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What is Literature?
A Definition Based on Prototypes
Jim Meyer
(10 pages, 49 Kb)
... ad aesthetically, and containing many weak implicatures.

Writing as a Visual Art offers a revolutionary approach ... exploring a visual and multidimensional experience that ... to people's experience. Clearly written and liberally il... show writing text as being akin to creating a drawing or... designing a

Technoetic Arts
A journal of speculative research
Edited by Roy Ascott, The Planetary Collegium.
This peer-reviewed journal presents the cutting edge of ...

One Day in History
Make history with us on 17 October by taking part in the ...
'One Day in History' is a one off opportunity for you to ...

Cognitive Systems: Information Processing Meets Brain Sc...
Authors: Richard G M Morris, Lionel Tarassenko and Micha ...
Publisher: Academic Press Inc (London) Ltd
ISBN: 0120885662

Research Reviews
Making connections
Life scientists and physical scientists face many of the ...
This was an important clue in deciding the shape of the ...
The project commissioned a series of Research Reviews so ...

The map–territory relation—the relationship between ... object—is one of the lasting philosophical quandaries.
Coined by Alfred Korzybski, The map is not the territory ...

The Daily Telegraph, Thursday 28th January 1999
The Stuff that Dreams are made of...
Jim Horne
Even though the sleeper has little knowledge of what is ...

How Dreams And Memory May Be Related
Tarnow, Dr. Eugen (2003) How Dreams And Memory May Be Re ...
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... ty: the selection process of the Storage Transformation.

Berlekamp et al quote G. W. Leibniz:
The game called Solitaire pleases me much. I take it in ...
This quote fills my heart with humility as I find it by ...

# Clear goals (expectations and rules are discernable).
# Concentrating and focusing, a high degree of concentra ...
# A loss of the feeling of self-consciousness, the mergi ...
# Distorted sense of time - our subjective experience of ...
... ally rewardi

The flow state has been defined as "an intrinsic reward ... in an activity (Csikszentmihalyi, 1977), an optimal stat... there is a balance between the perceived challenges of a... person’s skills or capabilities for action (Csikszentm... a centering

Mr. Csikszentmihalyi describes flow as "being completely... activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flie... movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previo... playing jazz. Your whole being is involved, and you're u... to the utmo

In this example the physicist David Deutsch (1999) demon... explanations and predictions are entirely different thin... provide us with the linguistic tools from the English ve... calculus that enable us predict outcomes in our physical... and where w

The team's findings suggest that Wallis’s brain had, v... developed new pathways and completely novel anatomical s... re-establish functional connections, compensating for th...
They found that new axons – the branches that connect ...
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For 32 years, Paul Ekman was a Professor of Psychology i... Psychiatry at the University of California at San Franci... his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago... University. He received his Ph.D. from Adelphi Universit...
His interes

Psychological sleuths
Detecting deception
Some research links lying with such facial and bodily cu ...
BY RACHEL ADELSON

JIM HORNE
Jim Horne is Professor of Psychophysiology and Director ...

do stupid things, but do them with enthusiasm