pleasurably and spontaneously interacting with people, things, and situations of interest. It is being aware of, fully tuned into, and energized by the options and impulses of the moment. It is making “work”
the contributing authors offer insights about exploring social life without trying to reduce or simplify it’s messiness and unpredictability. Addressing themes of history, culture and belonging, compromise, doubt, confidence and its lack, grief and loss, actors and non-human actors, ethics, values ...
According to the American Sociological Association (2002), Sociology is the scientific study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Since all human behavior is social, the subject matter of sociology ranges from the intimate family to the hostile ...
About the book What impels human beings to harm others--family members or strangers? And how can these impulses and actions be prevented or controlled? Heightened public awareness of and concern about what is widely perceived as a recent explosion of violence, on a spectrum from domestic abuse ...
I'm delighted to see you ·and Locke· so well aware, here and elsewhere, of the privileges of human nature. Phil: 11 However, if beasts have any ideas at all, and aren't bare machines (as some people think they are), we can't deny that they have a certain degree of reason. ...
TheSP theory of intelligence, introduced below, aims to simplify and integrate ideas across artificial intelligence, mainstream computing, and human perception and cognition, with information compression as a unifying theme. This article is about how the SP theory may, with advantage, be applied to ...
According to the present literatures, it is assumed that bats and pangolins are the original source of human SARS-CoV-2 and from them it is transmitted to humans but the actual intermediate host and the nature of emergence is yet to be explored [[16], [17], [18], [19]]. Being RNA...
Electro-mechanical uncoupling refers to the decoupling of electrical and mechanical functions of the heart. In a healthy heart, electrical impulses that trigger contractions propagate smoothly, ensuring synchronized blood pumping. Conversely, when electrophysiological dysregulation occurs, electrical impulses may...
A lot of information acquired by human beings from the environment or external world is recognized by our senses. Thesesenseorgans are eye, ears, nose, skin and tongue. They are immensely important to our quotidian life because they receive, process, and interpret all the information from our...
The central hypothesis of this paper is that the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis can be applied to the study of AI and human/AI interaction. The paper connects three research fields: machine behavior approach, psychoanalysis and anthropology of science. In the “Machine behavior: research pe...