Comprehensively addressing the development of thinking from a wide variety of perspectives, this volume presents original work from cognitive psychologists, curriculum specialists, federal government and business leaders, politicians, educational theorists, and other prominent figures specializing in this complex field. These experts provide directives for teacher education, textbook development, classroom activities, administrative policies, publication procedures, business connections, community education strategies, and whole school projects as sample plans of action. Designed to spark adoptions of the solutions it proposes, this book suggests significant steps that can be taken to move toward more advanced thinking instruction in our educational systems.
SUMMARY The facts of optical processing by lens and pupil are agreed upon
and therefore make a good starting point for an examination of the perceptual
process. Distinguishing between processing performed by the optics of the eye
from that performed by the retina allows for the occurrence of a moving optical
image, that is, an optical flow. This flow is not two-dimensional, but richly
multidimensional. The multidimensionality is complemented by the richness of
the retinal receptor ...
This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to think together in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have suffered conceptual estrangement but now are ripe for rapprochement, if academic parochialism is put aside. A prevalent theme of the book is a moving away from individual elements and individual actors acting upon each other, toward a coordinate hermeneutic dynamics that manifests as a coherent totality. Among the topics covered are image in photography and in neuroscience; language; time; brain and mathematics; quantum brain dynamics and quantum communication.
"Istituto di Fisica Teorica, Napoli, Italy bGruppo Nazionale di Cibernetica del CNR
On the basis of a recent physical theory of many-body problems developed in our
Institute,1 a model of the brain is formulated, and it is shown how some of its
typical features, such as learning and memory processes, find therein a natural
and simple explanation. In the Appendix a short surview of the necessary
mathematical formalism is finally given. 1. Introduction Although nowadays the
study of ...
Islam-Nusantara, Islam yang meng-Indonesia, atau apa pun namanya, pasti berakar dari hasil pemikiran para sunan zaman dahulu. Kebanyakan umat Islam di Indonesia tidak tahu bahwa para pendiri NU dan Muhammadiyah adalah keturunan Walisongo. Kebanyakan umat Islam di Indonesia tidak tahu bahwa ajaran Walisongo adalah model keislaman yang paling mendekati Islam-Madinah era Nabi Muhammad saw. Buku ini bertujuan mengenalkan hal-hal semacam itu. Agama Islam tidak hanya berisi benar dan salah. Agama Islam tidak hanya mengandung kebenaran. Agama Islam juga mengajarkan kebaikan dan keindahan. Semisal masalah menyikapi makanan. Umat Islam di Indonesia terlalu sibuk menakar apakah makanan A, B, dan C itu haram atau tidak tanpa menyadari hal yang lebih esensial di dalam agama Islam; apakah semua saudara dan tetangganya bisa makan atau tidak hari ini. Selain berisi 26 esai mengenai tema-tema yang sangat esensial di dalam agama Islam, buku ini juga berisi beberapa puisi dan kata mutiara. Buku ini mengingatkan cara kembali menjadi manusia, cara kembali menjadi makhluk Allah.
Selain berisi 26 esai mengenai tema-tema yang sangat esensial di dalam agama Islam, buku ini juga berisi beberapa puisi dan kata mutiara. Buku ini mengingatkan cara kembali menjadi manusia, cara kembali menjadi makhluk Allah.
Buku ini mencoba mengkaji pandangan dua filsuf dari genre Filsafat Analitik: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) dan Mehdi Hairi Yazdi (1923-1999), khususnya respons mereka terhadap keabsahan dan kebermaknaan bahasa mistik. Masalah pokok yang diketengahkan dalam buku ini yaitu: pertama, bagaimana posisi bahasa sebagai medium ekspresi filsafati terkait keabsahan bahasa mistik. Kedua, bagaimana system ofthought kedua filsuftersebut dalam kaitannya dengan problem keabsahan bahasa mistik. Ketiga, bagaimana implikasi dan konsekuensi pemikiran kedua filsuf tersebut dalam kancah pemikiran filsafat kontemporer, khususnya jika dikaitkan dengan fenomena New Age. Pembaca akan mendapati beberapa terra menarik seperti: aras konseptual bahasa mistik, bahasa dan pengalaman mistik, ke arah perumusan bahasa mistik, pengalaman mistik, fisika quantum, dan New Age. Dengan pemaparan tema tersebut buku ini akan sangat bermanfaat bagi para mahasiswa program S-1, S-2 maupun S-3 yang sedang mempelajari dan mendalami Filsafat Islam, Filsafat Ilmu, Filsafat Bahasa, dan Mistisisme Islam. *** Persembahan penerbit Kencana (PrenadaMedia)
Buku ini mencoba mengkaji pandangan dua filsuf dari genre Filsafat Analitik: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) dan Mehdi Hairi Yazdi (1923-1999), khususnya respons mereka terhadap keabsahan dan kebermaknaan bahasa mistik.
The book contains the Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Italian Systems Society, see also www.AIRS.it. Papers will deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of changing related to a wide variety of specific aspects. Attempts to deal with them, based on generalising approaches used to study the movement of bodies and environmental influence, have included ineffective reductionistic simplifications. Indeed changing also relates, for instance, to processes of acquisition and varying properties such as for software; growing and aging biological systems; learning/cognitive systems; and socio-economic systems growing and developing through innovations. The aim of the book is to present very advanced studies and the generalisation of processes of changing as for processes of emergence. Papers in the book study the problem considering its transdisciplinary nature, i.e., systemic properties studied per se and not within specific disciplinary contexts. The aim of these studies is to outline a transdisciplinary theory of changes in systemic properties. Such a theory should have simultaneous, corresponding and eventually hierarchical disciplinary aspects as expected for a general theory of emergence. Within this transdisciplinary context, specific disciplinary research activities and results are assumed to be mutually represented as within a philosophical and conceptual framework based on the theoretical centrality of the observer. Models and theories will be based on the conceptual inseparability between observer and observer as in constructivism and for logically open systems. Contributions will deal such issues in interdisciplinary ways considering theoretical aspects and applications from Physics, Cognitive Science, Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Architecture, Philosophy, Music and Social Systems. Opening lecture “Criticality of Criticality in Causal Networks: Information transfer, storage and further issues” by Stuart Kauffman is found at http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Stuart%20Kauffman.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference "Shaping the Future of ICT Research", held in Tampa, FL, USA, in December 2012. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: new methods in design science research; recent developments in inductive research methods; emerging themes in interpretive case study research; new ideas in positivist research; and innovative trends in information systems research.
