http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=102 Full text issues fr Mon, 13 May 2024 17:01:42 +0200 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:33:13 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=102 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3768 Here, I explore the idea that consciousness is something that the brain learns to do rather than an intrinsic property of certain neural states and not others. Starting from the idea that neural activity is inherently unconscious, the question thus becomes: How does the brain learn to be conscious? I suggest that consciousness arises as a result of the brain's continuous attempts at predicting not only the consequences of its actions on the world and on other agents, but also the consequences of activity in one cerebral region on activity in other regions. By this account, the brain continuously and unconsciously learns to redescribe its own activity to itself, so developing systems of metarepresentations that characterize and qualify the target first-order representations. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:06:19 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3768 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3791 In Lacanian theory the process of the coming into being of the subject is considered as a continuous and anticipatory process of interaction between the organizational levels of the biological and the social. The latter comprises what Lacan called the symbolic order ("l'Autre" or the Other) that anticipates the coming into being of the subject. It is argued that this anticipatory function of the Other is at stake in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys (2004). More specifically, by a close reading of Bennett's text, it is shown how anticipation is implied in the. three main themes of the play: 1. in the headmaster's and Irwin's vision on education; 2. in Irwin's view on history; 3. in Rector's view on the function of poetry. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:11:22 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3791 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3798 This paper argues that the representation of violence in Stanley Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey can be interpreted as a recurrent staging of the fantasy described by Freud in his 1919 article A Child is Being Beaten. A twofold implication of the function of anticipation is retrieved in terms of Lacan's discussion of the three phased development of the beating fantasy. In Lacan's reading, the second phase of this fantasy takes up an anticipatory function with regard to the assumption of Symbolic castration in the third phase. We argue that the retroactive construction of the three different formulas in the description of the beating fantasy in itself implies the pre-existence, and thus anticipatory function of the Symbolic Order. The anticipatory function of the Symbolic Order is retrieved in Kubrick's particular mode of staging the beating fantasy, as it both implies the signifier of the Name-of-Kubrick's-Father and the phallus as signifier of a structural lack. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:12:04 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3798 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3805 In this paper we elaborate Lacan's theory on courtly love to establish a link between literature, psychoanalytic practice and psychoanalytic theory. Lacan himself had already established the link between courtly love and psychoanalytic practice as a way of working through the mourning for the structural lack in the Symbolic order. As such, both can be seen as an anticipation of anticipation: not the object itself is anticipated, but rather the anticipation of this object. Through the use of Stiegler's (2010) reinterpretation of the concept of the pharmakon we understand psychoanalytic theory and literature in general as attempts to work through this mourning by creating an anamnesis, a "long circuit" of knowledge in which the creators are implied with their own subjectivity. An analysis of Graham Swift's novel Ever After and of Italo Calvino's novel If on a winter's night a traveler demonstrate how this principle applies to the processes of writing and reading. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:12:32 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3805 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3809 In his article « Le temps logique et !'assertion de certitude anticip’e » Lacan makes a distinction between three different instances of time : « I 'instant de voir, le temps de comprendre et le moment de conclure ». The purpose of this paper is to explain how the body and its jouissance in the case of trauma may function as a kind of "moment the conclure" in such a way that the body acts without the subject's understanding of what is happening. Based on a case of trauma we will show how the body anticipates on a kind of enjoyment, without the subject knowing it, let alone being able to speak about it. "Le temps pour comprendre" comes with the subject wanting to know because this wanting initiates "!'instant de voir". If the subject comes to a real understanding via symbolization of what happens, this bodily inscribed knowledge may be transformed into symbolic knowledge. Ideally, this will provide the subject with the possibility of making a choice, instead of being subjected to the traumatic repetition compulsion. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:13:19 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3809 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3817 In this paper, we will elaborate on an article by Helene Deutsch on the psychology of the impostor. The impostor is a specific type of liar who imposes on others dishonest stories about his identity. From a psychoanalytic point of view, identity is by definition fraudulent as there is no real Self. But the impostor duplicates this fraud by presenting dishonest stories about personal attainments, position, or worldly possessions. Referring to Freud's text on 'Two lies told by children,' we will demonstrate that in the neurotic subject (a) the motive for lying is love, and (b) the purpose of lying is to deny symbolic castration in order to preserve an imaginary ideal. The impostor takes this one step further: here the motive is not love but admiration, and the purpose is not denial but disavowal of the symbolic castration. Finally, we will discuss the ambivalent relation of the public towards the impostor that seems all too willing to be deceived. In that sense, the lies of the impostor anticipate the Other's truth about castration. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:13:45 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3817 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3823 It seems that time functions essentially different in melancholia as compared to classical neuroses. We might even say the experience of time dissapears for the melancholicus. No future is anticipated, no past determines the actually lived distress, despair and guilt. This paper illustrates by means of a case study of a melancholic woman how anticipation is necessary for the subject to be able to live. Without desire for things to come, without a past that is experienced as something that anticipated the subject as it is now, there seems to be no more than an eternal now that stupifies the subject and blurs the distinction between death and living. The absence of the structuring function of time results in the experience of utter loneliness and anxiety and consequently also shows the dramatic impact of an absence of anticipation. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:14:29 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3823 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3828 While current studies of perversion focus on spectacular symptoms and neglect subjectivity, Freud and Lacan study perversion as a possible organization of subjectivity. Male fetishism illustrates the function of symbolic castration in subject-formation: when it is integrated, the subject structure will be normal; when it is kept at a distance by continuous anticipation, the result is the constitution of a fetish. The fetish inherits the value of the phallus, and functions like a metonymic object, like a veil that protects the subject from anxiety. Fetishists, who lack the paternal metaphor, are characterized by a splitting of the ego. Consequently, treatment should focus on structural understanding of the fetishistic subject, not at superficial behavior change. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:02 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3828 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3835 The subjective relation to the body is for every human being problematic. Especially at the point of sexuality. Because of the fact man speaks he doesn't coincide with his body. He has to invent. Contemporary scientific techniques make one able to change sex. For several people this is very good news. But are there people we should try not to realize their desire? We will contrast a patient from our private practice with the case of Daniel Paul Schreber. In the second case, no surgery was done, in the second there was. We will argue that in both cases the anticipation of becoming-woman was crucial. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:15:42 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3835 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3838 A psychoanalytic cure brings about fundamental changes in a person's emotional, cognitive and behavioral life by rewriting the past, by transforming the fundamental fantasy. People suffering from drug addiction have been considered by Freud as unsuitable for psychoanalytic treatment because every difficulty in the cure draws them back to dope themselves. Contemporary psychoanalysts rather ask for interrogating psychoanalytic theory and practice instead of refusing those subjects that are under the spell of a total but devastating solution. In this paper we shed light on a man's changing process during his stay in a Therapeutic Community for addiction. By living in a drug-free environment that pulls him back into social bonds a process evolves that affects his fundamental fantasy. We have been able to discern how his interpretation as a preschooler of his mother's leaving has played an anticipatory role in his identity formation. In the discussion several questions are dealt with: Why does this non-psychoanalytic setting succeeds to trigger a 'psychoanalytic' process that would not have been possible in a classic talking cure? What lessons can be learned for psychoanalytic theory and practice ? Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:16:14 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3838 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3772 Cognitive mechanisms and nerve systems are an important issue in the phylogeny of living organisms. Human consciousness has long been studied, with various models being developed, and the discussion still continues today. Originally generated for visual perception, gestalt psychology introduced the idea of figure and ground to describe our mechanism of attention. We have come up with a method to model such figure and ground relation. We have applied this method to model how a figure and ground relation may be applied to story characters when reading a literary work. We compared this result with a control resulting from randomly generated input matrix. The resulting graph generated from text has characteristics changes. The changes in the graph reflect a dramatic shift in character attributes. Such drama may encourage the reader to anticipate what comes next in the story. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:07:39 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3772 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3775 In this roundup paper we give an overview of the research we have done so far regarding the idea of anticipation and psychotic experience. Starting off from the status quaestionis in psychiatry, psychotherapy and philosophy regarding the psychotic experience as a disorder of reality we bring together three different viewpoints: the objectivist, the subjectivist and the existentialist. We illustrate how all three perspectives are unable to provide with a definite description of what psychosis really is, let alone prove fruitful for a causal model towards explaining psychosis. We show how the anticipatory model we have worked out (boundary, context, organisation, hierarchy) brings all three fields of enquiry together in a synergetic model with clinical, ethical and theoretical benefits. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:08:38 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3775 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3780 Type-Token distinction and Figure and Ground relationship are dichotomic model to explain how human distinguish vary notions. This research inspects a relationship of these two relationships in Japanese plays. At first we make two series of lattices from the rough set to show figure and ground relationships in each scene. One series are made by verbs mentioned in speech. These are defined as "type-verbs". Another are made by verbs actually did in play by some characters. These are defined as "token-verbs". Compared change of complementarity and non-distributivity of lattices about type and token verbs, in short plays two series of complementarity differ beginning to ending but in long plays they accord in ending. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:09:33 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3780 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3785 In this paper, some aspects and examples of a gifted student's study process thru high school and higher education is described. We are aware that especially gifted in science are the greatest national treasure. Therefore the focus is on the gifted science students. In the paper wi11 be considered some issues on gifted students identification, differentiation in the classes, and their creativity development. Some aspects of an advanced science curriculum wi11 be discussed. The gifted students wants more meaningful learning, more rewarding school work, their own projects and the chance to interrelate knowledge on several levels. The influence of the globalisation processes, as for example the Bologna process, on the higher education curriculum development and implementation will be presented. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:10:05 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3785 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3855 A biophysically tenable description based on the present understanding of evolutionary systems is discussed, which relies on a hierarchical dynamical approach to an evolutionary chain of increasing abstraction levels through compression of information by n-dimensional attractors of chaotic dynamics. The capability of simulating the environment and other evolutionary systems through anticipatory behaviour so attained cannot be described fully through Thermodynamics, while the so-called "Great Puzzle of Theoretical Biology" could be solved through a quantum physical approach. Computability and insolvability problems would be overcome through an energy-free geometrized and topological approach stemming from an analysis of relationships between the logical space and the phase space of an evolutionary system. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:19:09 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3855 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3859 Information and communication technology (ICT) increasingly controls life and social life. It rests on programmed software, creating formal models of life systems. Resting on which constitutional/evolutional qualities can life systems formally be described? Models are simplifications of realty constrained by purpose. What may they mean for life systems controlled concerning their further development? If but mosaically the paper highlights base formal modelling constituting life systems proposing a transdisciplinary approach. Movement and rhythm ground learning and information transfer. Representation and memory of models of the past and the future originate anticipation. Modelling creates a language of signs, supporting pragmatic heuristics. Modelling copes with complexity generating simplicity in behaviour and handling. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:19:39 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3859 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3864 This paper looks at contributions from physics to anticipation in biological computing systems. The most important is the physics of coherence in water. This goes back to the contributions by Herbert Fröhlich summarised in his two "Green Books". The significance of frequency in respect of anticipation is the subject of my paper in Session 10 of CASYS' 11. The present paper deals with the physics of water as developed from dielectric and diamagnetic properties and Fröhlich's ideas of coherence in active biological systems to the subsequent developments. As vicinal water it carries a model of the system's chemistry. Water memory can be 'pro-gramed' in anticipation of future events. The novelty is in further recognition of the significance of coherence. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:20:09 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3864 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3867 Algorithmic topology is the spanning of an algorithm on a topological structure. The common calculus with paper and pen shows that all the recursive functions can be spanned on Euclidean planes. It is known that two topological structures are identical if and only if cut-pasting operations don't need to transform one in the other. Dubois' third stage (identification of incursive algorithm last row and column respectively with its first row and column) gives to incursive algorithms a spanning only on a torus that can be transformed in Euclidean plane only by cut-pasting operations. Thus incursive algorithms couldn't reduce to recursive algorithms and Church's hypothesis couldn't be true. Now, observe the affinity between topologic cut-pasting operations, Dubois' third stage and quantum entanglement. This last one can be considered either two "entanglements" in incursive algorithms or a cut-pasting operation on Euclidean plane on which such an algorithm is spanned to transform such a plane in torus. Is quantum entanglement simply the inadequacy of algorithms that can be spanned only on Euclidean plains to represent quantum mechanics? The same question could have value for some complex biological systems. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:20:43 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3867 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3870 We consider the principle loss of the cell structure (information) caused by the normal cell duplication. This loss, known as aging by a 'tooth of time', can be measured by information entropy. Functionally, it can be described by a carnotized model of information transfer, by a direct heat cycle. The growth of the thermodynamic entropy in its environment is similar to the loss of the cell structure, measured, in biology, by the shortenning the length of the cell telomere [24] . The telomere is, said approximately, a box of chromozomes and its length is coding the age of the cell, or in other words, is coding the number of the cell's predecessors in the normal situation. During the pathological cell proliferation the opposite situation arises. Cells with a precise structure are generated, but of a type which is different from their normal type. This growth of cells' structure in a certain locality (within the whole organism) is 'paid for ' by the draining off energy from its environment. Again, this situation is describable by the thermodynamic model of information transfer, but in a reverse form this time. The decreasing value of the thermodynamic entropy, or increasing value of the information entropy is now evidenced (locally), but 'paid for' by the environment. In terms of cells, the growth of the cells structure is now measured by the lengthening of their telomeres [24] Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:21:09 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3870 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3876 We introduce the Klein Bottle logophysics at the foundations of biology - in particular cell biology - and stereochemistry, and discuss its bearing in biomembranes and quantum torsion tensegrity structure for cell biology, proposing a unified logophysics paradigm integrating topological chemistry - in particular biochemical recognition, and cell biology. We apply this paradigm to the differentiation waves in embryogenesis. We present a quantum geometry tensegrity model for the cell splitter, proposing a codification of the embryological differentiation in terms of the Klein Bottle Logic of the genetic code. We propose a new understanding to evolution in terms of the HyperKlein Bottle. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:21:34 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3876 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3845 The aim of this study is an attempt to give new constructivist interpretation of well-known "dominant principle" of the outstanding Russian physiologist A. A. Ukhtomsky, which in a narrow sense, is a conceptual model of mechanism of motivated behavioral response of man or higher animals. Ukhtomsky's "Dominanta" is treated as developing situational material agency, expanding on the whole organism. The hypothesis is proposed here, that it is bootstrapping via cyclic processes of inward self-design and outward environmental design [13). This design is based on strong anticipation. The process of Dominanta bootstrapping thus re-establish equilibrium inside the body system organization and, via sensor-motor coupling, equilibrium in the body-environment system in accordance with phenomenology of constructivism. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:17:43 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3845 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3851 Living systems (for instance, organisms, ecosystems) are traditionally being discussed in the context of structural-morphological approach. We suppose that such approach, although is illustrative, but distracts from the circumstance that any living system is to be considered an integrated structural-functional complex. The maintenance of existence of this system is being impossible without the processes aimed at preserving this complex. This leads to the concept of cooperons - the self-preserving dynamic structures existing only as a result of specifically organized cooperative various processes. From this point of view, all living systems are cooperons of different hierarchy levels. Some other systems, for example the symbiotic ones, also are cooperons. Within a framework of this concept, it is possible to discuss the functioning of living systems of different types of organization in a new context. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:18:19 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3851 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3767 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:05:34 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3767