Who do we see when envisioning our "past self" and "future self"? Extant research finds a motivation to perceive improvement over time, such that past selves are seen as worse versions, and future selves as better versions, of current selves. However, the broader components comprising "worse" or "better" beyond domain-specific achievement (e.g., "Last year I failed at dieting, but next year I'l...

Visual imagery is the invention or recreation of a perceptual experience in the absence of retinal input.The degree to which the same neural representations are involved in both visual imagery and visual perception is unclear. Previous studies have shown that visual imagery interferes with perception (Perky effect). We report here psychophysical data showing a direct facilitatory effect of visu...

In his celebrated lecture: Mathematical problems (see [H]), which was delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900, David Hilbert gave his famous 23 problems. The 12th problem is the extension of Kronecker’s theorem on abelian fields to any algebraic realm of rationality. Hilbert said:“The extension of Kronecker’s theorem to the case that, in place of the realm...

risalat risalat al-ghofran is the letter that abu ala marri (363-449 ah) writes in response to a letter from ali ben mansour halabi. inspired by the story of his ascension and the quran makes for a very long introduction to this thesis imaginary journey to heaven and hell are brought into the picture and verses and poems, and news and conflict in many lexical and syntactic text instead gives it...