Editorial: Regaining Sanity

This is the editorial to the special edition of Cosmos and History on 'Regaining Sanity'

When Tempted by Sanity...

Excerpt: In the well-known musical Man of La Mancha, Don Quixote sets off as a knight-errant on a quest to right the world\u27s wrongs and to fight for the truth no matter the cost. He is joined, of course, by Sancho Panza, who believes that he will profit from sharing the spoils of their adventures. Jousting at windmills and challenging passersby as evil knights to be dealt with, however, Quixote comes across as a poor fool who is out of touch with reality. His image has even been stamped indelibly upon the English language in the form of an adjective: quixotic;\u27 which implies the foolhardy pursuit of lofty ideals

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

Title: Die wise: a manifesto for sanity and soul.Author: Stephen Jenkinson.Publisher: Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2015.ISBN: 978158394973

Критерії осудності суб’єкта корупційного злочину у світлі норм Кримінального кодексу України

Автор піддає критичному аналізу норми кримінального закону в частині осудності суб’єкта злочину, уточнює структуру критеріїв осудності та співвідносить їх зі суб’єктом корупційного злочину. Особлива увага приділяється юридичному та патопсихологічному критерію осудності, як найбільш складній одиниці структури формули осудності. У висновках до статті узагальнюються отримані в ході дослідження результати. (The author critically analyzes the norms of the criminal law in terms of sanity of the subject of the crime, clarifies the structure of the criteria for sanity and correlates them with the subject of the corruption-related offences. Particular attention is paid to legal and pathopsychological criterion of sanity, as the most complex structural unit of the formula of sanity. The conclusions summarize the results obtained in the course of the research. Keywords: consciousness, corruption, forensic examination, formula of sanity, subject of crime.

Filtration Failure: On Selection for Societal Sanity

This paper focuses on the question of filtration through the perspective of “too much information”. It concerns Western society within the context of new media and digital culture. The main aim of this paper is to apply a philosophical reading on the video game concept of Selection for Societal Sanity within the problematics of cultural filtration, control of behaviors and desire, and a problematization of trans-individuation that the selected narrative conveys. The idea of Selection for Societal Sanity, which derives from the first postmodern video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001), is applied into a philosophical framework based on select concepts from Bernard Stiegler’s writing and incorporating them with current events such as post-truth or fake news in order to explore the role of techne and filtration within social organizations and individual psyches. Alternate forms of behavior, which contest cultural paradigms, are re-problematized as tension between calculability and incalculability, or market value versus social bonding

Sanity check for NNNN bound states in lattice QCD with L\"uscher's finite volume formula -- Exposing Symptoms of Fake Plateaux --

A sanity check rules out certain types of obviously false results, but does not catch every possible error. After reviewing such a sanity check for $NN$ bound states with the L\"uscher's finite volume formula[1-3], we give further evidences for the operator dependence of plateaux, a symptom of the fake plateau problem, against the claim in [4]. We then present our critical comments on [5] by NPLQCD: (i) Operator dependences of plateaux in NPL2013[6,7] exist with the $P$-values of 4--5%. (ii) The volume independence of plateaux in NPL2013 does not prove their correctness. (iii) Effective range expansion (ERE) fits in NPL2013 violate the physical pole condition. (iv) Ref.[5] is partly based on new data and analysis different from the original ones[6,7]. (v) A new ERE in Refs.[5,8] does not satisfy the L\"uscher's finite volume formula. [1] T. Iritani et al., JHEP 10 (2016) 101. [2] S. Aoki et al., PoS (LATTICE2016) 109. [3] T. Iritani et al., 1703.0720. [4] T. Yamazaki et al., PoS (LATTICE2017) 108. [5] S.R. Beane et al., 1705.09239. [6] S.R. Beane et al., PRD87 (2013) 034506. [7] S.R. Beane et al., PRC88 (2013) 024003. [8] M.L. Wagman et al., 1706.06550.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures. Talk presented at 35th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2017), 18-24 June 2017, Granada, Spai

Lost: Sesquicentennial Sanity. If found, please contact Borough of Gettysburg.

If you were in Gettysburg during the summer of 2013, you surely encountered the ubiquitous 150th Gettysburg logo branded on everything from promotional materials to souvenirs. The latter – tacky at best and irreverent at worst – filled the town to the point of excess, making some of us wonder how many people completely missed the point of the sesquicentennial. Anniversaries exert a powerful force on the American historical psyche, but it is dubious whether Gettysburg’s celebration exerted an appropriate one. The sesquicentennial was a wonderful opportunity to refocus on the events of July 1863, but sadly many businesses in Gettysburg seemed unable to look past their profit margins. [excerpt