Life, Death, and Intelligence

Life, Death, and Intelligence

Association between death anxiety and spiritual intelligence with the spiritual health and quality of life in hemodialysis patients

Background and Purpose: Fear of death is commonly experienced by humans and most people prefer not to think about their own mortality. Dialysis patients just as other chronic patients experience a great amount of stress. Use of coping mechanisms and promoting spirituality can help with accepting the inevitable reality and enhancing quality of life. Spiritual attitudes (spiritual intelligence ...

Prediction of Death Anxiety among COVID-19 Patients Based on Meaning of Life, Spiritual Intelligence, and Social Cohesion

Background and Purpose: Coronavirus pandemic has affected numerous people across the globe. This disease threatens physical health, disrupts daily life, and causes sudden death anxiety that increases gradually by the announcement of Coronavirus deaths. Due to the importance of reducing death anxiety, the present study aimed to predict death anxiety among COVID-19 patients based on the meaning o...

Comparison of Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction and Death Anxiety among Intra-Oriented and Outward Elderly

The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of life, life satisfaction, and death anxiety among internally oriented and out-of-home elderly in the home and home of the elderly in Kermanshah in 1396. The statistical population of the study included all elderly people in Kermanshah. A total of 168 people were selected through cluster sampling and elderly residents of the elderly in an ac...

Artificial Life and Natural Intelligence

This paper reviews the neuroscience literature to sculpt a view of intelligence from the artificial life (ALife) perspective. Three key themes are used to motivate a journey down the low road to cognition. First, the origins of brain structures and dynamics exhibit considerable emergence at phylogenic, epigenetic, and ontogenetic levels. Second, ALife complexity measures have interesting parall...