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    The Mind-Body Problem Today
    Open Journal of Philosophy 1 (1): 26-34. 2011.
    An old philosophical problem, the mind-body problem, has not been yet solved by philosophers or scientists. Even if in cognitive neuroscience has been a stunning development in the last 20 years, the mind-body problem remained unsolved. Even if the majority of researchers in this domain accept the identity theory from an ontological viewpoint, many of them reject this position from an epistemological viewpoint. In this context, I consider that it is quite possible the framework of this problem t…Read more
  •  41
    Toward A Very Idea Of Representation
    with Mihai Vacariu and Dalia Terhesiu
    Synthese 129 (2): 275-295. 2001.
    The actual approaches of Cognitive Science offer a partial explanation of cognition. In this paper, our main point is to catch some key elements from these approaches, that can be taken together in a future perspective for a better explanation of cognition. The key elements (levels of analysis, primitives, processes, structures, threshold,self-organisation, bidirectionality, emergency, habituation, tasks, theinteraction between levels and also the interactions between the elements of the cogniti…Read more
  •  37
    Mind, Brain, and Epistemologically Different Worlds
    Synthese 147 (3): 515-548. 2005.
    The reason why, since Descartes, nobody has found a solution to the mind–body problem seems to be that the problem itself is a false or pseudo-problem. The discussion has proceeded within a pre-Cartesian conceptual framework which itself is a source of the difficulty. Dualism and all its alternatives have preserved the same pre-Cartesian conceptual framework even while denying Descartes’ dualism. In order to avoid this pseudo-problem, I introduce a new perspective with three elements: the subjec…Read more
  •  26
    Introduction
    with Edmund T. Rolls and Mihai Vacariu
    Synthese 129 (2): 151-151. 2001.
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    Epistemologically Different Worlds
    Dissertation, University of New South Wales. 2007.
    I am Gabriel Vacariu (Philosophy, Bucharest Univ.). My main idea is that of EDWs (“epistemologically different worlds”) in 2002-2003, 2005, 2007, 16 books 2008-2024 (2016, a book at SPRINGER, Germany!): the Universe/world does not exist. there are, instead, the EDWs like the macro-EW, the micro-EW, the field-EW or the mind-EW. (Each mind is an EW, “epistemological world”). My EDWs perspective furnishes an alternative to many problems from Cognitive Neuroscience, Physics and Philosophy: the mind-…Read more
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    Domnul G. continua aventurile sale: de data asta, un Balaur il inghite pe domnul G. si vedem ce se intampla cu el in interiorul acestui fioros Balaur…
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    Epistemologically different worlds versus the Bastards
    Dissertation, Bucharest University. 2024.
    Working on the mind-brain problem (cognitive science, quantum mechanics, Einstein, etc.) for many years as student and professor, in 2002, I discovered the Epistemologically Different Worlds, a new alternative to the mind brain problem. In the same day, I realized all problems from quantum mechanics are dissolved by my EDWs. I immediately understood that my discovery is the greatest discovery in the history of human thinking. But I did not anticipate how many great problems I would have exactly …Read more
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    Epistemologically different worlds versus the Bastards
    Dissertation, Bucharest University. 2024.
    Working on the mind-brain problem (cognitive science, quantum mechanics, Einstein, etc.) for many years as student and professor, in 2002, I discovered the Epistemologically Different Worlds, a new alternative to the mind brain problem. In the same day, I realized all problems from quantum mechanics are dissolved by my EDWs. I immediately understood that my discovery is the greatest discovery in the history of human thinking. But I did not anticipate how many great problems I would have exactly …Read more
  • Problema minte-creier in neurostiinta cognitiei (edited book)
    Bucharest University Press. 2013.
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    CONTENT Introduction .................................................................................. 9 1. The unexpected: “Epistemologically Different Worlds” .......... 15 1.1 Introduction ........................................................................ 15 1.2 Definitions .......................................................................... 16 1.3 Propositions for its .............................................................. 18 1.4 Propositions for Its and being ......…Read more
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    3.2.2. The principle of conceptual containment ........................... 116 3.3.3. The physical human subject or the “I” ............................... 119 3.4. The hyperverse and its EDWs – the antimetaphysical foundation of the EDWs perspective ........................................... 150 Part II. Applications Chapter 4. Applications to some notions from philosophy of mind .. 159 4.1. Levels and reduction vs. emergence ............................................. 160 4.2. Qualia, Kant …Read more
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    Hypermetaphysics
    Dissertation, Bucharest University. 2023.
    I call this book Hypermetaphysics just because it is not about the metaphysics of “world”/Universe, it is not even about the metaphysics of EDWs (“epistemologically different worlds”), but mainly about the hypercorrespondences between the EW0 (Hypernothing) and the EW1a-n (these EDWs being the first EDWs which appeared in hypercorrespondences to the EW0). This hypermetaphysics involves the main notion of this book: the EW0 (or the “Hypernothing”) which does not have any ontology but a hyperontol…Read more
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    The main ideas of the EDWs perspective are in Gabriel Vacariu’s PhD thesis posted online by UNSW (Australia) in 2007!!! I have realized the GREATEST discovery in the history of human knowledge: the EDWs! With discovering the EDWs, I have changed everything in Philosophy, Physics and Cognitive Neuroscience! This has been the main reason, so many people have published UNBELIEVABLE similar ideas to my ideas, many years I published my first works! UNBELIEVABLE, many (hundreds) “great” or small think…Read more
  •  527
    Many people (many countries, many domains, many topics) have published UNBELIEVABLE similar ideas to my ideas (published long time ago).
  •  389
    Voi analiza una dintre cele mai importante secvente (min 20) din acest film: “Andrei in camera de hotel”. Ideea principala: camera (pin obiecte si lumini) reflecta granita dintre doua lumi (Est-ortodox si Vest-catolic) + femeie-barbat + suspendarea TIMPULUI + lipsa de identitate a lui Andrei (scriitor rus pierdut in Italia). Ideea de pierderea a identitati este “universala” datorata pierderii credintei in general. Identitatea fiecaruia dintre noi data de ganduri, amintiri, emotii, imaginatie, vi…Read more
  •  413
    About my new book March 2023
    Dissertation, Bucharest University. 2023.
    My new BOOK (March 2023): Gabriel Vacariu (2023), Hypermetaphysics, Amazon (posted on March 2023) Summary I call this book Hypermetaphysics just because it is not about the metaphysics of “world”/Universe, it is not even about the metaphysics of EDWs (“epistemologically different worlds”), but mainly about the hypercorrespondences between the EW0 (Hypernothing) and the EW1a-n (these EDWs being the first EDWs which appeared in hypercorrespondences to the EW0). This hypermetaphysics involves the …Read more
  •  379
    In this paper, I do not investigate Al-Khalili’s book, but only certain ideas that appear in this book, ideas that are quite similar to my ideas published long time ago. I do not accuse Al-Khalili of plagiarizing my ideas. Anyway, many of these ideas have been published by thousands of people until now.
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    The book illustrates that the traditional philosophical concept of the "Universe", the "World" has led to anomalies and paradoxes in the realm of knowledge. The author replaces this notion by the EDWs perspective, i.e. a new axiomatic hyperontological framework of "Epistemologically Different Worlds" (EDWs). Thus it becomes possible to find a more appropriate approach to different branches of science, such as cognitive neuroscience, physics, biology and the philosophy of mind. The consequences a…Read more
  •  383
    At the beginning of the second Memorandum I mentioned that on 21.03.2022, I posted the first Memoriu I And I received from the Director of Department of Theoretical Philosophy (UB) on 05.04.2022. Here is the second Memorandum. (Both Memorandum can be access at philpapers, researchgate, academy...)
  • Introduction The EDWs perspective, a new general framework of thinking for all physicists! “The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.” Richard Feynman In other works (2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016; Vacariu and Vacariu 2010, 2016a, 2016b), we have showed that the greatest illusion of human knowledge is the notion of “world”, of “uni-verse”, or as we called it, the “Unicorn-world”, and this notion has survived from the olde…Read more
  •  486
    Christian de Ronde’s article is this one: (2017) “Quantum Superpositions and the Representation of Physical Reality Beyond Measurement Outcomes and Mathematical Structures” In this paper, the reader can find UNBELIEVABLE similar ideas to my ideas on QM.
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    Troubles with Cognitive Neuroscience
    with Mihai Vacariu
    Philosophia Scientiae 2 (17-2): 151-170. 2013.
    This special issue is dedicated to one of the oldest and most controversial philosophical topics, the mind–body problem. Paradoxically, since Descartes until the present days, nobody has proposed a viable solution to this problem. In the last decades, through the unification of neuroscience and psychology, a new science, cognitive neuroscience, was created to deal with this problem. Using EEG, fMRI, and other apparatus, scientists try to grasp the “correlations” between any mental state and some…Read more
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    Many ideas from Georg Nortoff’s works (published one paper in 2010, mainly his book in 2011, other papers in 2012, 2103, 2014, especially those related to Kant’s philosophy and the notion of the “observer”, the mind-brain problem, default mode network, the self, the mental states and their “correspondence” to the brain) are surprisingly very similar to my ideas published in my article from 2002, 2005 and my book from 2008. In two papers from 2002 (also my paper from 2005 and my book 2008), foll…Read more
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    The UNBELIEVABLE similar ideas between Theise and Menas’ ideas (2016) and my ideas (2002-2008) in Physics and Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy (the mind-brain problem, quantum mechanics, etc.) (2016) Theise D. Neil (Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA) and Kafatos C. Menas (bDepartment of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; cSchmid College of Science & Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA) (2016), R…Read more
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    (June 2013) “The mind-body problem in cognitive neuroscience”, Philosophia Scientiae 17/2, Gabriel Vacariu and Mihai Vacariu (eds.): 1. William Bechtel (Philosophy, Center for Chronobiology, and Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science University of California, San Diego) “The endogenously active brain: the need for an alternative cognitive architecture” 2. Rolls T. Edmund (Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Oxford, UK) “On the relation between the mind and the brain: a neurosci…Read more
  •  1148
    A friend of my sent me the address where this paper has been posted by Adam Frank. Reading it, I realized that more than 90% of the main ideas of this paper (about the mind-brain problem, quantum mechanics (microparticles-wave relationship, Schrodinger equation, probabilities, “perceiving subject in physics”, the idea about consciousness and Nagel, etc. etc.) are UNBELIEVABLE similar to my ideas from my paper 2005 or my book 2008!!!
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    Gabriel Vacariu (November 2018) UNBELIEVABLE similarities between Ferraris’s ideas (2012) and my ideas (2002-2008)
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    COTENT (second April 2019) Why so many people (from so many countries/domains/on so many topics) have already plagiarized my ideas? (Gabriel Vacariu) Some preliminary comments Introduction: The EDWs perspective in my article from 2005 and my book from 2008 I. PHYSICS, COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY (‘REBORN DINOSAURS’ ) • (2016) Did Sean Carroll’s ideas (California Institute of Technology, USA) plagiarize my ideas (2002-2010) (within the EDWs framework)? • (2016) Frank Wilczek’s ideas (No…Read more