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Embracing water, healing pine : touch-walking and transcorporeal worldings
2023
This article considers touch as an embodied worlding practice in the context of humans intentionally seeking tactile trans-species contact. In particular, it examines three co-researchers’ tactile relations with tree(s) and water which were explored by “touch-walking,” an immersive method developed for this study. The method opened possibilities for examining transcorporeal sensory matterings and affective flows between the researcher’s body, co-researchers’ bodies and more-than-human bodies. This experimental micro-research brings knowledge about how people form deeply meaningful relationships with natural bodies, making worlds by cherishing tactile contact with them. Theoretically, we “po…
On Common Sense, Estimation, and the Soul’s Unity in Avicenna
2020
This paper addresses two questions related to Themistius’ alleged influence on Avicenna’s theory of the common sense. The first question concerns the phenomenon of incidental perception, which Themistius explained by means of the common sense. For Avicenna, on the contrary, the explanation of cases like our perceiving something yellow as honey involves the faculty of estimation and the entire system of the internal senses that he coined, and this results in an analysis that is considerably more complex than Themistius’. The second question concerns Themistius’ claim according to which an incorporeal spirit is the primary subject of perception. I argue that Avicenna departs from such a view …
Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in Neotropical ecosystems
2022
Social information, acquired through the observation of other individuals, is especially relevant among species belonging to the same guild. The unpredictable and ephemeral nature of carrion implies that social mechanisms may be selected among scavenger species to facilitate carcass location and consumption. Here, we apply a survival-modelling strategy to data obtained through the placement and monitoring of carcasses in the field to analyse possible information transmission cascades within a Neotropical scavenger community. Our study highlights how the use of different senses (smell and sight) within this guild facilitates carcass location through the transmission of social information bet…
Perceiving As : Non-conceptual Forms of Perception in Medieval Philosophy
2019
This chapter focuses on thirteenth-century Latin discussions concerning the psychological processes that explain some of the most sophisticated features of perceptual experience. Sense perception primarily conveys information about the sensible qualities of external objects; we see colours, hear sounds, taste flavours, and so forth. Yet, our experience of the external world contains several elements that cannot be reduced to these qualities. To name a few, external objects are perceived as three-dimensional bundles of properties, as useful or harmful for the perceiving subject, and as objects of desires, fears, and other emotions, and they are conceptualised in various ways—in short, they a…
I know what i like when i see it:Likability is distinct from pleasantness since early stages of multimodal emotion evaluation
2021
Liking and pleasantness are common concepts in psychological emotion theories and in everyday language related to emotions. Despite obvious similarities between the terms, several empirical and theoretical notions support the idea that pleasantness and liking are cognitively different phenomena, becoming most evident in the context of emotion regulation and art enjoyment. In this study it was investigated whether liking and pleasantness indicate behaviourally measurable differences, not only in the long timespan of emotion regulation, but already within the initial affective responses to visual and auditory stimuli. A cross-modal affective priming protocol was used to assess whether there i…
Radiotaajuisen etätunnistuksen tietoturvaongelmat esineiden Internetissä
2016
Radiotaajuinen etätunnistus (RFID, engl. radio frequency identification) on viivakoodiin verrattavissa oleva radiotaajuuksilla toimiva etätunnistusjärjestelmä. RFID on eräs esineiden Internetin aistitason tekniikoista, ja sitä voidaan käyttää esineiden väliseen langattomaan tunnistukseen ja tiedonsiirtoon. Tutkielma esittelee tekniikkaan liittyviä tietoturvaongelmia ja mahdollisia ratkaisukeinoja. RFID-järjestelmät ovat alttiita useille hyökkäyksille, mutta niiden käytöstä voi aiheutua myös tahattomia ongelmatilanteita, muun muassa törmäyskonflikteja ja standardiongelmia. Radiotaajuisen etätunnistuksen tietoturvaongelmia voidaan pyrkiä estämään käyttämällä erilaisia tietoturvaprotokollia, j…