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Hard, Harder, and the Hardest Problem: The Society of Cognitive Selves [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The hard problem of consciousness is explicating how moving matter becomes thinking matter. Harder yet is the problem of spelling out the mutual determinations of individual experiences and the experiencing self.
Posina, Venkata Rayudu
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Evo-Devo and Cognitive Science [PDF]

open access: yesWIREs Cognitive Science, 2011
AbstractEvo Devo (evolutionary developmental) biology forges a synthesis of evolutionary and developmental processes. Evo Devo is the result of collaborative work of evolutionary and developmental biologists after the discovery of regulatory genes that human beings share with many other animals, including fruit flies, frogs, and rats.
Ploeger, A., Galis, F.
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Examining the Role of Political Language and Rhetoric in the Context of the Debate on Political Efficacy

open access: yesСравнительная политика
Assessing political efficacy is considered one of the most challenging topics in the social and political sciences. While traditional measures of political efficacy include a common number of indicators ranging from analyzing the economic state of ...
E. B. Degtyareva
doaj   +1 more source

What is the importance of executing rituals ‘correctly’ and why do people continue to engage in them?

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012
Rituals, borne out of our embodied practical reason, are deeds that are counterintuitive in terms of cause and effect. From a cognitive point of view, two kinds of religious rituals can be identified: special agent rituals, where superhuman agents act on
Hennie Viviers
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Biophysical analysis of angiotensin II and amyloid‐β cross‐interaction in aggregation and membrane disruption

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Angiotensin II (AngII), a neuropeptide, interacts with amyloid‐β (Aβ), a key player in Alzheimer's disease. This study reveals that AngII reduces Aβ aggregation and membrane disruption in vitro. Biophysical assays and molecular modeling suggest AngII binds disordered Aβ forms, potentially modulating early amyloidogenic events and contributing to ...
Mohsen Habibnia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
A collection of papers presented at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, July 1994, including the following papers: ** Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Barry Smith
Eschenbach, Carola   +2 more
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The Borrowers: Researching the cognitive aspects of translation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper considers the interdisciplinary interaction of research on the cognitive aspects of translation. Examples of influence from linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, reading and writing research and language technology are given,
O'Brien, Sharon
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Hematopoietic (stem) cells—The elixir of life?

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The aging of HSCs (hematopoietic stem cells) and the blood system leads to the decline of other organs. Rejuvenating aged HSCs improves the function of the blood system, slowing the aging of the heart, kidney, brain, and liver, and the occurrence of age‐related diseases.
Emilie L. Cerezo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Buddhism and Cognitive Sciences in Dialogue: Pedagogical Reflections on Teaching across Disciplines

open access: yesReligions, 2021
In this essay, we, a professor and a student, share our experience of teaching and learning in a class on Buddhism and cognitive science at George Washington University.
Eyal Aviv, Kaleigh Spires
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Why it is important to build robots capable of doing science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Science, like any other cognitive activity, is grounded in the sensorimotor interaction of our bodies with the environment. Human embodiment thus constrains the class of scientific concepts and theories which are accessible to us.
Florian, Razvan V.
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