Search results for "Dennett"

Enabling Sociability When Using Virtual Reality Applications : A Design Science Research Approach

2019

Immersive virtual reality applications aim at providing an all-encompassing spatial experience where a user can feel like being in another world or dimension. The systems are inherently designed for individual use as the devices disconnect the user from the physical environment. However, the applications are seldom used alone. Specifically, when used for sales and marketing, the user often needs help from other people but also benefits from social interaction as a part of the experience. Design research methodology is applied to three iterative development versions of a virtual-reality application. The focus of the evaluation of the artifacts is in the social use emphasizing three sociabili…

Chromone and phenanthrene alkaloids from Dennettia tripetala.

2002

Dennettine, a new 2,6-dimethoxychromone and three known phenanthrene alkaloids (uvariopsine, stephenanthrine and argentinine) in addition to the phenolic and known compound vanillin were isolated from the roots of Dennettia tripetala. Their structures were determined by physical and spectroscopical one dimensional (1D) and 2D-NMR analysis, including heteronuclear multiple bond correlation and nuclear Overhauser enhancement spectroscopy.

On the aestheticization of technologized bodies : a portrait of a cyborg(ed) form of agency

2017

Discussions revolving around cyborgs seldom include aesthetics, let alone propose aesthetics as an inextricable part of the phenomenon of the cyborg. Rather, the term “cyborg”, a contraction of “cybernetic organism”, evokes a figure of the (hu)man- machine. In the field of social and political sciences, the cyborg is designated a human-machine hybrid, a metaphor of humans becoming machinelike, or a portrait of (political) agency in an era of high technology. These approaches promote a figure of technologized bodies, that is, the cyborg as a figure of technologically dominated and altered bodies. I will sustain that the cyborg contributes to our understanding of agency in the age of high tec…

Pattern-Recognition: a Foundational Approach

2015

This paper aims at giving a contribution to the ongoing attempt to turn the theory of pattern-recognition into a rigorous science. In this article we address two problems which lie at the foundations of pattern-recognition theory: (i) What is a pattern? and (ii) How do we come to know patterns? In so doing much attention will be paid to tracing a non-arbitrary connection between (i) and (ii), a connection which will be ultimately based on considerations relating to Darwin’s theory of evolution.

When value co-creation turns to co-destruction: Users' experiences of augmented reality mobile games

2018

Service-dominant logic (SDL) provides a well-established lens for understanding services as value co-creation processes. However, also value co-destruction can occur in service processes, but the literature on value co-destruction remains scattered and more studies are called for. We address this research gap with a classification of users’ subjective reasoning for value co-destructive experiences while playing the augmented reality (AR) mobile game Pokémon GO. We conduct laddering interviews with Pokémon GO players to uncover their value co-destruction experiences. Employing clustering analysis, we investigate users’ reasoning for value co-destruction experiences, and argue that value co-d…

Understanding Augmented Reality Game Players : Value Co-destruction Process in Pokémon Go

2017

We conceptualize the mobile game Pokémon Go as a service provider aiming to offer customers value propositions over an augmented reality (AR) platform, where players engage in co-creating value, such as fun, social unity and health. However, playing Pokémon Go can also ensue to value co-destruction through critical service interactions involving e.g. increased mobile costs, trespassing, accidents or assaults. Such could ensue to negative value outcomes, such as frustration, humiliation or unsafety. In order to prevent critical service interactions, it is significant to gain an understanding of value codestruction, which currently remains an unclear concept with a call for empirical studies.…

Tukivastemalli (Response to intervention model)

2021

Tukivastemalli on oppimisen ja koulunkäynnin tuen suunnittelua ja toteutusta selkeyttävä toimintatapa, jota voidaan hyödyntää minkä tahansa taidon tukemisessa kolmiportaisen tuen mallin kaikilla portailla. Tukivastemallissa tuen tavoitteiden määrittely ja kohdennettu tukitoimien suunnittelu perustuvat huolelliseen, yksilölliseen alkuarviointiin oppilaan tuen tarpeesta ja ymmärrykseen siitä, mistä oppilaan yksilöllisissä oppimisen pulmissa on kyse. Tuki kohdistetaan siihen kehitysvaiheeseen, jossa oppilas kehityksellisesti on ja niihin osataitoihin, joissa oppilaan kehitys edellyttää tukea. Oppimisen tuen suunnittelun yhteydessä suunnitellaan, miten ja kuinka usein oppimisen edistymistä ja t…

Oltre il dilemma monismo/dualismo: l’ontologia non riduzionista della coscienza nel naturalismo biologico di John Searle

2006

La relazione mira a testare la fecondità del modello naturalista ed antiriduzionista dell’ontologia della coscienza elaborato da John Searle alla luce della sua capacità di superare l’apparentemente inevitabile dilemma monismo/dualismo. La posizione searleana rivela la propria attendibilità nella sua capacità di superare le aporie concettuali alle quali sembrerebbero esporsi alcune tra le più avanzate proposte teoriche contemporanee sull’ontologia della coscienza, con riferimento in particolare alle proposte elaborate da Dennett e Chalmers in chiave rispettivamente eliminativista e dualista. Si analizza inoltre la proposta searleana in ordine alla sua capacità di proporre una soluzione conv…

Introduzione. Mutamenti paradigmatici e nuovi modelli nel dibattito contemporaneo su razionalità, verità e mente.

2008

Mind, brain, and downward causation

2011

Este trabajo tiene tres partes. En la primera, exponemos algunas nociones básicas, como las de causalidad mental e intencional, así como la de causalidad misma; procedemos a continuación a formular algunas tesis, inspiradas en las ciencias naturales, y a mostrar cómo parecen entrar en conflicto con la aceptación de la causalidad intencional. Este conflicto es el núcleo del problema de la causalidad mental. En la segunda parte, presentamos y discutimos brevemente algunas propuestas para abordar este problema, y tratamos de sacar a la luz sus dificultades. Finalmente, en la tercera parte, planteamos tentativamente algunas sugerencias sobre el modo en que el problema de la causalidad intencion…