Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian
Orch-OR: Orchestrated objective reduction – The quantum brain hypothesis à la Penrose & Hameroff
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
Society, Organizations and the Brain: building towards a unified cognitive neuroscience perspective
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
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CogNovo Forum (SMF v.2.0.14)
Leonardo da Vinci: L’Uomo Vitruviano
Keywords: Somatic geometry, proportionality, symmetry, and embodied cognition
The Vitruvian Man (Italian: Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio, which is translated to “The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius”), or simply L’Uomo Vitruviano, is a drawing made …
Decentralised network systems of trust: Blockchain technology for scientific research
An interesting and innovative proposal is to use blockchain technologies (usually associated with digital crypto currencies like, for instance, Bitcoin or Ethereum) to counteract the replication crisis, to validate empirical findings, and to improve and optimize the scientific procedure on …
Advaita Vedānta, the art and science of yoga, introspection, and the hard problem of consciousness
The great ancient knowledge system of India known as Vedānta has several schools of thought and forms the rational philosophical system which is the foundation of Hinduism. It is based on various Upanishads178, the Brahma Sūtras, and the Bhagavad Gītā. …