spinoza's psychological theory (last part) potentia intellectus: libertate humana

Technoscientia est Potentia?

Within the realm of nano-, bio-, info- and cogno- (or NBIC) technosciences, the 'power to change the world' is often invoked. One could dismiss such formulations as 'purely rhetorical', interpret them as rhetorical and self-fulfilling or view them as an adequate depiction of one of the fundamental characteristics of technoscience. In the latter case, a very specific nexus between science and te...

Scientia potentia est

In epistemic logic, Kripke structures are used to model the distribution of information in a multi-agent system. In this paper, we present an approach to quantifying how much information each particular agent in a system has, or how important the agent is, with respect to some fact represented as a goal formula. It is typically the case that the goal formula is distributed knowledge in the syst...

Genetica Humana

Sometimes we do not realize that Spanish speaking people are one of the major linguistic group on our planet! Thus we have to welcome this excellent book devoted to, as the title clearly tells us, human genetics for the pleasure of the Spanish speaking people. Those who love genetics, young fellows at the beginning of their careers, esteemed professors and historians of science will get for an ...

Game Theory as Psychological Investigation

tooth eruption: a “neuromuscular theory”. part one

objective : tooth eruption has been a subject of extensive scientific studies; and literature is replete with different mechanisms of migration of a tooth from its bony crypt into the oral cavity. however, there is no common ground on the nature and source of the propelling force among the proponents of these theories. the purpose of this study was to explore the possibility of unifying the cur...

Valuation Theory. Part I

In the article we introduce a valuation function over a field [1]. Ring of non negative elements and its ideal of positive elements have been also defined. The notation and terminology used here have been introduced in the following We use the following convention: x, y, z, s are extended real numbers, i is an integer, and n, m are natural numbers. The following propositions are true: (1) If x ...