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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...t is what binds our various bodies, states of mind, memories, skills, emotions, and cognitions - into a coherent bundle of identity. Dan speaks, dri... ...is nectar to another. Water can be either toxic or indispensable, depending on the animal, the automaton, or the system. Scorching temperatures, su... ...nning, foresight, and utilitarian thinking. We don‟t know if and cannot prove that animals (such as pets) are possessed of a will even when they ar... ...such as Earth. Aliens exist on our very planet. The minds of newborn babies and of animals are as inaccessible to us as would be the minds of littl...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...rs. It is recurrent and invariable – a pattern of conduct melding distorted cognition and stunted emotions. And it is often vehemently denied. Retur... ...personal injury, or powerful pain are sufficient to provoke the behaviours, cognitions, and emotions that together are known as PTSD. Even learning ... ...phobias (agoraphobia, claustrophobia, fear of heights, aversion to specific animals, objects, modes of transportation, neighbourhoods, buildings, oc... ...al landscape. Rage gives place to sadness. It is the sadness of the trapped animal, an existential angst mixed with acute depression. It involves dy... ...s. I wrote a few months ago that it was like having a caged very dangerous animal inside of me. When I get near narcissists, the animal smells its ...

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Neutrosophic Dialogues

By: Florentin Smarandache

...Unlike many scientists who are anxious to construct mathematical models of cognition, I discovered the infancy of mathematics, which I have illustrat... ...rnation.) Reciprocally: Death is the process of somebody else's life [an animal eating another one] (totally biased). 33 Exercises for readers... ...re not" (Heraclitus). "We die, and we do not die; human is a mixture of animal and god; all look when fortuitous when necessary" (Petre úuÛea). ... ...us monsters. You say it’s human? It's not really human. You think it’s an animal? It's not exactly an animal either. Since they graft human genes on... ...mal? It's not exactly an animal either. Since they graft human genes onto animal bodies and alter human genes with animals’ strains, this mutual gene... ...eople will forget entirely what others look like. We will all become like animals. I'm not scolding you; this prediction is a cold, hard fact. That... .... Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. So too are feeling, cognition, formation, and consciousness. Shariputra, all Dharmas are empty... ... increase nor diminish. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body,...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...nd an objective, external one. It serves as a bridge between our inner emotions and cognition and the outside, physical world. It originates almost ... ...usters. The Cluster constitutes a full cross cut of the soul: instinct, affect and cognition. It is hologramic and fractalic in that it reflects t... ...results. Myers (1982) Distinguishes between 3 components: emotions (=potentials), cognitions (=structures) and interpretations (hyperstructures) a... ...such. In our terminology: the structure is hologramic and fractal-like. Lazarus Cognition (=the structure) leads to emotions (=decays into a pot... ...anguage to social norms, from semiotics to computer programming, and from logic to animal behavior. In 1700, the English empiricist philosopher, Jo... ...tion ... (For example: the) admirable conservation of the species in the plant and animal kingdoms, . . . no one, indeed, can claim to comprehend w... ...be subject to a process of natural selection every bit as organisms in nature are. Animals could be thought of as theorems (with a positive truth v... ...lation is not causation. Deviant brain or body biochemistry (once called "polluted animal spirits") do exist but are they truly the roots of menta... ...lots). Storytelling has been with us since the days of campfire and besieging wild animals. It serves a number of important functions: amelioration...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...ced individuals, and pass for normal. It is simply not possible for such an aberration of human cognition and behaviour to infiltrate and infect th... ...nman, Physicist and 1965 Nobel Prize laureate (1918-1988)] "You have all I dare say heard of the animal spirits and how they are transfused from fat... ...oreover, correlation is not causation. Deviant brain or body biochemistry (once called "polluted animal spirits") do exist – but are they truly the ... ...icted myself about this. I wrote a few months ago that it was like having a caged very dangerous animal inside of me. When I get near narcissists, t... ...issistic Personality Disorder is an extremely complex battery of phenomena: behaviour patterns, cognitions, emotions, conditioning, and so on. NPD ... ...nd predictive powers. It is recurrent and invariable: a pattern of conduct melded with distorted cognition and stunted emotions. And it is often veh... ...ostensible benevolence and caring evaporate. He feels caged and threatened and he reacts as any animal would do – by striking back at his perceived...

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

...and grounded in a firm grasp of what's true and what's not. Isolation of Affect Cognition (thoughts, concepts, ideas) is never divorced from emo... ...modes of conceptualization (see: "Appendix 5 - The Manifold of Sense"). Even lower animals (worms) avoid unpleasant corners in mazes in the wake of... ...t and by the ever-changing dimensions and proportions of the body. While all other animal cubs are fully motoric in their first few weeks of life –... ...erent – but not what. Babies are born with their eyes open as opposed to most other animal young ones. Moreover, their eyes are immediately fully f... ...endency to seek others virtually disappears (which is reminiscent of imprinting in animals). The infant tends to equate his movements and gestures... ...east, subject to the impulses and hard-wired behavior that permeate the rest of the animal kingdom? In his seminal tome, "The Selfish Gene", Richard...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

...digestion and less on restoration. 6. Drink potato broth every day. 7. Avoid animal protein (especially beef and pork), as they lead to acidity. 8.... ...ges, asparagus, green leafy vegetables, and dried beans. B12 is found only in animal products. (Oily fish are very high in B12 and also have other n... ...rteriosclerosis, reduces clotting, lowers cholesterol. Increases life span in animal tests; inhibits viruses, bacteria, parasites. 8. Ginseng- Panax... ...s mood swings or hysteria. 4. Ginkgo-Ginkgo biloba • Improves focus, memory, cognition, knowledge retention, perception. • Increases neurotransmitt... ...ife Author: Dr Izharul Hasan Page 92 HOME REMEDIES FOR DOG BITE When an animal scratches or bites braking the skin, a number of problems can ar... ... a number of problems can arise, the most important is infection cause by the animal's saliva. A dog bite may be a minor injury or a severe attack s...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...owers. It is recurrent and invariable - a pattern of conduct melded with distorted cognition and stunted emotions. And it is often vehemently denie... ...st and 1965 Nobel Prize laureate (1918-1988) "You have all I dare say heard of the animal spirits and how they are transfused from father to son et... ...lation is not causation. Deviant brain or body biochemistry (once called "polluted animal spirits") do exist – but are they truly the roots of ment...

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Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

By: Mary Mills Patrick

...henomena of sense- perception, and the genetic relations of man to the lower animals, and a common interest in the theory of human knowledge. While,... ...m in which they must first have existed [1] — (i) Based upon the variety of animals. (ii) Based upon the differences between men. (iii) Based upon ... ...n of them a regular gradation, from the arguments based upon differences in animals to those in man, first considering the latter in relation to the ... ... Trope. [1] That the same mental representations are not found in different animals, may be inferred from their differences in constitution resultin... ... different from those in convex ones; and so in the same way as the eyes of animals are of different shapes, and supplied with different fluids, the ... ...y cannot be so accounted for as to justify our relying upon it as a form of cognition. [4] [1] Myriob. 170 B. 12. [2] Adv. Math. VIII. 207. [3] H...

...imitations of human thought. There is a common desire to investigate the phenomena of sense-perception, and the genetic relations of man to the lower animals, and a common interest in the theory of human knowledge. While, however, some of the pages of Sextus' works would form a possible introduction to certain lines of modern philosophical thought, we cannot carry the ana...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...entury anarchism. Indeed, the term anarchism has been trivialized and debauched. Animal rights activists, environmentalists, feminists, peasant r... ...ly, it is not clear whether the consciousness of anger is dependent on a stream of cognition expressed in words? Do we become angry because we say ... ...ry components and patterns are shared with sexual excitation and with fear. It is cognition that guides our behaviour, aimed at avoiding harm and ... ...ides our behaviour, aimed at avoiding harm and aversion or at minimising them. Our cognition is in charge of attaining certain kinds of mental grat... ...evant and weighted more heavily than any remote aversive conditions. Anger impairs cognition. The angry person is a worried person. The personality... ...words "personality disordered" and the sentence would still remain largely valid. Animal Rights According to MSNBC, in a May 2005 Senate hearing, ... ...'s deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, asserted that "environmental and animal rights extremists who have turned to arson and explosives... ...d explosives are the nation's top domestic terrorism threat ... Groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Brit... ...n Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Britain-based SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way out in front' in terms of damage and nu...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...entury anarchism. Indeed, the term anarchism has been trivialized and debauched. Animal rights activists, environmentalists, feminists, peasant r... ...ly, it is not clear whether the consciousness of anger is dependent on a stream of cognition expressed in words? Do we become angry because we say ... ...ry components and patterns are shared with sexual excitation and with fear. It is cognition that guides our behaviour, aimed at avoiding harm and ... ...ides our behaviour, aimed at avoiding harm and aversion or at minimising them. Our cognition is in charge of attaining certain kinds of mental grat... ...evant and weighted more heavily than any remote aversive conditions. Anger impairs cognition. The angry person is a worried person. The personality... ...words "personality disordered" and the sentence would still remain largely valid. Animal Rights According to MSNBC, in a May 2005 Senate hearing, ... ...'s deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, asserted that "environmental and animal rights extremists who have turned to arson and explosives... ...d explosives are the nation's top domestic terrorism threat ... Groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Brit... ...n Front, the Earth Liberation Front and the Britain-based SHAC, or Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, are 'way out in front' in terms of damage and nu...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...arming parties Local identity - local language (dialect) - local concepts, cognitions and categories Folklore supporting community - localization of s... ...do you like best? Ban Srii Muod Klao 1985. Mr Vong, 75. Cruelty comes from animal milk Which is better for ploughing, buffalo or a machine? Will buff... ... search for and cut grass for the buffalo. Finally, you tire of it and the animals must be sold. I have six children in all, three sons and three daug... ...ist the whole area was full of tattoos. The tattoos used to be pictures of animals and the writing that was included was old language, some writing wa... ...to the child. But today there are all kinds of milk. Children are fed with animal milk and the animal qualities and cruelty are transferred with it, f... ...ilk and the animal qualities and cruelty are transferred with it, from the animal milk into the children. People become cruel by nature, and another r... ...d. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. Shore, Bradd 1999. Culture in Mind. Cognition, Culture, and the Problem of Meaning. Oxford Univ. Press. Siffin...

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A Unifying Field in Logics : Neutrosophic Logic. Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability

By: Florentin Smarandache

...s. That's why crossing the species of plants (and sometimes races of animals and humans as well) we get hybrids with better qualities and/or q... ...he happiness). Or, arriving to the Supreme was done by Prayer (Bhakti) or Cognition (Jnana). It is a part of Sa ńkaracharya's huge merit (charya me... ...s teacher) the originality of interpreting and synthesizing the Source of Cognition (Vedas, IV th century B.C.), the Epic (with many stories), and t... ...ng. Reciprocally: Death of one is the process of somebody else's life [an animal eating another one]. Exercises for readers: If Chin... ...ents as well. 39 A mathematization of philosophical (and not only) cognition is demanded. Sometimes people don't even know why they reac... ... not" (Heraclitus). "We die and we do not die; human is a mixture of animal and god; all look when fortuitous when necessary" (Petre Úu Ûea). ... ...n. Rational being is full of irrational elements. Man is a philosophical animal (but depraved, said Rousseau). (Let's grade the degradation.) ... ...eutrosophy. Theology and science merge in philosophy. From the animal psychology to the animal philosophy. We always do things done ... ...didn't realize it. Neutrosophy exists in the history of each field of the cognition. Displacement towards neutrality - this is the motto of evolutio...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...ell cars or power, medical care or freedom from pain, social work or relationship, animal shelter or responsible pet ownership? Does the employment ... ...n All Colors. Honk if You Love Jesus. Register Communists, Not Guns. Be Kind to Animals, Don't Eat Them. America, Love It or Leave It. Support Y... ...reats in the world to worry about -- poverty, hunger -- without bothering with tiny animals one cannot see, hear, touch, or smell. Mrs. C's allegian... ...as perception, cultural values, attitudes, group influence, personality, learning, cognition; decision making, social class and information processin... ...birth control. In her fascinating conceptualization of the product, "a view of animals" marketed by zoos, Carol Kovach (1978) observed: "A visit... ... Carol Kovach (1978) observed: "A visitor's attitude and receptiveness toward each animal needs to be assessed in order to determine whether it is w...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ully improved, assumptions. One way around this apparent quagmire is to put human cognition (i.e., psychology) at the heart of economics. Assuming... ..." is in flux. Business processes and methods, plants, genetic material, strains of animals, minor changes to existing technologies - are all patent... ...ve powers. It is recurrent and invariable - a pattern of conduct melding distorted cognition and stunted emotions. And it is often vehemently denie... ...les of technology to promote itself and its unique offerings (knowledge, plant and animal species, scenery, history, minerals, cheap and educated m... ...aling ships. In the USA, anti-abortion activists have murdered doctors. In Britain, animal rights zealots have both assassinated experimental scient... ...ok "Cybernetica" by Norbert Wiener), which has the revealing subtitle: "Control in Animals and Humans"). The ever increasing figures of mechanic, e... ...beast's mother, has for its subtitle the sentence "Control and communication in the Animal and the Machine". These controls are based on the real- t...

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Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Neutrosophic Set, Neutrosophic Probability and Statistics

By: Florentin Smarandache

...easing interest in dynamic processes in psychology. The development of social cognition caused in the 90’s an increasing interest in intrinsic dyna... ...4] Rosch E (1978) Principles of categorization, In: Rosch E & Lloyd BB (1978) Cognition and categorization, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 27-48. [5] Sma... ... form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. So too are feeling, cognition, formation, and consciousness. Shariputra, all Dharmas are ... ...ther increase nor diminish. Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, ... ... ordered his minister to bring in an elephant and let some blind men touch the animal one by one. After every one of them had their turn, the king a... ... that adapts more to the geological situations like climate, soil and water. Animal is alive when one part of the cells dying and another part grow... ...erhuman' behaviours - what in my terms I'd call 'dysergy' (negative-sum or sub-animal) and 'synergy' (positive-sum or full human), both of course re... ... [36] Wiener, Norbert. (1948). Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and Machine. MIT [37] Yamauchi, Hiroyuki. (2000). Application...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...rs. It is recurrent and invariable – a pattern of conduct melding distorted cognition and stunted emotions. And it is often vehemently denied. Retur... ...e narcissist loses interest in them and they are classified as "sub-human, animals, service-providers, functions, symbols" and worse. Hence the abr...

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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...st of the variables defined by villagers were related to agricultural and animal husbandry. Villagers or locals view must be given due weightage as ... ...User's Web Behaviour, Invited Paper, International Journal of Computation Cognition, (http://www.YangSky.com/yangijcc.htm) 1 (Sept. 2003), 51-92. Ar...

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