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Res extensa
About: Res extensa is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 108 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1471 citations.
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TL;DR: The notion of the "dignity of man" has been used for a long time in the literature as mentioned in this paper and it has been widely used as a way of expressing the importance of human social relationships.
Abstract: E W expressions call forth the nod of assent and put an end to analysis as readily as "the dignity of man." It sounds wholesome and real, and its utterance easily quiets our critical faculties. Because it is used by a great variety of people, coming from all different quarters, and in a great variety of contexts, we may well pause to examine its meaning. Casual observation seems to justify the conclusion that the phrase is commonly used to refer to an inherent quality that belongs to man by reason of his being man and by virtue of his uniqueness in distinction from all other men and from all other natural beings. Such usage reflects an aspect of the atomistic way of looking at things, in which there is attributed to each individual a sacrosanct quality, private, impenetrable, and beyond the pale of the sophistications of institutionalized living. In at least one of its various meanings, the phrase is used to buttress a type of individualism which places supreme worth in the inner life of the individual, a life that is, in its subjectivity, accessible only to the individual himself. In fact, this way of looking at man appears to be a favorite theme of modem thought and culture and is a manifestation of the basic separation which is made between man and nature, res cogitans and res extensa. Even though from this point of view there emerge insuperable difficulties pertaining both to philosophy and to life, yet the doctrine of the dignity of man, in its essentially divisive and individualistic formulation, is still ardently espoused. In the subsequent analysis I wish to emphasize the indispensability of man's social relationships, as pertaining to our belief in his dignity and as giving positive content to that notion. I should like to call attention to the emergence of human values by which man comes to attain a position of distinction in the scheme of things, and I should like to examine the basic character and ground of these emergent values.
45 citations
TL;DR: It is now time to reappraise the relevance, strengths, and weaknesses of the available scientific interpretations of NDEs, their relationship with other ASCs, as well as the very concept of ASC; the latter looks to be ill-founded.
42 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that quantum theory is best understood as requiring an ontological duality of res extensa and res potentia, where the latter is understood per Heisenberg's original proposal, and the former is roughly equivalent to Descartes' extended substance.
Abstract: It is argued that quantum theory is best understood as requiring an ontological duality of res extensa and res potentia, where the latter is understood per Heisenberg’s original proposal, and the former is roughly equivalent to Descartes’ ‘extended substance.’ However, this is not a dualism of mutually exclusive substances in the classical Cartesian sense, and therefore does not inherit the infamous ‘mind-body’ problem. Rather, res potentia and res extensa are proposed as mutually implicative ontological extants that serve to explain the key conceptual challenges of quantum theory; in particular, nonlocality, entanglement, null measurements, and wave function collapse. It is shown that a natural account of these quantum perplexities emerges, along with a need to reassess our usual ontological commitments involving the nature of space and time.
41 citations
1 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual introduction to the quantization of mind is presented in the framework of noetic field theory, the three base states of its cosmology, and its application to the new discipline of quantum cerebroscopy.
Abstract: A conceptual introduction to the quantization of mind is presented in the framework of noetic field theory, the three base states of its cosmology, and its application to the new discipline of quantum cerebroscopy. Although the assumption that awareness is the fundamental principle from which to begin formulating a theory of consciousness is a correct one; the widely held opinion "what processes in the brain give rise to consciousness?" represents a category error for philosophy of mind leading to the recent definition of consciousness as a 'hard problem' ineffable to scientific scrutiny. The realization that DesCartes 'res cogitans' the mind, is not an abstract immateriality, but a physically quantifiable metric intrinsically interacting with 'res extensa' the brain and body, has led to the first empirically testable and comprehensive dualist / interactionist theory of consciousness. Extensions of the standard models of quantum theory and cosmology as well as elements of microgravity are required to formulate Noetic Field theory (NFT). Its broad applications to many fields of science are discussed.
40 citations
1 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the distinction between the divisibility of an extended version of a text and the duration of its duration, and show that this distinction can be explained in terms of the further distinction deriving from Descartes's own writings.
Abstract: Nesse artigo pretendo examinar a distincao atribuida a Descartes, em Conversacoes com Burman , entre, de um lado, a divisibilidade de algo que e por natureza extenso e, de outro, a divisibilidade da duracao de algo que e por natureza indivisivel. Pretendo mostrar que essa distincao pode ser explicada em termos de uma outra distincao que deriva dos escritos do proprio Descartes, entre a divisibilidade da res extensa em partes substanciais e a divisibilidade da duracao temporal da res cogitans e da res extensa em partes modais. Abstract In this article I wish to consider the distinction, which the Conversation with Burman attributes to Descartes, between the divisibility of something that is extended by nature, on the one hand, and the divisibility of the duration of something that is indivisible by nature, on the other. I intend to show that this distinction can be explained in terms of the further distinction deriving from Descartes's own writings between the divisibility of res extensa into substantial parts and the divisibility of the temporal duration of res cogitans , as well as of res extensa , into modal parts. Recebido em 07/2009 Aprovado em 09/2009
38 citations
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