The crux of our encounter with the mind-body problem originates from a predicament on the underlying ontological level-from the category of concepts,it seems that the form for grasping the subjective aspects of the mi...The crux of our encounter with the mind-body problem originates from a predicament on the underlying ontological level-from the category of concepts,it seems that the form for grasping the subjective aspects of the mind is incommensurable with the one for understanding the objective level of the brain.This is reflected in the fact that empirical expression is restricted by language,that psychological events cannot be incorporated into strict laws,and that the subject has a path that,with his own mental state,others cannot share.In order to make progress in cracking the mind-body problem,this paper tries to abandon the assumption that“psychology”and“physics”are mutually exclusive and are incompatible ontological categories.The“mind”and“body”are considered as two interchangeable yet non-coexisting perspectives.Therefore,events in the body are represented as conceptions in the mind,and have an expressive correspondence with one another.Meanwhile,the approach for achieving such correspondence involves the entity itself^the ability of the organism to perform purposeful activities constitutes the source of its internal activities.Through the connection of life categories-or rather,the coupling of living beings and their worlds-the mind and body maintain mechanisms which can be jointly realized.展开更多
By developing the dominance technique of nondecreasing integer sequences into a multifoldform,we introduce a new approach for the enumeration of plane partitions,which can be used togenerate most of classical theorems...By developing the dominance technique of nondecreasing integer sequences into a multifoldform,we introduce a new approach for the enumeration of plane partitions,which can be used togenerate most of classical theorems in this field.The treatment presented here may be more accessibleto readers than the earlier methods of algebra,analysis and algorithm.展开更多
基金the Major Project of National Social Science Fund of China“Contemporary Approaches to Personal Identity”(Grant No.18ZDA029).
文摘The crux of our encounter with the mind-body problem originates from a predicament on the underlying ontological level-from the category of concepts,it seems that the form for grasping the subjective aspects of the mind is incommensurable with the one for understanding the objective level of the brain.This is reflected in the fact that empirical expression is restricted by language,that psychological events cannot be incorporated into strict laws,and that the subject has a path that,with his own mental state,others cannot share.In order to make progress in cracking the mind-body problem,this paper tries to abandon the assumption that“psychology”and“physics”are mutually exclusive and are incompatible ontological categories.The“mind”and“body”are considered as two interchangeable yet non-coexisting perspectives.Therefore,events in the body are represented as conceptions in the mind,and have an expressive correspondence with one another.Meanwhile,the approach for achieving such correspondence involves the entity itself^the ability of the organism to perform purposeful activities constitutes the source of its internal activities.Through the connection of life categories-or rather,the coupling of living beings and their worlds-the mind and body maintain mechanisms which can be jointly realized.
文摘By developing the dominance technique of nondecreasing integer sequences into a multifoldform,we introduce a new approach for the enumeration of plane partitions,which can be used togenerate most of classical theorems in this field.The treatment presented here may be more accessibleto readers than the earlier methods of algebra,analysis and algorithm.
