scholarly journals Cognitive Determinants of the Effectiveness of Technological Interfaces

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Piotr Paweł
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Operational Process ◽  
Communication Signal ◽  
Perceptual Modality ◽  
Cognitive Determinants ◽  
The Mind ◽  
With Memory ◽  
Signal Exchange

Abstract Interface plays an important function in the operational process of modern interactive information technologies. Its task is to enable communication, signal exchange, and cooperation with the human mind. Technological interface is understood as the place where technology and software operating a computer must enter into interaction with the mind. The response is provided by the mind, which communicates with the machine performing the tasks imposed by the mind. The technology with its complexities can be a problem for the operator, but on the other hand, the person can also be a problem for the technology by vague and unspecified tasks transferred for execution. I would like to view various aspects of the functioning of the interface by analyzing the four modalities: perceptual modality, associated with memory and experience, with the expectations of users, and conceptual modality related to understanding of the technology by the user.

Locke’s Inclinations

2021 ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Stewart Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Substance P ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Animal Minds ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Mind

Locke is officially agnostic about the nature of the human mind: he thinks we cannot know that materialism is true, but also that we cannot know that dualism is true. Despite this agnosticism, we can ask whether Locke thought one of those views was more likely than the other. The chapter considers arguments on both sides. A small number of texts suggest he thought dualism more likely. On the other hand, Lisa Downing has argued that Locke thought materialism more likely, on the basis of the similarities between human and animal minds. This chapter argues that the reasons she offers do not show us that Locke was inclined to materialism. Nevertheless, Locke did show the possibility of materialism, not just by saying it was possible, but by developing at length an account of the mind that did not depend upon its being an immaterial substance.

scholarly journals Language and laughter in the treatise of Philo of Alexandria The worse attacks the better

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-624
Author(s):  
Maksim Prikhodko
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Initial Orientation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial Moment ◽  
Philo Of Alexandria ◽  
The Real ◽  
First Case ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Ideal

The present paper investigates the interaction between Logos and language in the treatise of Philo of Alexandria "The Worse attacks the Better". Language is regarded by Philo as the actualization of thought in its articulated expression, as the initial moment of creativity. The source of such action is the divine Logos, but the development of thought in the word happens in two opposite directions: one leads to joy, while the other, to suffering. The starting point of this separation is the initial orientation (love) of the mind to God or to self. In the first case, the mind in the act of utterance (expression) overcomes its own isolation. It comes into contact with the divine Logos and achieves joy. The crucial moment of this "leaving the brackets" of self individual thinking towards the light of the divine Logos is laughter. In another case, when the mind does not link words with their source, false creativity is produced, leading to suffering. Аpplying the concept of laughter to the doctrine of Logos and language, Philo reconciles the ideal plan of conceiving truth and its interpretation with the real functioning of the human mind and speech.

scholarly journals The existential role of women in The Flies and the dirty hands, by Jean Paul Sartre

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (137) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Majed Jamil NASIF ◽  
Ridha Thamer BAQER
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Politics And Literature ◽  
Dirty Hands ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
The Family ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Second World

          The freedom and the existential engagement represent two essential notions in the mind of the writer Jean-Paul Sartre. It has been presented in a good and clear way by his philosophy or, in a clearer way, by his artworks. More specifically, the two plays of this author, The Flies and the dirty hands, are the mirror that reflects these twos existential notions.           These two plays are the perfect testimonies for the two important periods in the XXth century: before and after the Second World War. These two periods vary in so far, the human mind, politics and literature as are concerned. This variation has followed the historical and the political changes in the world in general and in France in particular.           Even if The Flies and the dirty hands are considered like two different existential dramas, but each one completes the other. The first drama evokes a human mind but, indirectly, another political one, whether the other play evokes the inverse. Oreste and Hugo, the two heroes of our study plays, are the superior heroes who try to save humanity of slavery and submission to injustice. Sartre and his audience place their hopes in these two heroes who search for the freedom through their existential engagement.           In the other hand, the female characters have played an affective role in the dramatic action in the two plays. By its freedom and its existential engagement, the female condition, according to Sartre's vision, searches for proving his human existence and revolting against the authority of the family, the society and the humanity. 

Language and Literacy: what writing does to Language and Mind

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Effects ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
The West ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Different Cultures

With the ascendance of new information technologies, the significance of writing has, it seems, slipped from view, in spite of the fact that the conceptual and cognitive implications of the newer technologies is a matter of enthusiastic speculation rather that serious research. On the other hand, it is now reasonably well established that the invention of the first “information” technology, namely writing, has had a profound effect on the ways in which we think about language, the mind, and the world, effects which have taken millenia to unfold. “Effects” is perhaps too strong a term as it is less a matter of how technology affects people than a matter of the ways in which people in different cultures have used and applied the technology and the ways they have altered the technology to suit their purposes. In the West, some of these uses have involved institutional change; thus, to make use of a technology such as writing requires the development of monasteries, schools, and other institutions. Indeed, some of the cognitive effects we usually attribute to schooling are better thought of as consequences or implications of literacy.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Man on the Tor, and a Metaphor for the Mind

1999 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-372
Author(s):  
Lawrence Frank
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Percy Bysshe Shelley ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
Earth's Crust ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Biological Reductionism

Through Dr. Watson's narrative, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-2) dramatizes a nineteenth-century debate between opposing naturalistic accounts of the human mind, one associated with Cesare Lombroso's biological reductionism, the other with John Tyndall's Romantic materialism. In the episode of the Man on the Tor a vision of the mind emerges that acknowledges the influence of Darwinian thought. Yet, through allusions to Tyndall's "Scientific Use of the Imagination" (1870), to Pierre-Simon Laplace's nebular hypothesis, and to Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Wordsworth, the episode offers a metaphor for the mind: it suggests, iconographically, that the consciousness of enlightenment rationalism rides precariously, like the earth's crust, over the subterranean depths to be associated with the Romantic unconscious.

scholarly journals TIME AS A METAPHYSICAL DILEMMA: JOSE LUIS BORGES’ TREATMENT OF THE NATURE OF TIME IN HIS SELECTED WORKS

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10
Author(s):  
Tukumbeje Mposa
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Major Subject ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Linear Manner

The concept of time, which has been a major subject of study in various fields, defies a neat definition. Many scholars have failed to define it in a manner applicable to all fields. Generally, time can be defined as the unlimited continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future, regarded as a whole. It is a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future. Some schools of thought deny the existence of time. They argue that the present is undefined and indefinite; and the future has no reality except as present recollection. In some of his works, Jose Luis Borges (1899–1986) describes time in a linear manner, that is to say, that humans experience time as a series of present moments, one following the other. The past and the future both exist nowhere but in the human mind. Borges seems to agree with the notion that time is but a figment of the mind. In other stories, his perception of time is circular. Thus, the focus of the current article is on time, which is a metaphysical dilemma, and Borges’ treatment of the nature of time in his selected works.

The Evolving Mind

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-286 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Human Evolution ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modular Theory ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Mind

Last year saw the publication of two major studies on the evolution of the human mind, Human Evolution, Language and Mind by William Noble and Iain Davidson, and The Prehistory of the Mind by Steven Mithen. Both draw on a number of disciplines including archaeology, psychology, philosophy and animal ethology, but their resulting scenarios of human development differ in several important respects. The question of mind is central to our understanding of the origin of humanness. As Noble and Davidson put it, ‘the mark of modern human behaviour is its self-consciousness, its “mindedness”’. They trace the origin of this behaviour back no further than 100,000 years ago. In Noble and Davidson's view, the behaviours of the ancestors of humans were similar in crucial respects to those of modern non-human primates. Mithen, on the other hand, ‘cannot accept … that language did not appear in a gradual fashion’. Mithen proposes a series of distinct intelligences, and puts forward a modular theory of the evolution of the human mind. In the following pages we present the issues in the form of a debate, inviting each of the three authors to review each other's books and then offering them the opportunity to defend their alternative standpoints. We begin with Mithen's review of Noble and Davidson, then Noble and Davidson's review of Mithen, and finish with their respective replies to the comments and criticisms which have been raised.

scholarly journals TRANSPLANT TECHNOLOGIES AND ORGAN DONATION: CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Alexey Department of Philosophy and Culture studies Volkov
Keyword(s):  
Organ Donation ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Biological Entities

The purpose of the study is to reconstruct the basic concepts of the mind-body continuum underlying transplantation technologies. Using modern research, the author shows that the application of transplantation technologies is based on ambivalent ideas: on the one hand, tissues and organs act as purely biological entities, on the other hand, they also imply the values of the subject’s personal and сultural identity. This involves an understanding of the challenges and requirements that accompany contemporary transplantation technologies: patients need to develop the ability to switch from one bodily identity to another (so-called «intercorporeality»), while transplant physicians need the ability to work with an intentional sphere of human mind. Using a number of cross-cultural studies, this paper offers a view of how the conception of death, body and identity varies in different cultural and social settings.

1. Facts as to Brain-Work; in Illustration of the New and Old Methods of Philosophical Inquiry in Scotland

1872 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 145-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Laycock
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Psychology ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The University ◽  
The Brain

A few words in explanation are needed. In my summer course of lectures on Medical Psychology and Mental Diseases delivered in the University, I have to investigate the human mind in its practical relations to the body, and especially I have to teach how each influences the other, so that the physician, or any intelligent person, may be able to modify these relations beneficially. The starting-point in these inquiries is the fundamental fact of experience, that no changes in the mind or the consciousness of whatever kind can or do arise, or continue, without a corresponding series of changes somewhere in the brain-tissue.

Aristotle's Formal Identity of Intellect and Object: A Solution to the Problem of Modal Epistemology

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-107
Author(s):  
Robert C. Koons
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Modal Epistemology ◽  
De Anima ◽  
Object A ◽  
Formal Identity ◽  
Identity Thesis ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Mental Objects ◽  
Aristotelian Metaphysics

In De Anima Book III, Aristotle subscribed to a theory of formal identity between the human mind and the extra-mental objects of our understanding. This has been one of the most controversial features of Aristotelian metaphysics of the mind. I offer here a defense of the Formal Identity Thesis, based on specifically epistemological arguments about our knowledge of necessary or essential truths.

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