Human-Centric Functional Modeling and the Unification of Systems Thinking Approaches

2021 ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Andy E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Person ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Functional Modeling ◽  
Functional Systems ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Way

Where systems thinking approachesare often different and sometimes irreconcilable because they are based on the reasoning of one individual or another, Human-Centric Functional Modeling aims to become universal through looking inwards to the way all human beings perceive. HCFM provide a methodology that enables first person observations within each of the senses of the body or within the emotions, mind, or consciousness as functional systems to be represented as forming mathematical spaces that in turn enable all possible systems thinking approaches to be represented.This creates the possibility of comparing all systems thinking approaches to determine which is most “fit” in each context in which it is used, and it radically reduces the barriers to reusing the best components of each approach.

scholarly journals alienated human

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 247-262
Author(s):  
Nguyen Anh Quoc ◽  
Nguyen Minh Tri ◽  
Nguyen Anh Thuong ◽  
Dinh The Hoang ◽  
Nguyen Van Bung
Keyword(s):  
Spare Parts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The Senses ◽  
And Behavior

Man and nature is a unity between body and individual in behavior. Humans are liberty, creative, happy subjects in behavior and labor. By behavior and labor, humans produce tools, spare parts, machines, and robots to replace internal organs, lengthen the senses, and lengthen defective body parts. Evolution is no longer a mutation in the body but the assembly of accessories into organs, senses, and body parts when needed. People use devices that are manufactured to be used for what people want depending on specific conditions and circumstances. Labor and behavior make objectification of people, but alienated behavior and alienated labor make humanize the object. The time to enjoy liberty, creativity, and happiness is human, and the time to perform alienated behavior and alienated labor is the time to live for the non-human. People are corrupted into slavery to standards, money. It is the process of self-torture, torturing oneself; and the nobility of standards, the wealth of money is the unhappy product of life. Humans are liberty, creative and happy subjects; alienated human beings are all helpless, unhappy, deceit. Money, standards are products of helplessness, unhappiness, lies. Standards, money remove people from life.

Egocentric Performance Capture: A Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
Shivam Grover ◽  
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Kshitij Sidana ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
First Person ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Wearable Cameras ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Performance Capture ◽  
Traditional Performance

Performance capture of human beings have been used to animate 3D characters for movies and games for several decades now. Traditional performance capture methods require a dedicated costly setup which usually consists of more than one sensor placed at a distance from the subject, hence requiring a large amount of budget and space to accomodate. This lowers its feasibility and portability by a huge amount. Egocentric (first-person/wearable) cameras, however, are attached to the body and hence are mobile. With a rise of acceptance of wearable technology by the general public, wearable cameras have gotten cheaper too. We can make use of their excessive portability in the performance capture domain. However working with egocentric images is a mammoth task as the views are severely distorted due to the first-person perspective and the body parts farther from the camera are highly prone to being occluded. In this paper, we review the existing state-of-the-art methods about performance capture using egocentric based views.

Our Body Is the Measure

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-74
Author(s):  
Colin Chamberlain
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Bodily Awareness ◽  
External Objects ◽  
The World ◽  
The Senses ◽  
The Way

Malebranche holds that sensory experience represents the world from the body’s point of view. The chapter argues that Malebranche gives a systematic analysis of this bodily perspective in terms of the claim that the five external senses and bodily awareness represent nothing but relations to the body. The external senses represent relations between external objects and the perceiver’s body. Bodily awareness represents relations between parts of the perceiver’s body and her body as a whole, and the way she is related to her body. The senses thus represent the perceiver’s body as standing in two very different sets of relations. The external senses relate the body to a world of external objects, while bodily awareness relates this same body to the perceiver herself. The perceiver’s body, for Malebranche, is the center of the system of relations that make up her sensory world, bridging the gap between self and external objects.

scholarly journals ARCHITECTURE: THE DESIGN OF AN EXPERIENCE / ARCHITEKTŪRA: PATIRTIES PROJEKTAVIMAS

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Alfonso de la Fuente Suárez
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Constitution ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Way

In a multidisciplinary way, this research takes the topic of our experience of buildings considering what all human beings have in common: the sensorial organs, the body, and a brain predisposed for responding to buildings in a relatively similar way. We will treat the different processes that arise in us in our encounter with a work of architecture. This article is divided into the discrete but interacting steps that characterize all human cognition: from the early processes of the acquisition of information from the environment, to the most complicated thoughts and feelings about architecture. From the points of view of physiology, perception psychology and semiotics, we look for the way the human constitution molds our experience of things. The intention is to use that knowledge creatively in architecture: to design according to the way we experience buildings. Santrauka Šio tyrimo tikslas – iš daugiadalykės perspektyvos pažvelgti į statinių patirtį, aptariant, ką bendra turi visos žmogiškosios būtybės: jutimo organus, kūną ir smegenis, kurių funkcija yra sąlygiškai panašiai reaguoti į statinius. Nagrinėsime architektūros darbuose iškylančius skirtingus procesus. Šis straipsnis padalytas į tarpusavyje sąveikaujančias dalis, apibūdinančias visą žmogiškąjį pažinimą: nuo ankstyvųjų informacijos įgijimo iš aplinkos procesų iki pačių sudėtingiausių su architektūra susijusių minčių ir jausmų. Žvelgdami iš fiziologijos, suvokimo psichologijos ir semiotikos perspektyvų, bandysime nustatyti, kaip žmogaus konstitucija lemia mūsų su daiktais susijusį patyrimą. Sieksime įrodyti, kad architektūroje žinojimas yra kūrybingas procesas: projektavimas priklauso nuo mūsų požiūrio į statinius.

scholarly journals Kobieta i jej rola w historii zbawienia według Klemensa Aleksandryjskiego

Vox Patrum ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Stanisław Łucarz
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Clement Of Alexandria ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The article focuses on the notion of femaleness and its role in the history of salvation in the works of Clement of Alexandria. Although these are not the central themes of his considerations, he reflects on this subject against the back­ground of his magnificent vision of the incarnation of the divine Logos. The be­getting or generating of Logos by Father is the first stage of the incarnation, which is followed by the next stages: the creation of the world and of human beings, the revelation in the Old Testament and – although not directly – in the Greek philosophy. The last stage is the incarnation in Jesus Christ. All this leads towards the divinization and the unity in God. Femaleness in Clement’s work should be considered as a part of cosmic dimensions. For him, men and women are substan­tially – i.e. on the level of their souls – equal, hence in the spiritual and intellectual dimension both sexes are vested with identical dignity and enjoy equal rights. The differences between sexes are located in the body and affect various aspects of human life, mostly biological and reproductive ones, not to mention the family, community and religious reality. In practice, it is the woman who is subordinated to man due to the fact, as Clement holds, that the female body is weaker than the male one, more subjugated to passivity, less perfect and more susceptible to pas­sions. For that reason, on the way to salvation, it is the man who is the head of the woman. However, it is not an absolute subjection. If the woman goes on the way to salvation (a Christian woman), and the man does not, the Lord is the head of the woman (the divine Logos, whom she follows). All these differences resulting from the possession of a body are eliminated in eschatology, in which will be the total equality. On that way to the eschatological fulfillment, the divine Logos is indispensable. He incarnates himself and comes to the world through a woman. He chooses what is weaker in order to reveal His power. This way it is a woman, and not a man, who first experiences His divinizing closeness and action.

scholarly journals Logistics Effectiveness Through Systems Thinking

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-79
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
The Body ◽  
Logistics Management ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
The Way ◽  
Organizational Objectives

Various emerging concepts influence logistics management as scholars are developing the body of knowledge. So also, the progress and the multidisciplinary aspect of knowledge that has been influencing logistics management has changed the way scholars and researchers think about logistics as an arena of application. This, in turn, influences the logistics practices. There has been an incredible shift in organizations towards an inter-disciplinary approach where all functions of an organization interact towards the achievement of organizational objectives. This shift, therefore, calls for logistics to adapt to the emerging concepts in order to contribute meaningfully to the overall goals of the organizations. Hence, adopting a grounded theory approach with in-depth literature review this article endeavors to discuss the application of systems thinking the approach to logistics management.

Techniques to extend the body and its senses

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny McCall Howard
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Perception ◽  
The Body ◽  
Task Orientation ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Caring Relationships ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Anthropology Of The Senses ◽  
And Task ◽  
The Way

Chapter Three begins by examining the importance of boats as technologies for living and working at sea - in contrast to a great deal of literature about the sea and fishing that focusses on human-environment relations only. The chapter draws on Marcel Mauss’ analysis of techniques to ethnographically and phenomenologically examine the way in which boats and other tools are used to extend people’s bodies and sensory perception deep into the sea. As a result of these extensions, the sea is treated as a familiar workspace and caring relationships of maintenance develop between people and their tools and boats. The chapter investigates how human subjectivities and bodily safety are affected by the struggle to remain in control of the extended practices often used to work at sea. This control also depends on the ownership of boats and their gear. The chapter engages with the history of the Scottish herring fishery, the anthropology of the senses, and Lucy Suchman’s and Michael Jackson’s anthropology of human-machine relations. It also draws on anthropologies of labour-action, enskilment and task-orientation by Michael Jackson, Gísli Pálsson, and Tim Ingold.

scholarly journals Becoming Mountain

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (46) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Ian Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
First Person ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Practical Dimension ◽  
The Way

Like the concept of the assemblage, the body without organs is much written about, but unlike the assemblage there are no specific schools of thought associated with the body without organs, much less any agreed definitions. As such, it tends to be used in a very vague manner, with most accounts of it ignoring its practical dimension and instead focusing on its aesthetic (Artaud) and philosophical (Spinoza) origins. However, Deleuze quite explicitly positions the assemblage as a contribution to an understanding of behaviour, so the purely philosophical accounts of the body without organs that give no account of how it can be used analytically are not helpful in my view. I demonstrate that the practical conception of the body without organs is an effective way of understanding the concept. I use the example of George Mallory’s attempt to climb Everest to illustrate this point. I argue that if we focus only on the symbolic attainment of being the first person to climb the world’s tallest mountain and consign the actual act of climbing to the realm of mere entry price, then we effectively destroy the assemblage by rendering it teleological. Now, one might think that this means one should balance the equation by focusing on the bodily dimension of the climb, and certainly that is the direction we need to take, but to do that we need to conceive of a space where that physical dimension can be registered in something other than purely biological terms. If, as Spinoza and after him Deleuze have argued, we do not know what a body can do, it is because we do not have the conceptual means of capturing and expressing its capabilities. We can record its achievements, but we cannot map its capabilities because the body seems always to be capable of doing more than anyone thought possible. Until 1953 when Hillary and Norgay reached the peak of Everest climbing Everest was generally regarded as impossible. A view that was reinforced by the dozen or so failed attempts, not to mention the many deaths occasioned by those attempts, that preceded Hillary and Norgay’ success. This is why Mallory’s insouciance in 1923 was so captivating. His answer ‘because it’s there’ shrugged off the one thing that was standing in the way of the conquest of the peak, the conviction that it was impossible. It also explains why his answer passed into history.

Research, Reflection, Practice: Algebraic Thinking and Pictorial Growth Patterns

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 302-308
Author(s):  
Esther M.H. Billings ◽  
Tarah L. Tiedt ◽  
Lindsey H. Slater
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Growth Pattern ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
The Body ◽  
Algebraic Thinking ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Way

Dorothy, a second grader at an at-risk school where 87 percent of the students receive free or reduced lunches, watched intently as Mrs. T laid out pattern blocks to create a sequence of figures shaped like people (see fig. 1). When Mrs. T asked Dorothy, “What will the next one look like?” Dorothy replied, “Well, if you wanted to go from [the first person] all the way to four … you would put a head, then the body, hands, then the feet. And then you would put a hat, and another hat, and another one, and another one …. I think that's heavy for a person.” Dorothy thought the hats looked a bit top-heavy; nevertheless, she extended the pictorial growth pattern by correctly building the fourth person (see fig. 1).

All Animals Are Equal, or Are They? The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’s Animal Epistle and its Unhappy End

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarra Tlili
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Final Outcome ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Main Text ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Privileged Status

The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ’s animal epistle is an intriguing work. Although in the body of the narrative the authors challenge anthropocentric preconceptions and present nonhuman animals in a more favourable light than human beings, inexplicably, the narrative ends by reconfirming the privileged status of humans. The aim of this paper is to propose an explanation for this discrepancy. I argue that the egalitarian message reflected in the body of the narrative is traceable back to the Qur'an, the main text with which the authors engage in the fable, whereas the final outcome is due to the Ikhwān's hierarchical worldview.

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