Many people want to improve education. So do we. Many researchers argue that such change must be systemic, since attempts at piecemeal change have made little difference in our current education systems, which still operate largely as they have in the past. The major question is: What should we change in the current education system, and how do we know it will work? We argue that what we need i...

INTRODUCTION All mammals show the physiological correlates of waking, dreaming and deep sleep. Many contemplative traditions propose a fourth state of consciousness, “silent consciousness,” defined as consciousness without reportable contents. For example, the Mandukya Upanishad, one of the root texts of Vedanta philosophy, explicitly claims a fourth state of “consciousness without content.” (S...

We present a segmentation approach to scientific visualization that combines the definition of higher-level data, the efficient extraction of meaningful derived feature-like data from defined properties, and the effective visual representation of the extracted data. Our framework is aimed at multi-valued time-varying data sets, where, for example, grid vertices might have a multitude of associa...

the aim of the present paper is to sbo» that anti-realism in science, 1vhich has a1;guab/y become more fashionable in recentyears, contrary to tuha: its proponents assert, cannot make use of quantum mechanics and its impressiue achievements as a frump card in justifying its claims. i will argue that scientific anti-realism far from providing scientific communiry with a progressive methodologica...