Talking Across the World: The Love Letters of Olaf Stapledon and Agnes Miller, 1913-1919 (review)

1989 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-116
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Love Letters ◽  
Olaf Stapledon

Posthuman Scale

CounterText ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Human Existence ◽  
Social Connections ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Physical Scale ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Olaf Stapledon

Visions of the posthuman are almost inevitably tied up with questions of scale. The size of Frankenstein's creation sets him apart from humanity, the longevity of Virginia Woolf's Orlando makes her / him uncannily posthuman, and the travels of Gulliver constantly confront the protagonist with the issue of physical scale. This article investigates different dimensions of posthuman scale with examples from fiction, film, and transhumanist writings. From the sizes of bodies and the length of lives to the more complex matters of the scale of consciousness and the magnitude of social connections, what happens when an element of human existence is changed and becomes either very large or very small is a recurrent and important question. Such changes have consequences for ethical dispositions towards the lives of others, for the aesthetic appreciation or dislike of new beings, and for the ability to envision completely new ways of connecting to the world and others, for example through a cloud of shared thoughts, as Olaf Stapledon imagined. One special case of posthuman scale is the replication of the individual and the number of possible lives an individual can live without losing individuality, a question that is also pivotal for the idea of the human as a simulation that has been proposed by writers, filmmakers, and futurists alike.

Beiwerk als Werk

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-206
Author(s):  
Toni Bernhart
Keyword(s):  
Computer Program ◽  
German Literature ◽  
Franz Kafka ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Young Student ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Successful Attempt ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Love Letters

AbstractAfter Love Letters by Christopher Strachey in 1954, Stochastische Texte by the mathematician Theo Lutz in 1959 were the first successful attempt in the world to create a literary text through a computer. In 2019, Lutz’s archive was acquired by the German Literature Archive (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach). It includes a large number of previously undiscovered and unpublished items which made possible the attempt to reconstruct the generation of the text in a number of steps. Lutz’s experiment was inspired by the philosopher Max Bense, whose work was assisted by a young student, Rul Gunzenhäuser, who would himself later prove to be a pioneer in informatics. It took its starting point from words extracted from the novel Das Schloss by Franz Kafka. Lutz subsequently wrote a computer program in order to generate a randomly assembled text on a Zuse Z 22 machine. In a final step, the text was then poetically revised by the author.

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Let's call a memory a memory, but what kind?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazim Keven
Keyword(s):  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Animal Cognition ◽  
The World

Abstract Hoerl & McCormack argue that animals cannot represent past situations and subsume animals’ memory-like representations within a model of the world. I suggest calling these memory-like representations as what they are without beating around the bush. I refer to them as event memories and explain how they are different from episodic memory and how they can guide action in animal cognition.

Rotational Characteristics of the Green Solar Corona: 1947-1991

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rybák ◽  
V. Rušin ◽  
M. Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Solar Corona ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Rotation Period ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Coronal Emission Line ◽  
Homogeneous Data

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.

Where in the world is the hip hop nation?

Popular Music ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-245
Author(s):  
Inez H. Templeton
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
The World

Scanning electron microscopy of freeze-fractured prescapular lymph node of caprine

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 244-245
Author(s):  
O. Faroon ◽  
F. Al-Bagdadi ◽  
T. G. Snider ◽  
C. Titkemeyer
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Node ◽  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Lymphatic System ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
The Body ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
The World ◽  
Cellular Constituent ◽  
Scanning Electron

The lymphatic system is very important in the immunological activities of the body. Clinicians confirm the diagnosis of infectious diseases by palpating the involved cutaneous lymph node for changes in size, heat, and consistency. Clinical pathologists diagnose systemic diseases through biopsies of superficial lymph nodes. In many parts of the world the goat is considered as an important source of milk and meat products.The lymphatic system has been studied extensively. These studies lack precise information on the natural morphology of the lymph nodes and their vascular and cellular constituent. This is due to using improper technique for such studies. A few studies used the SEM, conducted by cutting the lymph node with a blade. The morphological data collected by this method are artificial and do not reflect the normal three dimensional surface of the examined area of the lymph node. SEM has been used to study the lymph vessels and lymph nodes of different animals. No information on the cutaneous lymph nodes of the goat has ever been collected using the scanning electron microscope.

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