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This dissertation investigates the role of learners’ affect during instructional activities of visual and musical computing. More specifically, learners’ enjoyment, excitement, and motivation are measured before and after a computing activity offered in four distinct ways. The computing activities are based on a prototype instructional apparatus, w...
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... The actual philosophic culture is more and more interested of informational contribution for a deeper understanding of reality, both on the computational thinking area (Tsoukalas, 2021) and on the philosophical ontology in a general system theory (Cui, 2021). ...
... On the applicative scale, such results contribute to the approaching between the investigation lines on artificial intelligence and that of biologic natural systems, particularly concerning the "big data" methods of analysis/prediction in various management activities (Filip, 2020) and medicine (Gaiseanu, 2021h), for the development of biocompatible complex structures, like silicon capacitive sensors (Gaiseanu et al., 1998;Gaiseanu, 2021h), memories (Stefan, 1998), bio-transistors and bio-computers with DNA/RNA, molecular imaging DNA-based crypto-systems, bi-dimensional DNA nanostructures, FET bio-transistors with carbon nanotubes, genetic neuronal relays (Gaiseanu, 2020c), allowing a close inter-correlation for the stimulation of mutual development with relevant results in the field of health diagnostic and treatment (Gaiseanu, 2021c). The philosophic culture starts already to enter deeper in the study of learning practice assisted by artificial intelligence/media means/games as "computational" thinking form (Tsoukalas, 2021), for which the informational analysis/modeling of cognitive architecture became a basic reference. ...
The essence/origin of life and functionality of the biological systems, specifically of the human organism, is a very old theme of reflection and intriguing issue for human/humanity (Gaiseanu, 2019a; 2019b). The remarkable advances in various scientific domains still seem to be not sufficient nowadays to firmly answer to the question "What is life?", launched in the first half of the last century by the famous physicist Erwin Science of Information and Technology Bucharest (Romania) and Barcelona (Spain) With the purpose to smooth the way of a correct understanding of information concepts and their evolution, in this paper, is discussed the evolution and development of the concept of information in biological systems, showing that this concept was intuitively perceived even since ancient times by our predecessors, and described according to their language level of that times, but the crystallization of the real meaning of information is an achievement of our nowadays, by successive contribution of various scientific branches and personalities of the scientific community of the world, leading to a modern description/modeling of reality, in which information plays a fundamental role. It is shown that our reality can be understood as a contribution of matter/energy/information and represented/discussed as the model of the Universal Triangle of Reality (UTR), where various previous models can be suggestively inserted, as a function of their basic concern. The modern concepts on information starting from a theoretic experiment which would infringe the thermodynamics laws and reaching the theory of information and modern philosophic concepts on the world structuration allow us to show that information is a fundamental component of the material world and of the biological structures, in correlation with the structuration/destructuration processes of matter, involving absorption/release of information. Based on these concepts, is discussed the functionality of the biologic structures and is presented the informational model of the human body and living structures, as a general model of info-organization on the entire biological scale, showing that a rudimentary proto-consciousness should be operative even at the low-scale biological systems, because they work on the same principles, like the most developed bio-systems. The operability of biologic structures as informational devices is also pointed out. Keywords: empirical models on material/energy/ideas world, structuration/destructuration, absorption/release of information, information in biological systems, matter/energy/information, UTR, informational system of human body and living structures, informational devices
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