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Local Search and the Evolution of World Models
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract An open question regarding how people develop their models of the world is how new candidates are generated for consideration out of infinitely many possibilities. We discuss the role that evolutionary mechanisms play in this process. Specifically, we argue that when it comes to developing a global world model, innovation is necessarily ...
Neil R. Bramley +3 more
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman animals. These concepts are difficult to apply because they are implicitly grounded in the special status of humans.
Steve Cooke
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Nested Selves: Self‐Organization and Shared Markov Blankets in Prenatal Development in Humans
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract The immune system is a central component of organismic function in humans. This paper addresses self‐organization of biological systems in relation to—and nested within—other biological systems in pregnancy. Pregnancy constitutes a fundamental state for human embodiment and a key step in the evolution and conservation of our species. While not
Anna Ciaunica +3 more
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Pendekatan Fenomenologi: Pengantar Praktik Penelitian dalam Ilmu Sosial dan Komunikasi
MediaTor, 2008 Phenomenology, initially, is a philosophy made popular by Edmund Husserl. Phenomenology, in essential, taught people to interact and learn more from phenomenon so that the meaning of reality, and the natural essence of reality, could be grasped by the ...
O Hasbiansyah
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Psychedelics offer an intriguing novel method for changing minds, supposedly by destabilizing the neurobiology of the belief system. The resulting power to change minds raises ethical and epistemic concerns. This article examines the epistemic status of psychedelic experiences and suggests a skeptical attitude towards beliefs formed under ...
Jan Christoph Bublitz
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Are physiological oscillations physiological?
The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract figure legend Mechanisms and functions of physiological oscillations. Abstract Despite widespread and striking examples of physiological oscillations, their functional role is often unclear. Even glycolysis, the paradigm example of oscillatory biochemistry, has seen questions about its oscillatory function.
Lingyun (Ivy) Xiong, Alan Garfinkel
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Metaphysics, 2014 Husserl and Strauss are two philosophers that intended to reform philosophic thought and thereupon political philosophy. But despite of common view about end and foundations, how and why Husserl is included in the class of pioneers of battle against ...
MH Jamshidi, M Karimi Beiranvand
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Using Affirmative Action as a Tiebreaker
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We argue in favor of affirmative action. There are two central points to our argument. First, if two or more candidates for a position are matched in competence, then one ought to prefer a candidate from a disadvantaged, disenfranchised, or minority background rather than defer to the outcome of a lottery.
Shalom Chalson, James Bernard Willoughby
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Editorial: Integrating Philosophical and Scientific Approaches in Consciousness Research
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Christopher Gutland +3 more
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