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Although I am not an expert in set theory or in quantum ontology, this is an issue that has worried me. In set theory, it is assumed that there are actual elements of sets. Functions are defined...
10 October 2016 4,191 70 View
Please see the full article in the link below. My thanks to Brian Flanagan for calling my attention to this discovery. An excerpt: "Researchers at UCSB blur the line between classical and quantum...
07 July 2016 3,475 3 View
More precisely, "what is the origin of the regularities in nature which are represented (or purported to be represented) in our various recognized or accepted laws and principles regarding nature...
01 January 2016 2,631 99 View
A new interdisciplinary field emerged: the Ethics of Sustainability (see textbook attached). There are some movements and institutes focusing on this important initiative (see links below). How...
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Joseph LeDoux ("Rethinking the Emotional Brain", Neuron 73, 2012, p. 653) assumes that emotional feelings are representations of the state of the body. According to his definition, feelings "occur...
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Antonio Damásio (in the book "The Feeling of What Happens", 2000, and other writings) distinguishes feelings from emotions, but argues that both can be unconscious. For him, they are conscious...
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The existence of large-scale calcium waves has been proven and imaged 'in vivo' with two-photon fluorescence microscopy. Thrane et al (2012) showed that general anesthetics selectively eliminate...
08 August 2013 2,850 6 View
Eric Kandel formulated a sketchy theory of motivation as based on serotonergic co-activation of glutamatergic synapses. When a stimulus is emotionally strong, there is a release of serotonin in...
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