canada, the productive work of memory must be considered an essential aspect of how, when and for what reasons the work of TBP comes to be commemorated. By revisiting the events of 1985 and by sifting through interviews with individuals who contributed to the work of TBP, this article complicates the narrative of TBP as a bluntly racist endeavour whilst questioning the white privilege and racially-charged demands that undergird its commemoration. The work of producing and preserving queer history is a vital means of challenging the intentional and strategic erasure of queer existence, but those who engage in such efforts must remain attentive to the unequal terrain of social relations within which remembering forms its objects.


2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-144
Author(s):  
Brian A. Jacobs

In federal criminal cases, federal law requires that judges consider the sentences other courts have imposed in factually similar matters. Courts and parties, however, face significant challenges in finding applicable sentencing precedents because judges do not typically issue written sentencing opinions, and transcripts of sentencings are not readily available in advanced searchable databases. At the same time, particularly since the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in United States v. Booker, sentencing precedent has come to play a significant role in federal sentencing proceedings. By way of example, this article discusses recent cases involving defendants with gambling addictions, and recent cases involving college admissions or testing fraud. The article explores the ways the parties in those cases have used sentencing precedent in their advocacy, as well as the ways the courts involved have used sentencing precedent to justify their decisions. Given the important role of sentencing precedent in federal criminal cases, the article finally looks at ways in which the body of sentencing law could be made more readily available to parties and courts alike.


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