Katherine Mansfield was a representative short-story writer and recognized as a feminist.This paper is a multiangle analysis of her well-known story The Daughters of the Late Colonel.In the episodic story,Katherine de...Katherine Mansfield was a representative short-story writer and recognized as a feminist.This paper is a multiangle analysis of her well-known story The Daughters of the Late Colonel.In the episodic story,Katherine depicts two sisters' deplorable life over the course of the week after their father died.This paper starts with the outline of the story,and discusses the narrative order,language features,the title,the opening sentence and the ending of it.It is found that under the seemingly ordinary plots,the two spinsters' incapability,timidity and loss of identity are presented.Thus,the essence of the story is revealed:the female characters are under strong patricentric control and their minds are actually imprisoned.And the portrayals of the sisters' captivity in the sense of spirit imply that Katherine's potential appeal of female spiritual emancipation.展开更多
How to think a unique and determinative turn in analytic philosophy of mind?To answer this question this article first presents an attempt to render clear that analytic phenomenology,by contrast with conceptions of ph...How to think a unique and determinative turn in analytic philosophy of mind?To answer this question this article first presents an attempt to render clear that analytic phenomenology,by contrast with conceptions of phenomenology of the XXth century,beneficially dispenses with several methodological and conceptual assumptions that were assumed to be compulsory,as phenomenological reduction,a notion of synthesis,and a philosophical notion of the a priori.It then presents some eventual difficulties to the achievement of a phenomenological turn within analytic philosophy,which are,the neglect of historicity,abstractionism,the acknowledgement of the place of language in our lives,and solipsism.It finally presents several demands that concern the felicity of contemporary analytic phenomenologies,namely,anti-abstractionism,fallibilism,attention to polyadic relations,and the integration of ecological and decolonial concerns of our cultures.展开更多
By means of spontaneous and unconscious imitation,an observer may be able to directly experience the inner states of another person because the observer and the observed share similar neural pathways.This discovery of...By means of spontaneous and unconscious imitation,an observer may be able to directly experience the inner states of another person because the observer and the observed share similar neural pathways.This discovery of a common neural basis reveals the correlative mechanisms through which the intentions of others are perceived.While analysing the implications of this discovery,this paper notes that the correlation does not provide a complete explanation of our understanding of other minds.Instead,the correlation comes into play only to a minimal degree.The paper also explores the epistemological characteristic of the knowledge harboured by other minds.That is,as a kind of private knowledge,the experience of other minds can help us arrive at a relatively consistent understanding of others and engage in communication with them through public expression and the description of mental states.However,it is impossible to truly understand other minds because conscious experience in the strict sense resides only in its owner,and the unique qualia emerging inside the subject cannot be directly observed from a third-person perspective.In this sense,the so-called perception of other minds is not suited to seeking a causal explanation of the ways in which others act,but for reading the meanings expressed by them in a given situation.展开更多
Zhan Ruoshui developed a complete theoretical system on the cultivation of the mind and human nature.In his works,such as Illustration of the Mind and Human Nature and Harmonious Conversations,Zhan expounded on the me...Zhan Ruoshui developed a complete theoretical system on the cultivation of the mind and human nature.In his works,such as Illustration of the Mind and Human Nature and Harmonious Conversations,Zhan expounded on the meaning of the mind,comprehensively considering its essence,its relations,its goodness and evil,and its purification.Based on Zhan's theory of mind,the Ganquan Doctrine is mainly concerned with bringing about a civilized mindset.In our current social ecology,where the minds of the people have become distorted,polluted,and injured,the Ganquan Doctrine has practical significance for civilizing the contemporary mindset.展开更多
PROFESSIONAL ballerina Yu Chuanya sets high standards for herself. After a recent long haul flight from Beijing to Johannesburg, the 25-year-old went straight into intensive rehearsals soon after landing, ignoring the...PROFESSIONAL ballerina Yu Chuanya sets high standards for herself. After a recent long haul flight from Beijing to Johannesburg, the 25-year-old went straight into intensive rehearsals soon after landing, ignoring the effects of jet lag in pursuit of her craft. What drove her passion was the unique collaboration on the ballet classic Swan Lake, iointly presented by Joburg Ballet of South Africa and Liaoning Ballet of China.展开更多
REPRESENTATIVES from renowned Chinese and African think tanks and research institutions, as well as government officials, businesspeople and NGOs. gath- ered in Beijing recently to present Sino-African research achiev...REPRESENTATIVES from renowned Chinese and African think tanks and research institutions, as well as government officials, businesspeople and NGOs. gath- ered in Beijing recently to present Sino-African research achievements and launch the China-Africa Think Tanks 10＋10 Partnership Plan, Currently, this partnership plan has selected eight institutions from both sides to participate. When fully implemented the plan will include 10 Chinese think tanks and 10 African think tanks for tong-term paired cooperation and exchanges.展开更多
The default mode network(DMN) is associated with the occurrence of mind-wandering or task-unrelated thought. In contrast, the frontal-parietal network(FPN) and visual network(VS) are involved in tasks with external st...The default mode network(DMN) is associated with the occurrence of mind-wandering or task-unrelated thought. In contrast, the frontal-parietal network(FPN) and visual network(VS) are involved in tasks with external stimuli. However, it is not clear how these functional network interactions support these two different processes– mind-wandering and on-task – especially with regard to individual variation in the mind-wandering experience. In this study, we investigated the functional connectivity and modular structure among the DMN, FPN, and VS. Our results showed that, compared to the on-task period, mindwandering was associated with increased DMN activity and increased DMN-VS connectivity. Moreover, mindwandering was accompanied by a large number of transitional nodes, which expressed a diversity of brain regions. Intriguingly, the functional connectivity of the FPN and VS was strongly correlated with individual behavioral performance. Our findings highlight the individual variation of mind-wandering, which implies the importance of other complementary large-scale brain networks.展开更多
Mandatory and restrictive health regulations during the corona pandemic caused psychic disorders in many people,which even led to clinically relevant mental disorders.At the same time,there was gradually a polarizatio...Mandatory and restrictive health regulations during the corona pandemic caused psychic disorders in many people,which even led to clinically relevant mental disorders.At the same time,there was gradually a polarization of opinions among the population.In order to improve future pandemic management,an integrative understanding of these psychosocial processes therefore seems useful.Here we start theoretically with the mental effects of inconsistencies of the information environment by referring to concepts such as the theory of cognitive dissonance.In a next step,we use the psychodynamic theory to understand the affective-motivational defense mechanisms underlying these cognitive states and processes.However,a broader theoretical framework of psychoanalysis seems to make sense,because self-referential processing also influences the style of thinking.For this reason,we use a more comprehensive psychological systems theoretical framework model to integrate these different perspectives.This integrative view refers in part to basic knowledge of health psychology regarding the resistance of unhealthy ways of thinking and behaviors and the possibilities for interventions for change.We then extend this model to a broader picture that also covers the relationship between men and their environment.This results in the perspective of a multidimensional socioecological theoretical framework,which as a heuristic reference model and related to other ecological approaches could also be helpful for various theoretical questions for public health,and could provide a better public understanding of health issues.In line with this perspective,we hypothesize that with regard to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic,the acceptance of public health narratives could be increased if a more consistent picture of the scientific descriptions and explanations of the pandemic-similar to the model proposed-could be provided,which would enable the understanding of the origin,course and countermeasures,and thus could have positive collective psycho-hygienic effects.展开更多
Inspired by Minsky’s Society of Mind,Schmidhuber’s Learning to Think,and other more 9-16 recent works,this paper proposes and advocates for the concept of natural language-based societies of mind(NLSOMs).We imagine ...Inspired by Minsky’s Society of Mind,Schmidhuber’s Learning to Think,and other more 9-16 recent works,this paper proposes and advocates for the concept of natural language-based societies of mind(NLSOMs).We imagine these societies as consisting of a collection of multimodal neural networks,including large language models,which engage in a“mindstorm”to solve problems using a shared natural language interface.Here,we work to identify and discuss key questions about the social structure,governance,and economic principles for NLSOMs,emphasizing their impact on the future of AI.Our demonstrations with NLSOMs—which feature up to 129 agents—show their effectiveness in various tasks,including visual question answering,image captioning,and prompt generation for text-to-image synthesis.展开更多
This paper aims to establish a dialogue between contemporary research on the problem of other minds and classical Chinese philosophical theories.It first explores the idea,inspired by the recent discovery of the mirro...This paper aims to establish a dialogue between contemporary research on the problem of other minds and classical Chinese philosophical theories.It first explores the idea,inspired by the recent discovery of the mirror neuron mechanism,that a direct exchange of experience may occur between the observer and the observed.Next,it analyzes the ways in which the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi and Confucian thinkers reflected on the problem of other minds,which are quite similar to the idea inspired by the latest research on mirror neurons.In these thinkers’views,knowledge of other minds is the result of mental activity and what it provides is,to a large extent,something related not to epistemology but rather to a situational understanding of other minds from the perspective of value theory.The author points out that this solution takes two aspects,humans9 innate nature and human experience,into consideration simultaneously.In terms of humans,innate nature,the body of a human being is a body that represents the unity of man and nature,and it has something in common with the natural world,which lays a foundation for the perception of other minds.In terms of human experience,human beings have such actual needs as emotions,pursuits,and desires,and their behaviors need to conform to certain norms.It is in a body of this kind that the mind of human beings can be formed and enjoy the potential to develop.Effective interpersonal communication can thus be achieved.展开更多
Stabilizing prices and preventing rampant inflation are the Chinese Government’s biggest challenges this year An overwhelming sense of helplessness is sweeping China,from common people to well-off entrepreneurs and e...Stabilizing prices and preventing rampant inflation are the Chinese Government’s biggest challenges this year An overwhelming sense of helplessness is sweeping China,from common people to well-off entrepreneurs and everyone in between,as the country’s consumer price index (CPI) soars.展开更多
Dr. Arthur Kleinman is a professor of psychiatry and medical anthropology and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He is an expert on global mental health and has conducted
For the first time since regular meetings of the leaders of the world's richest countries were initiated in 1975, Russia, which formally joined the "club" in 1997, assumed the rotating chairmanship of th...For the first time since regular meetings of the leaders of the world's richest countries were initiated in 1975, Russia, which formally joined the "club" in 1997, assumed the rotating chairmanship of the group this year. July 15-17, the leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) leading industrial nations met in St.Petersburg, Russia, the old imperial capital, for their annual summit.This marked the first time that Russia has hosted a G-8 meeting,enabling it to set the agenda and highlight its own interests and c...展开更多
More than 140 parliamentarians from Japan’s new ruling party make historic visit to China Led by Ichiro Ozawa, Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the 16th delegation of the Great Wall Program a...More than 140 parliamentarians from Japan’s new ruling party make historic visit to China Led by Ichiro Ozawa, Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the 16th delegation of the Great Wall Program arrived in China in early December for a groundbreaking visit. Indeed,展开更多
The National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference,the top political advisory body,comprises representatives from all political parties and all sectors of society.Among them are internat...The National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference,the top political advisory body,comprises representatives from all political parties and all sectors of society.Among them are international studies experts.Some of them shared their observations on China’s response to the novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19)epidemic and explained how a community with a shared future for humanity is relevant during this period and beyond.Edited excerpts of their views follow。展开更多
文摘Katherine Mansfield was a representative short-story writer and recognized as a feminist.This paper is a multiangle analysis of her well-known story The Daughters of the Late Colonel.In the episodic story,Katherine depicts two sisters' deplorable life over the course of the week after their father died.This paper starts with the outline of the story,and discusses the narrative order,language features,the title,the opening sentence and the ending of it.It is found that under the seemingly ordinary plots,the two spinsters' incapability,timidity and loss of identity are presented.Thus,the essence of the story is revealed:the female characters are under strong patricentric control and their minds are actually imprisoned.And the portrayals of the sisters' captivity in the sense of spirit imply that Katherine's potential appeal of female spiritual emancipation.
文摘How to think a unique and determinative turn in analytic philosophy of mind?To answer this question this article first presents an attempt to render clear that analytic phenomenology,by contrast with conceptions of phenomenology of the XXth century,beneficially dispenses with several methodological and conceptual assumptions that were assumed to be compulsory,as phenomenological reduction,a notion of synthesis,and a philosophical notion of the a priori.It then presents some eventual difficulties to the achievement of a phenomenological turn within analytic philosophy,which are,the neglect of historicity,abstractionism,the acknowledgement of the place of language in our lives,and solipsism.It finally presents several demands that concern the felicity of contemporary analytic phenomenologies,namely,anti-abstractionism,fallibilism,attention to polyadic relations,and the integration of ecological and decolonial concerns of our cultures.
基金supported by a major project of the National Social Science Fund of China,‘Contemporary Approaches to Personal Identity’(grant no.18ZDA029)
文摘By means of spontaneous and unconscious imitation,an observer may be able to directly experience the inner states of another person because the observer and the observed share similar neural pathways.This discovery of a common neural basis reveals the correlative mechanisms through which the intentions of others are perceived.While analysing the implications of this discovery,this paper notes that the correlation does not provide a complete explanation of our understanding of other minds.Instead,the correlation comes into play only to a minimal degree.The paper also explores the epistemological characteristic of the knowledge harboured by other minds.That is,as a kind of private knowledge,the experience of other minds can help us arrive at a relatively consistent understanding of others and engage in communication with them through public expression and the description of mental states.However,it is impossible to truly understand other minds because conscious experience in the strict sense resides only in its owner,and the unique qualia emerging inside the subject cannot be directly observed from a third-person perspective.In this sense,the so-called perception of other minds is not suited to seeking a causal explanation of the ways in which others act,but for reading the meanings expressed by them in a given situation.
文摘Zhan Ruoshui developed a complete theoretical system on the cultivation of the mind and human nature.In his works,such as Illustration of the Mind and Human Nature and Harmonious Conversations,Zhan expounded on the meaning of the mind,comprehensively considering its essence,its relations,its goodness and evil,and its purification.Based on Zhan's theory of mind,the Ganquan Doctrine is mainly concerned with bringing about a civilized mindset.In our current social ecology,where the minds of the people have become distorted,polluted,and injured,the Ganquan Doctrine has practical significance for civilizing the contemporary mindset.
文摘PROFESSIONAL ballerina Yu Chuanya sets high standards for herself. After a recent long haul flight from Beijing to Johannesburg, the 25-year-old went straight into intensive rehearsals soon after landing, ignoring the effects of jet lag in pursuit of her craft. What drove her passion was the unique collaboration on the ballet classic Swan Lake, iointly presented by Joburg Ballet of South Africa and Liaoning Ballet of China.
文摘REPRESENTATIVES from renowned Chinese and African think tanks and research institutions, as well as government officials, businesspeople and NGOs. gath- ered in Beijing recently to present Sino-African research achievements and launch the China-Africa Think Tanks 10＋10 Partnership Plan, Currently, this partnership plan has selected eight institutions from both sides to participate. When fully implemented the plan will include 10 Chinese think tanks and 10 African think tanks for tong-term paired cooperation and exchanges.
基金supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31571111)the Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology (cstc2017jcyjAX0110)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (SWU1609109)
文摘The default mode network(DMN) is associated with the occurrence of mind-wandering or task-unrelated thought. In contrast, the frontal-parietal network(FPN) and visual network(VS) are involved in tasks with external stimuli. However, it is not clear how these functional network interactions support these two different processes– mind-wandering and on-task – especially with regard to individual variation in the mind-wandering experience. In this study, we investigated the functional connectivity and modular structure among the DMN, FPN, and VS. Our results showed that, compared to the on-task period, mindwandering was associated with increased DMN activity and increased DMN-VS connectivity. Moreover, mindwandering was accompanied by a large number of transitional nodes, which expressed a diversity of brain regions. Intriguingly, the functional connectivity of the FPN and VS was strongly correlated with individual behavioral performance. Our findings highlight the individual variation of mind-wandering, which implies the importance of other complementary large-scale brain networks.
文摘Mandatory and restrictive health regulations during the corona pandemic caused psychic disorders in many people,which even led to clinically relevant mental disorders.At the same time,there was gradually a polarization of opinions among the population.In order to improve future pandemic management,an integrative understanding of these psychosocial processes therefore seems useful.Here we start theoretically with the mental effects of inconsistencies of the information environment by referring to concepts such as the theory of cognitive dissonance.In a next step,we use the psychodynamic theory to understand the affective-motivational defense mechanisms underlying these cognitive states and processes.However,a broader theoretical framework of psychoanalysis seems to make sense,because self-referential processing also influences the style of thinking.For this reason,we use a more comprehensive psychological systems theoretical framework model to integrate these different perspectives.This integrative view refers in part to basic knowledge of health psychology regarding the resistance of unhealthy ways of thinking and behaviors and the possibilities for interventions for change.We then extend this model to a broader picture that also covers the relationship between men and their environment.This results in the perspective of a multidimensional socioecological theoretical framework,which as a heuristic reference model and related to other ecological approaches could also be helpful for various theoretical questions for public health,and could provide a better public understanding of health issues.In line with this perspective,we hypothesize that with regard to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic,the acceptance of public health narratives could be increased if a more consistent picture of the scientific descriptions and explanations of the pandemic-similar to the model proposed-could be provided,which would enable the understanding of the origin,course and countermeasures,and thus could have positive collective psycho-hygienic effects.
基金supported by the European Research Council(ERC,Advanced Grant Number 742870the Swiss National Science Foundation(SNF,Grant Numbers 200021 and 192356)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Number 62476143).
文摘Inspired by Minsky’s Society of Mind,Schmidhuber’s Learning to Think,and other more 9-16 recent works,this paper proposes and advocates for the concept of natural language-based societies of mind(NLSOMs).We imagine these societies as consisting of a collection of multimodal neural networks,including large language models,which engage in a“mindstorm”to solve problems using a shared natural language interface.Here,we work to identify and discuss key questions about the social structure,governance,and economic principles for NLSOMs,emphasizing their impact on the future of AI.Our demonstrations with NLSOMs—which feature up to 129 agents—show their effectiveness in various tasks,including visual question answering,image captioning,and prompt generation for text-to-image synthesis.
基金This work was supported by the Major Project of National Social Science Fund "Contemporary Approaches to Personal Identity"(Grant no.18ZDA029).
文摘This paper aims to establish a dialogue between contemporary research on the problem of other minds and classical Chinese philosophical theories.It first explores the idea,inspired by the recent discovery of the mirror neuron mechanism,that a direct exchange of experience may occur between the observer and the observed.Next,it analyzes the ways in which the ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi and Confucian thinkers reflected on the problem of other minds,which are quite similar to the idea inspired by the latest research on mirror neurons.In these thinkers’views,knowledge of other minds is the result of mental activity and what it provides is,to a large extent,something related not to epistemology but rather to a situational understanding of other minds from the perspective of value theory.The author points out that this solution takes two aspects,humans9 innate nature and human experience,into consideration simultaneously.In terms of humans,innate nature,the body of a human being is a body that represents the unity of man and nature,and it has something in common with the natural world,which lays a foundation for the perception of other minds.In terms of human experience,human beings have such actual needs as emotions,pursuits,and desires,and their behaviors need to conform to certain norms.It is in a body of this kind that the mind of human beings can be formed and enjoy the potential to develop.Effective interpersonal communication can thus be achieved.
文摘Stabilizing prices and preventing rampant inflation are the Chinese Government’s biggest challenges this year An overwhelming sense of helplessness is sweeping China,from common people to well-off entrepreneurs and everyone in between,as the country’s consumer price index (CPI) soars.
文摘Dr. Arthur Kleinman is a professor of psychiatry and medical anthropology and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He is an expert on global mental health and has conducted
文摘For the first time since regular meetings of the leaders of the world's richest countries were initiated in 1975, Russia, which formally joined the "club" in 1997, assumed the rotating chairmanship of the group this year. July 15-17, the leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) leading industrial nations met in St.Petersburg, Russia, the old imperial capital, for their annual summit.This marked the first time that Russia has hosted a G-8 meeting,enabling it to set the agenda and highlight its own interests and c...
文摘More than 140 parliamentarians from Japan’s new ruling party make historic visit to China Led by Ichiro Ozawa, Secretary General of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the 16th delegation of the Great Wall Program arrived in China in early December for a groundbreaking visit. Indeed,
文摘The National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference,the top political advisory body,comprises representatives from all political parties and all sectors of society.Among them are international studies experts.Some of them shared their observations on China’s response to the novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19)epidemic and explained how a community with a shared future for humanity is relevant during this period and beyond.Edited excerpts of their views follow。
