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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"human mind"”.
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Characterizing Language Representations in the Human Mind and Brain
… the neural representations that enable humans to infer the meaning of a sentence. My work builds on the foundation that regions in the left frontal and temporal parts of the brain causally and selectively support language processing (the ‘language network’). Chapter 2 asks how the …
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Buddhist Philosophy and the Epistemological Foundations of Conflict Resolution.
… epistemologies has confined the understanding of human mind to social/cultural orientations and left a comprehensive and qualitative analysis of the potential of individual human mind underdeveloped. Buddhist epistemology, the central theme of which is to address human suffering that is mainly …
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Understanding Music’s Theological Significance: A Kantian Approach
… which knowledge is constructed by the individual human mind, pose a challenge to such a conclusion, since even if divine knowledge is possible it would appear irrelevant for our understanding of objects, such as music, that can be known directly through experience. Because Immanuel Kant presents a …
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Three-Dimensional Constraints on Human Cognition as Expressed in Human Language
… distinct language instinct generally claim that human language is not reliant on general human cognition. However, limitations on recursive patterns in human language are universally attested, from the micro-level elements of phonology, throughout the mid-level elements of morphology and syntax, …
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Musica come Scienza dell'uomo. I caratteri del sapere musicale nel Settecento britannico
… the development of specific philosophies of the human mind, such as the ones of John Locke and David Hume, did influence the way in which music was thought. Particularly we will point out the case of Adam Smith’s interpretation of instrumental music, which is heavily indebted to the humeian model …
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Disembodied characters
… featured in decentralist theories of the human mind. In this thesis I argue that comparing a superorganism to the mind is useful. In particular, this comparison opens up an enchanting opportunity for the creation of expressive synthetic characters that may become important incremental …
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The Journey: Theatre and Arts center
… is a reflection of these contradictions in a human mind. The goal of this project is to illustrate how the notion of life's journey is similar to the experience of theatre, and how the architecture of the theatre can answer the questions above.
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"Attention, absorption and habit: the Stanislavski System reexamined as a cognitive process using the ""Theatre of Consciousness"" model of Bernard Baars"
… and explanation of the business of being human. We know for certain that Stanislavski was intensely preoccupied with psychologists. He went so far as to directly cite one in particular – Theodule Ribot – as a direct source for some of his work. Many of the psychological foundations on …
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Making Sense in Nineteenth Century Britain: Affinities of the Philosophy of Mind, c.1820-1860
This work examines British inquiry into the human mind in the early nineteenth century using a multivalent structural analysis of ideas and practices within traditions established by Hume, Hartley, and Reid. While these traditions were propagated into the nineteenth century by such figures as …
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The effect of stronger intellectual property protection on technological innovation in developing countries: the case of Lesotho
… a number of distinct types of creations of the human mind, for which property rights are recognised. Its influence extends to every aspect of life because it cuts across all disciplines.
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Reading Consciousness: Analyzing Literature through William James' Stream of Thought Theory
… of the character's and, by extension, the human mind.
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New Routes to HCI - A transdisciplinary approach
… together different disciplines – philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, cybernetics and the performing arts – in a transdisciplinary investigation that raises new questions about the human mind and our relationship with computers and machines in a way that contributes to …
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Towards a space/nature syntax : the influence of spatial configuration and a view of nature on social interaction, with Arcosanti, Arizona, USA, as case study
… which holds that there is a connection between humans and non-human Nature which is innate: that when this connection is provided the human mind performs at its best, and when this connection is absent the human mind is in a state of deterioration. Increasingly, research in the field of …
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The Decline of Indian Tribal Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
… of morality and justice. The capacity of the human mind to fool itself is infinite.</p>
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Content -Based Access of Image and Video Data
… semantic gap between high-level concepts in the human mind and low-level features extractable by the machines. An emphasis is put on the learning and classification aspect during the interactive retrieval process, namely, relevance feedback algorithms. A novel algorithm, BiasMap, is proposed to …
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Modern Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Context and Future Consequences
… connecting these to an unexamined theory of the human mind underpinning AI research, I seek to show the relationship between our understanding of natural minds and of artificial intelligence, and how each may inform the other. Thus, this paper suggests that an improved understanding of natural …
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Estetica ed etica: un itinerario interpretativo, alla luce della ricerca di valori nel pensiero di Ingarden, Tischner, Levinas
… force of Love in the Song of Songs, where the human figure is given entirely through aesthetics, right to the agony of the other's death, where ethics, the "Severe Name of Love", is the only guard left; a journey through the contradictions of human mind, that, though aiming at Good, Beauty, …
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The Idea of Vacuity in Chaucer's Works
… with God’s power, and, simultaneously, with the mind’s capacity to imagine counterfactual realities. Using the philosophical currents of the 14th century as a guide, this study explores how a contemporary understanding of vacuity arises and is utilised in Chaucer’s works. When the emergence of …
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A Pen-Based Interactive Animation Environment for Effective Communication using a Tablet PC
The human mind is a churning engine, processing all forms of sensory input. Information that reaches these senses is powerful, facilitating and deepening understanding. Animations access sight. They provide a rich visual model that portrays not only information about the system graphically, but …
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Kripkenstein and Non-Reductionism about Meaning-Facts
… the world nor to non-semantic facts about the human mind. The non-reductionist proposals by Colin McGinn and Crispin Wright will be assessed in detail and arguments against both will be introduced. The arguments stem only partially from Kripke himself, some are based on recent literature, …
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