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According to the saint John Henry Newman, conscience is a law of the spirit, the echo of the voice of God, written in the heart of man and every creature, which guides us. Looking at consciousness as a dynamic law we can understand its multifaceted characteristics: it is a process, an interface, an order, an echo. Among the recent scientific discoveries, two in particular question and stimulate us in a particular way: deterministic chaos and quantum entanglement. These phenomena have been detected both in particle physics and in the classical world, such as in biological systems. Both, however, are emergencies that recall a higher order, a non-local reality, beyond the local space-time one, and even before that a law that generates and guides. The scientific contribution of David Bohm, who explains the secret of entanglement to us in light of his causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, and introduces us to its understanding through new concepts such as quantum potential, implied and explicated order, holomovement, similarly recalls first principles , to hidden variables, to an ordering and regulating law. The harmony of thought between Newman and Bohm helps us to understand the profound meaning of the law of consciousness and its manifestations, seen as an interface between the Creator and his creatures, between implied and explicated order, as a real presence, which we can touch with our hands, when the complex and chaotic order and its connections (entanglement) are permanently imprinted, in filigree, on our heart. On this basis it will be easier for us to understand the meaning of deterministic chaos and entanglement also in the dynamics of biological systems.

A New Ecology presents an ecosystem theory based on the following ecosystem properties: physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each of these properties is developed in detail to show that these basic and characteristic properties can be applied to explain a wide spectrum of ecological obsevations and convections. It is also shown that the properties have application for environmental management and for assessment of ecosystem health.* Demonstrates an ecosystem theory that can be applied to explain ecological observations and rules* Presents an ecosystem theory based upon a systems approach* Discusses an ecosystem theory that is based on a few basic properties that are characteristic for ecosystmes

A New Ecology: Systems Perspective, Second Edition, gives an overview of the commonalities of all ecosystems from a variety of properties, including physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each chapter details basic and characteristic properties that help the reader understand how they can be applied to explain a wide spectrum of current ecological research and environmental management applications. - Contains revised, updated or redeveloped chapters that include the most current research and technology - Reviews universal traits of ecosystems from multiple perspectives, giving the reader a complete overview of the systems perspective of ecology - Offers broad examples of ecology as a systems science, from the history of science, to philosophy and the arts - Brings together the systems perspective in a framework of four columns for greater understanding, including thermodynamics, network theory, hierarchy theory and biochemistry - Contains new chapter on the application of the theory to environmental management

This book describes a novel methodology for studying algorithmic skills, intended as cognitive activities related to rule-based symbolic transformation, and argues that some human computational abilities may be interpreted and analyzed as genuine examples of extended cognition. It shows that the performance of these abilities relies not only on innate neurocognitive systems or language-related skills, but also on external tools and general agent–environment interactions. Further, it asserts that a low-level analysis, based on a set of core neurocognitive systems linking numbers and language, is not sufficient to explain some specific forms of high-level numerical skills, like those involved in algorithm execution. To this end, it reports on the design of a cognitive architecture for modeling all the relevant features involved in the execution of algorithmic strategies, including external tools, such as paper and pencils. The first part of the book discusses the philosophical premises for endorsing and justifying a position in philosophy of mind that links a modified form of computationalism with some recent theoretical and scientific developments, like those introduced by the so-called dynamical approach to cognition. The second part is dedicated to the description of a Turing-machine-inspired cognitive architecture, expressly designed to formalize all kinds of algorithmic strategies.

Millimeter wave therapy, discovered and developed in Russia since the 1950s, was first introduced in our country in 2011. Dr. Sergio Stagnaro was the first Italian physician to use it and to certify its fundamental therapeutic importance, both clinically and pre-clinically, with a view to primary and pre-primary prevention of even the most serious degenerative diseases of a mitochondrial nature. In recent years, numerous clinical and experimental evidences, collected by various physicians, have corroborated the goodness of what Ligurian pioneer and scientist saw from the very beginning. All the accumulated experience is certified by numerous publications, both in international peer-reviews and in articles of a dissemination or popular nature. In Eastern countries millimeter-wave therapy is widely used in hospitals and clinics both as mono-therapy and as integrated therapy in different types of pathologies, with excellent results. This monograph highlights the key contribution of radio-physicist Alexander Kozhemyakin, who has developed a marvelous innovation in the field of millimeter waves. It offers extraordinary perspectives in primary and pre-primary prevention of the most serious mitochondrial diseases, such as all forms of solid and liquid cancers, cerebropathies, heart diseases, and diabetes mellitus. Some secrets of millimeter-wave therapy are also told, such as the possibility it gives to interact with the cell membrane and its receptors, mitochondria, the properties of water (memory-information), and different types of substances. Also useful in agriculture, veterinary medicine, and not only in medicine, its potential is endless. To understand from an epistemological and transdisciplinary perspective the scope of this innovative therapy, elements of mathematics (such as deterministic chaos and fractals) and physics (entanglement, stochastic resonance, Gunn effect), as well as philosophy and theology, are invoked, so the contribution made by great thinkers such as John Henry Newman, Jules Henry Poincaré and René Thom, forerunners and visionaries of a reality they imagined, which only now we can finally understand and touch with our own hands with the help of the most modern technical and scientific discoveries, exactly as they had envisioned, is illuminating. Millimeter-wave therapy allows a gentle dialogue with nature, with the reality inside and outside of us, fostering a subtle and delicate, almost imperceptible communication through a language that is silent, but dense with information, that information that is the principle of everything, of every law that governs visible reality, the explicit order, the structured order that we can somehow observe. However, this order is often hidden, concealed, implicated, but we can unveil it through the oscillations, the electromagnetic waves that conceal the information itself. Therefore, this therapy is also an information therapy, an informational therapy, as well as being a mitochondrial therapy (it acts effectively on the mitochondria), a quantum therapy and a restructuring therapy: quantum mitochondrial restructuring therapy (TQMR) according to Dr. Stagnaro. It promotes, unique in the world, a quantum jump, equal to that of electrons “jumping” on different orbits, creating the conditions for a real virtuous reticular restructuring of electrons. Those who are familiar with millimeter-wave therapy and know how to use it, can no longer do without it, it is something fantastic, often words are not enough to pay proper homage to it.

The present volume elucidates the scope of responsibility in science and technology governance by way of assimilating insights gleaned from sociological theory and STS and by investigating the ways in which responsibility unfolds in social processes. Drawing on these theoretical perspectives, the volume goes on to review a ‘heuristic model’ of responsibility. Such a model provides a simple, tentative, though no less coherent analytical framework for further examining the idea of responsibility, its transformations, configurations and contradictions.

This book details a 15-year theoretical and practical research study that destroys the clichés of creative processes and inaugurates a reflective sociology on serendipity. In today’s highly innovative organizations, creative processes are proceduralized in the form of techniques and give rise to routine phenomena. This text hybridizes paradigms such as Donati’s relational sociology, the Luhmanian systemic approach, Von Foerster’s radical constructivism, Sennett’s ideas on the craftsman, the ideas of Wittgenstein and Searle on language, and the ideas of Dummett and Goedel on logic, as well as Hofstadter’s on artificial intelligence. Drawing on over 600 works, including essays and articles, the currents of thought of scholars who have dealt with the topic are identified here. The 200 techniques surveyed present common elements, such as common meta-rules of opposition, combination, and separation that determine creative behavior and are triggered by a recursive but paradoxical relationship between thought and language.

This study explores the representation of disability in three of the most well-known novels of the twentieth century, D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926), and William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929). By signifying cultural demise and a loss of masculinity, white male disability in the literature of the 1920s represents a fear of a foundering patriarchal, white supremacist world order. However, if we take seriously what queer and disability studies have advanced, disabled bodies in literature can also help us redefine life and love in the modern era: forcing us to imagine possibilities outside of our comfort zones, they help us reimagine the elusive myth of independent, self-sufficient human existence.

As IV Jornadas Luso-Brasileiras de Responsabilidade Civil convidaram-nos a refletir sobre a responsabilidade civil no quadro dos novos desafios que a comunicação e a informação comunicam. O tema, dogmaticamente muito rico, não poderia ter sido mais apropriado. Tendo sido escolhido pela Comissão Científica das ditas Jornadas num momento em que ainda se desconheciam os contornos da crise pandémica que o mundo viria a enfrentar, ele veio a revelar-se quase profético, tantos os problemas que a aceleração da digitalização do mundo, entretanto vivenciada, potenciou. Num formato adaptado aos novos desafios, todo ele realizado em ambiente digital, as IV Jornadas foram palco para profícuas discussões sobre os mais variados temas, desde a conformação dos pressupostos da responsabilidade por informações (v.g. a ilicitude e a causalidade), até ao tratamento de matérias específicas, no quadro da proteção de dados, do exercício de direitos nas redes sociais, da liberdade de imprensa, da necessidade de controlo das fakes news, sem se cair em formas de censura mais ou menos encapuçadas, mas também no domínio dos mercados financeiros, da atividade médica, da proteção do consumidor ou de outras partes economicamente mais débeis numa relação contratual. O encontro anual de juristas portugueses e brasileiros ofereceu-nos, assim, um espaço para continuar a aprofundar os contornos de um instituto transversal a todo o direito – a responsabilidade civil – tendo como horizonte de referência alguns dos grandes desafios que o século XXI nos coloca. A riqueza das reflexões ensaiadas nestas IV Jornadas Luso-Brasileiras de Responsabilidade Civil impele-nos a torná-las públicas, oferecendo ao público em geral uma coletânea de textos que, de forma enriquecida, fazem memória dos principais ensinamentos partilhados. É essa memória pública que ganha corpo através da obra que agora se pública.

En un contexto donde se agudiza el cambio climático y crece la urgencia de buscar la transformación de paradigmas en todos los quehaceres, la identidad de la educación ambiental (EA) está lejos de ser un capítulo cerrado. Cada propuesta suma esfuerzos tanto para renovarla política, filosófica, pedagógica y didácticamente como para reconocer su riqueza diversa. Educadores ambientales de gran trayectoria y de países como México, Brasil, Colombia o Uruguay tejen aquí un diálogo crítico sobre la actualidad de la EA, no sin generar entre ellos tensiones teóricas, contrastes y cuestionamientos; también ensayan algunas respuestas sobre el presente y el futuro de esta disciplina científica.