Human Reality Research Articles

Analisis Teologi Inkulturasi Lukisan Perjamuan Kana dan Gerakan Sego Mubeng Gereja St Antonius Kotabaru Yogyakarta

Inculturation in the context of religious life extends beyond mere adaptation in liturgical practices to permeate various aspects of human existence. This process involves the integration of cultural elements with spiritual values, fostering a harmonious unity between spirituality and everyday human reality. Two concrete examples of inculturation are explored: the Painting of the Wedding at Cana and the social movement of Sego Mubeng at St. Antonius Kotabaru Church, Yogyakarta. Through an in-depth analysis of these manifestations, the close relationship between art, daily life, and spirituality is highlighted. The painting serves as a medium to reflect religious values within the local cultural context, while Sego Mubeng demonstrates that inculturation extends beyond religious rituals into everyday activities, particularly in providing food assistance to those in need. This research enhances our understanding of how inculturation bridges the spiritual and earthly dimensions, as well as the complexity of its role in shaping worldviews and human behavior.

War Is Back in Post-Heroic Europe: Change and Continuity in the Relationship Between the Armed Forces and Society

Since war is back in Europe, societal perceptions are shifting. Terms such as “warfighting,” “whole of society,” and “total defence force” are becoming more prevalent. There is a growing recognition of the military’s importance and heightened appreciation for soldiers, while taboos on weapon manufacturing and warfighting are disappearing. To what extent, how and with what implication have societal attitudes surrounding the armed forces changed in recent years? This article examines this question through exploratory empirical research of military, political, and public communication items, including media accounts and speeches. This reveals both change and continuity in what had been called post-heroic Europe: both a more pro-military stance and the persistence of one-dimensional narratives of conflict, military intervention and soldiers. This is strategically and ethically problematic. While fairy tale narratives dehumanize both opponents and “our” soldiers, demanding them to be superhuman, a tragic narrative better captures the human reality of war.

Technophilosophical underpinnings of Westworld (2016–2022)

Using the events of the HBO series Westworld (2016–2022) as a springboard, this paper attempts to elicit a number of philosophical arguments, dilemmas, and questions concerning technology and artificial intelligence (AI). The paper is intended to encourage readers to learn more about intriguing technophilosophical debates. The first section discusses the dispute between memory and consciousness in the context of an artificially intelligent robot. The second section delves into the issues of reality and morality for humans and AI. The final segment speculates on the potential of a social interaction between sentient AI and humans. The narrative of the show serves as a glue that binds together the various ideas that are covered during the show, which in turn makes the philosophical discussions more intriguing.

Ben Okri’s Eco-Imagination in Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021): An Afropolitan Approach

There are possibly myriad approaches to an examination of Sir Ben Okri’s African folktale, Every Leaf a Hallelujah (2021), that sings the praises of Mother Nature’s ability to transform human nature. Premised on the phenomenology of the eco-imagination that adopts Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s Imaginatio Creatrix as the pivotal force of the genesis/ontopoiesis of human life and reality, coupled with Arne Naess’s notion of “deep ecology” that likewise emphasises the intrinsic interconnectedness of all lifeforms and geophysical features on Planet Earth, the discussion shows that Every Leaf a Hallelujah implicitly explores the developmental phenomenology of perception via Achille Mbembe’s notion of Afropolitanism. It does this through the agency of the innocent prescience of a small Nigerian girl child, the seven-year-old Mangoshi who is attuned to the choral voices of nature. Writing against the rift of the prevalent Western belief in a nature that is utilitarian or where nature serves human needs, this article is embedded in an African eco-critical imaginary that investigates the interrelationship between human nature and Mother Nature from an Afropolitan literary perspective in which there is a mythic conjunction between humans and nature, as well as art and science. Echoing Tymieniecka’s phenomenology of life and the human creative condition, the argument concludes that Every Leaf a Hallelujah represents a significant contribution to contemporary discourse on conservation for sustainability.

ViCubeLab-An Integrated Platform Using VR to Visualise and Analyse Road Traffic Conditions

The main contribution of this paper is to introduce a framework for integrating Machine Learning (ML), Human, and Virtual Reality (VR) into one platform to promote a collaborative visualisation environment that can assist in better analysis and improve the human-machine teaming capability. This platform was demonstrated using a case study in ana-lysing road traffic conditions. The ‘Ab-normal Machine Learning Road Traffic Detection in VR (AbnMLRTD-VR)’ prototype system was developed to assist the human analyst. The proposed system has two main integrative components: a data-driven ML model and a 3D real-time visualisation in a VR environment. An unsupervised ML model was built using real traffic data. The AbnMLRTD-VR system highlights the outliers in the road sections in actual road contexts of a road traffic network. This gives the human analyst a 3D real-time immersive visualisation in a VR environment to evaluate road conditions. The AbnMLRTD-VR system demonstrated that it could help minimise the need for human pre-labelling of the data. It enables the visualisation of the road traffic conditions more meaningfully and to understand the context of the road traffic conditions of road sections at any given time.

دراسة دلالية للأدب الديني المترجم: أحاديث القتال أنموذجا

Sword is a tool of fear when it is in the hands of cruel people showing the inhumanity of human. But when it is in the hands of good tempered people, those who believe in Allah, His last Prophet, and the last day in this universe which is full of civilized and uncivilized cultures, here the reality of humanity comes into light. Allah created humans with diverse nature, physique, and abilities. Some of them love to serve humans and among them who just want to rule them with cruelty and barbarism killing them, destroying them with various types of punishment. The history reveals these two faces of humanity in the story of two sons of Adam (عليه السلام). That is why Allah sent His messengers to teach, guide and lead humans to the right path, to the justice, and good deeds. The last Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) is Arab and the last revelation is in Arabic language which is rhetorically, linguistically and culturally a vast language. Translating this religious literature into other languages is a challenging task due to its complex and vast linguistic nature. The words of our Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) should be translated correctly from Arabic into other languages. The word used for fighting in the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) contain deep meanings that cannot be understood without having a full comprehension of Arabic language and its culture. This study aims to analyze Ahadith as an example of religious literature that contains words of fighting and their translation to explain that Islam invites the humanity to peace.

The nursing ethnographic research into complex societies

Introduction: Multicultural societies of the postmodern world are characterized by the complexity of their structure, organization, and operation. In such societies, there is a heterogeneous set of social players who experience a variety of phenomena in their daily lives in cities. Within this context, nursing care has developed and nurses in recent years have turned to ethnography as a tool in understanding socio-cultural reality and experience from the perspective of those living these experiences. This is a theoretical study seeking to reflect upon the application of an ethnographic approach in Brazilian nursing research in complex societies.Ethnography in Brazilian nursing research in complex societies: Brazilian nurses have appropriated the methodological tools and theories of nursing and anthropological studies to investigate the experiences and meanings attributed to health-disease process, cultural influence on health-related behaviors, as well as to evaluate and manage work processes. Further studies are emphasized to attempt to theorize and reflect upon the methodological construction of this research. This move highlights a shift in focus on nursing research and practice for a more integrative and complex view of human beings and reality. Ethnography helps us learn about a given reality and, as a result, we obtain new insights for understanding the phenomena.Reflection: It is considered that anthropological knowledge extends the nurses’ views on the subject about which they devote their practice, refining it. Being closer to the lives and experience of subjects, permits the perception of phenomena from the perspective of the players involved, offering professionals a different view on the needs and outcomes of nursing care.

Global Perspective on EMR and eHealth

A goal of this exploratory study was to uncover the attitudes of the public towards health information technology (HIT) during a health crisis (COVID-19 pandemic). A socio-technical network formed by EMR/eHealth, COVID-19, and the tweeters was investigated using the Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) to understand global perspectives on healthcare technology, taking into account the human dimension and social reality in technology. Social Media (SM) analytics was used to mine HIT-related tweets from the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that positivity, trust, and anticipation are the three most significant emotions associated with electronic medical records (EMR) and eHealth from the tweets. Our analysis found an acceptance of HIT by the global public and optimism for its role in information dissemination, control and containment, and public health improvement. The ANT analysis reveals a virtual coalition building that occurred through discussions among notable network actors, and the role of crowdsourcing in disseminating digital health information.

New Constitution in Nepal: Fundamental Freedoms and Educational Rights Provisions, and Implications for Dalits’ Schooling

ABSTRACT When Nepal promulgated a new constitution in 2015, discourse around the ‘New Nepal’, post-monarchical rule, was powerful; the new constitution was perceived as a landmark text to provide a clear vision for New Nepal’s overall development. The poor state of Dalits’ human rights and educational realities were widely cited as critical issues requiring attention and expedited intervention during the constitution-writing process. Almost a decade later, however, no outstanding progress is evident regarding the overall development of the historically marginalized Dalits. This paper aims to interrogate the perpetuation of the dominant ideology, as the basis for the marginalization of people lacking power, in the new constitution’s fundamental and educational provisions by exploring its marginalizing semantic elements. We selected these semantic elements or linguistic categories through reading the new constitution. Our analyses expect to unfold the link between Dalits’ poor state of human rights and educational experiences and the provisions of the new constitution. This study helps expose the roots of inequality, exclusion, and social injustice by appraising policies of public interest in situations where human rights violations, illiteracy, and poverty have distressed the lives of marginalized people, as well as encouraging research on the problems faced by extremely vulnerable population like Dalits, who are not only marginalized in their place of birth but also in the diaspora.

Antonio Tabucchi and the Journey of Self-Discovery:

The article centers on two novels by Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi—Requiem: A hallucination and For Isabel: A mandala. It analyzes the polysemic elements that constitute the symbolic construction of both works, supported by the main tenets of Jungian psychology and in particular the notions of coniunctio oppositorum, individuation, and journey of self-discovery. The investigation explores the relationship of Tabucchi’s narrative with works by Ferdinando Pessoa and Herman Hesse. Homologies between the author’s view of the self, cognition, human reality, and the formal structure of the novels are examined through the Bakhtinian notion of dialogical narrative and through his metaliterary and self-reflexive mode of writing.

Exploring the Impacts of Social Media Simulation in Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This: A Socio-psychological Analysis

The present study interrogates hyperreality and social media simulation in the novel ‘No One Is Talking About This’ by an American novelist Patricia Lockwood. The plot of the selected novel centers on a woman who lives more of a reel life than a real existence and is constantly online. Lockwood’s ‘No One is Talking About This’ has been analyzed to find out such type of issue of human beings by theory of Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard. The selected novel shows the influence of hyper-reality and social media problems on human mind and psyche. This novel focuses on the hyperreality and social media problems. Through simulacra and simulation, people create and articulate reality, then present it as genuine. Through his theory of simulacra and simulation, Jean Baudrillard makes it clear to the world that we are never sure what is artificial and what is genuine. We now live in a hyperreal world where simulations of reality feel more real than actual reality, akin to a global village. The widespread adoption of digital gadgets and social media has rendered the internet appear and feel more authentic. The barrier that separated picture from reality has crumbled. Hyperreality is a central theme that underscores the protagonist's experiences and perceptions. The selected novel highlights apprehensions about the veracity of our relationships and experiences in a hyperreal world and serves as a warning about the possible risks of an over-reliance on technology and virtual encounters. Additional investigation may be conducted to examine the effects of hyperreality on particular demographics, including teenagers, who are more likely to be extensively involved in social media and virtual reality activities. The data in this framework was chosen by the researcher using non-random sampling methods. The study's findings demonstrate that simulations and similacros create an environment that is utterly unlike from human reality. Its findings also demonstrate how hyperreality impacts people's lives. In this investigation, the researchers have emanated the conclusion that hyperreality has now taken the place of reality and that reality itself has entirely transformed. The protagonist's absorption in "the portal," a digital environment akin to social media, effectively illustrates Jean Baudrillard's idea of hyperreality, where the line between reality and simulation blurs. The researchers draw attention to the significant socio-psychological effects of detachment between real and the virtual worlds

ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPTS OF "LIFE" AND "DEATH" IN CHINESE LINGUISTIC CULTURE

This article poses the question of the necessity for a comprehensive examination of Chinese linguistic culture, including the examination of mentality, concepts of the world in Chinese linguistic culture, and the examination of universal concepts of existentialism such as "life" and "death" and their reflection in Chinese linguistic culture. In this regard, terms such as linguoculture, concept, linguocultural concept, and language picture of the world are examined, and the contents of the concepts "life" and "death" are also revealed. The purpose of this study is to identify and describe the content of the concept "life and death" in the modern Chinese language picture of the world and to determine the way of their lexicographic representation. "Life" and "death" are two of the basic concepts that underlie the general development of human reality. They are universal but differ in national and cultural originality. The examination of concepts will reveal their linguocultural specifics. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the understanding of life and attitude to life in any linguistic culture is a basic guideline of human behavior, which determines ethno-specific norms and stereotypes of communication, as well as the mentality of native speakers. An analysis of the verbal representation of the concepts "Life" and "Death" in Chinese linguistic culture shows not only the traditional but also the modern understanding of life and death and the attitude toward them.

Personality Structure in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Therapies

Psychodynamic psychotherapy or analytical therapies are therapies based on psychoanalysis. C. Jung's archetypes have an important role in the science of psychology. Unlike S. Freud, Jung notes that libido is not only a source of sexual energy, but reflects the whole reality of humanity. Psychodynamic psychotherapy or analytical therapies are therapies based on psychoanalysis. Freud "Ego psychology" explored early childhood relationships between mother and child, noting that the relationships we experience in early childhood with those who care for us are repeated in adulthood. J. Lacan's theory considers the ego as an illusion and accepts that we are a personality aimed at fulfilling the wishes and dreams of our parents. In general, psychodynamic psychotherapy includes long-term therapies based on early childhood, parent-child relationships, and dreams. The main purpose of the article is to examine psychoanalysis, personality structure in psychoanalysis, therapies derived from it, analytic or psychodynamic therapies.

Debunking robot rights metaphysically, ethically, and legally

In this work we challenge the argument for robot rights on metaphysical, ethical and legal grounds. Metaphysically, we argue that machines are not the kinds of things that may be denied or granted rights. Building on theories of phenomenology and post-Cartesian approaches to cognitive science, we ground our position in the lived reality of actual humans in an increasingly ubiquitously connected, controlled, digitized, and surveilled society. Ethically, we argue that, given machines’ current and potential harms to the most marginalized in society, limits on (rather than rights for) machines should be at the centre of current AI ethics debate. From a legal perspective, the best analogy to robot rights is not human rights but corporate rights, a highly controversial concept whose most important effect has been the undermining of worker, consumer, and voter rights by advancing the power of capital to exercise outsized influence on politics and law. The idea of robot rights, we conclude, acts as a smoke screen, allowing theorists and futurists to fantasize about benevolently sentient machines with unalterable needs and desires protected by law. While such fantasies have motivated fascinating fiction and art, once they influence legal theory and practice articulating the scope of rights claims, they threaten to immunize from legal accountability the current AI and robotics that is fuelling surveillance capitalism, accelerating environmental destruction, and entrenching injustice and human suffering.

Faithfulness to Faithfulness: The Compass of Spiritual Reading in the Letters of Saint Paul

This paper is intended for the spiritual reading of St. Paul’s Letter. It investigates the dynamics and movements in the relationship between Divine and human reality. For the Divine reality, it investigates God’s Hesed in the covenantal promise, particularly with Abraham, and its fulfillment in Jesus Christ, who will come on the last days. In human reality, the Shema and commandments are explored together with Emunah and Hineni as the human response to God’s faithfulness. Also, it investigates the tradition of zealousness for God, having no idols, and living a moral life. The key to human reality is conformity to Jesus Christ and having faith like that of Jesus in the Father, through which there is justification and participation. Maranatha is the human disposition to the parousia of the Lord. Finally, the paper investigates the eschatological dimension of One God, One People, and One Future: the new creation, new heaven and earth, new mind, and new ways of relating called the Church.

AE-NeRF: Audio Enhanced Neural Radiance Field for Few Shot Talking Head Synthesis

Audio-driven talking head synthesis is a promising topic with wide applications in digital human, film making and virtual reality. Recent NeRF-based approaches have shown superiority in quality and fidelity compared to previous studies. However, when it comes to few-shot talking head generation, a practical scenario where only few seconds of talking video is available for one identity, two limitations emerge: 1) they either have no base model, which serves as a facial prior for fast convergence, or ignore the importance of audio when building the prior; 2) most of them overlook the degree of correlation between different face regions and audio, e.g., mouth is audio related, while ear is audio independent. In this paper, we present Audio Enhanced Neural Radiance Field (AE-NeRF) to tackle the above issues, which can generate realistic portraits of a new speaker with few-shot dataset. Specifically, we introduce an Audio Aware Aggregation module into the feature fusion stage of the reference scheme, where the weight is determined by the similarity of audio between reference and target image. Then, an Audio-Aligned Face Generation strategy is proposed to model the audio related and audio independent regions respectively, with a dual-NeRF framework. Extensive experiments have shown AE-NeRF surpasses the state-of-the-art on image fidelity, audio-lip synchronization, and generalization ability, even in limited training set or training iterations.

THE ROLE OF SPIRITUAL AND FORMAL EFFECTS IN THE PERCEPTION OF EMOTIONAL STATES CONSTITUTING A WORK OF ART

: The emotional states that constitute a work of art are formed through the effects of a series of rules and regularities that explain the organization of various systems and also form the foundation of a field of study. Emotions, formal pleasures, and spiritual approaches are among the phenomena that develop a theory defining the general definition of art, delineating its boundaries, and identifying the qualities that allow us to label something as a "work of art." Additionally, art is related with the aesthetics of nature and human subjective realities. The emotional sentiments, characterized as reality for the artist and manifested through seeing and understanding, are dependent on the subjects to be addressed in art. Art, an inherent human capability, is essentially a representation of existence. The tangible qualities of natural objects, considered reality for the artist, assist in perceiving and grasping these emotional feelings in art. Furthermore, individually arising emotional states give rise to aesthetic judgment based on both objective and subjective evaluations. The essential qualities inherent in the essence of the artwork are the foundation of artistic existence. The form that aids in the emergence of artistic presence appears as the perceptible reality of any object through our senses. For the artist, the material characteristics in nature bring forth perceptions. Artistic works produced for aesthetic purposes help bring forth the existing emotional states.
 The artist reflects their artistic expression through a perspective developed from their perception of the dynamics of art, attempting to create artistic forms based on the interaction between everyday objects and the senses. Objects that transport perceived forms into reality and everyday items, in interaction with the senses, aid in creating artworks as a synthesis of spiritual approaches. Cultural, sociopolitical, and economic factors influencing society are among the primary factors affecting the creation of artworks. Additionally, variables related to the artist's psychological state and societal structure play a role in this transformative process in the production of artworks. Thus, objects that inherently lack artistic meaning interact with each other in the journey of being transformed into artworks by artists.
 Our research is conducted by examining qualitative data related to the emotional states that constitute a work of art and their perceptual, spiritual, and formal effects. It is believed that this study will contribute to the field of art.

Insights on the Use of Transgenic Mice Models in Alzheimer's Disease Research.

Alzheimer's disease (AD), the leading cause of dementia, presents a significant global health challenge with no known cure to date. Central to our understanding of AD pathogenesis is the β-amyloid cascade hypothesis, which underlies drug research and discovery efforts. Despite extensive studies, no animal models of AD have completely validated this hypothesis. Effective AD models are essential for accurately replicating key pathological features of the disease, notably the formation of β-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. These pathological markers are primarily driven by mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin 1 (PS1) genes in familial AD (FAD) and by tau protein mutations for the tangle pathology. Transgenic mice models have been instrumental in AD research, heavily relying on the overexpression of mutated APP genes to simulate disease conditions. However, these models do not entirely replicate the human condition of AD. This review aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the historical and ongoing research efforts in AD, particularly through the use of transgenic mice models. It is focused on the benefits gathered from these transgenic mice models in understanding β-amyloid toxicity and the broader biological underpinnings of AD. Additionally, the review critically assesses the application of these models in the preclinical testing of new therapeutic interventions, highlighting the gap between animal models and human clinical realities. This analysis underscores the need for refinement in AD research methodologies to bridge this gap and enhance the translational value of preclinical studies.

Simulacrum And Hyperreality in Cargill’s Day Zero

This study examines the simulacrum and simulation representation of postmodern society in Cargill's Day Zero in the postmodern theoretical paradigm of Baudrillard. The postmodern concept of hyperreality is concerned with concealing the truth behind reproductions that is twice removed from reality. The thorough study of the text shows how simulacra and simulation can produce highly real environments that seem to exist entirely outside of human reality. This writing is dystopian in nature because the hyperbolic representation of consumer society leads towards magic world which seems real due to its continuous practice. The protagonist of the story is a little boy named Ezra who uses a robot named Pounce to help him to navigate the post-apocalyptic world. Pounce, a fictitious nannybot, is the representation of consumer society due to its robotic implications. Pounce wonders over the elements of robot revolution that will exterminate humanity. This paper has analyzed the rebellious attitude of machinery such as by robots and other artificially intelligent computers against humans. Therefore, the ordinary and uninteresting state of the modern world eventually gives rise to the world of hyperreality, where everything appears to be more fascinating and less dry than the alleged desert of the real outside. In the context of this study, it is asserted that the postmodern person gets tired of the apparent artificiality of hyperreality and either strives to re-discover the real or confronts the meaningless wasteland left in the wake of the real’s absence. Through this analysis, the researcher has drawn the conclusion that reality has completely changed and that hyperreality is now the predominate reality. Therefore, the application of this study is valuable in demonstrating an understanding of the scope and impact of hyperreality, simulation, and simulacra on the postmodern individuals.

Realitas Kemanusiaan dalam Naskah Feature “Cermin Kehidupan Pejuang Penyu” pada Buletin Pro 1 Radio Republik Indonesia Bengkulu

This study analyzes and describes the reality of humanity in the feature script "Mirror of the Life of Turtle Fighters" in the pro 1 bulletin RRI Bengkulu, with three discourse structures, namely macrostructure, superstructure, and microstructure. Data collection techniques use text content analysis and literature studies relevant to this study. With data analysis and processing techniques using Critical Discourse Analysis (AWK) model Teun A.van Dijk. The results of Teun van Dijk's Critical Discourse analysis found that from the elements of macrostructure, superstructure, and microstructure this feature script wants to explain a warrior's struggle regarding changes that have occurred in turtle populations in recent years that continue to decline and can cause damage to marine ecosystems, but in the feature script there is a lot of lack of information about how important sea turtles are for the sea and humans also there is no definite information What bad possibilities will happen if Extinct sea turtles.