Search results for "Consciousness"

Ewolucja ludzkości według Hoene-Wrońskiego

2017

The aim of this article is to recall and, at the same time, to update, the theory of the evolution of humanity by Josef Hoëné-Wronski. I am trying to show that the author of Metapolitics (Métapolitique messianique) and of other philosophical and mathematical works was much ahead of his contemporaries concerning his ideas about evolution and these ideas, although expressed in a somewhat archaic and obscure language, are still valid for us today. Hoëné-Wronski has boldly challenged the deterministic picture of the world emerging from modern science and has derived human evolution from the moral and rational development of human beings. He divided it into seven stages. My interpretation of Hoë…

Organisational Learning and Knowledge Management: A Prospective Analysis Based on the Levels of Consciousness

2018

In this chapter, we analyse the concepts of organizational learning and knowledge management by relating them to the levels of human and organizational consciousness. In doing so, we understand the existence of different conceptualizations of both organizational learning and knowledge management, and relate them to several organizational models and levels of organizational learning. The learning organization model is related to the highest level of consciousness and to the highest level of learning: triple-loop learning. We associate this with an organizational learning perspective that stresses the importance of mindfulness, mindful learning, and with a knowledge management perspective tha…

Reflections on the Everlasting and the Transient or the Road to the “Freed Field of Light”

2000

The twentieth century is a contradiction-ridden time. Without warning it combines grandiose Utopias and apocalyptic reasonings. It bottles up tragic contradictions, a feeling of insecurity, at times manifestations of despair and feverish activity. In the eyes of a considerable part of society man has lost his divine image, his place in the system of universal value. Consciousness of the loss of sense, the loss of absolute values forms a peculiar background for the cultural processes of the twentieth century. It is this loss of sense that may be the basis for its dualistic and even tragic vision of the world.

Las novelas de corriente de conciencia y la obra de Hélène Lenoir

2012

La naissance du roman de la modernité s’est marquée par l’intérêt croissant des narrations de la vie intime des personnages. La classique narration omnisciente cède face au progressif développement de l’intimité ; c’est la réponse à l’ardeur «réaliste» qui parcourt le XIXe. De cette façon, les romans du flux de conscience surgissent pour narrer la coulée de pensées, idées et sensations des personnages qui pensent à leurs propos par rapport au monde. Les romans d’Hélène Lenoir, héritiers de cette tendance, se construisent donc autour de l’intimité des personnages tourmentés par leurs relations familiales. The beginning of the modernist novel is been manifested by the increasing interest in t…

The Development of the «Comedia Nueva» Through Francisco Tárrega's Stage Directions: Dramatic Consciousness and Textual Authority

2021

Francisco Agustin Tarrega (ca.1553-1602) is the main representative of the group of playwrights known as valencian dramatic school. At the same time, he contributed to the development of the comedia nueva. Taking as a basis the studies that analyzed his production during the 80s, we seek to explore the stage directions of the ten plays we conserve today in order to achieve the following goals: considering stage directions as a connection between the text and the tablado, we will be able to gather precious information about the scene in that period, to go deeper in the dramatic consciousness of Tarrega and his writing strategies, or to think about the problems and risks that are linked to an…

Editorial: Consciousness in Humanoid Robots

2019

Building a conscious robot is a grand scientific and technological challenge. Debates about the possibility of conscious robots and the related positive outcomes and hazards for human beings are today no longer confined to philosophical circles.

Perception Loop and Machine Consciousness

2008

Big five and psychological and subjective well-being in Colombian older adults

2019

Abstract The goal of the current study was to investigate the relationships between the Five Factor Model of personality and the dimensions of subjective well-being (positive affect, negative affect, and life satisfaction), and psychological well-being (self-acceptance, personal growth, environmental mastery, autonomy, positive relations with others, and purpose in life). Participants included 618 Colombian adults aged 60–92 years. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted. Regarding the subjective well-being, neuroticism was associated with lower scores on life satisfaction, and positively associated with negative affect, whereas extroversion and conscientiousness were associated …

Domain-general neural correlates of dependency formation: Using complex tones to simulate language

2015

There is an ongoing debate whether the P600 event-related potential component following syntactic anomalies reflects syntactic processes per se, or if it is an instance of the P300, a domain-general ERP component associated with attention and cognitive reorientation. A direct comparison of both components is challenging because of the huge discrepancy in experimental designs and stimulus choice between language and ‘classic’ P300 experiments. In the present study, we develop a new approach to mimic the interplay of sequential position as well as categorical and relational information in natural language syntax (word category and agreement) in a non-linguistic target detection paradigm using…

Inefficiency of emotion regulation as vulnerability marker for bipolar disorder: evidence from healthy individuals with hypomanic personality.

2012

Abstract Objective Emotion regulation deficits are a key characteristic of bipolar disorder (BD). In the present study, we asked if deficits in emotion regulation are also a vulnerability marker for BD. To this end, we investigated a healthy group of participants at high-risk for developing BD, defined on the basis of a hypomanic personality trait. We examined the neural correlates of two emotion regulation strategies, reappraisal and distraction. Method Twenty-two individuals with higher risk for BD and twenty-four controls were investigated in a functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm. Participants were presented with negative, positive and neutral pictures and were either required…