Domenico Masciotra

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If human life were possible in weightlessness (zero gravity), would that change anything in ours way of knowing and in our knowledge?

Is knowledge related to our being in the world (earth)? Would we have discovered the phenomenon of gravity?

15 January 2018 1,705 15 View

Does Stephen Hawking phenomenon contradict the premise that human being think through his whole body?

Stephen Hawking uses his cheek muscles contractions that are detected by a sensor attached to a branch of his glasses, which can thus select the letters on a virtual keyboard of a tablet which a...

07 October 2016 6,782 37 View

Could we teach anything else than subject matter anyway?

Teaching is teaching something: that is mostly subject matter, a disciplinary content or whatever other content. The key word here is content. What else? Many people believe this. What’s your...

13 December 2014 9,484 43 View

Alternatives to long-term memory?

Knowledge is stored in long-term memory (LTM). What are the alternatives? Where is the LTM located? Where else could the knowledge be stored? What does it mean to store knowledge: to keep it...

06 January 2014 7,847 13 View

Don't we need to act to learn, and learn to act better? Is there any knowing possible outside one's actions?

To know, don't you have to do something (action)? To show that you have learned some knowledge, don't you have to do something like recite your lesson, pass an exam, write something involving...

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