Valuing the Spiritual

Valuing the Arc

V aluing the Arc (VTA) was a research programme that ran from 2007 to 2012 and mapped, modelled and valued ecosystem services within and flowing from the Eastern Arc Mountains, with the objective of informing decisions for sustainable management of the remaining natural habitats. The services we focused on were carbon, water, nature-based tourism, timber and non-timber forest products (charcoal...

Re-valuing the amygdala.

Recent advances indicate that the amygdala represents valence: a general appetitive/aversive affective characteristic that bears similarity to the neuroeconomic concept of value. Neurophysiological studies show that individual amygdala neurons respond differentially to a range of stimuli with positive or negative affective significance. Meanwhile, increasingly specific lesion/inactivation studi...

The spiritual assessment.

More than 80 percent of Americans perceive religion as important. Issues of belief can affect the health care encounter, and patients may wish to discuss spirituality with their physician. Many physicians report barriers to broaching the subject of spirituality, including lack of time and experience, difficulty identifying patients who want to discuss spirituality, and the belief that addressin...

The Spiritual Machine

In this Science Fiction Prototype (SFP) we explore the evolving relationship between technology and people. We do this by considering what may seem two irreconcilable aspirations of the human condition; the desire for utilizing ever increasingly sophisticated science based technology in our life whilst at the same time preserving the spiritual values that make us human. Superficially it would s...

Valuing The Knowledge Management Function