The chapter describes a mathematical theory of sapience and consciousness: higher mental abilities including abilities for concepts, emotions, instincts, understanding, imagination, intuition, beautiful, and sublime. The knowledge instinct drives our understanding of the world. Aesthetic emotions, our needs for beautiful and sublime are related to the knowledge instinct. I briefly discuss neuro...

The first approach focuses on giving the right stimulus to elicit the response you desire. It lays emphasis on reinforcing desired performance through feedback and activity. It is known as ‘Behaviourism’. Another approach is about mental processes, ie what the brain does with information. It focuses on ensuring the learner can make sense of information through relating it to what has been previ...

in the higher animals?including man?by sensory stimuli through the special senses and association areas. He argues in the most readable way from this foundation on the importance of the application of the appropriate stimuli on the education and training of the child. We have nothing but praise for the scientific manner in which he deals with a difficult subject and admiration for a veteran edi...

Is the human tendency toward musicality better thought of as the product of a specific, evolved instinct or an acquired skill? Developmental and evolutionary arguments are considered, along with issues of domain-specificity. The article also considers the question of why humans might be consistently and intensely drawn to music if musicality is not in fact the product of a specifically evolved ...

american playwright, eugene gladstone o’neill (1888-1953) is presenter of truth without comprising his beliefs. his works are dramatized by passion elements such as memories, dreams, and by awareness of forces. during mid-1920s he became interested in dramatizing complicated pattern of his family’s life. mourning becomes electra, which opened on oct. 26, 1931, and had fourteen acts, was o'...