Quantum semiotics

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The semiotics of sexuality: The choice becomes the association of habits becomes the desire becomes the need

Pragmatism is the idea that we attribute meaning to things that matter to us. Ultimately, the things that matter are intercepted by our bodies — our eyes, ears, nose, hands, feet, skin — right down to our sex differences. Our bodies are the tools with which we interface with the world — the cultural world. Sex differences provide major insights into how the body impacts on experience and thus, personality and ultimately culture’s gender roles. In my earlier paper, I discuss what Peirce identified as fundamental aspects of cognition — habits and associative learning — and I place them in the context of Heidegger’s Dasein. In this current paper, I develop on these ideas in order to apply them to understand gender roles. From the inextricable connection between habits, associative learning and Dasein, we can infer the following: (1) Gender roles are habits; (2) Gender roles are chosen; (3) Men and women “like” the roles to which they have been assigned (this is a fundamental expression of Dasein). That is to say — the choice becomes the association of habits becomes the desire becomes the need. Hence arise the needs by which gender roles are identified

Additional file 2: of Inverse probability of treatment-weighted competing risks analysis: an application on long-term risk of urinary adverse events after prostate cancer treatments

Appendix B: A Hypothetical Example. This example of 10 patients illustrates the detailed calculations of the various methods (Competing Risks, Kaplan Meir, un-weighted and weighted methods). Also, the differences between the multiple methods for estimating the cumulative incidence function are highlighted. (PDF 240 kb

Additional file 1: of Inverse probability of treatment-weighted competing risks analysis: an application on long-term risk of urinary adverse events after prostate cancer treatments

Appendix A: The Estimation of Cumulative Incidence Function. This appendix provides the equations for estimating the un-weighted and weighted cumulative incidence functions. (PDF 356 kb

Conditioning of Space-Time: The Relationship between Experimental Entanglement, Space-Memory and Consciousness. Journal of Nonlocality Round Table Series, Colloquium #4

In response to the Vieques 2014 FQXi Conference on the Physics of Information (http://fqxi.org/conference/2014), this colloquium brings together over a dozen neuroscientists, physicists and medical researchers to provide a body of empirical data both supporting and extending the quantum information hypotheses recently advanced by Koch, Tononi and Tegmark. Specifically, the evidence presented by the participants describes numerous controlled studies documenting  nonlocal correlations between physical parameters of isolated living and non-living targets, as a result of operators’ mental intention, often in conjunction with changes in the target’s biophoton signatures. However, some of the results also suggest that elemental consciousness might not be a property of matter alone, as these quantum versions of panpsychism claim – but possibly a property of spacetime itself. Although relevant clues are scarce at this point, the discussion aims to provide a stepping stone toward the better integration of quantum information theory and applicable experimental models, paving the way to a neuroscience freed from the current neuro-dogmas.