scholarly journals Meaning-Making Exercise Using Images and Soundscape: The Case of San Pedro Street, Davao City, Philippines

SAGE Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401773635
Author(s):  
Ma. Teresa Escano ◽  
Dennis John Sumaylo
Keyword(s):  
Visual Stimulus ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
San Pedro ◽  
Urban Decay ◽  
The Mind

This article explored the capacity of mixed media to elicit meanings from their lookers. A multisensory exhibition of photographs and soundscape was utilized to achieve the objective. The photographs provided the visual stimulus while soundscape accompanied the images to provide an aural map of the area being documented. Both media helped in the meaning-making process. The area documented was the center of Davao City, Philippines—San Pedro Street—as it cradles the center of faith, the seats of power, and the center of commerce. But, with urban decay, this place seemed to lose its former glory. With the visual and aural stimuli, these stories (memories) embedded in the mind of the lookers are culled. This is the meaning-making process.

Expanding God’s Redemptive Fractal: Spirit-Centered Counseling and the Transformative Wisdom of Jesus

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Bill Buker
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Order Change ◽  
Way Of Knowing ◽  
Second Order Change ◽  
The Mind

Using the image of a fractal, a Spirit-centered approach to counseling is proposed that conceptualizes the Spirit’s activity as seeking to replicate the patterns of God’s redemptive story throughout creation by facilitating deep second-order change. Involving an epistemological shift from ways of knowing shaped by the conventional wisdom of culture to a renewed mind grounded in the transformative wisdom of Jesus, this deep change is explored from the perspectives of science and Scripture. Integrating findings from systems theory with the ministry and message of Jesus, this approach to counseling emphasizes relational premises and values believed to be characteristic of the mind of the Spirit. Defined as the capacity to know and see in ways that are consistent with the passion and purposes of God, cultivating the mind of the Spirit is viewed as the essence of Spirit-centered counseling. Presumed to be seen most clearly in the life of Jesus, this model focuses on his distinctive way of knowing and seeing by examining what can be learned about the epistemological facets of perception and meaning-making when comparing his Way with the patterns of this world. It is proposed that Spirit-centered counseling is guided by the premises and patterns contained in Jesus’ transformative wisdom.

scholarly journals Phenomenology: A Philosophy and Method of Inquiry

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadruddin Bahadur Qutoshi
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Studies ◽  
Conscious Level ◽  
The Mind

<p> <em>Phenomenology as a philosophy and a method of inquiry is not limited to an approach to knowing, it is rather an intellectual engagement in interpretations and meaning making that is used to understand the lived world of human beings at a conscious level. Historically, Husserl’ (1913/1962) perspective of phenomenology is a science of understanding human beings at a deeper level by gazing at the phenomenon. However, Heideggerian view of interpretive-hermeneutic phenomenology gives wider meaning to the lived experiences under study. Using this approach, a researcher uses bracketing as a taken for granted assumption in describing the natural way of appearance of phenomena to gain insights into lived experiences and interpret for meaning making. The data collection and analysis takes place side by side to illumine the specific experience to identify the phenomena that is perceived by the actors in a particular situation. The outcomes of a phenomenological study broadens the mind, improves the ways of thinking to see a phenomenon, and it enables to see ahead and define researchers’ posture through intentional study of lived experiences. However, the subjectivity and personal knowledge in perceiving and interpreting it from the research participant’s point of view has been central in phenomenological studies. To achieve such an objective, phenomenology could be used extensively in social sciences.</em></p>

scholarly journals The Subject of Conceptual Mapping: Theological Anthropology across Brain, Body, and World

Open Theology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-135
Author(s):  
Erin Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Conceptual Mapping ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Research in conceptual metaphor and conceptual blending-referred to collectively as “conceptual mapping”-identifies human thought as a process of making connections across fields of meaning. Underlying the theory of conceptual mapping is a particular understanding of the mind as embodied. Over the past few decades, researchers in the cognitive sciences have been “putting brain, body, and world back together again.” The result is a picture of the human being as one who develops in transaction with her environment, and whose highest forms of intelligence and meaning-making are rooted in the body’s movement in the world. Conceptual mapping therefore not only gives us insight into how we think, but also into who we are. This calls for a revolution in theological anthropology. Our spirituality must be understood in light of the fact that we are embodied beings, embedded in our environment, whose identities are both material and discursive. Finally, using the example of white supremacy, I show how this revolution in understanding the human person can be useful for ethical reflection, and in thinking about sin and redemption.

scholarly journals The Future of Intelligence: The Central Meaning-Making Unit of Intelligence in the Mind, the Brain, and Artificial Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Demetriou ◽  
hudson golino ◽  
George Charilaos Spanoudis ◽  
Nikolaos Makris ◽  
Samuel Greiff
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Future Research ◽  
General Intelligence ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Research ◽  
Central Meaning ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Core Meaning ◽  
The Brain

This paper focuses on general intelligence, g. We first point to broadly accepted facts about g: it is robust, reliable, and sensitive to learning. We then summarize conflicting theories about its nature and development (Mutualism, Process Overlap Theory, and Dynamic Mental Field Theory) and suggest how future research may resolve their disputes. A model is proposed for g involving a core meaning-making mechanism, noetron, drawing on Alignment, Abstraction, and Cognizance, perpetually generating new mental content. Noetron develops through several levels of control: episodic attentional inferential truth epistemic control in infancy, preschool, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, respectively. Finally, we propose an agenda for future brain, assuming a brain noetron, and artificial intelligence research, assuming an artificial noetron, that might uncover the underlying brain mechanisms of g and generate artificial general intelligence.

scholarly journals I-Docs and New Narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Begoña González-Cuesta
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Strong Interaction ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Mixed Media ◽  
The World ◽  
National Film Board ◽  
Complex Project ◽  
The Relationship

Digital media make it possible to move from a conventional storytelling medium to other avenues that allow open stories to be told, maintaining the traditional basis of narratives while also adding other elements that enrich and deepen storytelling innovation. Therefore, it is important to analyze how the characteristics of digital storytelling work together in order to create meaning through new narratives. Recent documentary projects show how new ways of telling stories involve new ways of relating meaning and form, multiple platforms, and strong interaction and engagement from the side of the viewer. Interactivity and participation change the way in which a story is told and received, thus changing its nature as a narrative. To delve deeper into this field, I will analyze Highrise. The Towers in the World. World in the Towers, (http://highrise.nfb.ca) by Katerina Cizek. This is a complex project produced by the National Film Board of Canada, a multiyear, many-media collaborative documentary experiment that has generated many projects, including mixed media, interactive documentaries, mobile productions, live presentations, installations and films. I will develop a textual analysis on part of the project, the interactive documentary Out My Window, by focusing on its ways of meaning-making and the specific narrative implications of the relationship between meaning and form. The project is ambitious: Cizek's vision is "to see how the documentary process can drive and participate in social innovation rather than just to document it, and to help reinvent what it means to be an urban species in the 21st".

scholarly journals Intersubjectivity: Conceptual Considerations in Meaning-Making With a Clinical Illustration

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Harrison ◽  
Ed Tronick
Keyword(s):  
Young Child ◽  
Dynamic System ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Body ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Autistic Spectrum ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Clinical Illustration

This manuscript explores intersubjectivity through a conceptual construct for meaning-making that emphasizes three major interrelated elements–meaning making in interaction, making meaning with the body as well as the mind, and meaning making within an open dynamic system. These three elements are present in the literature on intersubjectivity with a wide range of terms used to describe various theoretical formulations. One objective of this manuscript is to illustrate how such a construct can be useful to understand the meaning-making observed in psychoanalysis, such as in the treatment of a young child on the autistic spectrum. The challenges in establishing an intersubjective state with a child on the autistic spectrum serve to highlight important features of intersubjectivity. As an important background to this clinical illustration, we illustrate the construct with the scientific paradigm of the well-known face-to-face still-face.

scholarly journals THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN EDUCATION: A PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
SVETLANA VOLKOVA
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Educational Anthropology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
Electronic Technologies

The article focuses on the little-studied interrelationship between the human way of being and education. The goal of the study is twofold. First, it is to reconstruct the image of the individual that lies at the basis of the scholars’ worldview. Secondly, it is to develop a model of philosophy that would correspond to this image and correlate with the problems and challenges of modern education. Drawing attention to the widespread use of information and electronic technologies in education, the author argues that the model of human being as embodied presence (embodiment) is very important for pedagogical activities. The significance of this model is that it enables to distinguish the meaning-making dimension of human consciousness so needed by contemporary education. The author demonstrates that an individual sees and cognizes the world not so much with the organs that are available and ready, but rather with those that are constituted in the acts of reflexing. Meaning, therefore, is the reflexive functional organ that reproduces the substance of the personality of a human being as a student. The author also notes that the perception and comprehension of the world is carried out from the perspectives of both the “pure” and the embodied mind. Thus, one of the main tasks of education is to engage and reveal the mind-body system as a source of the subject’s meaning-making activity. So, orienting education towards the individual as a being who does not possess meanings but searches for them will succeed only if the human being is viewed as an integral whole rather than as separate parts. The author concludes that both philosophy and pedagogy need to develop educational anthropology, an interdisciplinary area that would explore the subject of education in the integrity of their three dimensions – mind, body and language, taken as sources of creating meanings.

scholarly journals The Future of Intelligence: The Central Meaning-Making Unit of Intelligence in the Mind, the Brain, and Artificial Intelligence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Demetriou ◽  
hudson golino ◽  
Hudson Golino
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Future Research ◽  
General Intelligence ◽  
Artificial Intelligence Research ◽  
Central Meaning ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Core Meaning ◽  
The Brain

This paper focuses on general intelligence, g. We first point to broadly accepted facts about g: it is robust, reliable, and sensitive to learning. We then summarize conflicting theories about its nature and development (Mutualism, Process Overlap Theory, and Dynamic Mental Field Theory) and suggest how future research may resolve their disputes. A model is proposed for g involving a core meaning-making mechanism, noetron, drawing on Alignment, Abstraction, and Cognizance, perpetually generating new mental content. Noetron develops through several levels of control: episodic attentional inferential truth epistemic control in infancy, preschool, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, respectively. Finally, we propose an agenda for future brain, assuming a brain noetron, and artificial intelligence research, assuming an artificial noetron, that might uncover the underlying brain mechanisms of g and generate artificial general intelligence.

scholarly journals The future of intelligence: The central meaning-making unit of intelligence in the mind, the brain, and artificial intelligence

Intelligence ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 101562
Author(s):  
Andreas Demetriou ◽  
Hudson Golino ◽  
George Spanoudis ◽  
Nikolaos Makris ◽  
Samuel Greiff
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Future ◽  
Central Meaning ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Brain

Subject Matter of Music

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birch P. Browning
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Mind

The chapter surveys the variety of important roles that music plays in society and for members of society. At its core, music is sound that is organized around five basic components: rhythm, timbre, melody, harmony, and form. These various components are perceived from the environment, and then the mind extracts and applies meaning to the sounds. The concept of the sound envelope, consisting of attack, decay, sustain, and release, is illustrated. Effective musical artists understand this meaning-making process and consciously design musical experiences to communicate meaning to listeners.

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