scholarly journals Adaptive Changes in the Psyche of Homo sapiens during the Period of the Singularity (Part 2)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-72
Author(s):  
Alexander Kruglov ◽  
Andrey Kruglov
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
The Status ◽  
Quantitative Changes ◽  
External Forces

Creativity, the integrative function of the psyche of Homo sapiens (HS), which arose about 50,000 years ago, allowed HS to project the image of the goal (IG), transformed into a “symbol,” into the external environment. The projection constructs of the psyche have become autonomous fragments of the environment in the HS perception, not being its derivatives. Objective reality, perceived by HS, has acquired non-inherent properties: a mental product of the psyche that integrates the virtual and real components of the environment. In other words, the role of HS has evolved over the last 10,000 years, since the beginning of the agrarian revolution: from (1) a dependent subject controlled by external forces in an animated world to (2) “the crown of God's creation” in “theism” and, (3) to the status "Higher power" during the period, in which "God is Dead." Initially, HS exists in an incompletely real environment, with an increasing component of virtuality. With symbolic virtual content, HS supplemented or duplicated the entire surrounding world, creating a two-component habitat (virtual and real). The emergence and development of conceptual thinking (ConceptT) led to a partial "devirtualization" of the environment, the removal of restrictions on scientific knowledge, the rapid growth of technology and social dynamics. The result of technological development was, in the recent past, a temporary resolution of the primary frustration: the establishment of the current equilibrium in the relationships with the regulatory "dissociated symbol"—the virtual "information universe” (IU). The IU, defining as the interference of "media" with the "information body" of the Internet, we consider as a unified information space, integrated with reality and in total constituting the HS habitat. Clip thinking (ClipT), qualitatively different from ConceptT, is a new operating system of the psyche, a moderator of adaptation to a new, virtualized environment. A technological derivative of mental activity HS—the IU—without the participation of conscious forms of mental activity, transforms the algorithms of thinking, i.e. formats the psyche as a whole with adaptation to qualitative and quantitative changes in the virtual component of the environment, and to the perspectives on the development of technologies during the singularity.

scholarly journals Human potential in the function of intellectual capital creation

Bastina ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 315-332
Author(s):  
Drago Orčić ◽  
Ivanka Gajić
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Business Coaching ◽  
New Era ◽  
Business Consulting ◽  
The Status ◽  
Intellectual Potential

The new era in which we find ourselves certainly has many challenges but as well many chances. By entering in, the era of knowledge, we are conditioned to radically change the status of human potential and with that the strategies of relationship towards homo sapiens (reasonable man) as potential. In the knowledge era, man is no longer an extended hand of machines. In order to survive in the game with modern technical-technological development trends, it is inevitable for him to take over its naturally given uncompetitive role of unique thoughtful being with unlimited intellectual potential and inevitable in the process of creating the new value. Constant development, changes conditioned by automation, globalization, informatization, for a "reasonable man" can be an unprecedented threat or a civilizational chance to discover, develop, materialize his hidden intellectual potential. In the conditions of the new economy, intellectual potential takes on not only a leading but a key role. Modern research shows that inventiveness and innovation create a leverage effect, directing the intellectual potential to create new high-tech achievements. There are more and more companies which establish the value of its service or product precisely on the discovery, development, materialization of intellectual potential as an unlimited competitive resource. The subject of this paper is to show the importance of research and finding new approaches, new tools, new methods for detection, development, materialization of unlimited intellectual potential of the "thinking man". The goal of this paper is to raise awareness of the chance, which humanity has not had up until now, in the domain of natural resource from the role of "talking tool" or "extended machine hand" to take on the role of "unique, thinking, creative, inventive, unlimited, potential". In this paper, we also only superficially touched on possible modern methods for discovering, developing, materialization of human potential, such as: business consulting, business coaching, business mentoring.

scholarly journals Societal Self-Observation in the Time of Datafication: Interfunctional Analysis of the Chilean Open Data Web Portal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Heimstädt
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
The Status ◽  
Role Of Religion

Datafication, the technological development that emerged out of computerization and global interconnectedness, has spawned new forms of societal self-observations. In the present article I turn to the example of Open Data web portals – specialized websites that make large amounts of governmental datasets publicly available – to show how they relate to the status quo of social research on functional differentiation. For my analysis of the Chilean Portal de Datos Públicos I developed a method to link metadata categories from the web portal to a hard-core list of ten function systems. My results confirm literature, which finds economized or politicized forms of societal self-description. Moreover the results are in line with studies that show the vanishing role of religion. Interestingly, my study finds health to be of high importance – I might even speak of a “healthized” self-observation – which I argue is at odds with a negligible representation of the function system “sport” within the self-observation. For future interfunctional social research in the time of datafication, I recommend sharpening the empirical approach by exploring emerging text-as-data methods.

scholarly journals Effect of retinal ablation on the expression of calbindin D28k and GABA in the chick optic tectum

10.4081/848 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 365 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Díaz de Barboza ◽  
C Beltramino ◽  
L Britto ◽  
J De Olmos ◽  
S De Olmos
Keyword(s):  
Optic Tectum ◽  
Ganglion Cells ◽  
Neuronal Degeneration ◽  
Retinal Ganglion ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Inhibitory Circuitry ◽  
Silver Deposits ◽  
Calbindin D28k ◽  
Quantitative Changes

The effect of retinal ablation on qualitative and quantitative changes of calbindin D28k and GABA expression in the contralateral optic tectum was studied in young chicks. Fifteen days old chicks had unilateral retinal ablation and after 7 or 15 days, calbindin expression was analyzed by Western blot and immunocytochemistry. Neuronal degeneration was followed by the amino-cupric silver technique. After 15 days, retinal lesions produced a significant decrease in calbindin immunostaining in the neuropil of layers 5-6 and in the somata of neurons from the layers 8 and 10 of the contralateral tectum, being this effect less marked at 7 days post-lesion. Double staining revealed that 50-60% of cells in the layers 8 and 10 were calbindin and GABA positive, 30- 45% were only calbindin positive and 5-10% were only GABAergic neurons. Retinal ablation also produced a decrease in the GABA expression at either 7 or 15 days after surgery. At 7 days, dense silver staining was observed in the layers 5-6 from the optic tectum contralateral to the retinal ablation, which mainly represented neuropil that would come from processes of retinal ganglion cells. Tectal neuronal bodies were not stained with silver, although some neurons were surrounded by coarse granular silver deposits. In conclusion, most of calbindin molecules are present in neurons of the tectal GABAergic inhibitory circuitry, whose functioning apparently depends on the integrity of the visual input. A possible role of calbindin in the control of intracellular Ca2+ in neurons of this circuit when the visual transmission arrives to the optic tectum remains to be studied.

A Bird in the House: An Anthropological Perspective on Companion Parrots

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Society

AbstractAlthough companion birds are the third most-common animal companion—after dogs and cats—in U.S. households, few anthrozoological publications focus on them. This study examines the role of companion parrots in American households. The study combines a literature review with the results of a survey of bird owners and participant observation. The study uses the resulting qualitative and quantitative data in addressing the social dynamics of companion parrot ownership in the household. The data support the impression that companion parrots increasingly are being considered family members, or "Fids" ("Feathered Kids"), thus following current trends in American society that accord companion animals in general a greater investment in time, money, and emotion. However, the general public is not well informed about the complexities of captive parrot care, and psittacine wellness is an important concern.

scholarly journals Hormonally mediated reprogramming of muscles and motoneurones during the larval-pupal transformation of the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta

1986 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Weeks ◽  
J. W. Truman
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Hormone ◽  
Manduca Sexta ◽  
Tobacco Hornworm ◽  
Abdominal Muscles ◽  
Pupal Development ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Pulse Exposure ◽  
Quantitative Changes

The larval-pupal transformation of Manduca sexta results from an exposure to ecdysteroids in the absence of juvenile hormone (the commitment pulse), followed by a larger exposure to ecdysteroids (the prepupal peak) with a reappearance of juvenile hormone (JH). The prepupal ecdysteroid peak triggers the degeneration of abdominal muscles, and the dendritic regression and death of identified motoneurones. The present experiments examined the role of the commitment pulse in the larval-pupal reprogramming of these cells. The commitment pulse did not overtly affect the muscles and motoneurones, but it switched their hormonal responsiveness; before the commitment pulse, exposure to ecdysteroids in the presence of JH had no effect on the larval cells, whereas after the commitment pulse the same treatment caused regression and death. Thus, JH lost its ability to prevent pupal development. Furthermore, treatment with ecdysteroids in the absence of JH before the commitment pulse promoted pupal development much less effectively than did the same treatment given after the commitment pulse, indicating that the commitment pulse facilitates the subsequent responsiveness to ecdysteroids. Thus, the commitment pulse covertly causes both qualitative and quantitative changes in the hormonal sensitivity of the larval muscles and motoneurones.

scholarly journals The Role of Comparative Pedagogy in Evaluating Education Systems of Different Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
Michał Hnatiuk
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Educational Situation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Quantitative Changes ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract The article presents the definition of comparative pedagogy according to comparisons from different parts of the world. The subject of the pedagogical sub-disciplinary study, which in its own particular way relates to the research method, has been presented. The obtained results provide the basis for the argument that the scope of comparative pedagogy is quite extensive. In addition, over the years, it has widened considerably. The vocational comparative pedagogy has been added to the traditional direction of comparative pedagogy. Its indispensable function has been the analysis of the economic processes in close connection with the problems of preparation and improvement of the qualifications of personnel. Therefore, comparative pedagogy does not currently have a theory of one kind that definitively determines its subject matter. The author points out that not only the didactic system itself, but also the various conditions that support or inhibit educational activity, are important for comparability. This article also describes the objectives of comparative pedagogy. It has been found that the cognitive goal is to explore the knowledge of education systems and to compare the qualitative and quantitative changes in these systems. The practical aim is to borrow and introduce theoretical and/or practical solutions into the didactic system. On the other hand, the educational goal is to determine and improve the actual educational situation. Based on the collected materials, it has been concluded that both the objectives and the subject matter of comparative pedagogy research are very broad and often go beyond the area of the pedagogical sub-discipline.

scholarly journals Oviposition-Induced Volatiles Affect Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses of Egg Parasitoids

Insects ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 437
Author(s):  
Panagiotis G Milonas ◽  
Eirini Anastasaki ◽  
Georgios Partsinevelos
Keyword(s):  
Host Location ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Egg Parasitoids ◽  
Headspace Volatiles ◽  
Behavioral Experiments ◽  
Tomato Plants ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Induced Volatiles ◽  
Quantitative Changes

In response to an attack by herbivores, plants emit a variety of compounds that may act as semiochemicals. Oviposition-induced volatiles (OIPVs) have been shown to mediate interactions between plants and natural enemies. Here, we investigated the role of OIPVs by Tuta absoluta towards two egg parasitoids, Trichogramma cordubense and T. achaeae. We collected headspace volatiles from tomato plants at 24, 48, and 72 h after oviposition by T. absoluta females and tested the antennographic response of Trichogramma parasitoids to them by means of gas chromatography- electro-antennographical detection (GC-EAD). The response of the parasitoids was also tested in behavioral experiments using a Y-tube olfactometer. Oviposition by T. absoluta females induced qualitative and quantitative changes in the volatiles emitted by tomato plants. Antennae of Trichogramma parasitoids responded to several of the induced volatiles in GC-EAD. T. cordubense females were attracted to tomato plants with T. absoluta eggs 24 h after oviposition. The elucidation of the behavior of egg parasitoids towards OIPVs enhances the development of sustainable management strategies either by selecting species that exploit OIPVs or by manipulating their foraging behavior by utilizing specific OIPVs that are used by parasitoids as a host location.

scholarly journals TASK FOR POST-CRISIS IN ROMANIA: THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Danu
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Economic And Financial Crisis

The present paper illustrates the role of industry in economic and social development of Romania, in the context of the propagated effects of the contemporary economic and financial crisis and mission that is in the recovery of gaps in relation to EU countries. The dynamic of the industrial sector after 1989, highlighting the continuing decline in its contribution to the GDP formation and changing industry structure in favor of industries producing consumer goods. The situation has changed, however, after the crisis, the industry producing capital goods coming back in force, and hosting the entire sector. Significant is that the development of the Romanian industry must integrate into a viable and sustainable formula, scientific research and technological development with environmental quality. Moreover, the qualitative and quantitative dimensions of industrial development in Romania should be integrated in the dynamic dimensions of the EU, with all the implications and costs derived from this, in the short term. The plea for industrial development in the post-crisis period is supported by the need to ensure a solid foundation for the development of other economic activities specific to the primary and tertiary sectors.

scholarly journals Useful Servant or Dangerous Master? Technology in Business and Society Debates

2022 ◽  
pp. 000765032110680
Author(s):  
Frank den Hond ◽  
Christine Moser
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
The Status ◽  
Societal Problems ◽  
The Relationship

This review argues that the role of technology in business and society debates has predominantly been examined from the limited, narrow perspective of technology as instrumental, and that two additional but relatively neglected perspectives are important: technology as value-laden and technology as relationally agentic. Technology has always been part of the relationship between business and society, for better and worse. However, as technological development is frequently advanced as a solution to many pressing societal problems and grand challenges, it is imperative that technology is understood and analyzed in a more nuanced, critical, and comprehensive way. The two additional perspectives invite a broader research agenda, one that includes questions, such as “Which values and whose interests has technology come to emulate?”; “How do these values and interests play out in stabilizing the status quo?”; and, importantly, “How can it be contested, disrupted, and changed?” Any research that endorses green, sustainable, environmental, or climate mitigating technologies potentially contributes to maintaining the very thing that it seeks to change if questions such as these are not being addressed.

The study of interfacial reactions of nickel thin films on GaAs

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 156-157
Author(s):  
L.J. Chen ◽  
Y.F. Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Interfacial Reactions ◽  
Metal Contacts ◽  
Nickel Thin Films ◽  
Thin Foils ◽  
The Status ◽  
Si Doped ◽  
Electron Microscopes

One measure of the maturity of a device technology is the ease and reliability of applying contact metallurgy. Compared to metal contact of silicon, the status of GaAs metallization is still at its primitive stage. With the advent of GaAs MESFET and integrated circuits, very stringent requirements were placed on their metal contacts. During the past few years, extensive researches have been conducted in the area of Au-Ge-Ni in order to lower contact resistances and improve uniformity. In this paper, we report the results of TEM study of interfacial reactions between Ni and GaAs as part of the attempt to understand the role of nickel in Au-Ge-Ni contact of GaAs.N-type, Si-doped, (001) oriented GaAs wafers, 15 mil in thickness, were grown by gradient-freeze method. Nickel thin films, 300Å in thickness, were e-gun deposited on GaAs wafers. The samples were then annealed in dry N2 in a 3-zone diffusion furnace at temperatures 200°C - 600°C for 5-180 minutes. Thin foils for TEM examinations were prepared by chemical polishing from the GaA.s side. TEM investigations were performed with JE0L- 100B and JE0L-200CX electron microscopes.

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