scholarly journals Basics of Consciousness Theory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Bondarev
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Theoretical Construct ◽  
Abstract Object ◽  
Classical Physics ◽  
High Speeds ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
The Creation

The verifiable concepts of classical physics proved unsuitable to create physics of small distances, high speeds, and large masses. Is there any chance that the verifiable notions of reality developed by modern physics and other branches of science will prove suitable to create a scientific theory of consciousness, which one day should appear? The paper examines what prevents the creation of scientific models of consciousness that can effectively represent empirical experience, and what theoretical construct (abstract object) is needed to create these models.

Complexity as Practice: A Reflection on the Creative Outcomes of a Sustained Engagement with Complexity

Leonardo ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Davis
Keyword(s):  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents a reflection on a body of creative work carried out during four years of Ph.D. research that explored the relationship between complexity theory and music. The article highlights conceptual problems that arose during the creation of the work, especially those associated with the exploration of scientific models for the creation of art. The author does not attempt to offer any final solutions but rather presents the journey undertaken through the combined artistic and research practice as a way of documenting the strategies he developed during this period of creative practice.

Bakerian Lecture: The acceleration of protons to energies above 10 GeV

1956 ◽  
Vol 234 (1199) ◽  
pp. 441-456 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Small Volume ◽  
Nucleon Nucleon ◽  
Laboratory System ◽  
Centre Of Mass ◽  
Positron Energy ◽  
High Energies ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Stable Particles ◽  
Very High

The various projects now under way to produce in the laboratory beams of protons and other elementary particles with very high energies, are often criticized as a very expensive extreme of fashion in modern physics. It is true that there has been uneconomic and unnecessary duplication of many kinds of accelerators, and that some which have been built are not being used to full advantage. However, attempts to reach in the laboratory particle energies of at least 10 GeV are essential if the frontiers of physics are to be extended. The study of the physics of particles is much concerned with the creation of both short-lived and stable particles in collisions between nucleons. In a collision between a relativistic nucleon and one which is at rest, a great concentration of energy is produced in a very small volume. This energy may be utilized, in part, to give material existence to those particles whose virtual existence is postulated by modern field theory as responsible for the nucleon interactions. Such particles are in general created in pairs—the particle and its anti-particle—as is well known in the case of the electron and its anti-particle, the positron. Energy of at least 2m 0 c 2 must be ‘compressed’ into a volume of the order of nucleon dimensions in order to create a pair of nucleons. This concentrated energy is the energy in the system moving with the centre of mass of the colliding particles, and not the energy in the laboratory system. Figure 1 shows how the energy available for the creation of pairs of particles in nucleon-nucleon collisions varies with the kinetic energy of the bombarding nucleons. Internal momentum, due to a possible structure of the nucleons, may modify these values a little, but according to Heisenberg by not more than 0⋅5 GeV.

The Ether at the Crossroads of Classical and Modern Physics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imogen Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Classical Physics ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
British Case ◽  
Arthur Stanley Eddington ◽  
Oliver Lodge

This chapter aims to liberate the ether from its historiographical assignment to classical physics, instead considering its role in debates surrounding the future of the discipline. Focusing on the British case, it explores the discussions underway in professional spaces between 1909 and 1914, suggesting that a physicist’s commitment to the ether does not classify them as a ‘classicist’ but rather as an advocate of continuity in the discipline. It then examines the ether’s ‘popular’ life following the well-publicised 1919 eclipse expedition, and the subsequent expository efforts by the ‘classical’ Oliver Lodge and ‘modern’ Arthur Stanley Eddington. By moving beyond a traditional approach that divides physics and physicists into classical and modern, this chapter suggests a more substantial role for the ether in professional and popular early twentieth-century British physics.

The Conservative Side of the Natural Science

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Evolutionary Tree ◽  
Primordial Black Hole ◽  
Natural Scientist ◽  
Classical Physics ◽  
Modern Physics

Natural scientist — like physicist and biologist — may think themselves as liberal. They seem, however, to have a strong conservative that impacts diversity in research and unity in thinking. I explored why this conservative in direction exists in the literature and the implications that it has on our — as human — choices for research and thinking about nature. My exploration revealed that the directional conservative expressed by ‘conserved from species X to human’ that indicate from lower to higher organism. In physics, as well, the directional conservative expressed by ‘make a Y or Z from modern physics theory analogous to the classical one’ that indicate we are still working to figure out the details of how classical physics emerge from the modern domain. It implications on our choices for research is make us feel confusion to answer questions like: ‘Can one have atoms in which the nucleus is a tiny primordial black hole formed in the early universe?’ in physics, nor ‘If human have free will, where in the evolutionary tree did it develop?’ in biology. The conservative also implicates on our thinking about nature that hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior — as ‘higher’ organism — is determined by physical law based on our understanding of the molecular basis of biology.

scholarly journals A Bridge Connecting Classical Physics and Modern Physics

2016 ◽  
Vol 07 (11) ◽  
pp. 1378-1387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tower Chen ◽  
Zeon Chen
Keyword(s):  
Classical Physics ◽  
Modern Physics

scholarly journals Designing for Computational Expression

2014 ◽  
pp. 1018-1042
Author(s):  
David Weintrop ◽  
Uri Wilensky
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Visual Feedback ◽  
Sociocultural Theory ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Theoretical Construct ◽  
Practical Design ◽  
Low Threshold ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Play Game

In this chapter, framed by Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, Wilensky and Papert's restructuration theory, and Noss and Hoyles' theoretical construct of webbing, the authors explore four practical design principles facilitating the creation of learning environments that can overcome the challenge of introducing learners to computational expression in meaningful contexts and can start learners down the path towards computational literacy. The four design principles discussed are (1) low-threshold interfaces, (2) task-specific tools, (3) visual feedback, and (4) in-context examples. The heart of this chapter presents these features and their design rationales in the context of a qualitative study examining participants' use of RoboBuilder, a blocks-based, program-to-play game.

scholarly journals Rethinking ‘Classical Physics’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Gooday ◽  
Daniel Jon Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Classical Physics ◽  
Experimental Physics ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
Comparative Case Studies

This article discusses the reasons for rethinking ‘classical physics’, building upon Richard Staley’s historical enquiry into the origins of the distinction between ‘classical’ and ‘modern physics’. In particular, it challenges Staley’s thesis that ‘classical’ and ‘modern physics’ were invented simultaneously by Max Planck at the Solvay conference in 1911, arguing instead that the emergence of these notions took place separately over a period that reached as late as the 1930s. The article first considers how the identification of the ether as a key feature of classical physics has drawn historians’ attention towards its changing metaphysical fortunes during the nineteenth century. It then describes the connections between physics and industry that are obscured by the theoretical bias of any dichotomy between ‘classical’ and ‘modern physics’. Finally, it highlights continuity in the field of French experimental physics by focusing on three comparative case studies dealing with electrocapillarity, electromagnetic waves, and X-rays.

scholarly journals God, Mind, Evolution, and Quantum Reality Based on Process Metaphysics

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Mark Germine
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Unsolved Problem ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Classical Physics ◽  
Process Metaphysics ◽  
Quantum Reality ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Non Locality

The genesis of actuality from potentiality, with the apparent role of the observer, is an important and unsolved problem which essentially defines science‟s view of reality in a variety of contexts. Observation then becomes lawful and not emergent. Panentheism is needed to provide a mechanism for order outside of blind efficient causality, in a Universal final causality. Classical physics is over a hundred years out of date, yet scientific models remain mechanistic and deterministic. Deism, a remnant of classical cosmology, is examined and rejected by scientists and philosophers, and certain pre-scientific notions of religion are scorned, putting the matter to rest. Quantum physics, in its basic form, is necessary if there is to be any philosophical or scientific notion of free will and self-determination, as potentiality. Quantum metaphysics is also needed because classical physics is fundamentally limited to localized external relations, lacking the internality and non-locality of relatedness. God, or the equivalent, is necessary to complete the equation. Physicists now tell us that reality is fundamentally mental and is created by observation. Observation is here taken to mean experience, with experience going all the way down to the lowest order of a Universal mentality.

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