This panel is a series of presentations by a father and his three sons. The first is a critique of the concept of the Unus Mundus, an idea that goes back at least as far as Plato's Cave in western intellectual history. A longing for unchanging foundational ideas lies at the core of much of our culture, psychology, and theology. The subsequent presentations describe various unforeseen, destructi...

Poglądy starożytnych na temat życia pozagrobowego mogą być poddawane wielorakim interpretacjom. Niniejszy artykuł prezentuje wyobrażenia o „zaświatach” obecne w Starym Testamencie tle uniwersalnej koncepcji, zwanej mundus inversus, czyli „świat opak”. Idea ta nie tylko dobrze nadaje się do ukazania szerszej perspektywie kulturowej poszczególnych fragmentów biblijnych, ale dzięki swej powszechno...

Temporality, the thread of time, is in fact the container for the demarcation of real or imagined events in our lives. Historically, philosophers have crystallized the definitions of time within parameters of succession. Western philosophy indulges in the inflated importance given to the notion of the past and the grandiose role it plays in referencing our modes of temporal existence. The struc...

This particular Master’s programme was first organised in 1998 by the Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands), the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Padova (Italy). The main objective of the Master of Bioethics is to train highly qualified students for research work or professional activities in the interdisciplinary field of bioethics, a field that is increasi...

MUNDUS is an assistive framework for recovering interaction capability of severely impaired people based on upper limb motor functions. Within this project, the present work aimed at integrating a commercial passive exoskeleton for weight support with an EMG-controlled neuroprosthesis for hand-to-mouth movements. Being the stimulated muscle the same from which the EMG was measured, first it was...

We present a scenario, how time could emerge in the framework of Weak Quantum Theory. In a process, similar to the emergence of time in quantum cosmology, time arises after an epistemic split of the unus mundus as a quality of the individual conscious mind. Synchronization with matter and other mental systems is achieved by entanglement correlations. In the course of its operationalization, tim...

There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This study was supported by the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (IK, MS, AKH, AG, http://www.speciesconservation.org/, project No. 12255025) and Erasmus Mundus/ ALRAKIS (IK, http://www.alrakis.eu/, projects No. 2011-2577 and No. 2012-2733). Currently, IK and MW receive funding from Alexander von ...