Can we use music to understand migration?

We perceive music before we understand speech.

In his article ”Musical emotions: Functions, origins, evolution”[1], Perlovsky explains ”concept-models” with the analogy of the projection of memories and representations onto the visual cortex. He postulates the principle of ”knowledge instinct” that aims at matching concept-models to the surroundings. According to Perlovsky, this instinct causes emotions, satisfaction or dissatisfaction, dep...

Can We Use Music in Computer-Human Communication?

We Can and Must Understand Computers NOW

From the endlessly quotable Ted Nelson—whose neologisms pepper the language we use to understand the present, from “hypertext” to “visualization”—perhaps no phrase is better known than, “You Can and Must Understand Computers NOW.” It was emblazoned across the Computer Lib side of his 1974 Computer Lib/Dream Machines ( CL/DM ), the most infl uential book in the history of computational media. 1 ...

Can We Understand Evolution Without Symbiogenesis?

This work is a contribution to the literature and knowledge on evolution that takes into account the biological data obtained on symbiosis and symbiogenesis. Evolution is traditionally considered a gradual process essentially consisting of natural selection, conducted on minimal phenotypical variations that are the result of mutations and genetic recombinations to form new species. However, the...

Can We Use Nanotechnology to Treat Cancer?

Could the next big change in cancer treatment actually be tiny? There are many reasons that cancer is such a difficult disease to treat. Scientists can either try to come up with new and better cancer medicines or they can find better ways for cancer patients to receive their medicines. This paper describes a possible new way to deliver cancer medicines using something called nanoparticles – ti...