Where does the mind fit into the physical world? Not surprisingly, philosophers have offered radically different answers to this question. This paper considers and defends an argument to the effect that our conscious experiences must be something separate from the physical world since one could in principle know all the relevant physical and neuroscientific details without knowing anything abou...

The concepts of mind, soul, and consciousness are key to an understanding of ourselves and how we interact with the universe around us. Ian Barbour names the mind/body problem as one of the major subjects of long-term discussion among religion, philosophy, and science, including cognitive psychology. However, his treatment of the traditional philosophical positions on this topic is wanting. Wha...

This essay advances the idea that a dualism between faith and reason has come to characterize the postenlightenment theological enterprise.' This severance of faith and rationality is rooted in philosophical and not biblical modes of thought.2 The result of this dualism is the triumph of the irrational in the interpretation of religious symbols. It would appear that the rigid confinement of fai...

This paper deals wi th the way dual genetic algorithms ( D G A ) , an extension of the standard ones, explore the search space. After a brief introduction presenting genetic algorithms and dualism, the fitness distance correlation is discussed in the context of dualism. From this discussion, a conjecture is made about the genetic: heuristic used by dual genetic algorithms to explore the search ...

This paper tackles the philosophical effect of depression on Kafka Tamura, major character in Haruki Murakami’s Shore. Tamura has shown quite a clear disparity his personalities, depending some circumstances he encounters through journey. Depression almost always been present when is addressing ominous imaginary persona, “the boy named Crow.” change believed to be linked as compass that weaves ...

1 Grasping Properties I will present an argument for property dualism. The argument employs a distinction between having a concept of a property and grasping a property via a concept. If you grasp a property P via a concept C, then C is a concept of P. But the reverse does not hold: you may have a concept of a property without grasping that property via any concept. If you grasp a property, the...

We suggest a solution for iterative processing in data flow diagrams based on the notion of a conditional data flow switch, and a specialized iterative construct based on pattem matching f o r vectors and matrices. Both of these constructs can be seamlessly incorporated into a data pow visual programming language. We demonstrate how these constructs may be used to reveal the spatialhemporal dua...