Real Sense Research Articles

Myth, Religion, Imagination, and (Virtual) Realities

This article provides a way to think through the division between religious and secular approaches to contemporary society through the use of rival myths. Myths are narrative structures that invite the interplay of language and the imagination, resulting in the creation of virtual realities and social imaginaries. Strong virtual realities were once premised on myths that guided the imagination to embrace an openness to mystery and the unknowable; however, current technological culture is predicated on a closed imagination that has led to worldwide despair. Religion was originally grounded in the virtual reality inspired by language and the capacity of language to distill and extract the “virtual” from the real. The ability of language to create a virtual reality created the capacity to think of a soul, as well as destinations for the soul. In the twentieth century, Freud found that the notion of “God” that was created had become problematic for humans and so created a modern myth that would provide a secular substitute. After providing a close reading of Freud’s governing myth for modern culture, showing how it inspires the imagination and the ways in which it falls short, this article concludes with an alternative myth—that of the Invisible City—proposed to inspire faith, hope, and love in our modern world. My approach relies on a depth psychological framework, which was formed to interrogate the nature of reality (relative to individuals and culture) at the intersection of myth, religion, language, and imagination. Throughout, I use a hermeneutic methodology, which is consistent with the initial mode of depth psychological exploration as well as the central role language plays in revealing the truth of a reality. This orientation enables an exploration of a deeper sense of virtual realities than what is deployed through current technology.

High-performance supercapacitor of ZnO-incorporated structurally modified g-C3N4 with circular mesoporous channels attained via a template-free approach

Abstract Here, the superior structural features of g-C3N4 in combination with integrated mesoporous channels have been explored for its use as a supercapacitor electrode material. A facile template-free strategy is adopted for the ZnO-incorporated modified g-C3N4 nanocomposite preparation, where the material characterization via XRD, FTIR spectroscopy, FESEM, TEM, and XPS analyses revealed the presence of structurally modified g-C3N4 having uniform circular mesoporous channels with well dispersed ZnO with strong Zn-C and Zn-N interactions. The electrical double-layer capacitance together with the pseudocapacitance of the ZnO/g-C3N4 electrode material resulted in improved performance leading to a specific capacitance of 146.3 F/g at a current density of 0.5 A/g; an increased capacitance is observed in 5000 repeated charge-discharge cycles. The symmetric coin cell supercapacitor fabricated from the material displayed an energy density of 38.8 mWh/kg at a power density of 4259 mW/kg. Additionally, the long life of 6000 cycles (retaining 100% specific capacitance) exhibited by the coin cell supercapacitor further indicates the promising energy storage nature of the ZnO-incorporated modified g-C3N4 mesoporous nanoarchitecture. The real sense application of the ZnO/g-C3N4-derived supercapacitor is narrated by lighting up a green LED with a series connection of four coin cells.

The ultimate political question? Realism and omnicide

ABSTRACT Realist political theory purports to prioritize the goals of order, security, and ‘political survival’. In spite of these concerns, it has not yet addressed the growing risk that humanity might be lurching towards self-extinction. This contribution considers what omnicidal risk means for contemporary realism, making two arguments. First, we argue that omnicidal risk poses a political problem in a distinctly realist sense of the term. In doing so, we demonstrate that omnicide is a relevant concern for all realists, while ordorealists in particular hold an unrecognized commitment to mitigating omnicidal risk. Second, by demonstrating the extent to which capitalism can be considered a cause of contemporary omnicidal risk, we argue that this concern and commitment should draw realists – and, in particular, ordorealists – into a critique of contemporary political economy. Realism should not ignore omnicidal risk; instead, its consideration should work to radicalize realism.

Science, Fiction, and Contemporary Media: Blurred Borders in Knowledge Dissemination in Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain

This study examines the technical methods used by Michael Crichton to blur the lines between factual information and fictional elements in his novel The Andromeda Strain. The creative use of scientific terminology and artistic documentation that supports a sense of reality plays a role in creating a certain blurring that works to enhance the blurring of the boundaries between reality and imagination. The study aims to explore the novel within the framework of postmodern literary theory, questioning the concept of absolute truth, and emphasizing the role of language and literary discourse in constructing reality. Through a critical analysis of the novel, this study seeks to clarify the methods followed by Crichton to employ language and discourse to create an atmosphere of authenticity that contributes greatly to blurring the line between reality and imagination. In addition, the study comprehensively analyses modern media platform technologies that are used to erode the boundaries between objective reality and fictional narratives, and their consequent effects on the dissemination of information. The study concluded that Crichton's novel The Andromeda Strain embodies the successful integration of scientific concepts with fantasy elements, which resulted in a captivating and intellectually stimulating narrative.

Classical music education for students: impact on creative thinking about psychology / Enseñanza de música clásica para estudiantes: el impacto en el pensamiento creativo sobre psicología

The study aims to identify the expertise of college students in classical music and evaluate individual prerequisites for listening to classical music and their impact on creative thinking in connection with psychological defence among students. The study involved 200 students from a college in China. The Chinese college students’ expertise in music was analysed based on the questionnaire method and the research design. The study revealed the following: prolonged listening to loud music, even classical, develops creative thinking and at the same time can lead to loss of self-control and partial loss of the listener’s sense of reality; music volume correlates with the desire to hear the rhythm and the frequency of music listening; there is a correlation between musical rhythm and the psychological defence mechanisms of substitution, regression, compensation, as well as tension.

High cycling stability polyaniline/carbon sphere/graphene ternary nanocomposite cathode material for asymmetric supercapacitors

Here, an asymmetric supercapacitor of the ternary nanocomposite polyaniline/carbon sphere/graphene (PANI/CS/G) is developed through a green strategy via the in-situ polymerization of aniline in carbon sphere/graphene (CS/G) dispersion prepared in a ball-mill method coupled with hydrothermal treatment. A strong interaction and thus the coverage of CS/G with PANI is revealed from the material characterization using XRD, FTIR and Raman spectroscopic techniques, and also from FESEM and HRTEM images. Uniform distribution of PANI over the CS/G provided an effective conducting network and enhanced diffusion of the electrolyte ions. PANI/CS/G showed a specific capacitance of 145.02 mF/cm2 at a current density of 1 mA/cm2 in 1 M H2SO4 originating from the electrostatic double layer capacitance behavior of the CS/G and pseudocapacitance of PANI. The fabricated asymmetric coin cell device with PANI/CS/G cathode and CS/G anode showed the highest areal capacitance of 320.78 mF/cm2 (@ 1 mA/cm2), a maximum energy density of 18.99 Wh/kg (@ 0.21 A/g), and a highest power density of 6088.48 W/kg (@ 8.68 A/g). The device displayed 101.6 % capacitance retention after 10000 cycles, indicating the effect of CS/G in diminishing the volume changes of PANI during the charge-discharge process, which usually affects the cyclic stability. By lighting a green LED, the real sense energy storage application of the supercapacitor is evaluated.

Kinship Object: A Creation Engendered from the Bewilderment of a Pillaged World

ABSTRACT Humankind is reaching a breaking point whereby the prevailing forces of relating are wholly characterized by greed, hate and domination. This worldview seems fixed and objectifies and reduces other humans who are perceived as different, as well as animals, birds, insects, trees and plants as lesser and expendable. But what if the universal attitude were one of kinship with all dynamic beings? A stance which values all forms of living matter as one of us; where nothing has greater value than another form of living matter, making each an equal part of the whole. A stance where relationships are characterized by reverence, reciprocity and the real sense that there is abundance – that there is enough to go around. Out of a sense of grief and horror over the failure of humans to love all of earth’s constituents, we have developed a novel construct presented here: a Kinship Object. This kinship object, an original psychoanalytic idea, is introduced to frame the capacity for balance with regard to relating with maturity and care to all sentient beings. The processes of possessing love and hate, concern, selfhood and otherness, and the thinking and kinship apparatuses are embedded in the kinship object.

EStatiG: Wearable Haptic Feedback with Multi-Phalanx Electrostatic Brake for Enhanced Object Perception in VR

Haptic gloves have enabled the immersive and realistic sense of interacting with objects in virtual reality (VR) by providing coordinated haptic sensation with visual information. However, previous approaches mainly focused on providing feedback on the fingertips or distal phalanges, with minimal attention paid to the other phalanges. We propose EStatiG, a haptic glove that delivers force feedback over all finger regions from the fingertip to the proximal phalanges. Here, we enrich the perception of object shape during grasping tasks in VR. To do this, we developed the double layer and multi-stacked electrostatic clutches (ES clutches) to form an electrostatic brake (ES brake) for each phalanx. With the lightweight structure (130 grams), we enabled high-resolution force feedback while maintaining wearability and usability. We validated the user perception performance when using the proposed device. Our results showed a significant improvement in the perception of phalanx angle positions and the overall experience of realism and immersion when interacting with various object shapes in VR.

Intertextuality in John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address

John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech on January 20, 1961, represented more than an introduction to the new President. Kennedy was “doing politics” (Van Dijk, p. 18) in a very real sense through discourse. The intertexual references and allusions made by Kennedy transcended the contemporary time of the 1960’s by connecting the speech with the words of other Presidents of the United States. In these connections, Kennedy forged a sense of purpose that united the people of the U.S. during the Cold War.

A Strategic Study on the Infiltration of Life Experience in the Teaching of Assignments in the Upper Primary School Language Group

With the deepening of education reform and the needs of education development, more and more attention is being paid to students' language writing ability. Language writing is an important means to cultivate students' comprehensive language use ability and an important way to improve their comprehensive literacy. In order to better promote the construction and development of primary school language courses, nowadays, in the process of teaching primary school writing, teachers should stand on the children's position, pay active attention to the children's real life status, carefully plan and construct the students' life experience system, so that the students can complete the construction of the main body of the framework of the content of the assignment in the real and intentional life experience, and guide the students to pay attention to the life, awakening experience, accumulation of rich materials, so that the assignment will be more effective. Rich material, so that the content of the work of words and real sense, get rid of false, big, empty unrealistic sky, get rid of the "set work", fixed template of the undesirable phenomenon. Let the students' work content close to real life, full of real emotions, learn to choose the right life materials, build the structure of the composition, can think hard from different perspectives to express creatively. Let the assignments have something to say, let the assignments have a method to say, let the assignments have a character to say. This study focuses on students' writing in the fifth and sixth grades of primary school, focusing on life experience. The important value and significance of life experience in the teaching of language assignments in the upper primary grades helps teachers to update the concept of teaching assignments in a timely manner, improves primary school students' enjoyment of assignments, and then promotes the construction and development of primary school language assignments education.

3D dynamic landscape simulation of artificial intelligence in environmental landscape design

Three-dimensional (3D) simulations and precise landscape visualizations are crucial for various applications, like landscape management and planning, computer and connection of the landscape, evaluation, and tracking of land use. The consequences of several plans and a large scene cannot be communicated using older methods of comprehensive environmental planning and development in a timely, rational, and coordinated manner. Architects have trouble incorporating ideas into other comprehensive planning implementation processes. Architects did not thoroughly investigate the neighbourhood's demographics and matching behavioural needs and lacked critical thinking. The 3D dynamic landscape simulation is a detailed computerized three-dimensional simulation of the environment that can be dynamically presented. With the aid of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, the system possesses a strong sense of reality, a user-friendly interface, and interactive features that can be tailored to the requirements of the contemporary urban environmental landscape. Regarding exterior publicity, domestic assistance, environmental land use planning, and information systems. The novelty of the proposed Interactive Design System based on AI (IDS-AI) is to create a 3D dynamic landscape model based on a real-life environmental scene, utilizing a Geographic Information System (GIS) to optimize landscape vision. Secondly, 3D environmental landscape design simulation was implemented using GIS spatial analysis in conjunction with the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Process (FAHP) to reduce the data overlap rate and help make an accurate decision. Finally, the design incorporates the development of the interactive interface system application of landscape design and environmental resources for viewing the landscape, the factors that affect them, and the area coverage ratio of various land cover types. The experimental outcomes show that the suggested IDS model increases the gradient sensitivity level of 98.3 % and area coverage ratio of 93.4 % compared to other existing models.

Stereo‐consistent Screen Space Reflection

AbstractScreen Space Reflection (SSR) can reliably achieve highly efficient reflective effects, significantly enhancing users' sense of realism in real‐time applications. However, when directly applied to stereo rendering, popular SSR algorithms lead to inconsistencies due to the differing information between the left and right eyes. This inconsistency, invisible to human vision, results in visual discomfort. This paper analyzes and demonstrates how screen‐space geometries, fade boundaries, and reflection samples introduce inconsistent cues. Considering the complementary nature of screen information, we introduce a stereo‐aware SSR method to alleviate visual discomfort caused by screen space disparities. By contrasting our stereo‐aware SSR with conventional SSR and ray‐traced results, we showcase the effectiveness of our approach in mitigating the inconsistencies stemming from screen space differences while introducing affordable performance overhead for real‐time rendering.

Psychedelic experiences in psychedelic-assisted therapy for depression

ABSTRACT Psychedelics have shown promise as a treatment for depression. Although there is some debate, a popular view is that psychedelics produce their benefits in an experience-dependent manner. This is the view that a depressed person gets better, inter alia, because of the experience she has had on psychedelics. Among the various questions that treatment for depression with psychedelics raise, one of the most important is: By what mechanism do these drugs reduce symptoms? If the experience-dependent view is correct, the answer, at least on the personal level of explanation, lies in the phenomenology. In this paper, borrowing mainly from Ratcliffe’s account of depression, I offer such an answer. I argue that psychedelic experiences involve a surge of existential feelings, which can revise the depressed person’s diminished sense of possibility and restore their ability to be affected by the world. I explain how this occurs via a change in the sense of reality linked to the subjective effects of psychedelics. This, I suggest, is the personal level mechanism or process behind psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for depression.

Benazir Bhutto, Negotiating Politics amidst Misogyny: A Study of Daughter of the East

The present research paper analyzes the struggles of Benazir Bhutto as detailed in her autobiography, Daughter of the East (1987), highlighting her confrontations with political challenges, a dictatorial regime, and numerous hardships in her quest to restore and strengthen democracy in Pakistan. Bhutto navigated adverse circumstances, including male chauvinistic politics, orthodox religious ulamas, entrenched military dictatorship, and bureaucratic elitism. The paper delves into her political challenges, patriarchal social obligations, and Islamic ideological commitments, which she managed as the first woman Prime Minister of Pakistan during her tenures from 1988-1990 and 1993-1996. This era is critical to understanding her efforts to extract Pakistan from military dictatorship's grip, vividly portrayed in her autobiography Her eloquent narrative not only chronicles her ascent as the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim-majority country but also encapsulates the relentless adversities she faced as a woman in a deeply patriarchal society. Bhutto's poignant reflections on her political odyssey inspired me to delve deeper into her life, illuminating her as a warrior in real sense and a paragon of female fortitude amidst a turbulent political landscape.

Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Konsumen Atas Kenaikan Harga Minyak Goreng Yang Dilakukan Oleh Pelaku Usaha Toko di Kecamatan Sabu Barat Kabupaten Sabu Raijua

The increase in cooking oil as a staple food is certainly detrimental to consumers, especially consumers from the lower middle class, after the problem of scarcity of cooking oil occurred in Indonesia and various policies to adjust the price of cooking oil carried out by the government, provide evidence that the urgency of the price of cooking oil has an impact on society. This research aims to find out and explain the causes of the increase in cooking oil prices carried out by shop entrepreneurs in West Sabu sub-district, Sabu Raijua Regency. The research method used is that this research is included in empirical legal research, namely a legal research method that attempts to see the law in a real sense or can be said to see, examine how law works in society, which then uses a research approach, a qualitative type of approach. The research results show that legal protection for consumers can be carried out by resolving disputes in court and outside of court. Every consumer who is harmed can sue business actors through institutions tasked with resolving disputes between consumers and business actors or through courts within the general court environment and the government also plays an important role in efforts to protect consumers legally. The form of consumer protection provided is by issuing laws and government regulations, where the implementation of statutory regulations is then carried out by supervising the implementation of these regulationsto be able to socialize it to the public and there is also a need for supervision carried out by the government on business actors.

Gender and Democratization of Caribbean Education

In the Commonwealth Caribbean, on average, girls start schooling earlier, attend school more regularly, repeat fewer grades, are less and achieve higher likely to drop out and therefore stay in school longer, standards of educational performance than boys. In the adult population more women are literate than men. Girls are more highly represented in those sections of the secondary and tertiary levels of the education system which enhance the prospects of upward social mobility. In a real sense girls and women constitute the first sex in Caribbean education. The Caribbean is one of the few areas of the world where this is the case. The data to support these assertions are not in question. They are routinely reported and confirmed by the annual education statistical reports of all the countries in the subregion. The issue at hand is their explanation.

Language learning and escapism: how five Norwegian adolescents escape reality through reading and/or gaming extramurally in L2 English

ABSTRACT Purpose This qualitative-dominant study focuses on five foreign/second language (L2) English learners in 10th grade (age 15) in Norway. The purpose is to provide insight into the processes underlying L2 English learning by looking at what escapist reading/gaming means for participants’ beliefs about their L2 English proficiency. Methodology Semi-structured interviews were conducted about learners’ engagement in reading/gaming in English outside of school, i.e. extramural English (EE). While other studies have explored EE reading/gaming, this study is innovative in that it contributes by additionally examining the role of escapism for L2 English learning. Escapism is the practice of temporarily escaping reality and everyday troubles. Purposive sampling was employed, and data were analyzed using inductive, reflexive thematic analysis. Findings and originality Three themes emerged: Relief: Students used escapism to temporarily escape stress, without losing their sense of reality. Personal changes: Students reported that escapism practices impacted their social skills and viewpoints positively. Language: Students perceived improvement in their English skills due to their escapism. L2 English was necessary to create distance from reality, and English reading/gaming material was associated with higher quality than material in other languages. These findings indicate that all participants experienced escapism similarly, as a positive outlet for stress. L2 English was necessary for escaping, which participants claimed to positively influence their English proficiency. Value The value of the present study lies in its attempt to shed new light on L2 English learning, by aiming to fill the research gap about the relationship between escapism and L2 English learning.

The Silver Lining in the Clouds: A Commentary on Stephen Turner’s “Mad Hazard, a Life in Social Theory”

AbstractWhile it is true that to do social theory is to become an observer of life and its development from an outside perspective, it is also true that, in Weberian terms, ethical neutrality cannot disregard experience itself and values as necessary tools for making sense of reality. Indeed, according to Weber, there is no research or social theory without being aware of one’s own values and experience. In this sense, Stephen Turner’s autobiographical book Mad Hazard is great evidence that a scholar’s understanding of social theory is inevitably enriched by an understanding of the life events to which it is related, whereby life experience enhances the ability to grasp the attempt at theorizing in intellectual life, offering the perspective of how that theory observes social reality. Intellectual life and everyday life are necessarily connected. One cannot be fully grasped without the other, but in Weberian terms the autobiography of Stephen Turner can represent precisely the big frame, or statement of values, through which all experiences, bad and good, become the little pieces of the grand picture of this interweaving of practical life and intellectual life, always in continuous reference and making sense from one another.

Life inside Logos: Discourse, Anthropogenesis and World-Effects in Cassin and Sloterdijk

This article performs a ‘logological’ and ‘spherological’ reading of globalization to critique the topical generality of spatial rhetoric. Posited respectively by Barbara Cassin and Peter Sloterdijk, these seemingly distant theories both show how ‘world’ is created by discourse — that being is an effect of saying. An appropriately equivocal translation of the Greek logos, discourse is here read as the rhetorical forms of ‘inning’ that make space sensible. Cassin's ‘counter-philosophical’ reading of the ancient Greek Sophists challenges post-Parmenidean philosophy's ‘ontopological’ generalization of space into topics, instead attending to the worlds opened by the different ways space is described. This is read alongside Sloterdijk's spherology and its emphasis on transference and ‘inning’, arguing that space is a discursive product, a shared ‘canopy’ under which we make worlds to share meaning. Throughout ‘human’ history, these meanings have, as both Cassin and Sloterdijk argue, determined human life as the ontological being that can be represented under these discursive atmospheres. The article suggests that this can be thought less exclusively by taking up the Sophists’ rhetorics of time and kairos, which reimagines the discursive production of space through contingency and particularity — the sense of reality as the autonomy of the political.

Augmented Reality Applications in Mechanical System Design and Prototyping

With the integration of computer-generated images and data into the real world, augmented reality (AR) is a game-changing technology that improves users' perceptions and interactions with their surroundings. This technology, which can overlay digital data on real-world environments, has great potential for use in several fields, such as mechanical system design and prototyping. The use of AR in this industry is not just a theoretical idea; rather, it is a rapidly developing reality with enormous potential for creativity, effectiveness, and accuracy. Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that combines the physical and digital worlds to provide a composite vision that improves the user's sense of reality. Augmented Reality (AR) superimposes digital data in real-time over the actual world, in contrast to Virtual Reality (VR), which submerges users in a fully digital environment. Usually, gadgets like tablets, smartphones, AR glasses, and head-mounted displays (HMDs) help with this integration. The term "mechanical system design" describes the entire process of imagining, creating, and perfecting mechanical parts and systems; it includes everything from rough concept drawings to intricate engineering models and simulations. Before moving on with full-scale manufacturing, prototyping entails building early models or samples of a product to test and verify design concepts.