Articulating the Paradigm Shift

2012 ◽  
pp. 352-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Brock Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Neural Processes ◽  
Energy Center ◽  
Cognitive Unconscious ◽  
Point Of Reference

The author’s hypothesis covers the following: neural processes are correlated with archetypal states of the cognitive unconscious, archetypes form a magnetic field and energy center underlying the transformation of the psychic processes into images, as in Jungian dream analysis, images can be used to access dimensions of the cognitive unconscious, and drama-based video games (DBG) constitute a dream analog that can be employed as a cognitive research instrument. Therefore, using a dramatic-metaphorical point of reference, deep states of the psychic unconscious can be interrogated using Jungian principles of dream analysis, the most recent research in the cognitive sciences, and the mathematics of recursion in order to improve understanding of higher order cognitive functions, to apply compensational content patterns to the global media, and to foster sustainable, coherent human values and behaviors.

Constructive realism: In defense of the objective reality of perspectives

Human Affairs ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Madzia
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
William James ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
Constructive Realism ◽  
Neural Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
Epistemological Position ◽  
Epistemological Realism

AbstractThe paper proposes an outline of a reconciliatory approach to the perennial controversy between epistemological realism and anti-realism (constructionism). My main conceptual source in explaining this view is the philosophy of pragmatism, more specifically, the epistemological theories of George H. Mead, John Dewey, and also William James’ radical empiricism. First, the paper analyzes the pragmatic treatment of the goal-directedness of action, especially with regard to Mead’s notion of attitudes, and relates it to certain contemporary epistemological theories provided by the cognitive sciences (Maturana, Rizzolatti, Clark). Against this background, the paper presents a philosophical as well as empirical justification of why we should interpret the environment and its objects in terms of possibilities for action. In Mead’s view, the objects and events of our world emerge within stable patterns of organism-environment interactions, which he called “perspectives”. According to pragmatism as well as the aforementioned cognitive scientists, perception and other cognitive processes include not only neural processes in our heads but also the world itself. Elaborating on Mead’s concept of perspectives, the paper argues in favor of the epistemological position called “constructive realism.”

scholarly journals Neo-mechanistic explanatory integration for cognitive science: the problem of reduction remains

Sofia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Azevedo Leite
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Models ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Neural Processes ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
Multi Level

One of the central aims of the neo-mechanistic framework for the neural and cognitive sciences is to construct a pluralistic integration of scientific explanations, allowing for a weak explanatory autonomy of higher-level sciences, such as cognitive science. This integration involves understanding human cognition as information processing occurring in multi-level human neuro-cognitive mechanisms, explained by multi-level neuro-cognitive models. Strong explanatory neuro-cognitive reduction, however, poses a significant challenge to this pluralist ambition and the weak autonomy of cognitive science derived therefrom. Based on research in current molecular and cellular neuroscience, the framework holds that the best strategy for integrating human neuro-cognitive theories is through direct reductive explanations based on molecular and cellular neural processes. It is my aim to investigate whether the neo-mechanistic framework can meet the challenge. I argue that leading neo-mechanists offer some significant replies; however, they are not able yet to completely remove strong explanatory reductionism from their own framework.

Designing an Ethical Structure for Social Influence Marketing (SIM)

2012 ◽  
pp. 252-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Brock Schafer ◽  
Thomas Palamides
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Human Reality ◽  
Cognitive Principles ◽  
The Media

Unprecedented advances in media technology have created the need to define ethics for a media-age ontology that combines the dynamics of physics and psychology. This unprecedented human reality has been called the media-sphere, and it appears to have all the dimensions and dynamics of dreams as defined by Carl Jung. Because of the dreamlike dynamics and structural dimensions of the media sphere, its psychological dynamics may be contemplated in terms of Jungian dream analysis which is intrinsically ethical. The Jungian model for dream analysis is structurally and dynamically consistent with the most recent discoveries in cognitive research. Because of its subjective, emotive, interactive integrity as defined by Aristotle’s dramatic unities, dramatic structure is a common denominator for the study of conscious-unconscious cognitive states. This chapter explores the ethics of social influence marketing (SIM) relative to the dynamics and standards of morality implied by cognitive principles of Analytical Psychology.

scholarly journals Discursive Legitimation of Human Values: Local-global Power Relations in Global Media Discourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 171-187
Author(s):  
Abduljalil Nasar Hazaea ◽  
Noraini Ibrahim ◽  
Nor Fariza Mohd Nor
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Global Power

scholarly journals Rethinking Aural Skills Instruction through Cognitive Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth West Marvin
Keyword(s):  
Motor Area ◽  
Auditory Imagery ◽  
Aural Skills ◽  
Learning Sequence ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Model Curriculum ◽  
Classroom Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
High Voice ◽  
The Brain

This essay responds to three papers appearing in this issue that relate music-cognitive research to aural skills pedagogy. Gary S. Karpinski focuses on tonic inference as support for do-based minor solfège pedagogy. My discussion supports this position, with evidence from key-profile experiments and corpus analyses. Timothy Chenette proposes a perceptually based learning sequence for aural skills instruction. He sketches a model curriculum, to which I propose a staffing solution and offer a research-based challenge: the high-voice superiority principle. Finally, Sarah Gates considers what the cognitive sciences can tell us about auditory imagery. I offer classroom strategies that take advantage of motor-area activation in the brain.

Representations of Space and Past in the Context of Cognitive Sciences: Cognitive Maps, Lieux De Mémoire (Realms of Memory), Interpresentation Networks

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8 (106)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
George Shpak
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Representations Of Space

The article deals with the main concepts developed within the framework of cognitive disciplines, focused on the interaction with the images of space and the past, which in psychobiological terms are equal. An attempt is made to compare the development of concepts determining the interaction of consciousness and “external” images in Geography and History. Based on the review of the subject of cognitive research, it is concluded that scholars engaged in the development of the issue of representation should establish interdisciplinary connections, which will enrich both cognitive history and cognitive geography.

scholarly journals Świadomość czy algorytm? Ludzkie maszyny jako emanacje Frankensteina Mary Shelley w naukach kognitywnych oraz tekstach kultury

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krystian Saja
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Neural Processes ◽  
Full Knowledge ◽  
Conscious Thinking ◽  
Scientific Hypotheses

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is without doubt a popular science-fiction novel, which has inspired many generations of artists and creators in popular culture and mass culture. It has also become an inspiration for scientific studies in the field of robotics and cybernetics. Modern cognitive sciences are looking for the perfect pattern that will allow artificial intelligence to be achieved. An important problem for scientists was the lack of full knowledge about consciousness. We are able to recreate the structure of the human body in a machine, but we are not able to fully simulate the neural processes that would create human consciousness. This problem is perfectly illustrated by cultural works, including literature and cinematography. We see in them both the emanations of the motifs contained in Shelley’s novel and the realization of scientific hypotheses that shape our image of a conscious, thinking machine.

The Dream Analog

2016 ◽  
pp. 40-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Brock Schafer
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Structure Function ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Virtual Realities ◽  
Human Perceptions ◽  
Sustainable Media ◽  
Electro Magnetic

Increasingly, human perceptions of reality are based on virtual illusions. This altered reality called the metaverse is dreamlike. If reality, the metaverse, and dreams are virtual illusions, the metaverse and dreams are real. This suggests that virtual realities may be analyzed according to Carl Jung's compensational dynamics of dream analysis. The objective of such analysis would be discovery of contextual (target group) meaning in unconscious dimensions. Such discovery could lead to the use of mediated biofeedback to engineer Earth-sustainable media content in order to promote coherent frequencies on correlated electro-magnetic scales. This chapter will emphasize the authenticity of research on the collective unconscious as projected into the metaverse. Based on fundamental correlations in structure, function, and purpose of dreams as defined by Carl Jung, drama-based video games can be understood as a genre that may serve as an unprecedented, interactive dream analog for purposes of cognitive research.

Designing an Ethical Structure for Social Influence Marketing (SIM)

E-Marketing ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 888-907
Author(s):  
Stephen Brock Schafer ◽  
Thomas Palamides
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Dream Analysis ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Human Reality ◽  
Cognitive Principles ◽  
The Media

Unprecedented advances in media technology have created the need to define ethics for a media-age ontology that combines the dynamics of physics and psychology. This unprecedented human reality has been called the media-sphere, and it appears to have all the dimensions and dynamics of dreams as defined by Carl Jung. Because of the dreamlike dynamics and structural dimensions of the media sphere, its psychological dynamics may be contemplated in terms of Jungian dream analysis which is intrinsically ethical. The Jungian model for dream analysis is structurally and dynamically consistent with the most recent discoveries in cognitive research. Because of its subjective, emotive, interactive integrity as defined by Aristotle’s dramatic unities, dramatic structure is a common denominator for the study of conscious-unconscious cognitive states. This chapter explores the ethics of social influence marketing (SIM) relative to the dynamics and standards of morality implied by cognitive principles of Analytical Psychology.

Magnetic-field strengths from optical polarization data

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 381-383
Author(s):  
J. M. Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Optical Polarization ◽  
Polarization Data ◽  
Term Model ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Field Strengths

Van de Hulst (Paper 64, Table 1) has marked optical polarization as a questionable or marginal source of information concerning magnetic field strengths. Rather than arguing about this–I should rate this method asq+-, or quarrelling about the term ‘model-sensitive results’, I wish to stress the historical point that as recently as two years ago there were still some who questioned that optical polarization was definitely due to magnetically-oriented interstellar particles.

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