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In the philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and psychology, the causal relationship between phenomenal consciousness, mentation, and brain states has always been a matter of debate. On the one hand, material monism posits consciousness and mind as pure brain epiphenomena. One of its most stringent lines of reasoning relies on a 'loss-of-function lesio...
In the contemporary philosophy of mind and consciousness studies, views such as panpsychism or theories of universal consciousness, have enjoyed a recent renaissance of metaphysical speculations in Western philosophy. Its similarities with Eastern philosophical traditions went not unnoticed. However, the potential contribution that the evolutionary...
A view that emancipates free will by means of quantum indeterminism is frequently rejected based on arguments pointing out its incompatibility with what we know about quantum physics. However, if one carefully examines what classical physical causal determinism and quantum indeterminism are according to physics, it becomes clear what they really im...
According to the current scientific paradigm, what we call ‘life’, ‘mind’, and ‘consciousness’ are considered epiphenomenal occurrences, or emergent properties or functions of matter and energy. Science does not associate these with an inherent and distinct existence beyond a materialistic/energetic conception. ‘Life’ is a word pointing at cellular...
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This is a technical treatise for the scientific-minded readers trying to expand their intellectual horizon beyond the straitjacket of materialism. It is dedicated to those scientists and philosophers who feel there is something more, but struggle with connecting the dots into a more coherent picture supported by a way of seeing that allows us to ov...
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This second volume is a continuation of the first volume’s 20th century conceptual foundations of quantum physics extending its view to the principles and research fields of the 21st century. A comprehensive A-Z guide on topics that usually aren't explained at an introductory level, it saves you...
There has been much confusion regarding some experimental tests, such as the which-way experiments and the working of the delayed quantum erasers. Apparently paradoxical results emerge which seem to suggest retro-causal action from the future back into the past. We review some of the most fundamental experiments of the last decades and show how no...
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There is probably no science that is as confusing as quantum theory. There's so much misleading information on the subject that for most people it is very difficult to separate science facts from pseudoscience. The goal of this first book in a two-volume series is to make you able to separate fa...
A comet cloud analog of Oort Cloud, is probably a common feature around extra solar planetary systems spread out across the Galaxy. Several external perturbations are able to change the comet orbits. The most important of them is the Galactic tide which may re-inject the comets towards the inner part of the planetary system, producing a cometary fl...
Interferometric switching as a routing method in sequence of coupled optical microresonators is explored. Mach-Zhender interferometry is extended to systems of side-coupled integrated sequences of resonators (SCISSORs) and coupled resonators optical waveguides (CROWs). We generalized Coupled Mode Theory (CMT) to a system of three coupled waveguides...
A novel wavelength routing device for optical on-chip network applications is presented. It is based on the constructive and destructive interferences that occur when two side-coupled in-tegrated spaced sequences of resonators (SCISSORs) are coupled in parallel to a single common waveguide. Its potential applica-tion for coarse wavelength division...
Here, we report on the design, fabrication and characterization of single-channel (SC-) and dual-channel (DC-) side-coupled integrated spaced sequences of optical resonators (SCISSOR) with a finite number (eight) of microring resonators using submicron silicon photonic wires on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. We present results on the observati...
Silicon photonics is the emerging optical interconnect technology where integrated nanophotonic components allow reaching high device density and improved optical functionalities. One key component is the optical microresonator. A particular kind of microresonator is the racetrack resonator where straight waveguide sections are used to achieve a la...
The presence of coupled resonators induced transparency (CRIT) effects in side-coupled integrated spaced sequence of resonators (SCISSOR) of different radii has been studied. By controlling the rings radii and their center to center distance, it is possible to form transmission channels within the SCISSOR stop-band. Two different methods to exploit...
A novel (to our knowledge) scheme of an optical router/switch element, composed of a tapered side-coupled integrated spaced sequence of optical resonators, is proposed. It is based on a modified design of the ring sequence in which the resonance conditions are set by the single ring resonance and by the coherent feedback of the sequence of rings. T...
We discuss all the necessary parameters to describe optical racetrack micro resonators fabricated with silicon on insulator (SOI) technology. We focus on some fundamental aspects crucial for a comprehensive and realistic modelling of racetrack resonators as building blocks of complex add-drop filters, like SCISSOR (Side-Coupled Integrated Spaced-Se...
We investigated the presence of high quality factor resonances due to Coupled Resonator Induced Transparency in complex sequences of coupled resonators devices, and proposed a new concept of wavelength router based on this effect.
Optical characterization of complex coupled microring system is performed. Advanced optical effects as optical equivalent of electromagnetic induced transparency and all-optical tuning of single cavity are achieved and complex data transformation processes are envisaged.
We report the first results of a research program to explore the sensitivity of the orbits of Oort cloud comets to changes in the strength of the Galactic tides in the plane of the disk and also to changes in the mass of the host star. We performed 2D simulations that confirm that the effects of the tides on comet orbits are sensitive to a star's d...
Radial tidal forces can be compressive instead of disruptive, a possibility that is frequently overlooked in high level physics courses. For example, radial tidal compression can emerge in extended stellar systems containing a smaller stellar cluster. For particular conditions the tidal field produced by this extended mass distribution can exert on...
The aim of this paper is to investigate the q→1/q duality in an information-entropy theory of all q-generalized entropy functionals (Tsallis, Renyi and Sharma–Mittal measures) in the light of a representation based on generalized exponential and logarithm functions subjected to Kolmogorov's and Nagumo's averaging. We show that it is precisely in th...
We show how Fisher's information already known particular character as the fundamental information geometric object which plays the role of a metric tensor for a statistical differential manifold, can be derived in a relatively easy manner through the direct application of a generalized logarithm and exponential formalism to generalized information...
After studying some properties of the generalized exponential and logarithmic function, in particular investigating the domain where the first maintains itself real and positive, and outlining how the known dualities $q \leftrightarrow \frac{1}{q}$ and $q \leftrightarrow 2-q$ play an important role, we shall examine the set of q-deforming parameter...
Tsallis and Rényi entropy measures are two possible different
generalizations of the Boltzmann Gibbs entropy (or Shannon's
information) but are not generalizations of each others. It is however
the Sharma Mittal measure, which was already defined in 1975 [J. Math.
Sci. 10 (1975) 28] and which received attention only recently as an
application in st...
We show that the effects of radial galactic tides alone can change the dynamics of an Oort cloud of comets around a star in a highly sensitive manner. The Oort cloud dynamics depends primarily from the star's position in the Galaxy and its mass. The dynamical variation is characterized by a dramatic change of comet perihelia, many of which are shif...
The radial effects due to the Galaxy tide on some cometary nuclei of the
Oort's Cloud are taken into account. We model the galactic structure by
only considering the three components which are able to exert the main
dynamic effects: the bulge, the disk and the dark halo. First we prove
the stability role of the dark matter on a solar-type stellar o...
Historical outline of the decentralization of location of Life
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As far as I know it has been dismissed as a closed cased of the history of science having no defenders left. However, that's not the feeling I get when the issue comes up in private discussions. I'm wondering if I have missed something, and if and how vitalism (or some refined modern form of it) is still considered to be a viable option by some biologists?
