Astrobiological Neurosystems

Author : Jerry L. Cranford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319104195

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Astrobiological Neurosystems by Jerry L. Cranford Pdf

This book explains why scientists believe that life may be more common in the Universe than previously considered possible. It presents the tools and strategies astronomers and astrobiologists are using in their formal search for habitable exoplanets as well as more advanced forms of life in other parts of our galaxy. The author then summarizes what is currently known about how and where organic molecules critical to our form of carbon-based life are manufactured. The core of the book explains (and presents educated guesses) how nervous systems evolved on Earth, how they work, and how they might work on other worlds. Combining his knowledge of neuroscience, computers, and astrobiology the author jumps into the discussion whether biological nervous systems are just the first step in the rise of intelligence in the Universe. The book ends with a description from both the psychologist’s and the neuroscientist’s viewpoints, exactly what it is about the fields of astrobiology and astronomy that “boggles the minds” of many amateur astronomers and interested non-scientists. This book stands out from other popular science books on astrobiology by making the point that “astro-neurobiologists” need to begin thinking about how alien nervous systems might work.

Author : Thomas Moynihan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781913029630

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Spinal Catastrophism by Thomas Moynihan Pdf

The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology. Drawing on cryptic intimations in the work of J. G. Ballard, Georges Bataille, William Burroughs, André Leroi-Gourhan, Elaine Morgan, and Friedrich Nietzsche, in the late twentieth century Daniel Barker formulated the axioms of spinal catastrophism: If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibition of evolutionary traumata, the sick orthograde talking mammal. Tracing its provenance through the biological notions of phylogeny and “organic memory” that fueled early psychoanalysis, back into idealism, nature philosophy, and romanticism, and across multiform encounters between philosophy, psychology, biology, and geology, Thomas Moynihan reveals the historical continuity of spinal catastrophism. From psychoanalysis and myth to geology and neuroanatomy, from bioanalysis to chronopathy, from spinal colonies of proto-minds to the retroparasitism of the CNS, from “railway spine” to Elizabeth Taylor's lost gill-slits, this extravagantly comprehensive philosophical adventure uses the spinal cord as a guiding thread to rediscover forgotten pathways in modern thought. Moynihan demonstrates that, far from being an fanciful notion rendered obsolete by advances in biology, spinal catastrophism dramatizes fundamental philosophical problematics of time, identity, continuity, and the transcendental that remain central to any attempt to reconcile human experience with natural history.

Author : Milan M. Ćirković
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Extraterrestrial anthropology
ISBN : 9780199646302

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The Great Silence by Milan M. Ćirković Pdf

The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for the entire field of astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) studies. This book shows how Fermi's paradox is intricately connected with many fields of learning, technology, arts, and even everyday life. It aims to establish the strongest possible version of the problem, to dispel many related confusions, obfuscations, and prejudices, as well as to offer a novel point of entry to the many solutions proposed in existing literature. 'Cirkovi? argues that any evolutionary worldview cannot avoid resolving the Great Silence problem in one guise or another.

Author : Igor Farkaš,Paolo Masulli,Sebastian Otte,Stefan Wermter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030863807

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Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2021 by Igor Farkaš,Paolo Masulli,Sebastian Otte,Stefan Wermter Pdf

The proceedings set LNCS 12891, LNCS 12892, LNCS 12893, LNCS 12894 and LNCS 12895 constitute the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2021, held in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2021.* The total of 265 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 496 submissions, and organized in 5 volumes. In this volume, the papers focus on topics such as model compression, multi-task and multi-label learning, neural network theory, normalization and regularization methods, person re-identification, recurrent neural networks, and reinforcement learning. *The conference was held online 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author : Elias Pimenidis,Plamen Angelov,Chrisina Jayne,Antonios Papaleonidas,Mehmet Aydin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031159190

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Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2022 by Elias Pimenidis,Plamen Angelov,Chrisina Jayne,Antonios Papaleonidas,Mehmet Aydin Pdf

The 4-volumes set of LNCS 13529, 13530, 13531, and 13532 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2022, held in Bristol, UK, in September 2022. The total of 255 full papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 561 submissions. ICANN 2022 is a dual-track conference featuring tracks in brain inspired computing and machine learning and artificial neural networks, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications. Chapter “Sim-to-Real Neural Learning with Domain Randomisation for Humanoid Robot Grasping ” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Gilles Clément,Millard F. Reschke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780387789507

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Neuroscience in Space by Gilles Clément,Millard F. Reschke Pdf

This book offers an overview of neuroscience research performed in space since the observations made during the first manned space flights to the detailed scientific investigations currently being carried out onboard the International Space Station. This book is for the general scientific reader. Each project and the reason why it was done is described with illustrations, rationale and hypothesis, and a summary of results. Also, reference lists guide readers to the published papers from experiments. This book is a legacy of what we have learned on brain mechanisms and functions through research done in space, and a guide for what could be investigated in the future.

Author : Gerda Horneck,Christa Baumstark-Khan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642593828

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Astrobiology by Gerda Horneck,Christa Baumstark-Khan Pdf

This book bridges a gap in the literature by bringing together leading specialists from different backgrounds. It addresses the specific need for a readable book on this very interdisciplinary and new topic at research level.

Author : Muriel Gargaud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3540326189

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Lectures in Astrobiology by Muriel Gargaud Pdf

Author : Joseph Gale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191548352

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Astrobiology of Earth by Joseph Gale Pdf

The study of life in our universe has been given the name 'astrobiology'. It is a relatively new subject, but not a new discipline since it brings together several mature fields of science including astronomy, geology, biology, and climatology. An understanding of the singular conditions that allowed the only example of life that we know exists to emerge and survive on our turbulent planet is essential if we are to seek answers to two fundamental questions facing humanity: will life (and especially human life) continue on Earth, and does life exist elsewhere in the universe? Astrobiology of Earth adopts a unique approach that differs from most texts in the field which focus on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. In contrast, the central theme of this book is the fortuitous combination of numerous cosmic factors that together produced the special environment which enabled the emergence, persistence and evolution of life on our own planet, culminating in humanity. This environment has been subject to constant and chaotic change during life's 3.6 billion year history. The geologically very recent appearance of humans and their effect on the biosphere is discussed in relation to its deterioration as well as climate change. The search for extraterrestrial life is considered with a view to the suggestion that humans may escape a depleted Earth by colonizing the universe. This book contributes to our understanding of astrobiology from the perspective of life on Earth and especially human welfare and survival. Astronomical and geological phenomena are related in turn to their biological relevance and impact. This introductory text assumes little or no prior knowledge of more specialized scientific fields and is designed for undergraduate and graduate level students taking related courses in departments of biology, earth science/geology, and environmental science. It will also serve as a useful biology primer for astronomy majors.

Author : Steven J. Dick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108426763

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Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact by Steven J. Dick Pdf

Examines humanistic aspects of astrobiology, exploring approaches, critical issues, and implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

Author : Muriel Gargaud,Hervé Martin,Phillipe Claeys
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540326189

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Lectures in Astrobiology by Muriel Gargaud,Hervé Martin,Phillipe Claeys Pdf

First comprehensive, beginning graduate level book on the emergent science of astrobiology.

Author : Muriel Gargaud,Bernard Barbier,Hervé Martin,Jacques Reisse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540223150

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Lectures in Astrobiology by Muriel Gargaud,Bernard Barbier,Hervé Martin,Jacques Reisse Pdf

First comprehensive, beginning graduate level book on the emergent science of astrobiology.

Author : Nader Haghighipour
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9048186862

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Planets in Binary Star Systems by Nader Haghighipour Pdf

In 1988, in an article on the analysis of the measurements of the variations in the radial velocities of a number of stars, Campbell, Walker, and Yang reported an - teresting phenomenon;the radial velocity variations of Cephei seemed to suggest the existence of a Jupiter-like planet around this star. This was a very exciting and, at the same time, very surprising discovery. It was exciting because if true, it would have marked the detection of the ?rst planet outside of our solar system. It was surprising because the planet-hosting star is the primary of a binary system with a separation less than 19 AU, a distance comparable to the planetary distances in our solar system. The moderatelyclose orbit of the stellar companionof Cephei raised questions about the reality of its planet. The skepticism over the interpretation of the results (which was primarily based on the idea that binary star systems with small sepa- tions would not be favorable places for planet formation) became so strong that in a subsequent paper in 1992, Walker and his colleagues suggested that the planet in the Cephei binary might not be real, and the variations in the radial velocity of this star might have been due to its chromospheric activities.

Author : Karel Schrijver,Iris Schrijver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Astrophysics
ISBN : 0191793612

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Living with the Stars by Karel Schrijver,Iris Schrijver Pdf

'Living with the Stars' describes the many fascinating connections between the universe and the human body, which range from the makeup of DNA and human cells, growth and aging, to stellar evolution and the beginning of the universe.

Author : A. H. Delsemme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521794803

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Our Cosmic Origins by A. H. Delsemme Pdf

This 1998 book examines the remarkable story of the emergence of life and intelligence through the complex evolutionary history of the Universe.