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The Living Gesture and the Signifying Moment
Drawing from Peircean semiotics, from the Greek conception of phronesis, and from considerations of bodily awareness as a basis of reasonableness, I attempt to show how the living gesture touches our deepest signifying nature, the self, and public life. Gestural bodily awareness, more than knowledge, connects us with the very conditions out of which the human body evolved into its present condition and remains a vital resource in the face of a devitalizing, rationalistic consumption culture. It may be precisely these deep-rooted abilities for what I term âself-originated experienceâ that can ultimately offset automatism
Redshifts of New Galaxies
Observations increasingly demonstrate the spatial association of high
redshift objects with larger, low redshift galaxies. These companion objects
show a continuous range of physical properties - from very compact, high
redshift quasars, through smaller active galaxies and finally to only slightly
smaller companion galaxies of slightly higher redshift. The shift in energy
distribution from high to low makes it clear that are seeing an empirical
evolution from newly created to older, more normal galaxies.
In order to account for the evolution of intrinsic redshift we must conclude
that matter is initially born with low mass particles whose mass increase with
time (age). This requires a physics which is non-local (Machian) and which is
therefore more applicable to the cosmos than the Big Bang extrapolation of
local physics. Ambartsumian's "superfluid" foresaw some of the properties of
the new, low particle mass, protogalactic plasma which is required,
demonstrating again the age-old lesson that open minded observation is much
more powerful than theoretical assumptions.
Since the ejected plasma, which preferentially emerges along the minor axis
of the parent galaxy, develops into an entire galaxy, accretion disks cannot
supply sufficient material. New matter must be created within a "white hole"
rather than bouncing old matter off a "black hole".Comment: Invited review talk at the 194th IAU Symp. on "Activity in galaxies
and related phenomena", held in Byurakan, Armenia, August 17-21, 1998, Eds.
Y.Terzian, E.Khachikian, and D.Weedman, PASP Conf. Series, in pres
Eden Inverted: On the Wild Self and the Contraction of Consciousness
The conditions of hunting and gathering through which one line of primates evolved into humans form the basis of what I term the wild self, a self marked by developmental needs of prolonged human neoteny and by deep attunement to the profusion of communicative signs of instinctive intelligence in which relatively âunmaturedâ hominids found themselves immersed. The passionate attunement to, and inquiry into, earth-drama, in tracking, hunting, foraging, rhythming, singing, and other arts/sciences, provided the trail to becoming human, and provide external grammatical structures that became the basis of human language and animate mind.
I outline my new philosophy of history as a progress in precision, counteracted by a regressive contraction of mind. The progress associated with history since the beginning of agriculturally-based civilizations can be considered as a regressive contraction from animate mind of our hunter-gatherer evolutionary past, to anthropocentric mind, and finally to the ghost in the machine world-view of mechanico-centric mind. Contemporary consumption culture represents an inversion of the original conditions of the human self, and indeed, targets aspects of developmental neoteny to condition conformity to its rational-mechanical system imperatives
The Degenerate Monkey
The chapter discusses the following quotation from Charles Peirce:
"One of these days, perhaps, there will come a writer of opinions less humdrum than those of Dr. (Alfred Russel) Wallace, and less in awe of the learned and official world...who will argue, like a new Bernard Mandeville, that man is but a degenerate monkey, with a paranoic talent for self-satisfaction, no matter what scrapes he may get himself into, calling them 'civilization,' and who, in place of the unerring instincts of other races, has an unhappy faculty for occupying himself with words and abstractions, and for going wrong in a hundred ways before he is driven, willy-nilly, into the right one. Dr. Wallace would condemn such an extravagant paradoxer." Charles Peirce, 190
Mind Matters
The great divide of modern thought is whether mind is real or naught. The conceit that either mind is reducible to matter or that mind is utterly ethereal is rooted in a mind-versus-matter dichotomy that can be characterized as the modern error, a fatally ïŹawed fallacy rooted in the philosophy and culture of nominalism. A Peircean semiotic outlook, applied to an understanding of social life, provides a new and full-bodied understanding of semiosis as the bridge between mind and matter, and human biology and culture. I begin by ïŹrst delineating the false divide and showing Charles Sanders Peirceâs alternative to it, then explore the implications of a semiotic approach to mind as trans-action, then consider the self-transcending nature of the human body-mind. Finally I outline my ecological, biosemiotic account of mind, which reveals that, indeed, mind matters, and in ways that unexpect-edly resemble the forms of animism that characterized the hunting-gathering foragers through whom we anatomically modern humans emerged
Fair Labor Association 2007 Annual Report
Assesses the progress made by companies in the move towards sustainable corporate responsibility in their labor standards. Breaks up data by company
Thermal rearrangements in the tetra-arylcyclopropene series
The literature provides many examples of thermal
rearrangements of small-ring compounds to yield
systems involving less bond-angle strain. In the
arylcyclopropene series these involve, in many
cases, fairly complex pathways, and only formalized
mechanisms have been suggested
Walking in a patientâs shoes: an evaluation study of immersive learning using a digital training intervention
Objectives: Evidence suggests that immersive learning increases empathy and understanding of the patient experience of illness. This study evaluated a digital training intervention âIn Their Shoesâ which immerses participants in the experience of living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), highlighting the biopsychosocial impact. The simulation program uses a mobile application to deliver time-based tasks and challenges over 36 h, supplemented with telephone role-play and âkitâ items to open and use. This study investigated changes in IBD understanding and connection to patients, empathy and perception of job value in a group of pharmaceutical employees. Additionally, it explored experiences and impact of taking part in the intervention.
Methods: A mixed methods preâpost design was utilized, with an opportunity sample of employees taking part in the training. 104 participants from sites in 12 countries completed measures at baseline and 97 post-intervention. Measures included the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire, Prosocial Job Characteristics Scale, and structured questions around IBD understanding and connection to patients. Two focus groups (N = 14) were conducted regarding participants experiences of the intervention to complement an open-response question in the questionnaire (N = 75). Qualitative data was analyzed using thematic analysis.
Results: Following the intervention, there were statistically significant increases in IBD understanding and connection to patients (p < 0.00025), evaluation of organizational innovation (p < 0.00025), empathy (d = 0.45) and prosocial job perceptions (d = 0.28). Qualitative analysis revealed more fully the transformative personal journey undertaken by participants which provided âeye openingâ insight into the psychosocial impact of living and working with IBD. This insight encouraged patient perspective-taking and a strong desire to promote patient advocacy and reduce stigma around chronic illness. Finally, greater organizational pride and connectivity was evident for some participants.
Conclusions: An immersive training program, focussing on the lived experience of illness, led to significant increases in disease understanding and empathy. These findings align with other literature evaluating immersive learning and the potential for increasing knowledge, empathy and motivation. The present study offers opportunities to extend this outside of the body of work focussing on healthcare practitioners and explores the benefits of using this type of learning experience within an organizational setting
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