Journal articles: 'Conscious living'

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Aleksander, Igor. "The Category of Machines that Become Conscious." Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness 07, no. 01 (March 2020): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s2705078520300029.

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A conscious machine category is defined for which the process of becoming conscious is important. This is distinguished from the artificial intelligence category of machines and contrasted with being a conscious living organism. An example is given of a neural automaton for which becoming conscious is seen to be equated to the growth of a depictive state structure. Existing works and future possibilities are examined against this categoric distinction.

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Weir, Simon. "Living and Nonliving Occasionalism." Open Philosophy 3, no. 1 (April 21, 2020): 147–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2020-0010.

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AbstractGraham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology has employed a variant of occasionalist causation since 2002, with sensual objects acting as the mediators of causation between real objects. While the mechanism for living beings creating sensual objects is clear, how nonliving objects generate sensual objects is not. This essay sets out an interpretation of occasionalism where the mediating agency of nonliving contact is the virtual particles of nominally empty space. Since living, conscious, real objects need to hold sensual objects as sub-components, but nonliving objects do not, this leads to an explanation of why consciousness, in Object-Oriented Ontology, might be described as doubly withdrawn: a sensual sub-component of a withdrawn real object.

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Reading, Michael. "The Anuvrat Movement: A Case Study of Jain-inspired Ethical and Eco-conscious Living." Religions 10, no. 11 (November 18, 2019): 636. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10110636.

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From proclaiming the equality of all life forms to the stringent emphasis placed upon nonviolent behavior (ahimsa), and once more to the pronounced intention for limiting one’s possessions (aparigraha), Jainism has often been pointed to for its admirably ecofriendly example. Incorporating some of this eco-friendliness into its design for ethical vow taking, the Jain-inspired Anuvrat Movement, founded in 1949 by Acharya Sri Tulsi, today offers some arguably vital relevance for the urgent modern task to live eco-consciously. While such relevance includes, most explicitly, Anuvrat’s final vow (vow eleven) which calls for practitioners to “refrain from such acts as are likely to cause pollution and harm the environment,” and to avoid the “cutting down of trees” and the “wasting of water,”1 it also includes several of Anuvrat’s other vows as well, which carry significance on a more implicit level. Hence, presenting some of the basic history and philosophy behind Anuvrat, this article also analyzes its potential for ensuring ethical (and eco-conscious) behavior via its hallmark mechanism of vow restriction—a modality of arguably potent strategic and motivational value. Altogether, while first providing a brief inventory of Jain ecological practice in general, the article will then turn its attention to Anuvrat, arguing that when it comes to the modern eco-conscious imperative to “live simply so that others may simply live” (as the popular adage has it), there is indeed much that Anuvrat has to offer.

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Bennett, Helen. "Being Modern: Living in Flats in Interwar Brisbane." Queensland Review 13, no. 2 (July 2006): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600004414.

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In the period between the First and Second World Wars, Brisbane — in common with most of the ‘Western’ world — embraced a self-conscious modernity: the by-product of nineteenth century industrialisation, imperialism, liberalism and emergent consumerism. Reflected in material and intellectual culture from high art to daily lifestyle, and from the home to the workplace, modernity became the catch-cry and call-sign of the interwar years.

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Barker, Jake, Bo Xia, and George Zillante. "Sustainable Retirement Living: What Matters?" Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building - Conference Series 1, no. 1 (February 5, 2013): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb-cs.v1i1.3155.

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There is a growing demand for sustainable retirement villages in Australia due to an increasing number of ageing population and public acceptance of sustainable development. This research aims to gain a better understanding of retirees’ understanding about sustainable retirement living and their attitudes towards sustainable developments via a questionnaire survey approach. The results showed that the current residents of retirement villages are generally very conscious of unsustainable resource consumption and would like their residences and community to be more environmentally friendly and energy efficient. The cost of energy supply is a concern to majority of respondents. However there is a certain level of concerns from residents too on the extra cost of going green in their residence. Education is required to residents about recycling household waste and how to use available facilities. A better understanding of retirees’ awareness and attitudes towards sustainability issues helps to improve the sustainable developments of retirement villages in the future.

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ANGHELESCU, Aurelian, Catalina AXENTE, Cristi RADUCAN, Anca Magdalena MAGDOIU, and Gelu ONOSE. "God`s mathematics: 1+1 equals more than what we know. Unexpected favorable progressive evolution, from vegetative state and severely deposturizing tetraplegia, to minimally conscious state, and finally independence in activities of daily living." Balneo Research Journal, Vol.11, no.4 (December 5, 2020): 538–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.12680/balneo.2020.398.

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The case reported a 21-year-old female patient, admitted and treated in the neurorehabilitation clinic, after traumatic vegetative state and severely deposturizing tetraplegia. She had an unexpected favorable progressive evolution to minimally conscious state, then post-traumatic encephalopathy and functional tetraparesis. Finally both functional and vocational prognosis were favorable, and she achieved independence in activities of daily living. She started her academic education as student, one year after the traumatic accident. Keywords: vegetative state, minimally conscious state, polytrauma, tetraplegia, neurorehabilitatio, outcome,

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Cooke, James E. "What Is Consciousness? Integrated Information vs. Inference." Entropy 23, no. 8 (August 11, 2021): 1032. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23081032.

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Any successful naturalistic account of consciousness must state what consciousness is, in terms that are compatible with the rest of our naturalistic descriptions of the world. Integrated Information Theory represents a pioneering attempt to do just this. This theory accounts for the core features of consciousness by holding that there is an equivalence between the phenomenal experience associated with a system and its intrinsic causal power. The proposal, however, fails to provide insight into the qualitative character of consciousness and, as a result of its proposed equivalence between consciousness and purely internal dynamics, into the intentional character of conscious perception. In recent years, an alternate group of theories has been proposed that claims consciousness to be equivalent to certain forms of inference. One such theory is the Living Mirror theory, which holds consciousness to be a form of inference performed by all living systems. The proposal of consciousness as inference overcomes the shortcomings of Integrated Information Theory, particularly in the case of conscious perception. A synthesis of these two perspectives can be reached by appreciating that conscious living systems are self-organising in nature. This mode of organization requires them to have a high level of integration. From this perspective, we can understand consciousness as being dependent on a system possessing non-trivial amounts of integrated information while holding that the process of inference performed by the system is the fact of consciousness itself.

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Vorozhbit-Gorbatyuk, Victoria, Yana Volkova, and Maryna Shtefan. "CONSCIOUS PARENTING IN UKRAINE AND FINLAND." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 2 (May 28, 2021): 805–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2021vol2.6332.

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The current state of upbringing is characterised by a blurring of methodological foundations for understanding the spiritual basis of upbringing of a personality, and an exaggeration of the role of the rational component in this process. We can trace the lack of attention to the social nature of upbringing. The process of upbringing is often excessively individualised and isolated by the framework of a particular person, real living conditions, etc. Such an approach complicates social interaction at the level of personal communication and impedes the integrity of educational influences. The formation of conscious parenthood as a basic value of a civilised society can help to achieve this.A pedagogical retrospection on the valuable pedagogical experience of the past is chosen as one of the information blocks. The idea of developing moral feelings, will and responsibility is revealed through the traditions of Ukrainian folk pedagogy, pedagogical analysis of traditional rituals that accompany the stages of human maturation and are preserved in our time.It is important for Ukraine and Finland to realise that the ideal of education is created in the family circle and its basic values are inner spirituality, ethical responsibility, versatile education, open-mindedness, effective desire for the good of the Motherland, honesty, mercy, charity, gentleness, politeness, restraint, courage and patience in the hardships of life.As a promising direction for developing the issue of conscious fatherhood, we see the creation of opportunities for sharing experiences, forming family and community education traditions, sharing experiences of constructive cooperation between teachers and parents with team-building resources in the implementation of an individual child success programme.

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Andersen, Sophie Esmann, and Anne Ellerup Nielsen. "Climate-conscious citizenship in a digital urban setting." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 27, no. 50 (June 27, 2011): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v27i50.2723.

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Climate change has challenged urban life, and as an omnipresent force, Nature sets the agenda for urban living. Using stakeholder theory to conceptualise urban life, we approach Nature as both an omnipresent stakeholder and an issue to be continuously addressed and related to. Adapting the stakeholder focus to relations, stakes and values, we conceptually analyse the digital installation entitled CO2mmitment/CO2nfessions, which was a prominent part of the Aarhus CO2030 exhibition launching the vision of the Danish city of Aarhus to become carbon neutral by the year 2030. In the analysis, we explore how the citizen is framed and invited to enact his/her responsibilities to the natural environment in an urban setting and how the digital mediation facilitates various forms of relations and climate conscious positions, incorporating both narcissistic desires, universal anxiety, moral obligations, ethical virtue and image performance. Statements from the actual confessors/committers exemplify this. Thus, the paper provides insight into understanding the complexity of climate-conscious citizenship as a complex configuration of paradoxical, co-existing ethics and arguments.

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Hui, Xiaonan, and Edwin C. Kan. "No-touch measurements of vital signs in small conscious animals." Science Advances 5, no. 2 (February 2019): eaau0169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau0169.

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Measuring the heartbeat and respiration of small conscious animals is important for assessing their health and behavior, but present techniques such as electrocardiogram (ECG), ultrasound, and auscultation rely on close skin contact with the animal. These methods can also require surface preparation, cause discomfort or stress to animals, and even require anesthetic administration, especially for birds, reptiles, and fish. Here, we show that radio frequency near-field coherent sensing (NCS) can provide a new solution to animal vital sign monitoring while ensuring minimal pain and distress. We first benchmarked NCS with synchronous ECG on an anesthetized rat. NCS was then applied to monitor a conscious hamster from outside its cage, and was further extended to a parakeet, Russian tortoise, and betta fish in a noninvasive manner. Our system can revolutionize vital sign monitoring of small conscious animals in their laboratory living quarters or natural habitats.

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Alcântara, Valderí De Castro, Bruna Habib Cavazza, Alyce Cardoso Campos, José Willer do Prado, and Daniel Carvalho de Rezende. "Living identities in the mosaic of consumption resistance practices." Revista de Negócios 24, no. 3 (September 30, 2019): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7867/1980-4431.2019v24n3p62-75.

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In this article, we aimed to understand how discourses and other social consumption resistance practices are articulated in the processes of identity reconstruction. The corpus was formed by in-depth interviews with consumption resistance practitioners. The analyses followed the directions of the Social Theory of Discourse, from the notions of social practices and discourse meanings. Our contribution is that the consumption resistance practitioners articulate discourses and other social practices in the processes of identity reconstruction marked by re-significances and contradictions, being therefore a hybrid and tensional field that forms a mosaic of consumption resistance practices. Specifically, we discovered that conflicting discourse orders influenced consumption resistance practices in a interdiscursive way, which articulated the reconstruction of identities. This included scientific, political, religious, animal ethics, environmental, social, and conscious consumption discourses.

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Steel, Kylie A., David I. Anderson, Caroline A. Smith, Eathan Ellem, Karen P. Y. Liu, Andrew Morrison-Gurza, Tinashe Dune, and Lauren H. Fairley. "Potential Value of Customized Video Self-Modelling for Motor Skill Learning in Individuals with Cerebral Palsy: A Case-Study Approach." Perceptual and Motor Skills 128, no. 4 (April 23, 2021): 1464–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00315125211012810.

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Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a common physical disability that is managed with a variety of strategies. One non-invasive intervention for people living with CP is a type of video self-modelling (VSM) referred to as positive self-review (PSR). PSR involves watching a video of oneself performing only the best examples of a desired task; this technique has been associated with improved performance and learning for people without disabilities and for those in various clinical populations, including children with spina bifida and stroke patients. PSR may have similar benefits for people living with CP. In this study we examined the effectiveness of PSR for improving a self-selected movement task among individuals living with CP. In this case study approach, eight participants completed a pre-, post-, and second post-test measuring and recording well-being, movement self-consciousness and tendency to consciously monitor movements. Results were mixed, with some participants improving their movement time, well-being ratings and tendency toward self-consciousness and conscious monitoring of movements and others showing no changes or regressions. The effectiveness of VSM appears to depend upon the match between type of task and disability and/or the length of practice. More study is needed.

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CALS, M. "Markers of oxidative stress in fit, health-conscious elderly people living in the paris area." Nutrition 13, no. 4 (April 1997): 319–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0899-9007(97)83054-7.

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Kiely-Froude, Cameron, and Samira Abdul-Karim. "Providing Culturally Conscious Mental Health Treatment for African American Muslim Women Living With Spousal Abuse." Journal of Muslim Mental Health 4, no. 2 (October 30, 2009): 175–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564900903245824.

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Gullick, Janice, and M. Colleen Stainton. "Living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: developing conscious body management in a shrinking life-world." Journal of Advanced Nursing 64, no. 6 (December 2008): 605–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04823.x.

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Caldevilla-Domínguez, David, Almudena Barrientos-Báez, and Graciela Padilla-Castillo. "Twitter as a Tool for Citizen Education and Sustainable Cities after COVID-19." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 22, 2021): 3514. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063514.

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The social confinement resulting from the COVID-19 crisis temporarily reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Although experts contend that the decrease in pollution rates was not drastic, some surveys detect growth in social concern about the climate. In this new climate-conscious environment, municipalities and local governments are promoting a new way of living and caring for cities, even before they can regain national and international freedom of movement. This work analyzes the connections between new climate awareness arising from the COVID-19 crisis, proposals of sustainable citizenship around the world, and its communication on Twitter to educate the new eco-conscious audience. The methodology mixes quantitative and qualitative analysis, using the Twitonomy Premium tool and the Twitter research tool with data extracted at the end of December 2020. Among the top ten most influential and active accounts, the results show educational institutions, local institutions, companies, neighborhoods, associations, and influencers. The impossibility of living in the city has not prevented citizen education and commitment to make real change for when that city and its citizens return to normality. However, this new normality must be different: more ecological, more responsible, more sustainable, and practiced from early childhood.

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Huang, Yan Mei. "Aesthetic Expression and Aesthetic Value of Heiyi Zhuang." Advanced Materials Research 268-270 (July 2011): 1657–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.268-270.1657.

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The article analyzed national aesthetic theory and emotion thinking.The culture system of Heiyi zhuang national minority costume is emotion expression for this national labor people. Heiyi zhuang costume culture was famed ‘living fossil’ of zhuang culture. Heiyi zhuang’s special color aesthetic conscious of making and dyeing cloth have very high lever aesthetic value, and reflecting the history continue of national tradition aesthetic culture system.

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Lechowski, Paweł. "The Philosophy of Myth as the Interaction of Anticipation and Memory." Philosophical Discourses 1 (2019): 275–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/pd.2019.01.16.

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In this article, apart from a brief review of the relationship between mythos and logos, the author, who has based his study on the Freudian category of the social unconscious and Durkheim’s category of social consciousness, presents the characteristics of three modes of social memory: unconscious memory, interconscious memory and conscious memory. Based on Gilbert Durand’s mytho-analytical tool, the structure of the triad of memory: THE UNCONCIOUS – AWAITING – THE CONSCIOUS is shown as the memory of the Father, Son and Mother. The mythological aspect of elapsing, past, reminiscence, living memory and anticipation is captured on the examples taken from Postmodern (the global society), Modern and even Pre-Modern). In this way, the author concludes that the contemporary transformation of memory into hallucinations means the beginning of anticipation for the End of History.

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Zazulina, Mariya R. "Ethnic Identity in the Conditions of Living in Rural Areas: Patterns of Reproduction and Mechanisms of Representation." Siberian Journal of Philosophy 17, no. 3 (2019): 209–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2541-7517-2019-17-3-209-221.

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The main trends of socio-cultural development of ethno-local communities of Tatars living in rural areas of the Novosibirsk region are analyzed. It is shown that the main mechanisms of representation of ethnicity are the reproduction of traditions in the field of culture, the preservation of language and religion. It is concluded that the reproduction of ethnicity becomes conscious and selective. At the same time, there is a change in the content of all markers underlying ethnic identity.

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Techio, Jônadas. "Seeing Souls." Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, no. 1 (December 2, 2013): 63–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/cjcs.v0i1.953.

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The so-called “Part I” of Philosophical Investigations contains many claims concerning the grammar of psychological predicates, and particularly about the conditions for ascribing them to others. The following are some of the most well-known (and also most representative) among such claims: (i) “only of a living human being and what resembles (behaves like) a living human being can one say: it has sensations; it sees; is blind; hears; is deaf; is conscious or unconscious”; (ii) “An ‘inner process’ stands in need of outward criteria.” The content of these and other kindred remarks has led a great number of readers to ascribe some kind of “externalistic” account to the author of the Investigations.

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Visarion, Alexa. "Entertainment and the Nostalgia of Values." Theatrical Colloquia 7, no. 2 (December 1, 2017): 163–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tco-2017-0016.

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Abstract Whether we talk of Stanislavski’s theatre of living, or Meyerhold’s biomechanics (through which the eccentric actor can respond to the most unexpected emotional or physical requests), or Brecht’s theatre of alienation of representation, or psychological theatre, which pays attention to the character’s conduct, inspired by some of the discoveries of American behaviourists, in all these instances there is a certain common essential point, which, of course, is directly reached through nothing other than the false or truthful image of the contemporary man on the living stage. I believe that great achievements in acting are beyond the split between emotion and idea, or the illusory antagonism of conscious and unconscious, intelligence and sensitivity.

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Vladimirovich, Sinitzyn Oleg, Valiakhmetov Albert Nailevich, and Yuzmukhametova Landysh Nurgayanovna. "Professional Portrait of History Teacher in Coordinates of Modern Russian Historical Education." International Journal of Higher Education 8, no. 7 (October 28, 2019): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v8n7p23.

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Classical background, topics of schooling history in high school and university bring attention to the existence of global challenges of the 21st century common today. These calls necessitate the creation of new historical study from the younger contemporaries allowing to enter consciously the real world of the people living before and near it, able to analyze historical events, owning proper, commercial, socio-political knowledge, valuing cultural traditions of other people. In the article elements of a professional representation of the history teacher of the 21st century are discriminated from positions of modern historical and pedagogical approaches, it is determined that the main ways of development of professionalism are the scientific character of historical thinking of the teacher, development of individual style of teaching and participation in innovative activity. The practical value of results consists of the practical use of conscious need of the modern teacher of history for continuous professional self-improvement.

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Markes, Karlito D. "LIVING VALUES EDUCATION DAN IMPLIKASINYA BAGI PENDIDIKAN AGAMA KRISTEN." Manna Rafflesia 6, no. 2 (April 30, 2020): 220–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.38091/man_raf.v6i2.120.

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Education is a process of inheriting life values that serve as a guideline as well as a foundation for character development. Education must be a conscious and planned process and oriented to contextual life values. Living Values Education is one of the patterns education based on life values is deemed sufficiently relevant to Christian Education as a learning process about the living values of Christianity. The Bible explicitly records that the life, teachings and role model of the Lord Jesus have practiced the Living Values Education as a pattern of education. This research was conducted using the Literature Review method , through literature obtained both manually and also through an electronic data base such as Google and Google Scholer . From the literature analysis conducted, this study found three principles as the basis for character development through The Christian Living Values Education . First , the values of human life with God. Second , the values of human life with others. And third , the values of human life by itself. All three values of life have the same substance, namely: love with heart, soul and mind. The hope of this research is that Christian religious educators are held on the values of life centered on Christ.

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Murchie, Erik H. "Safety conscious or living dangerously: what is the ‘right’ level of plant photoprotection for fitness and productivity?" Plant, Cell & Environment 40, no. 8 (June 2, 2017): 1239–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pce.12965.

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Shevchuk, V. О. "Natural Foundations for Management of Balanced Economic Development. Part II. Components of Capital and Prospects of Their Modernization." Statistics of Ukraine, no. 1(76) (June 20, 2017): 84–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.31767/su.1(76).2017.01.12.

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The attempt of M. Rudenko to build an innovative model of economic balance, based, from ontological perspective, on the principles of even and uneven numbers is analyzed. The thesis that conscious management of balanced economic development in the long run, keeping the balance in economic management in particular, needs to be assured in the industries generating absolute wealth and producing relative wealth is discussed. The components of absolute capital and relative capital are highlighted. It is demonstrated that the fundamental natural principle of economic management is keeping with the energy conservation law, within consideration for the energy distinction between the living and the non-living. This fundamental scientific law is central in sustaining the economic balance and economic development in the long run.

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Scruton, Roger. "The Aesthetic Endeavour Today." Philosophy 71, no. 277 (July 1996): 331–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0031819100041620.

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I am reluctant to add to the many definitionsof modernity, or to encourage the belief that definitions matter. Nevertheless, a changecameintothe worldwhenpeoplebegantodefinethemselves as modern—as in some way 'apart from'their predecessors, standing to them in some new and self-conscious relationship. And this couldserve as a definitionof modernity:as the conditionin which people provide definitions of modernity. For there is a great differencebetween living in history—which, for rational beings, is unavoidable—andlivingaccordingtoan idea ofhistory, and of one's own place within it.

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Cen, Hua, and Chuan Dong Ma. "The Cultural Recreation of the Traditional Working and Living Appliances in Tibetan and Qiang Culture." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 16 (November 2013): 87–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.16.87.

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Confronting the contradiction of the global trend of cultural homogenization and the appeals for the independence of national culture, this paper put forwards the new design concept of “Green Humanity”. Guided by the “green humanity” philosophy, our research on the living and working appliances typical of Tibetan and Qiang people, and on the practice of the localization strategy of cultural recreation of Tibetan and Qiang culture would make our national culture more and more prosperous. It is a conscious measure to make use of design strategy, but for the local people who use the improved appliances, the process of “using” would be an unconscious heritage of culture, a process of evolution in a quiet way more beneficial to the natural heritage of culture.

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Lopez-Meyer, Paulo, Yogendra Patil, Tiffany Tiffany, and Edward Sazonov. "Detection of Hand-to-Mouth Gestures Using a RF Operated Proximity Sensor for Monitoring Cigarette Smoking." Open Biomedical Engineering Journal 7, no. 1 (April 5, 2013): 41–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874120701307010041.

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Common methods for monitoring of cigarette smoking, such as portable puff-topography instruments or self-report questionnaires, tend to be biased due to conscious or unconscious underreporting. Additionally, these methods may change the natural smoking behavior of individuals. Our long term objective is the development of a wearable non-invasive monitoring system (Personal Automatic Cigarette Tracker – PACT) to reliably monitor cigarette smoking behavior under free living conditions. PACT monitors smoking by observing characteristic breathing patterns of smoke inhalations that follow a cigarette-to-mouth hand gesture. As envisioned, PACT does not rely on self-report or require any conscious effort from the user. A major element of the PACT is a proximity sensor that detects typical cigarette-to-mouth gesture during cigarette smoking. This study describes the design and validation of a prototype RF proximity sensor that captures hand-to-mouth gestures with a high sensitivity (0.90), and a methodology that can reject up to 68% of artifacts gestures originating from activities other than cigarette smoking.

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Hayslip, Bert, Heather L. Servaty, Toni Christman, and Elaine Mumy. "Levels of Death Anxiety in Terminally Ill Persons: A Cross Validation and Extension." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 34, no. 3 (January 1, 1996): 203–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/0aw5-pc4l-b6v8-dp6r.

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In order to explore the viability of the distinction between overt and covert levels of death fear, 141 individuals (32 HIV positive who had full-blown AIDS, 39 HIV positive without full-blown AIDS, 70 age-matched controls) were administered measures of conscious and unconscious death anxiety as well as a variety of self-report scales assessing life satisfaction, well-being, regrets about one's life, and hopelessness. While results suggested minimal differences to exist between the above groups for measures of conscious death fear, there were substantive, though in some respects, unanticipated differences across groups in aspects of covert fear tapping concerns about the interruption of goals and achievements, isolation from others, and pain, disease, and suffering. Results also suggested that there were both adjustment-related advantages and disadvantages associated with the appearance of symptoms signaling the appearance of full-blown AIDS. Neither gender nor the duration of time one had been living with the diagnosis of either HIV disease or AIDS influenced death fear.

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Zielińska-Szczepkowska, Joanna. "Slow Tourism – The Fashion for Slowness or a Conscious Choice?" Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia 20, no. 2 (December 1, 2020): 468–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/foli-2020-0060.

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Abstract Research background: The fast pace of life of contemporary people living in developed countries results in a search for peace and relaxation, which is reflected in new forms of tourism. One of them is slow tourism, which is at an early stage of development. A new type of tourist is emerging – one who is conscious, responsible, critical, respectful of nature, open to learning about the customs, culture and religion of local populations. Purpose: This paper analyses the changes that take place in tourism from a socio-economic perspective, characterized by withdrawing from mass tourism and a shift towards individual tourism, with particular emphasis on slow tourism. Research methodology: The paper is based on a compilation of the current literature of the subject, reports and analysis of Polish websites devoted to slow travel. It is a synthesis of economic and social aspects of slow tourism development, including the motives for taking up slow tourism by tourists and the offer of slow travel in Poland. Results: The analysis of the literature reveals a large diversity in the definition of slow tourism. A lively discussion is going on regarding the meaning of the new trend, its importance and future. In Poland, slow tourism is becoming increasingly popular, as evidenced by, among others: an increase in the number of offers for slow tourists. Novelty: This analysis contributes to deepening the knowledge on new trends in tourism – slow tourism. These considerations contribute to the author’s further research on the development of this phenomenon.

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Zsótér, Brigitta, and Nándor Domonics. "A Survey made in the inner area of Mezőhegyes on choosing the energy raing of the electirical household appliances consciously." Analecta Technica Szegedinensia 9, no. 2 (June 12, 2015): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/analecta.2015.2.1-5.

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In this present study we are publishing a part of the results of a survey made in the spring of 2015 which we accomplished among the population living in the inner area of a small town called Mezőhegyes. It was a questionnaire survey connected to a field trip. We chose systematic sampling in making our questionnaire. The objects of the examinations were whether the people living there are conscious in choosing the energy rating of their electrical household appliances and how their energy consumption changed in the last 10 years. What is the most important point when purchasing a new electrical item: the price, the energy rating, the brand, the design or the others’ opinion? Which are the most common household appliances? Do they use alternative energy resources?

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Rule, Warren R. "An Adlerian Perspective." Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling 16, no. 3 (September 1, 1985): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0047-2220.16.3.9.

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The Adlerian lifestyle counseling approach provides insight into a person's dimly conscious patterns of expectations and goals that are used in daily living. This somewhat eclectic perspective, which incorporates many major premises of contemporary counseling, can be helpful to understand the client as a person as well as the individualized meaning of the disability to the individual. The evolution, assumptions and characteristics, applications, research, and resources are discussed. Particular emphasis is given to the four phases of relationship, lifestyle investigation, lifestyle interpretation, and reorientation.

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Gonda, Tibor, and Zoltán Raffay. "Környezettudatosak-e a hazai turisták? : Are Hungarian tourists environmentally conscious?" Turizmus Bulletin 21, no. 2 (August 2021): 4–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.14267/turbull.2021v21n2.1.

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A turizmus alig néhány évtized alatt igazi tömegjelenséggé vált. Dinamikus fejlődése bár számos társadalmi-gazdasági előnnyel jár, a mai tömegturizmust vizsgálva nem tekinthetünk el a nyilvánvaló társadalmi és környezeti mellékhatásaitól: egyes desztinációkban már rontja az ott élők életminőségét, és veszélyezteti a természeti környezetet. Fenntartható fejlődésének érdekében változásra van szükség a kínálatban éppúgy, mint a fogyasztók keresletében. Tanulmányunk egy friss reprezentatív kutatás eredményeire is építve azt vizsgálja, vajon a hazai lakosság hajlandó-e utazásai során környezettudatos és felelősségteljes fogyasztói magatartás tanúsítására, ökoturistákra jellemző viselkedésre. A turizmus esetében kevésbé kutatott terület a különböző generációkhoz tartozó személyek szemléletmódjának, fogyasztói magatartásának kutatása, amely elengedhetetlen feltétele a sikeres piaci működésnek és a turisztikai ágazaton belüli sikeres innovációnak, ezért a tanulmány kitér a korosztályok közti eltérések bemutatására is. By becoming in itself a real mass phenomenon, tourism has generated several positive phenomena. However, if we consider the impacts of today’s mass tourism, its unwanted side-effects from social and environmental perspectives are also to be seen. In some destinations today the living conditions of the residents have deteriorated and the natural environment has suffered. For tourism to be sustainable, changes are needed, both in the supply of tourism and the demand of consumers. This paper, using the findings of a recent representative survey, looks at how open the Hungarian population is to adopting environmentally conscious and responsible behaviour during their travels. The survey of attitudes and consumer behaviour of different generations, a less intensively researched area in the field of tourism, is vital for a successful market operation and for successful innovation within the tourism sector, and so the paper also deals with the presentation of the reasons for the differences among generations.

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Avramides, Anita. "Other minds?" Think 1, no. 2 (2002): 61–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1477175600000282.

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One of the most intriguing of philosophical puzzles concerns other minds. How do you know there are any? Yes, you're surrounded by living organisms that look and behave much as you do. They even say they have minds. But do they? Perhaps other humans are mindless zombies: like you on the outside, but lacking any inner conscious life, including emotions, thoughts, experiences and even pain. What grounds do you possess for supposing that other humans (including even me) aren't zombies? Perhaps less than you think. Anita Avramides tackles this fascinating question.

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Delhove, Juliette M., Rajvinder Karda, Lorna M. FitzPatrick, Suzanne M. K. Buckley, Simon N. Waddington, and Tristan R. McKay. "Non-invasive somatotransgenic bioimaging in living animals." F1000Research 9 (October 9, 2020): 1216. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.25274.1.

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Bioluminescence imaging enables noninvasive quantification of luciferase reporter gene expression in transgenic tissues of living rodents. Luciferase transgene expression can be regulated by endogenous gene promoters after targeted knock-in of the reporter gene, usually within the first intron of the gene. Even using CRISPR/Cas9 mediated genome editing this can be a time consuming and costly process. The generation of germline transgenic (GLT) rodents by targeted genomic integration of a gene expression cassette in embryonic stem (ES) cells is commonplace but results in the wastage of large numbers of animals during colony generation, back-crossing and maintenance. Using a synthetic/truncated promoter-driven luciferase gene to study promoter activity in a given tissue or organ of a GLT also often results in unwanted background luciferase activity during whole-body bioluminescent imaging as every cell contains the reporter. We have developed somatotransgenic bioimaging; a method to generate tissue-restricted transcription factor activated luciferase reporter (TFAR) cassettes in rodents that substantially reduces the number of animals required for experimentation. Bespoke designed TFARs are delivered to newborn pups using viral vectors targeted to specific organs by tissue-tropic pseudotypes. Retention and proliferation of TFARs is facilitated by stem/progenitor cell transduction and immune tolerance to luciferase due to the naïve neonatal immune system. We have successfully applied both lentiviral and adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors in longitudinal rodent studies, targeting TFARs to the liver and brain during normal development and in well-established disease models. Development of somatotransgenic animals has broad applicability to non-invasively determine mechanistic insights into homeostatic and disease states and assess toxicology and efficacy testing. Somatotransgenic bioimaging technology is superior to current whole-body, light-emitting transgenic models as it reduces the numbers of animals used by generating only the required number of animals. It is also a refinement over current technologies given the ability to use conscious, unrestrained animals.

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Sriwulandari, Yunita Anas. "MOTIVASI KEBUTUHAN AKAN PENCAPAIAN MERRY PADA NOVEL MERRY RIANA MIMPI SEJUTA DOLLAR KARYA ALBERTHINE ENDAH." Paradigma: Jurnal Filsafat, Sains, Teknologi, dan Sosial Budaya 23, no. 2 (July 2, 2017): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.33503/paradigma.v23i2.331.

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A healthy human consciousness, will be controlling his behavior. Normal behavior is motivated through the conscious process, psychologically most of a person’s behavior is motivated by conscious thought. Motivation is the driving force that makes a person willing and able to exploit the ability in everythings, power and also times for achievement. Motivation is a state within the individual that drives behavior toward achievement. Everyone’s motivation is always different. Motivation is usually studied on the novel character, the term character leads to the perpetrators of the story. Motivation will be more profound if it is realized that every human being has a need that is the need for an achievement. Novel Merry Riana The One Million Dollar Dream by Alberthine Endah deserves to be the object of research, as it presents the motivations and life journey of Merry’s never give up, hardworking, persistent, disciplined, religious and confident to reach her dreams of success. The life principle of Merry Riana in this novel deserves to be an example or a role models for a confused reader living a life full of challenges.

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Simic, Dusan. "Integrated mind." Theoria, Beograd 60, no. 4 (2017): 91–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo1704091s.

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Numerous experiments indicate a connection between integration of neural structures activities distributed widely across the brain and conscious experience. This paper will try to answer the question how does an interconnection of many elements of the remarkably complex system such as brain come about and which neural structures are the foundation of consciousness. Through examples of various syndromes, degenerative changes and aftermaths of surgical procedures, the role and importance of particular brain areas in the formation of conscious experience will be analyzed. Apart from experiments on living organisms, the analysis of integrative processes will be presented through computer simulations. It will turn out that consciousness appears when special conditions are satisfied, when there is a balance between two opposing tendencies within a neural system: a tendency for global integration and a tendency for local specialization. The system in which there is a balance between these two tendencies is situated in a metastable state. Metastability enables the system to have high levels of complexity and high levels of exchanged information within itself.

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Mills, Perry A., Daniel A. Huetteman, Brian P. Brockway, Lynn M. Zwiers, A. J. Mick Gelsema, Robert S. Schwartz, and Klaas Kramer. "A new method for measurement of blood pressure, heart rate, and activity in the mouse by radiotelemetry." Journal of Applied Physiology 88, no. 5 (May 1, 2000): 1537–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jappl.2000.88.5.1537.

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A simple and reliable means for accurate, chronic measurement of pulsatile blood pressure (BP) from conscious, freely moving laboratory mice was developed and validated. The newly developed device consists of a small (1.9 ml, 3.4 g), fully implantable radiotelemetry transmitter. Initial frequency response tests showed an adequate dynamic response; the average −3-dB point found in five transmitters was 145 ± 14 (SD) Hz. BP, heart rate, and locomotor activity were recorded from 16 chronically (30–150 days) implanted mice. Mean arterial and pulse pressure, checked at regular intervals, ranged from 90–140 mmHg and from 30–50 mmHg, respectively, throughout the study. Transmitter BP measurements were validated against a Millar 1.4-Fr. transducer-tipped catheter. The mean error of the transmitters for diastolic pressures was +1.1 ± 6.9 mmHg ( n = 7). The error for systolic pressures was, on average, 2.7 ± 3.9 mmHg larger. This new device accurately monitors BP, heart rate, and locomotor activity in conscious, untethered, freely moving mice living in their home cages for periods of at least 150 days.

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Kinsella, Joseph. "Ethnographic Assessments Using Ethnographic Fieldwork Methods to Help Undergraduate Students Experience, Understand, and Describe Living Abroad." Practicing Anthropology 32, no. 3 (June 26, 2010): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.32.3.gt3476tk0v87n82r.

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In this article, I examine one strategy through which international educators attempted to measure the success of undergraduate study abroad experiences. Using guided reflection prompts grounded in ethnographic fieldwork practices, we hoped to develop a method by which we could measure our students' success connecting their daily experiences abroad with concepts learned in the classroom, describing their physical surroundings and the people with whom they share them, and challenging stereotypes they knowingly or unknowingly retained when they began their program abroad. Drawn from over five years of essays collected from students at the conclusion of their study abroad experience, we focused our analysis on the students' self-awareness and their ability to be conscious of their own values and judgments as they tried to adapt to local practices and values while attaining new knowledge, thereby enhancing their intercultural living skills.

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Lushnikova, Olga. "Social Well-Being of the Rural Khakas People." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences 2020, no. 3 (October 16, 2020): 312–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2500-3372-2020-5-3-312-319.

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The Khakas people are mainly rural. As a result, the preservation of the indigenous population of the Republic of Khakassia depends on the social well-being of its village dwellers. The migration flow from rural to urban areas is currently increasing because the village is going through a crisis. However, the ethnic community is responsible for the "reverse" migration. Urban experience changes attitudes, habits, and lifestyle, thus affecting the social well-being. The article attempts to compare the social well-being of the Khakas people with some urban experience and those with no such experience. The ex-urban residents proved unsatisfied with rural living conditions but demonstrated a more conscious life attitude and optimistic expectations. The rural old timers appeared less satisfied with their lives and more pessimistic. However, they were more willing to improve their living conditions, which might help to preserve the indigenous rural population of Khakassia.

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Anita Szabó and Imre Vágó. "The effect of different compost rates on the yield of ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)." Acta Agraria Debreceniensis, no. 44 (November 20, 2011): 95–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.34101/actaagrar/44/2614.

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Protection of natural resources and sustainable natural resources management are essential for the long-term survival of humanity. This makes necessary nowadays the development of environmentally conscious living and spread of that in the future. The amount of organic waste materials, produced during human activities, could be decreased by composting instead of dispose them in landfills. Applying appropriate treatment technology and additives, the compost could be used as fertilizer for horticultural crops and it could increase the easily available nutrient content of soils. Compost utilization prevents nutrient deficiencies and by using the optimal rate, we could reach significant yield increases.

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Howe, Cymene. "Life Above Earth: An Introduction." Cultural Anthropology 30, no. 2 (May 25, 2015): 203–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca30.2.03.

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Life Above Earth is a deterrestrialization of anthropological thought. It is an introductory exploration of vitalities, materials, and movements that are skyward, spacey, and atmospheric, asking how a new generation of anthropological work might see old habits in novel domains, find habitats where we thought there were none, and entangle our theorizing with intraconnective potential. Anthropocenic times demand an ascendant orientation as we become conscious climate inhabitants living within weather-weathered political economies. To analytically inhabit life above earth means moving beyond simply charting the space above us and instead seeking out forms of porous mutuality.

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Harada, Norihiro, Shingo Nishiyama, Kengo Satoh, Dai Fukumoto, Takeharu Kakiuchi, and Hideo Tsukada. "Age-related changes in the striatal dopaminergic system in the living brain: A multiparametric PET study in conscious monkeys." Synapse 45, no. 1 (May 23, 2002): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/syn.10082.

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Nurdiani, N., J. F. B. Saragih, and S. Wijaksono. "Improving the urban village environmental quality through a conscious approach to clean healthy living behaviors in Palmerah, Jakarta - Indonesia." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 794, no. 1 (July 1, 2021): 012173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/794/1/012173.

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Trewavas, Anthony. "Awareness and integrated information theory identify plant meristems as sites of conscious activity." Protoplasma 258, no. 3 (March 21, 2021): 673–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00709-021-01633-1.

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AbstractLacking an anatomical brain/nervous system, it is assumed plants are not conscious. The biological function of consciousness is an input to behaviour; it is adaptive (subject to selection) and based on information. Complex language makes human consciousness unique. Consciousness is equated to awareness. All organisms are aware of their surroundings, modifying their behaviour to improve survival. Awareness requires assessment too. The mechanisms of animal assessment are neural while molecular and electrical in plants. Awareness of plants being also consciousness may resolve controversy. The integrated information theory (IIT), a leading theory of consciousness, is also blind to brains, nerves and synapses. The integrated information theory indicates plant awareness involves information of two kinds: (1) communicative, extrinsic information as a result of the perception of environmental changes and (2) integrated intrinsic information located in the shoot and root meristems and possibly cambium. The combination of information constructs an information nexus in the meristems leading to assessment and behaviour. The interpretation of integrated information in meristems probably involves the complex networks built around [Ca2+]i that also enable plant learning, memory and intelligent activities. A mature plant contains a large number of conjoined, conscious or aware, meristems possibly unique in the living kingdom.

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LEONTIEV, Dmitry. "The Problem as a Developmental Resource." Main Issues Of Pedagogy And Psychology 18, no. 2 (December 2, 2020): 33–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.24234/miopap.v18i2.379.

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The paper presents an attempt to treat psychological problems in their positive function, as a resource for personality development. Life at large may be treated as problem-solving. Conscious and satisfying living is not a problem-free one, but rather the living heading toward the 39 infantile problems toward profound existential and insoluble problems of an adult living which direct one’s path of personal maturation. Any problem begins with a contradiction of two oppositions, and besides straightforward or compromise strategies of resolving the contradiction, an ultimate dialectical solution is also possible through ascending to a broader framework, scheme of things in which the initial contradiction dissolves, ceases to exist anymore. This way of solving the problem is the way of increased understanding and advanced personality development. The author has elaborated a specific group practice of working with participants’ life problems based on the facilitation of experience processing. This Life Enhancement Work allows to identify inner barriers hampering the experience processing, and the participants become able to unveil the solution they have within themselves; the result is either transformation of the problem into a more mature one or its complete dissolution.

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O’Shea, Brian A., Derrick G. Watson, Gordon D. A. Brown, and Corey L. Fincher. "Infectious Disease Prevalence, Not Race Exposure, Predicts Both Implicit and Explicit Racial Prejudice Across the United States." Social Psychological and Personality Science 11, no. 3 (July 15, 2019): 345–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550619862319.

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What factors increase racial prejudice? Across the United States, increased exposure to Black Americans has been hypothesized to increase White Americans’ prejudicial attitudes toward Black Americans. Here we test an alternative explanation: People living in regions with higher infectious disease rates have a greater tendency to avoid out-groups because such avoidance reduces their perceived likelihood of contracting illnesses. Consistent with this parasite-stress hypothesis, we show that both White and Black individuals ( N > 77,000) living in U.S. states in which disease rates are higher display increased implicit (automatic) and explicit (conscious) racial prejudice. These results survived the inclusion of several individual- and state-level controls previously used to explain variability in prejudice. Furthermore, showing disease-related primes to White individuals with strong germ aversion increased their explicit, but not implicit, anti-Black/pro-White prejudice. Domestic out-groups, not just foreigners, may therefore experience increased overt forms of prejudice when disease rates are high.

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Golubovic, Zagorka. "Freedom and the principles of morality." Filozofija i drustvo, no. 21 (2003): 97–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fid0321097g.

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Freedom as an authentic and willed process, characteristic of man as a human rational being, enables the individual to act in accordance with the principles of morality, since the individual can choose between good and evil (between two possibilities), and in this way to get out of the sphere of the given to which the rest of the living world is limited. We should recall the forgotten Marx and his famous text on the essential difference between the animal world and humanity as a genus: "The animal is immediately united with its vital activity. It does not differ from it. It is vital activity. Man makes his own vital activity the subject of his will and consciousness. He has conscious vital activity. This is not a determination with which he merges immediately. Conscious vital activity distinguishes man directly from animal vital activity. It is exactly in this way alone that he is a generic being. Or a conscious being, i.e. his own life is a subject for him precisely because he is a generic being. It is only for this reason that his activity is free activity..." (K. Marx, "Alienation", Early Works). In other words, while animals live just the life of their species and cannot choose anything else, since the choice has been made by the fact of their belonging to a species, man can choose the world in which to live, overcoming in this way the natural givens. Here lies the core of the anthropological explanation of the principle of morality, inconceivable without man's ability to be an authentic free being.

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Mañalich R., Juan Pablo. "Animalhood, interests, and rights*." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 11, no. 2 (September 30, 2020): 156–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2020.02.01.

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A being to which intentional states – such as desires or preferences – may be ascribed is a being capable of having (actual) interests, whereas to be the subject of interests of some kind is both a necessary and sufficient condition to be the holder of individual rights. After clarifying the sense in which, according to the ‘interest-theory’, the notion of a rights-subject specifies a distinctive normative status, this article will highlight the importance of distinguishing between subjectivity-dependent interests capable of being attributed to conscious beings, on the one hand, and biologically structured needs of conscious and nonconscious living beings, on the other. This distinction allows one to see that the moral requirement of recognizing legal rights for (individual) animals ought not to be conflated with biocentric demands of ecological justice. However, the argument thus delineated will not, without more, answer the crucial question of which specific legal rights ought to be ascribed to nonhuman animals. The article closes with an exploration of the need for holding onto the distinction between rights-subjecthood and personhood by analyzing some implications of Tooley's ‘particular-interest principle’.

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Beck, Jeffrey, and Harvey J. Lieberman. "Behavioral-Clinical Administration in the Real World: Crisis Intervention in a Large Community Residence." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 14, no. 3 (July 1986): 258–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0141347300014774.

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Discharged psychiatric patients at a large community residence were noted to be experiencing increased agitation, anger and anxiety in connection with repeated vandalism and unauthorized visits by members of the surrounding community. An intervention based on behavioral concepts and technology was formulated utilizing many parts of the social matrix of the residence, including clinical staff, direct care staff and the residents. Resident behavior was successfully changed as a result of the intervention. It appears that behaviorally based, clinical-administrative solutions to “real world” problems can be effective in teaching passive, chronic mental patients safety conscious behavior and helping them to assume responsibility for their community-based living space.

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