scholarly journals Timelessness Strictly Inside the Quantum Realm

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 772
Author(s):  
Knud Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
The Real ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Quantum Objects ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Double Slit

Time is one of the undisputed foundations of our life in the real world. Here it is argued that inside small isolated quantum systems, time does not pass as we are used to, and it is primarily in this sense that quantum objects enjoy only limited reality. Quantum systems, which we know, are embedded in the everyday classical world. Their preparation as well as their measurement-phases leave durable records and traces in the entropy of the environment. The Landauer Principle then gives a quantitative threshold for irreversibility. With double slit experiments and tunneling as paradigmatic examples, it is proposed that a label of timelessness offers clues for rendering a Copenhagen-type interpretation of quantum physics more “realistic” and acceptable by providing a coarse but viable link from the fundamental quantum realm to the classical world which humans directly experience.

Ten Paradoxes of Technology

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Feenberg ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Real World ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Interconnected Network ◽  
The Real ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Causal Laws ◽  
Technological World

Though we may be competent at using many technologies, most of what we think we know about technology in general is false. Our error stems from the everyday conception of things as separate from each other and from us. In reality technologies belong to an interconnected network the nodes of which cannot exist independently qua technologies. What is more we tend to see technologies as quasi-natural objects, but they are just as much social as natural, just as much determined by the meanings we give them as by the causal laws that rule over their powers. The errors of common sense have political consequences in domains such as, development, medicine and environmental policy. In this paper I summarize many of the conclusions philosophy of technology has reached reflecting on the reality of our technological world. These conclusions appear as paradoxes judged from our everyday perspective.This paper presents a philosophy of technology. It draws on what we have learnt in the last 30 years as we abandoned old Heideggerian and positivist notions and faced the real world of technology. It turns out that most of our common sense ideas about technology are wrong. This is why I have put my ten propositions in the form of paradoxes, although I use the word loosely here to refer to the counter-intuitive nature of much of what we know about technology.

From Evidence-Based Practice in Suicide Prevention to the Real World: How Long is the Leap?

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
M. Pompili
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Real World ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Primary Care Providers ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Shed Light

This presentation aims to shed light on effective suicide prevention activities that often are missing in the everyday clinical practice. Too often in fact suicidal individuals seek help from mental health professionals that nevertheless fail to recognize suicide risk. For instance, on average, 45% of suicide victims had contact with primary care providers within 1 month of suicide. Likewise, the real world often presents challenges that impair proper utilization of the evidence-based practice. Also, the alarming suicide rates around the world points to lack of effective preventive understanding of suicide. This presentation will present key point of the evidence-based practice, how to implement such approach and how to overcome difficulties in the real world. It will deal with the state of the art of preventive measures of suicide, what the missing elements are and how to make the most from personal experience without risking relying on clinician's intuition in management of suicidal individuals.

scholarly journals Conexões entre grafos e matrizes na modelagem de problemas matemáticos

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Larissa Melchiors Furlan ◽  
Mylena Roehrs ◽  
Glauber Rodrigues de Quadros
Keyword(s):  
Directed Graph ◽  
Real World ◽  
Adjacency Matrix ◽  
Directed Graphs ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mathematical World ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
Everyday Problems

Graphs theory is very important in the mathematical world as an excellent way of connecting with the real world. By using the theory of directed graphs it is possible to transform many of the everyday problems into mathematical problems, so as to make an exact study in each case. In this work we explore the matrices related to the various types of graphs, such as the vertex matrix, which is associated with a directed graph, and the adjacency matrix. Moreover, matrices of multi-step connections are constructed so as to separate the various blades between the vertices of a directed graph. Then, we will construct some applications of those results in the form of examples.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gilmore
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Affective States ◽  
States Of Affairs ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The One

This chapter identifies a general dilemma in descriptive and explanatory claims about the arts. On the one side is the pull of continuity, in which responses to the contents of fictions and other imagined creations are said to be modeled (morally, affectively, epistemically) on responses to ordinary real-world states of affairs. On the other is the pull of discontinuity, in which such engagements are posed as offering potentially sui generis sorts of experiences that resist assimilation or reduction to those encountered in the everyday. This chapter identifies the place of the book’s discontinuity thesis within that general tension, and discusses the thesis’s main rivals: (1) those who argue that our affective states are not the same kind across encounters with fictions and the real world; and (2) those who argue for continuity or invariance of affective states across those contexts.

Lessons out of Chaos

2011 ◽  
pp. 124-137
Author(s):  
Anthony P. Glascock ◽  
David M. Kutzik
Keyword(s):  
Monitoring System ◽  
Real World ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Real ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Behavioral Monitoring ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Everyday Living

The lessons learned from nine years of the testing of a behavioral monitoring system—the Everyday Living Monitoring System (ELMS) — outside the laboratory in the real world are discussed. Initially, the real world was perceived as messy and filled with noise that just delayed and complicated the testing and development of the system. However, over time, it became clear that without embracing the chaos of the world and listening very carefully to its noise, the monitoring system could not be successfully moved from the laboratory to the real world. Specific lessons learned at each stage of development and testing are discussed, as well as the challenges that are associated with the actual commercialization of the system.

scholarly journals Getting Real: Work, Coolness and Nobokov’s Despair

Hawliyat ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 41-68
Author(s):  
Peter Williams
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Work Memory ◽  
The Self ◽  
States Of Mind ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Real Work

Modernist aesthetics emphasised the representation of states of mind over the "blessed matter" of the everyday real. This shift from "substance to subtlety" licensed modernist protagonists like Hermann Karlovich from Vladimir Nabokov's Despair to engage in a narcissism that ignored real world contingencies in order to legitimate an aesthetic transcendence based upon inspiration rather than work, memory over creative reconstruction and lies instead of truths. The dissociative heat of Karlovich 's literary inspiration lacks the cool, remote thought Nabokov considered necessary for the associative work of artistic creation. His effort to communicate beyond the self fails because he never understands that while art may be an inspired lie, life is not. Nabokov therefore provides a critique of those strains of modernist aesthetics that understood the real as merely a set conventions rather than a constellation offorces that have the power to disrupt and overturn the best of human intentions.

scholarly journals Quartet: On the Theme of to Portray is to Betray

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-117
Author(s):  
Paul Magee
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Real World ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Crack Open ◽  
The Real ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Common ◽  
Communicative Power

Art does not deceive its readers with an illusion of reality, as the common-sense notion has it, but rather pretends to deceive them. For the communicative power of the work of art lies precisely in the fact that we recognise its artificiality, its status as a work within a given genre, following certain conventions, set in a particular frame. What the work really points to, beyond the page, is the existence and actions of a creative consciousness, as that consciousness works through a given set of symbols to express itself. For reading is all about experiencing another’s mind. In the lack. Which makes it a matter of desire. My purpose in the following is to use literature to crack open the everyday, to write about neurosis and psychosis, how they write their way into the real world around us, the dinner table, this novel, a Greek tragedy, I mean Oedipus complex.

scholarly journals What is quantum in quantum randomness?

2018 ◽  
Vol 376 (2123) ◽  
pp. 20170322 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Grangier ◽  
A. Auffèves
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Foundations Of Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Quantum Thermodynamics ◽  
Quantum Randomness ◽  
Classical World ◽  
The Impact

It is often said that quantum and classical randomness are of different nature, the former being ontological and the latter epistemological. However, so far the question of ‘What is quantum in quantum randomness?’, i.e. what is the impact of quantization and discreteness on the nature of randomness, remains to be answered. In a first part, we make explicit the differences between quantum and classical randomness within a recently proposed ontology for quantum mechanics based on contextual objectivity. In this view, quantum randomness is the result of contextuality and quantization. We show that this approach strongly impacts the purposes of quantum theory as well as its areas of application. In particular, it challenges current programmes inspired by classical reductionism, aiming at the emergence of the classical world from a large number of quantum systems. In a second part, we analyse quantum physics and thermodynamics as theories of randomness, unveiling their mutual influences. We finally consider new technological applications of quantum randomness that have opened up in the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Foundations of quantum mechanics and their impact on contemporary society’.

Current Issues: Evidence-Based Practice for the Real World: Thoughts on Clinical Education in Communication Disorders

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne K. Bothe
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Real ◽  
Language Pathology

This article presents some streamlined and intentionally oversimplified ideas about educating future communication disorders professionals to use some of the most basic principles of evidence-based practice. Working from a popular five-step approach, modifications are suggested that may make the ideas more accessible, and therefore more useful, for university faculty, other supervisors, and future professionals in speech-language pathology, audiology, and related fields.

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