NOTE CONCERNING THOUGHT AND REALITY

a research concerning “knowledge and reality” in islamic perception

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Navigating Virtual Reality by Thought: First Steps

We have set up a brain-computer interface to be used as an input device to a highly immersive virtual reality Cave-like system. We have carried out two navigation experiments: three subjects were required to rotate in a virtual bar room by imagining left or right hand movement, and to walk along a single dimension in a virtual street by imagining foot or hand movement. In this paper we focus on...

A note concerning Primary Source Knowledge

We add a small increment to understanding the notion of ‘Primary Source Knowledge’ (PSK). PSK is knowledge that the non-expert and the citizen can acquire by assiduously reading the primary scientific journal literature without being embedded in the cultural life of the corresponding technical specialty (Collins and Evans 2007). This comes from exposing four papers to the automated computer fil...

A Note concerning Completely Regular Gyspaces1

The aging of Holocaust survivors: myth and reality concerning suicide.

The association between the Holocaust experience and suicide has rarely been studied systematically. The dearth of data in this area of old-age psychiatry does not necessarily imply that Holocaust survivors are immune from suicide. Recent work on the aging of survivors seems to suggest that as a group they are at high risk for self-harm. Published reports on suicide and the Holocaust identified...