This study focuses on how products are viewed by their users. In order to capture users’ viewpoints, we focused on how the virtual 3D model of a product was examined (rotated/translated/moved by the user). We attempt to understand these viewing mechanisms by focusing on the dynamics of shifting viewpoints and verbal features during the generation of product impressions. The notion of dynamics o...

This paper deals with certain psychic automatisms that appear suddenly in the consciousness of the subject in a passive or automatic way and that usually are diagnosed as psychiatric symptoms or manifestations of an epileptic partial seizure. These mental automatisms are described in many writings by mystics, philosophers, literates, composers, and many different great artists and creators from...

This paper deals with certain psychic automatisms that are usually diagnosed as psychiatric symptoms or as simple partial seizures. These mental automatisms are described in many writings by mystics, philosophers, literates, composers, and many different great artists and creators from human history, but they have never conferred any pathological value on these experiences. We have carried out ...

In the past few decades the West has witnessed an explosion of interest among psychologists, theologians, scientists, and philosophers alike in what Huxley (1970) has called philosophia perennis,the 'perennial philosophy', a universal doctrine as to the nature of man and reality lying at the very heart of every major metaphysical tradition, whether that of the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Amerind...

As previous years, Dip 5 will continue with the redefinition of what was formerly known as public space, trying to reactivate the physical realm of the common, nowadays kidnapped by economic and political agents. The origin of the word paradise gets back to ancient Persia, and to the Avestian term pairi-daêza, composed by pairi, "around" and diz "to construct", literally enclosed space, that wa...

The main purpose of this article is to establish links between the teachings Hryhorii Skovoroda and leading trends in Western philosophy his time. Since anticipated influences, similarities parallels are mostly implicit, study identify common motives for thinking, rather than direct dependence. Nevertheless, biggest difficulty analysis that it not easy enroll a Ukrainian philosopher any modern ...

Abstract In the absence of information about role breathing as part contemplative exercises medieval English mystics, this essay investigates instead modern-day practices advocated by teachers brass instruments and spiritual movements. Arnold Jacobs Michel Ricquier offer techniques for use musicians that share revealing characteristics with proponents Holotropic Breathwork, itself influenced pr...

Viewpoints-based approaches have been proposed as a way of managing inconsistent and incomplete information gathered from multiple sources [8]. These approaches separate the descriptions provided by different stakeholders, and concentrate on identifying and resolving conflicts between them. A key advantage to the use of viewpoints is that inconsistencies between viewpoints can be tolerated [7].

Exposure to conflicting political viewpoints is widely assumed to benefit the citizens of a democratic polity. Nonetheless, the benefits of exposure to heterogeneous political viewpoints have yet to be demonstrated empirically. Drawing on national survey data that tap characteristics of people's political discussion networks, I examine the impact of heterogeneous networks of political discussio...