ness and Approximations Thursday, June 9, 2011 Abstractness and Approximations • This rather absurd attack goes as followsness and Approximations • This rather absurd attack goes as follows Thursday, June 9, 2011 Abstractness and Approximations • This rather absurd attack goes as follows 1. Even Turing machines are abstract models that can’t be implemented fully.ness and Approximations • This r...

A Socially Constructed Myth: A thin body ideal for women is prevalent in modern Western societies. Cultural images emphasize a thin and firm body (Bordo 2003). Feminists have labeled this ideal, found ubiquitously in fashion magazines, on television, and in other forms of mass media, a “tyranny of slenderness” (Chernin 1994) and an unrealistic and unattainable “beauty myth” (Wolf 1991). For mos...

Surrealism and the New Universal Myth During the 1940s and 1950s, surrealists increasingly explored abstraction. A widespread interest in biomorphism (the use of organic shapes that reference natural life forms) was accompanied by a heightened emphasis on automatism. Investigations into abstraction paralleled the search for a new social myth, which André Breton deemed therapeutic, mind expandin...

myths show the layers of human being's collective unconsciousness and include a  nations' symbolic and mysterious conceptions. banugoshasbnameh is a mythic verse book including mythic functions. in banugoshasbnameh, banugoshasb is a warring and heroic archetype. her functions remind the glory of   women's role in agricultural era, the era which is famed for its matriarchy and in ...

Because of the enormous impact of the Bible upon both the Jewish and Christian communities, any ancient Near Eastern literary discovery that may offer a parallel to some segment of biblical literature is greeted with interest. One such literary discovery is the Adapa myth. Its early discoverers and investigators claimed it as a true Babylonian parallel to the biblical story of Adam. However, af...

Myth, Power, and Cyberspace: When faced with these three words, what image comes to mind? Could the world conceived in the popular science-fiction movie ‘The Matrix’ be a likely illustration? The enormous potential of the Internet is, to some extent, predicted in this movie by its subtle integration of Myth, Power, and Cyberspace. Such potential can also be seen from the all-around penetration ...

Purpose. Political, national, religious, and other motivations have led the media and even scientists to errantly accept extreme longevity claims prima facie. We describe various causes of false claims of extraordinary longevity. Design and Methods. American Social Security Death Index files for the period 1980-2009 were queried for individuals with birth and death dates yielding ages 110+ year...

This study examined individual difference correlates of belief in a narrative about the discovery of giant skeletal remains that contravenes mainstream scientific explanations. A total of 364 participants from Central Europe completed a survey that asked them to rate their agreement with a short excerpt describing the giant skeleton myth. Participants also completed measures of the Big Five per...

The story that the rulers of domination societies told each other and their subordinates is what we today might call the Myth of Redemptive Violence. It enshrines the belief that violence saves, that war brings peace, that might makes right. It is one of the oldest continuously repeated stories in the world. Here Walter Wink describes just how pervasive this myth still is in the mores of Wester...

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 R I. DEFOE AS MYTH-MAKER, COGNATE, AND PRECEDENT . . . . . . 79 R II. FROM THE PROMISE TO THE TEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 R A. A Serious Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 R B. Party-Tyranny . . . . . . . . ...