After reading Daniel Dennett’s greatest book, Consciousness Explained, I conceived the idea of knitting as a metaphor for consciousness. Consciousness can happen in multiple degrees, from a lack of acknowledgement or control to intense experiences that can override any other experience in our brains. We learn some things permanently, notice others with errors in memory […]
(عربي) We live in an exception, the optimism inspired by technological advances is about to end, for reasons that were once motives for these advances. One of these reasons, the ghost of non-replenishable resources’ end, mainly the end of oil, looks visible on the horizon. I’ll call the fossil fuel in this article “the exceptional […]
(Turkce, عربي) As I remember, multilingualism hasn’t provided me many benefits, if anything, it was a problem. Learning Kurdish gave me a fake advantage, it enabled me to skip the meaningless discrimination against Arab and to prove myself as a Kurd. Turkish specifically wasn’t useful, when I learned it, it was an intellectual advantage to […]
(العربية) The Language bubble is to surround yourself with the language that you want to learn. Watching TV, reading the news, chatting, and many other methods that I am going to summarize here. Though a language bubble doesn’t necessarily mean not being exposed to any language. Still, the language targeted for learning means being exposed […]
In the audio lectures “the language and the mind” by Spencer Kelly, I learned how speaking more than one language can enhance cognitive control, which results from the continuous need to block the native language almost every time the speaker wants to use another language. I haven’t found the time yet to read more and […]
(عربي) A small radio in a bunker can make its owner feel like he’s connected to the world, even if no real mutual communication is happening with real people, the feeling of being associated with the world is still important. Probably that feeling isn’t as important as it is for all people, as some people […]
Feature Spektral Stellargraph Graph Nets Tutorials availability There’re about 20 examples that show different usages. A lot of well documented demos in python notebooks. Very few examples Year of creation 2020 2018 2018 Paper Spectral Clustering with Graph Neural Networks for Graph Pooling cited less than 100 times No paper Relational inductive biases, deep […]
[عربي] Short summary: If you don’t have questions, something you’re looking for, something you’re trying to prove, a hypothesis that you’re collecting information for, or at least something that interests you so that you like to collect information about it, then no information could be stored in your mind, and if some of it got […]
Summary: Islamic religiosity has been always a topic of discussion among Muslim intellectuals, but I’ve never found a good index that includes all the different aspects and definitions for it. So, I decided to make such an index. Available Islamic religiosity data could be divided into four indexes: State religiosity, state anti-religiosity, personal religiosity, and […]