scholarly journals The human preference for symmetric walking often disappears when one leg is constrained

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Browne ◽  
Cameron S. Smock ◽  
Ryan T. Roemmich
Keyword(s):  
Human Preference

scholarly journals Amusing Ourselves until (Dis)appearing in La invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Santiago Sevilla-Vallejo
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Preference ◽  
Adolfo Bioy Casares ◽  
The Way

La invención de Morel  reflect on how the use of technologies could be fascinating and dangerous at the same time; and the way the island seems to be a space of freedom while it is actually a place of prison and death. La invención de Morel presents a utopian situation that transforms into a dystopia. Characters, especially the narrator, project their desires along with the holograms, but they are deceived without realizing about their loss of reality. The novel uses phantasy and science fiction resources to reflect about the way humans self-imprison. This is studied by analogy to the effects of technologies in today's society. In this sense, the novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares is about a menace due to the human preference of imaginary life over real one. 

Context specificity of implicit preferences: The case of human preference for red.

Emotion ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 734-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus A. Maier ◽  
Petra Barchfeld ◽  
Andrew J. Elliot ◽  
Reinhard Pekrun
Keyword(s):  
Context Specificity ◽  
Human Preference ◽  
Implicit Preferences

scholarly journals Digital Reality Experiences as a Different Psychological Feel, Some Suggestions for Future Development

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naveed Shibli ◽  
Misbah Shafi
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Human Preference ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Digital Development ◽  
Self Harm

<p>Digital games experiences of 60 willing participants were recorded with two questionnaires in a survey. Infirst questionnaire, participants’ with self description, described own personality characteristics like steadfastness, social aspects and intelligence. The second questionnaire was about the personal experiences feels like pleasure, fear, nervousness and sensuality during digital reality games play. Both responses were compared with participants’ willingness to play the same digital games again. Findings reflected that human preference for digital reality game (dummies) was different as compared with other animals’ behaviors towards dummies, perhaps for pleasure that could be a mix of self-harm and self-deception or something else therefore evolving the possibility to describe digital experience as a different feel that could be positive because meanings of sadomasochism are now viewed with positive tilt (Wismeijer& Van Assen 2013) implications for future digital development also discussed.</p>

Transforming Neuroscience into a Totalizing Meta-Narrative

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro Gaitán ◽  
Luis Echarte ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Visual Data ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Eliminative Materialism ◽  
Human Preference ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mereological Fallacy

The present work is developed within the frame of so-called critical neuroscience. The aim of this article is to explain the transition from a kind of neuroscience understood as a strict scientific discipline, possessing a methodology and a specific praxis, to a kind of neuroscience that has been transformed into a meta-narrative with totalizing claims. In particular, we identify and examine eleven catalysts for such a transition: 1) a lack of communication between scientists and journalists; 2) the abuse of information by the sensational press; 3) the acceptance of specific philosophical approaches (like eliminative materialism) by a wide range of scientists; 4) the widespread transmission of two conceptual mistakes: a) an identification between methodological and ontological reductionism and b) the mereological fallacy; 5) the influence of post-Cartesian philosophical thinking in the scientific community; 6) an overwhelming scientific hyper-specialization; 7) the illegitimate transfer of authority from humanities to the sciences; 8) an inbuilt human preference for visual data; 9) economic interests; 10) scientific utopianism; and 11) the new self-help movements and their alliance with neuro-enhancement. Finally, our essay seeks to draw attention to the most damaging consequences for both science and human ways of living.

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