III.—THE MEANING OF MYSTICISM AS SEEN THROUGH ITS PSYCHOLOGY

Wisdom as Seen Through Scientific Lenses: A Selective Survey of Research in Psychology and the Neurosciences

Finding Meaning in Psychology

In this chapter, I explore several themes in connection with a selective review of some research problems I have pursued over the years. The study of meaning is a major theme along with issues relating to the goals of scientific psychology and the demands of research on applied problems. Finally, I ponder the role of psychology in the broader scientific endeavor, and I propose a candidate for t...

The Forest as Seen by its Trees

We consider estimating the density of points in a point process by a count of the number of points in a unit volume, and the bias that results when the volume is centered at a point of the point process rather than at a randomly chosen location.

Avicenna's Anatomical Legacy as Seen Through the Relevant Topics in Modern Anat-omy

Background: Makhaarej Al-Horouf, the study of speech sounds by Avicenna is a valuable piece of work in the study of speech sounds, which was written about ten centuries ago. It contains six chapters on sound, anatomy of vocal tract, and phonetics. It is amazing to find that Avicenna’s explanations are congruent with the findings of modern scholarship in relevant topics. The study was intended t...

Perfect Fluidity of the Quark Gluon Plasma Core as Seen through its Dissipative Hadronic Corona

The agreement of hydrodynamic predictions of differential elliptic flow and radial flow patterns with Au+Au data at √ sNN = 200 GeV is one of the main lines of evidence suggesting the nearly perfect fluid properties of the strongly coupled Quark Gluon Plasma, sQGP, produced at RHIC. We study the sensitivity of this conclusion to different hydrodynamic assumptions on hadro-chemical and thermal f...