Mind Science

1911 Submissions

[2] viXra:1911.0389 [pdf] replaced on 2019-12-04 08:24:42

Energy, Market, Ecology and the Challenge of Civilization-2

Authors: V. A. Kasimov
Comments: 5 Pages. in Russian, in English

Perhaps the most ominous shadow hanging over the future of Humanity is the uncontrolled use of enormous amounts of energy. The reason for this is entropy-the eternal shadow of energy, the universal measure of disorder, chaos, the result of the transformation of the living into the inanimate, ordered and informational, that is, intelligent, again into chaos. This shadow is many-sided, it can act as in the hypostasis of the ominous end, and in the hypostasis of the creative beginning (remember, Aphrodite arose from the foam of the sea, that is, from chaos). In the form of an ominous end, it is inevitable, like a law of Nature. It is about this hypostasis that we we'll now talking. In the article, in the thermodynamic 0-approximation, the dependence of the temperature of a thermodynamic system on entropy is given.
Category: Mind Science

[1] viXra:1911.0114 [pdf] submitted on 2019-11-06 21:30:41

Changing Consciousness Epistemically (Chance): an Empirical Method to Convert the Subjective Content of Consciousness Into Scientific Data

Authors: Daisuke Tanaka
Comments: 11 Pages.

The content of consciousness (cC) constitutes an essential part of human life and is at the very heart of the hard problem of consciousness. The cC of a person (e.g., study participant) has been examined indirectly by evaluating the person’s behavioral reports, bodily signs, or neural signals. However, the measures do not reflect the full spectrum of the person’s cC. In this paper, we define a method, called “CHANging Consciousness Epistemically” (CHANCE), to consciously experience a cC that would be identical to that experienced by another person, and thus directly know the entire spectrum of the other’s cC. In addition, the ontologically subjective knowledge about a person’s cC may be considered epistemically objective and scientific data. The CHANCE method comprises two empirical steps: (1) identifying the minimally sufficient, content-specific neural correlates of consciousness (mscNCC) and (2) reproducing a specific mscNCC in different brains.
Category: Mind Science