Digital Technologies: Reality and Centaurs of Imagination

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Irina A. Gerasimova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
World Order ◽  
Routine Work ◽  
Catastrophic Risks ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Nature And Society

The article combines historical, cultural and systematic approaches to the analysis of digital transformations of society and man. Digital technologies play a crucial role in the transformation of economy, politics and society at the new stage of technologization. Developments and strategic projects for the introduction of arti­ficial intelligence, robotics, augmented and hybrid realities are implemented not only in the areas of dangerous, labor-intensive and routine work (i.e. in military affairs, industry, financial and economic operations), but also in the intellectual and creative spheres. The global time of change requires a global-system analysis. The invention of high information technologies and the interest of big business in the one-sided technologization of society disrupted the balanced co-evolution of computer technology and society. The author offers a noo-eco-geosystem ap­proach to the analysis of the crisis of technogenic civilization and the search for ways out of it. The complex grid of coordinates of the analysis includes planetary-physical, geo-ecological, geopolitical, geo-economical, geo-social, national socio-cultural, ethical and anthropological dimensions. The noo-eco-geosystem ap­proach makes it possible to reveal the catastrophic risks of digital economy and society strategies. The author considers energy and information and communica­tion technologies as catalysts for the accelerated transformation of society and the individual. These catalysts allow us to identify both the negative and positive as­pects of the global processes of evolution, as well as the “positive in the nega­tive”. The system analysis of digital transformations of society and man assumes consideration of methodological aspects of opportunities and limitations of tech­nologies. The destructive and purifying character of the transformations of nature and society is considered as a self-organizing process of the formation of the global world order, the future picture of the world and the qualitative transforma­tions of the mind on the basis of the values of noospheric ethics and geosociality

scholarly journals The determinism of the information society and the educational system: Enhancing academic attainments within distance learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-121
Author(s):  
Oksana Nikolaevna Kolomytseva ◽  
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Artem Mikhailovich Stativka ◽  
Ding Shuqin ◽  
Valentina Ivanovna Stativka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Ict Competence ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

Introduction. The article discusses ambiguous attitudes of information society citizens to the use of digital technologies in education. The aim of the research is to reveal and describe the deterministic nature of society and education, to explain the reasons for the ambiguous attitudes towards the use of digital technologies in education, and to analyze and summarize their advantages and capabilities to improve academic outcomes in the context of distance learning. Materials and Methods. By adopting personality-centered, activity-based and environmental approaches, the study considers the individual as a subject of learning and teaching, who can freely choose modes and means of learning, as well as communicative strategies within learning environments. Research methods include analysis of scholarly literature, synthesis of findings, and generalization. Empirical data were collected via a questionnaire and analyzed using statistical data processing methods. The sample consisted of students and teachers. Results. The literature review has been used to characterize and describe the information society in order to reveal its contradictory nature and multi-vector impact on the individual in the educational environment. Changes in the psycho-biological mechanisms of learners belonging to Generation Z are outlined and summarized. The authors emphasize the need for adjusting teaching methods to the peculiarities of modern learners. The study indicates that learners’ attitudes towards digital technologies are determined by their ICT competence. The recommendations on the improvement of instruction in a virtual learning environment are presented. Conclusions. The information society has predetermined the inevitability of the introduction and use of information technologies in the education, which , on the one hand, increases learners’ educational and research capabilities, and, on the other hand, requires a high level of ICT competence as well as major expenditures on such changes. The identified contradictions have led to restrained attitudes to distance (online) learning.

scholarly journals Structural features of complex hydrochemical systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 127 ◽  
pp. 02029
Author(s):  
Olga Shevtsova
Keyword(s):  
Collective Behavior ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Regression Line ◽  
Mathematical Expression ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Time Variability ◽  
Hydrochemical Parameters ◽  
Scale Range ◽  
The Individual

The set of non-conservative hydrochemical parameters is considered as a complex system, which displays collective behavior. It is found that the collective behavior is described by the power relation between the time variability (the standard deviations) and the average concentrations of different hydrochemical parameters in the scale range 100 – 0:0001 mg/kg. The exponent can be 0:7 – 0:9. Power law scaling is the mathematical expression of self similarity and fractality. The complex systems of nonconservative chemical parameters have a structure that can be characterized by exponent, normalization coefficient, standard error, correlation coefficient, and by sharp deviations of the individual parameters from the regression line and from the most probable average and standard deviation values, if any. It is shown with specific examples that changes in the hydrochemical systems structure are the result of the manifestation of biogeochemical processes and the dynamics of water. Regression analysis of collective behavior of complex hydrochemical systems is one of the examples of the use of modern information technologies based on the methods of system analysis.

Personal Identity, and its Morbid Modifications

1863 ◽  
Vol 8 (44) ◽  
pp. 535-545
Author(s):  
J. Crichton Browne
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Mental Symptoms ◽  
Alteration Of Consciousness ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Being There ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind

At the close of our last paper on personal identity we had just turned to the consideration of those apparent morbid divisions of the unity of consciousness which are sometimes, though happily rarely, brought under the notice of medical psychologists. Double consciousness, as we have already hinted, is essentially a result of diseased action, and comprehends a variety of conditions, distinguished from each other by differences in the mental symptoms, and by the relations to each other of the lucid and insane or of the two insane “oscillations.” In all of them, however, there is, for the time, a change, a perversion, or an exaltation, of the mental identity of the individual, of that principle which is, as it were, a centre round which the other faculties of mind revolve, and about which memories cluster. In the intensest forms of double consciousness, so called, mental identity is separated or multiplied into two distinct parts, so that two identities reside in the same individual, while in the milder manifestations of this condition there is a partial division of the same principle, a confusion of two natures in the same person. Where two alternating, though altogether unconnected, lives are lived by the same being, there is afforded, we think, a proof that mental identity is something more than consciousness, and so far independent in its affections. Indeed, it appears to us that the morbid states at present under examination would have been more aptly described as instances of double identity rather than of double consciousness. The phrase double consciousness is a contradiction in terms, for it is manifestly absurd to suppose that the mind can exist in two different states at the same moment. It is also a misleading expression, for this is not, of course, the meaning which it is intended to convey, nor is it at all descriptive of the conditions to which it is applied. These conditions are not necessarily characterised by any alteration of consciousness; that is to say, if consciousness is regarded as having reference simply to the present existing operation of the mind, for the man who inhabits alternately two distinct mental spheres may be perfectly conscious in both of them. In both of them his eyes, his ears, and all his organs of sense, may be normally active. In both of them, with equal accuracy, he may appreciate his surroundings, govern his movements, and express his ideas. In both of them he may be equally conscious, but he is not similarly conscious. The same world is inspected from different points of view in each. In the one it may be the real world, as it is to the perceptions of ordinary people; in the other, the world clad in the unsubstantial figments of a feverish fancy; or in both, a shadowy world, made up of metamorphosed realities. But whatever the metamorphoses may be, they arise, not from errors of perception, but of the personality—perceiving. A man who has passed into the abnormal phase of double consciousness sees all the familiar faces that surround him, but he does not recognise them; he hears loved and well-known voices, but they fall upon his ears as strange sounds; he beholds his household gods, but these do not, as they were wont, awaken emotion in his mind; in short, he regards everything in a new light and apart from former associations. The mind, shorn of its past, begins to learn the lessons of life anew, and perceives every object in relation to its new condition, the result of internal changes. The outward creation becomes subordinate to the inward idea, and is regarded only as it harmonises with the reigning delusion.

scholarly journals Post-Aural Story-Telling and the Iranian Flaneurs: A Benjaminian Reading of Sina Dadkhah’s Yousef Abad, Street 33

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bakhtiar Sadjadi ◽  
Bahareh Nilfrushan
Keyword(s):  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Urban Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Modern Aspect ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Central Characters ◽  
The City

The city has fascinated the street wanderer as the contemplation of modern life. Walter Benjamin’s conception of ‘flâneur,’ originally borrowed from Charles Baudelaire, could be taken as the true legacy of such fascination. There is always a sense of nostalgia being revealed through the flânerie of the city stroller passing through the metropolis, its shopping centers, and boulevards nourishing the mind of the bohemic storyteller with tales of post-aural experience and memory. Adapting Walter Benjamin’s concept of ‘flânerie’ in the streets of Paris to those of Tehran, the present paper attempts to explore Sina Dadkhah’s Yousef Abad, Street 33 in order to demonstrate the post-aural stories of the flaneurs in an Iranian milieu. This article focuses on the modern aspect of the Iranian contemporary society and explores the immediate consequences of modernity on the individual subjectivity of the characters represented in the novel. Considering Dadkhah’s novel as a product of the urban literature of a generation dealing with modernity of the arcades and other lures of the megapolis on the one hand and feeling of nostalgia for their past spirit on the other, the paper simultaneously reveals the close affinity between the subjectivity of the characters and Benjaminian tenets of flânerie and modern storytellers. The flaneurs represented in the novel, by rambling through and about the city of Tehran, are turning to be the storytellers who narrate their ‘post-aural’ experiences. In Yousef Abad, Street 33 the central characters are, as fully manifested in the paper, deeply engaged in the experiences of a modern sense of living while wandering to console their wistful longings despite the everyday challenges.

Development of the Insurance Market in Ukraine in the Context of Transformation Changes

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-189
Author(s):  
Nataliia Shyshpanova ◽  
◽  
Olena Bodnar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Individual

Abstract. The article substantiates the feasibility of ensuring the development of the insurance market in Ukraine in the context of digital transformations. It has been determined that the latest digital technologies are penetrating deeper into the global insurance market, without bypassing any area of activity, but the volume of the insurance market in Ukraine is several times less than in the developed countries of the world. The indicated factors which restrain the development of the insurance market in Ukraine and characterized existing problems of the insurance market lead to low confidence in the companies of the sector and do not allow it to develop properly. It has been established that in modern conditions of digital transformations, insurance companies widely use innovative technologies that ensure the achievement of both short-term effects and long-term competitive advantages. The directions of digitalization of the insurance market in Ukraine have been characterized and it has been substantiated that the processes of digital transformation based on the development of information technologies of insurance companies contribute to increasing competitiveness. In order to improve the situation in the domestic insurance market and maintain competitive positions, insurance companies should actively use European and world experience, introduce and change models of insurance functioning, and intensively introduce innovative technologies in insurance activities. The use of new technologies and management models in practice will increase the efficiency of the provision of insurance services, require insurance companies to develop new insurance products, taking into account the individual wishes of customers, and will also contribute to expanding the scope of using insurance as a method of risk transfer in an integrated risk management system, as well as will ensure the creation of a unique competitive advantage for those insurance companies that are able to introduce innovative digital technologies in accordance with the individualized requests of customers

scholarly journals Psychological structure of the officer's intelligence: theoretical review and system analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Yu. Naumov
Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Systemic Analysis ◽  
Psychological Structure ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Introduction. The task of forming of the personality of an officer who possesses not only the sum of knowledge, skills and abilities, but a developed system of values, and, ultimately, intelligence is relevant for modern higher and military schools. To solve this problem, it is necessary not only to properly organize and direct teaching and educational activities, but also to establish the psychological structure of the intelligence of the future officer, as well as the peculiarities of its functioning. The author tackles the issues of researching the concept and structure, as well as identifying the features of the mental functioning of intelligence, based on the use of systemic and interdisciplinary analysis, by studying the array of literature from various areas of social and humanitarian knowledge, while revealing the psychological laws of the real life of intelligence.The study presents the main scientific results of the theoretical and systemic analysis of the psychological structure of the officer's intelligence, in which the formal, meaningful as well as functional and activity aspects are revealed.Materials and Methods. As the main research methodology, the authors use axiological, historiographic, systematic, cultural-historical and activity approaches adapted for solving problems. The main research methods were: hypothetical-deductive method; analysis, synthesis, comparison, analogy and abstraction; systematic analysis and modeling.Results. The main scientific results of the research are the systematic conclusions about the psychological structure of intelligence, generalized by the author, revealed on the one hand, on the basis of the analysis of literary sources, and on the other hand, through the study of its real functioning and being in the mental activity of the individual.Discussion and Conclusions. The mind of a military intellectual is the functioning of complex mental formations in the structure of the personality, which makes it possible to correlate events and facts of activity with the general life-meaning problems of his subjective being; he is characterized by a developed intellect and the constancy of the application of critical thinking.

scholarly journals Digital technologies in modern higher educational space: analysis of risks and threats

2021 ◽  
Vol 273 ◽  
pp. 12050
Author(s):  
Victoria Kotlyarova ◽  
Andrey Rudenko ◽  
Natalia Yaksa ◽  
Marina Shubina
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Creative Development ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

At present, Russia faces a strategic task related to building a course aimed at a breakthrough in the scientific, technological and socio-economic development of the country. This development is inextricably linked with the digital economy, which, in turn, is impossible without the digitalization of education. The essence of digitalization of education is to achieve high performance in the educational process using digital technologies. It is noted, that within the framework of the digital transformation of education, the content of education, methods, forms of educational work, forms of assessing the results achieved by students are changing. On the one hand, this process is aimed at developing a digital educational environment in order to improve the educational results of each student, but on the other hand, when using digital technologies in the higher educational space, the following risks arise: the risk of dehumanization, the risk of spiritual lumpenization, the threat to the fundamental component of traditional education caused by the promotion of “educational services”, the risk of loss of cognitive competencies, the risk of technologization and robotization, the deepening crisis of intellectual culture, the threat to the creative development of the individual, the risk of social exclusion.

scholarly journals Zoroastrianism

1912 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-226
Author(s):  
George Foot Moore
Keyword(s):  
European Origin ◽  
God's Will ◽  
Day Of The Lord ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
The World ◽  
Diverse Origin ◽  
Evil Spirits ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Nature And Society

The religion whose adherents call themselves “Worshippers of Mazda,” the Wise God, and which we commonly name after its founder Zoroastrianism, is in many ways of peculiar interest. It is the only monotheistic religion of Indo-European origin, as Judaism is the one independent Semitic monotheism. Zoroastrianism is, further, eminently an ethical religion, both in its idea of God and of what God requires of men. It presents itself as a revelation of God's will through his prophet. His will is that men, renouncing the false gods, should serve the Wise Lord alone, obey his word, and contend on his side for the defeat of evil and the triumph of all good in nature and society and in the character of the individual. The prophet warns men that the day of the Lord is at hand, an ordeal by fire in which God will separate between those who serve him and those who serve him not, and of the endless blessedness or the unfathomable misery beyond. God has his allies not only among men but among the hosts of spirits; to the hierarchy of good powers corresponds a hierarchy of evil. In the endeavor to clear God of the responsibility for evil, Zoroastrianism recognized a powerful head of the evil spirits, a devil. But it had firm faith in the final triumph of good and the end of all evil. When that day shall come, all the dead will be raised to stand at the bar of God in the grand assize and receive the just recompense of reward. The main features of this eschatology were adopted by the Jews and adapted to the premises of their own religion; through Judaism it passed to Christianity, where it was fused with elements of diverse origin; from Judaism and Christianity, and to some extent directly from later Zoroastrianism, Mohammedanism inherited it. The orthodox beliefs about the hereafter of the world and the individual entertained by the nations of Western Asia, Europe, and America, are thus ultimately derived in no small part from Zoroastrianism; only in the farther East, in India, China, and Japan, does another system prevail.

New reality: Current issues of logistics infrastructure development in the context of the spread of coronavirus

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Murahovscaia
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Modern Information ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

The study analyses the current issues of logistics infrastructure development and the impact of modern information technologies on it. The influence of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic on the change of conventional business models and relations between consumers and manufacturers, the study of customer experience based on digital technologies, and the trends in the development of new strategic aspects caused by the high uncertainty due to the unpredictability of the lifting of quarantine measures. The implementation of digital transformation in an enterprise requires the development of a strategic plan that includes an analysis of the individual features of the organisation of business processes, the development of the architecture of transformed products and services, new models of interaction with customers, and the analysis and development of an organisational structure that can function effectively during the transformation. The study describes the potential for growth and development of companies in the implementation of digital transformation and the development of digital partnership on the example of foreign and national companies, examines the principles of digitalisation and identifies the reasons for the slow introduction of innovations in the logistics infrastructure. The study considered the main aspects of modern information technologies implemented at logistics infrastructure enterprises, as well as possible risks of the transition period, including risks associated with the low maturity of the infrastructure of certain companies. The main purpose of substantiating the presented hypothesis is to study the mechanisms of optimisation of operational activities in the implementation of digital technologies at the regional and international levels and to assess the impact of digitalisation processes on the re-profiling of personnel and the renewal of human resources. In the course of the study, methods of comparison and analogy, analysis, and synthesis were used. The methodological framework of the study includes the system and institutional approaches to the development of a digital platform for the effective development of logistics infrastructure. The author believes that the main component of a successful digital transformation of a company is the presence of a strategic plan that includes a vision for the transformation of products and services, as well as interaction with customers, taking into account the individual characteristics of the structural organisation and organisation of each particular enterprise.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF MODERN EDUCATION: SOCIETY DIGITALIZATION AND PANDEMIC IN THE CONTEXT OF VALUES TRANSFORMATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 68-77
Author(s):  
Александра Александровна Левицкая
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Cultural Activity ◽  
Education Society ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Современная модель общества претерпевает изменения в связи с технологизацией и цифровизацией пространства культурной деятельности, которые, в свою очередь, тесно связаны с виртуализацией личности и существенно новыми ценностными ориентирами. Кроме того, резкое внедрение информационных технологий во все сферы деятельности человека произошло резко и моментально, без последовательной и поэтапной трансформации. Причина этому - пандемия, которая стала основой для социального дистанцирования личности. В образовательной среде именно цифровые технологии способствовали формированию дистанционного обучения, что и позволило расширить возможности традиционного образования, однако с учетом и выявлением многих особенностей перехода и взаимодействия двух образовательных пространств. Включение дистанционного образования в систему обучения происходит с формированием новых противоречий, которые в основном связаны с массовой цифровизацией социального пространства. В данном случае информационные технологии выступают как инструмент обучения, что, с одной стороны, привносит в систему образования элемент адаптации к вызовам современности, с другой стороны, именно это позволяет рассматривать дистанционное образование в качестве современного этапа развития образования, формируя многомерность образовательного пространства, основывающегося на двух культурно-ценностных парадигмах. The contemporary model of society is undergoing changes in connection with the technologization and digitalization of the space of cultural activity, which in turn are closely related to the virtualization of the individual and significantly new value guidelines. In addition, the sharp introduction of information technologies in all spheres of human activity occurred abruptly and instantly, without a consistent and phased transformation. The reason for this is the pandemic, which became the basis for social distancing of the individual. In the educational environment, it were digital technologies that contributed to the formation of distance learning, which made it possible to expand the possibilities of traditional education, however, taking into account and identifying many features of the transition and interaction of the two educational spaces. The inclusion of distance education in the educational system occurs with the formation of new contradictions, which are mainly associated with the mass digitalization of social space. In this case, information technologies act as a learning tool, which, on the one hand, introduces into the education system an element of adaptation to the challenges of our time, on the other hand, this allows us to consider distance education as a contemporary stage in the development of education, forming a multidimensional educational space based on two cultural and value paradigms.

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