Dualism First published Tue Aug 19, 2003; substantive revision Thu Nov 3, 2011 This entry concerns dualism in the philosophy of mind. The term ‘dualism’ has a variety of uses in the history of thought. 1. 1.1 The Mind-Body Problem The mind-body problem is the problem: what is the relationship between mind and body? Humans have (or seem to have) both physical properties and mental properties. Physical properties are public, in the sense that they are, in principle, equally observable by anyone. The mind-body problem concerns the relationship between these two sets of properties. The ontological question: what are mental states and what are physical states? Different aspects of the mind-body problem arise for different aspects of the mental, such as consciousness, intentionality, the self. The problem of consciousness: what is consciousness? Other aspects of the mind-body problem arise for aspects of the physical. The problem of embodiment: what is it for the mind to be housed in a body? 2.
How to Treat a Virgo: 29 Steps Edit Article Edited by Teresa, Luv_sarah, BR, Meta Knight and 41 others Do not underestimate the gentle Virgo! Virgos are very distinct, virtuous people. Perfectionist Virgos can be hard to please, but if you are capable of it, they will be extremely loyal and loving. Remembering to be considerate and loyal can help you build a better relationship with the Virgo in your life, whether he or she is a friend, family member or romantic partner. Ad Steps 1Don't play mind games. 29If a Virgo likes you, he or she will let you know. Tips Virgos can be very private, so don't invade their privacy. Warnings Treat your Virgo with respect. Technology and Education | Box of Tricks The Library Reflecting on seeing a 9 old year old boy dying of cancer in the hospital bed next to him: Spoken word poem---Shane Koyczan, "The Crickets Have Arthritis" : videos
Can Schools Create a Culture of Learning By Doing? - Education What if we had a culture of "do" instead of a culture of "know" in our schools? That was the question posed by sixth-grade language arts teacher Bill Ferriter and three other educators at last weekend’s EduCon, an education innovation conference held in Philadelphia. Ferriter writes on his blog, The Tempered Radical, that the group came up with the question during a session designed to push educators to dream big and develop ambitious solutions for the problems facing schools. Although knowing academic content is foundational, he writes, students often complain about feeling disconnected from what they’re learning because they’re never given the chance to apply their knowledge in meaningful ways. Ferriter says his group realized they’d "have to work to take active steps to redefine almost everything about our schools," in order to create a culture of doing. Photo via (cc) Flickr user Mark Gstohl
Science Fiction Book Review Podcast › Luke Burrage reads a science fiction novel and reviews it when he's done. Then he reads another. 3 Things That Have Slowed the Change Process Down in Education (And What We Can Do About It) There has been a lot of talk on the idea that education as a whole takes a long time to change. As an educator, this is a challenging notion, since we are seeing many people doing some amazing things that did not exist when I was a student. Change is happening but sometimes it is hard to see when you are in the middle of the process. Some things are out of the hands of schools. Budgets and government decisions can make creating new and better learning environments for students tough, but not impossible. Here are some of the challenges we have had in the past and how we can tackle them 1. Education has traditionally been an isolating profession where we get some time together, but not nearly enough. How so many educators have shifted this “norm” is by using social media spaces to connect and learn from educators all over the world, and making a significant difference in their own classrooms, and creating much more engaging and empowering learning spaces. Make it go viral. 2. 3. Wow.
The Chinese Room Argument 1. Overview Work in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has produced computer programs that can beat the world chess champion and defeat the best human players on the television quiz show Jeopardy. AI has also produced programs with which one can converse in natural language, including Apple's Siri. Our experience shows that playing chess or Jeopardy, and carrying on a conversation, are activities that require understanding and intelligence. Does computer prowess at challenging games and conversation then show that computers can understand and be intelligent? Searle argues that a good way to test a theory of mind, say a theory that holds that understanding can be created by doing such and such, is to imagine what it would be like to do what the theory says would create understanding. Imagine a native English speaker who knows no Chinese locked in a room full of boxes of Chinese symbols (a data base) together with a book of instructions for manipulating the symbols (the program). 2. 17. 3. 4.
The Characteristics Of A Good School The Characteristics Of A Good School by Terry Heick For professional development around this idea or others you read about on TeachThought, contact us. When a society changes, so then must its tools. Definitions of purpose and quality must also be revised continuously. This really starts at the human level, but that’s a broader issue. When technology changes, it impacts the kinds of things we want and need. When these “things” are forced in with little adjustment elsewhere, the authenticity of everything dies. The Purpose Of School In An Era Of Change What should schools teach, and how? How schools are designed and what students learn–and why–must be reviewed, scrutinized, and refined as closely and with as much enthusiasm as we do the gas mileage of our cars, the downloads speeds of our phones and tablets, or the operating systems of our watches. Why can’t education, as a system, refashion itself as aggressively as the digital technology that is causing it so much angst?
Death of Archimedes (Sources) But nothing afflicted Marcellus so much as the death of Archimedes, who was then, as fate would have it, intent upon working out some problem by a diagram, and having fixed his mind alike and his eyes upon the subject of his speculation, he never noticed the incursion of the Romans, nor that the city was taken. In this transport of study and contemplation, a soldier, unexpectedly coming up to him, commanded him to follow to Marcellus; which he declining to do before he had worked out his problem to a demonstration, the soldier, enraged, drew his sword and ran him through. Others write that a Roman soldier, running upon him with a drawn sword, offered to kill him; and that Archimedes, looking back, earnestly besought him to hold his hand a little while, that he might not leave what he was then at work upon inconclusive and imperfect; but the soldier, nothing moved by his entreaty, instantly killed him.
18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently This list has been expanded into the new book, “Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind,” by Carolyn Gregoire and Scott Barry Kaufman. Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly out of nowhere and then fail to show up when we most need them, and creative thinking requires complex cognition yet is completely distinct from the thinking process. Neuroscience paints a complicated picture of creativity. And psychologically speaking, creative personality types are difficult to pin down, largely because they’re complex, paradoxical and tend to avoid habit or routine. While there’s no “typical” creative type, there are some tell-tale characteristics and behaviors of highly creative people. They daydream. According to Kaufman and psychologist Rebecca L. They observe everything.
Archimedes of Syracuse the Mathematician (1/2) Archimedes der Mathematiker Archidamos III, the King of Sparta (often wrongly used as an image of the Mathematician Archimedes) on the cover of a Japanese Basic Calculus book. Archimedes of Syracuse (Αρχιμήδης ο Συρακούσιος) (287 – 212) BC, son of the astronomer Phidias (according to the text of the Sand Reckoner) worked as an "engineering consultant" to the king, inventing many devices for military defense of the city such as catapults, iron claws and also probably an odometer and planetaria. Most of all he was a mathematician and a mathematical physicist. Timeline: Archimedes and contemporary ancient scientists from He was killed according to a legend by a Roman soldier in 212 BC. In dividing volumes and areas into the sum of a large number of individual pieces Archimedes was essentially using the calculus 2000 years before Newton (1643 - 1727) and Leibniz (1646 – 1716). (Scan from T. See a scanned version of T. Part 2
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