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A discussion of the means of communicating with the invisible
world, the development of mediumship and the difficulties
encountered inthe practice of spiritualism.
Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 (June 24-27, 2008; Sao
Luis, Brazil) brought together leading scientists and engineers who
use analytic, syntactic and computational methods both to
understand the prodigious processing properties of biological
systems and, specifically, of the brain, and to exploit such
knowledge to advance computational methods towards ever higher
levels of cognitive competence.
This book includes the papers presented at four major
symposia:
Part I - Cognitive Neuroscience
Part II - Biologically Inspired Systems
Part III - Neural Computation
Part IV - Models of Consciousness."
Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2008 (June 24-27, 2008; S o Lu
s, Brazil) brought together leading scientists and engineers who
use analytic, syntactic and computational methods both to
understand the prodigious processing properties of biological
systems and, specifically, of the brain, and to exploit such
knowledge to advance computational methods towards ever higher
levels of cognitive competence.
This book includes the papers presented at four major
symposia:
Part I - Cognitive Neuroscience
Part II - Biologically Inspired Systems
Part III - Neural Computation
Part IV - Models of Consciousness.
'The Spirits Book' (1857), written by Allan Kardec, is widely
regarded as the most important piece of writing in the 'Spiritist'
canon. It is the first in a series of five books that Kardec wrote
that are collectively known as the 'Spiritist Codification'.
Although the other four books; 'The Medium's Book', 'The Gospel
According to Spiritism', 'Heaven and Hell' and 'The Genesis
According to Spiritism' are of great importance to the Spiritist
movement it is 'The Spirits Book' that lays out the doctrine of the
belief system. The Spiritist movement was founded by Allen Kardec
and although its roots lay in Spiritualism there are differences in
belief. The most important of these differences is the Spiritist
belief in reincarnation. Although some Spiritualists believe in
reincarnation and some do not, all Spiritists consider it as a
basic truth of their ideology. In the 1850's, whilst investigating
the afterlife, Kardec communicated in seances with a collection of
spirits named 'The Spirit of Truth' who discussed many important
topics such as life after death, good and evil, the universe and
the origin of spirits, amongst others. 'The Spirit of Truth'
counted many of history's great thinkers amongst its number such as
Thomas of Aquino, Voltaire and Augustine of Hippo. Over time and
after several sessions with the group Kardec had gathered enough
information to convince him of life after death and he was
compelled to spread the teachings of 'The Spirit of Truth'. He
'codified' their comments and listed them as answers to questions
and this is the content of 'The Spirits Book'. The subjects that
Kardec discusses, via 'The Spirit of Truth', laid down the
foundations for the Spiritist philosophy and all of the concepts
that would become, and still are, key to the movement's thinking
have their genesis in the book. The belief that there is one
Supreme Being, God, who created everything in the universe, is
postulated. According to the text the Devil does not exist and
Jesus is a messenger of God. Although the book does not refer to
Jesus as the son of God and no mention is made of the 'immaculate
conception' he is considered God's perfect messenger and his
teachings are to be adhered to. Reincarnation and the survival of
the soul after death are vital beliefs and it is stated that it is
through reincarnation that lessons are learnt that can be taken
into the next life and that every life moves the soul closer to
perfection. According to the book man is made up of three separate
elements; the body, the spirit and the spiritual body. One's spirit
also predates the matter of the universe and will outlast it. After
the publication of 'The Spirits Book' Kardec's Spiritist doctrine
began to take root, firstly in France from where it spread
throughout Europe and found its way to North America. Most
significant, however, was the reaction to Spiritism in South
America. In Brazil the Spiritist movement swept across the nation
and it is still one of the country's main religions to this day
with millions of Kardec's followers from Brazil visiting his
tombstone in Paris every year.
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Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation - 8th International Conference, ICA 2009, Paraty, Brazil, March 15-18, 2009, Proceedings (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Tulay Adali, Christian Jutten, Joao Marcos Travassos Romano, Allan Kardec Barros
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This volume contains the papers presented at the 8th International
Conf- ence on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Source
Separation held in Paraty, Brazil, March 15-18, 2009. This year's
event resulted from scienti?c collaborations between a team of
researchers from ?ve di?erent Brazilian u- versities and received
the support of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society (SBrT) as
well as the ?nancial sponsorship of CNPq, CAPES and FAPERJ.
Independent component analysis and signal separation is one of the
most - citing current areas of research in statistical signal
processing and unsupervised machine learning. The area has received
attention from severalresearchcom- nities including machine
learning, neural networks, statistical signal processing and
Bayesian modeling. Independent component analysis and signal
separation has applications at the intersection of many science and
engineering disciplines concerned with understanding and extracting
useful information from data as diverse as neuronal activity and
brain images, bioinformatics, communications, the World Wide Web,
audio, video, sensor signals, and time series.
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