scholarly journals Spatial content of painful sensations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Błażej Skrzypulec
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Content

Marx and the mirage of change: Notes from South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 194277862110478
Author(s):  
Sagie Narsiah
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Spatial Content

There is little doubt that the understanding of the dynamics of capitalism has been enriched by Geography. Moreover, geographers utilizing Marxist/Marxian lenses have provided valuable insights into the spatial content of the system. Over the past two decades or so, geographers in no small way have contributed to the demystification of capitalism/capitalist development in its neoliberal incarnation – change as mirage. Furthermore, poverty, inequality, unemployment and related social ills are directly linked to the system. Indeed, they are produced by the system. In this paper, the geographical evolution of the capitalist system in South Africa is examined. Critical thinkers, among them Marxists, influenced the theorization of the relationship(s) between capitalism, apartheid, class and race. In this paper, I focus on the spatial aspects, which in my view have been neglected. I reflect on various historical periods – the apartheid era and the post-apartheid era, in particular. What is apparent is that neoliberalism in South Africa has entered a phase which I label “accumulation by corrupt means”. The class basis of this strategy is examined. Critical (Marxist) geographers are shaped by the direct experiences of material conditions. I describe my experiences in this regard.

Bodily Awareness and Self-Consciousness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Bermúdez
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Basic Form ◽  
Bodily Awareness ◽  
Person Pronoun ◽  
Spatial Content

We are embodied, and we are aware of our bodies ‘from the inside’ through different forms of bodily awareness. But what is the relation between these two facts? Are these forms of bodily awareness types of self-consciousness, on a par, say, with introspection? In this paper I argue that bodily awareness is a basic form of self-consciousness, through which perceiving agents are directly conscious of the bodily self. The first two sections clarify the nature of bodily awareness. Sections III to V I explore how bodily awareness functions as a form of self-consciousness and how this is connected to the property of being immune to error through misidentification relative to the first person pronoun. In section IV I consider, and remain unconvinced by, an argument to the effect that bodily awareness cannot have first person content (and hence cannot count as a form of self-consciousness). Finally, section V sketches out an account of the spatial content of bodily awareness and explores the particular type of awareness of the bodily self that it provides.

Nested Partitions Properties for Spatial Content Image Retrieval

2012 ◽  
pp. 240-269
Author(s):  
Dmitry Kinoshenko ◽  
Vladimir Mashtalir ◽  
Vladislav Shlyakhov ◽  
Elena Yegorova
Keyword(s):  
Image Retrieval ◽  
Hierarchical Models ◽  
Search Algorithms ◽  
Content Based Image Retrieval ◽  
Image Search ◽  
Nested Partitions ◽  
Specific Search ◽  
Spatial Content

In this paper, a metric on partitions of arbitrary measurable sets and its special properties for metrical content-based image retrieval based on the ‘spatial’ semantic of images is proposed. This approach considers images represented in the form of nested partitions produced by any segmentations, which are used to express a degree of information refinement or roughening. In doing so, this not only corresponds to rational content control but also ensures creation of specific search algorithms (e.g., invariant to image background) and synthesizes hierarchical models of image search by reducing the number of query and database elements match operations.

Relations Between Videogame Play and 8th-Graders’ Mathematics Achievement

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-53
Author(s):  
Scott Tobias ◽  
Duane Rudy ◽  
Jean Ispa
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Achievement ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Cognitive Complexity ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Math Performance ◽  
Math Scores ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
8Th Graders ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Spatial Content

This study explores whether any relationships exist between math performance scores on the Missouri Assessment Plan (MAP), its subscales and time spent playing the child’s favorite videogame given the game’s spatial content and cognitive complexity. Relationships between gender and math scores were also examined. Findings indicate no main effect of time spent playing, spatial content, or level of complexity of games on math performance. However, several math scores interacted with time spent playing one’s favorite video game, such that higher levels of math performance occurred when participants played games high in spatial content at low amounts of time. A similar interaction occurred when examining complexity of the game and time spent playing. The study provides preliminary evidence that it may be important to consider the spatial or complexity content of videogames in addition to time spent playing when addressing the relationship between videogame play and adolescent math performance.

FORMALIZATION, PRIMITIVE CONCEPTS, AND PURITY

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN T. BALDWIN
Keyword(s):  
Model Theory ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Embedding Theorem ◽  
Explicit Definition ◽  
The Given ◽  
Spatial Content

AbstractWe emphasize the role of the choice of vocabulary in formalization of a mathematical area and remark that this is a particular preoccupation of logicians. We use this framework to discuss Kennedy’s notion of ‘formalism freeness’ in the context of various schools in model theory. Then we clarify some of the mathematical issues in recent discussions of purity in the proof of the Desargues proposition. We note that the conclusion of ‘spatial content’ from the Desargues proposition involves arguments which are algebraic and even metamathematical. Hilbert showed that the Desargues proposition implies the coordinatizing ring is associative, which in turn implies the existence of a three-dimensional geometry in which the given plane can be embedded. With W. Howard we give a new proof, removing Hilbert’s ‘detour’ through algebra, of the ‘geometric’ embedding theorem.Finally, our investigation of purity leads to the conclusion that even the introduction of explicit definitions in a proof can violate purity. We argue that although both involve explicit definition, our proof of the embedding theorem is pure while Hilbert’s is not. Thus the determination of whether an argument is pure turns on the content of the particular proof. Moreover, formalizing the situation does not provide a tool for characterizing purity.

Conditional reasoning with a spatial content requires visuo-spatial working memory

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter Duyck ◽  
André Vandierendonck ◽  
Gino De Vooght
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Spatial Working Memory ◽  
Conditional Reasoning ◽  
Spatial Content
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