Mushroom worlds and earth beings

Representations and Inhomogeneous Beings

Beside the regularly applied concepts (e.g. neuron, brain, sign, representation, code, sense, experience, perception, etc.) an additional collection of concepts (entities, interaction, border, inhomogeneity, dialectics, necessity and contingency, freedom, historicity, acquaintance and knowledge, culture.) is proposed for the better understanding mind and cognition. An anti-Parmenidian ontology ...

The habitable zone of Earth-mass planets around 47 UMa: results for land and water worlds

In a previous paper, we showed that Earth-type habitable planets around 47 UMa are in principle possible if a distinct set of conditions is warranted. These conditions include that the Earth-type planets have successfully formed and are orbitally stable and, in addition, that the 47 UMa star–planet system is relatively young (96 Gyr). We now extend this study by considering Earth-like planets w...

Calcium orthophosphates and human beings

The historical development of a scientific knowledge on calcium orthophosphates from the 1770s until 1940 is described. Many forgotten and poorly known historical facts and approaches have been extracted from old publications and then they have been analyzed, systematized and reconsidered from the modern point of view. The chosen time scale starts with the earliest available studies of 1770s (t...

A survey on heavenly conscious in the view of the Quran

As is understood by the Quran, there are limitless beings in the heavens and earth a lot of which are alive. Some scholars, relying on some Quranic phrases such as animal, the rising places and the setting places, those in the heavens andBy the heaven, holding mansions of the stars, have proved the existence of conscious beings in heavens. Attributing animal to earthy animals and the quranic re...

Characteristics of Living Beings