LUTHER Burbank was a curious mixture: part garStalin’s ear. He was arrested in 1940 while on a collecting trip and was sentenced to death, but this was rescinded dener, part artist, part P. T. Barnum. He was responsible for a plethora of improved fruits, vegetables, in June 1942. He died in prison in 1943. Had he been able to continue his program, he would surely have and ornamentals. Some of t...

American psychologist and philosopher William James devoted the entirety of his career to exploring the nature of volition, as expressed by such phenomena as will, attention, and belief. As part of that endeavor, James's unorthodox scientific pursuits, from his experiments with nitrous oxide and hallucinogenic drugs to his investigation of spiritualist mediums, represent his attempt to address ...

Despite having been relegated to the realm of superstition during the dominant years of behaviourism, the investigation and discussion of consciousness has again become scientifically defensible. However, attempts at describing animal consciousness continue to be criticised for lacking independent criteria that identify the presence or absence of the phenomenon. Over one hundred years ago Willi...

William James’s seminal book, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902/2012), describes the phenomenology and ‘fruits’ (James 2012, p [...]

This paper contributes to a growing body of philosophical and psychological work that draws parallels between the writings of William James and Alfred North Whitehead James and Whitehead: Assemblage and Systematization of a Deeply Empiricist Mosaic Philosophy

A recommendation of: Michele Nardin, James W Phillips, William F Podlaski, Sander Keemink Nonlinear computations in spiking neural networks through multiplicative synapses https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03857v4