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The traveller to India is urged to visit that country's western
shore with the Arabian Sea where, about 300 miles to the south of
Bombay, an exceedingly lovely coast reaches the peak of its harmony
at the erstwhile Portuguese enclave of Goa. The ambience of this
alluring province is an exquisite balance of palm trees and rice
fields, aged colonial homes -many still elegant and brightly
painted -slowly being swallowed up by the exuberant tropical
vegetation, incredible blossoms, colorful and courteous people and,
deeper inland, some splendid examples of 17th and 18th century
Portuguese ecclesiastical architecture. A feast for the eyes by
day, and in the evening enough fresh fish and other good food to
satisfy the most demanding gourmet. This was the paradisiacal
setting for the first International Conference on the Neural
Organization of Sensory Systems (ICONOSS for short), sponsored
jointly by the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO),
the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research at Bombay, the
Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India, and the
Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India.
About 100 participants were pleasantly confined at Fort Aguada, a
resort cunningly built amongst the ruins of an old Portuguese fort.
The conference program achieved an international flavor, recruiting
scientists from many nations: India (naturally), Australia,
Britain, Canada, Germany, Finland, France, Hungary, Japan, the
Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America.
The subjects discussed were as diverse as the countries
represented.
The fundamental cause of many of the global challenges we are
currently facing is our disconnection from ourselves, our fellow
humans, and our planet. We have consistently failed to recognize
the inner consciousness that dictates our relationships and
decisions, an awareness that could be the first step toward
humanity’s quest to set civilization on a more sustainable
trajectory. Rooted in both secular spirituality and scientific
evidence, Applied Spirituality and Sustainable Development Policy
articulates a new model of sustainable development that is not just
based on narrow definitions of GDP and economic growth, but that
includes and even forefronts the social, environmental, and
internal development of human beings. Drawing on fields from
physics to public policy, 18 pioneering authors discuss: A
distillation of the spiritual gems at the core of the world’s
major religions, including Indic and Buddhist philosophy Root-cause
analyses of major sustainable development policy challenges like
climate change Connections between spirituality and law, and how
our legal frameworks can reflect these values Role of gender in
spirituality, specifically how gender equality can be approached by
addressing our inner selves Recognizing a global need for healing,
this book rejuvenates how we think about development and nurture
our innate spirituality, and challenges us to shift our collective
mindset from one of having to one of being.
The traveller to India is urged to visit that country's western
shore with the Arabian Sea where, about 300 miles to the south of
Bombay, an exceedingly lovely coast reaches the peak of its harmony
at the erstwhile Portuguese enclave of Goa. The ambience of this
alluring province is an exquisite balance of palm trees and rice
fields, aged colonial homes -many still elegant and brightly
painted -slowly being swallowed up by the exuberant tropical
vegetation, incredible blossoms, colorful and courteous people and,
deeper inland, some splendid examples of 17th and 18th century
Portuguese ecclesiastical architecture. A feast for the eyes by
day, and in the evening enough fresh fish and other good food to
satisfy the most demanding gourmet. This was the paradisiacal
setting for the first International Conference on the Neural
Organization of Sensory Systems (ICONOSS for short), sponsored
jointly by the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO),
the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research at Bombay, the
Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India, and the
Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India.
About 100 participants were pleasantly confined at Fort Aguada, a
resort cunningly built amongst the ruins of an old Portuguese fort.
The conference program achieved an international flavor, recruiting
scientists from many nations: India (naturally), Australia,
Britain, Canada, Germany, Finland, France, Hungary, Japan, the
Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States of America.
The subjects discussed were as diverse as the countries
represented.
This book is an outcome of the interdisciplinary conference held at
OP Jindal Global University (Quantum Decision-making and Complexity
modeling, and their possible applications in social sciences-
economics, finance and public policy). The volume builds upon
the emerging fields of Econophysics, Complexity theory and Quantum
like modelling in cognition and social sciences, and their
plausible applications in economics and public policy. There can be
deep linkages between the micro, meso and macro scales at which
these paradigms operate. In this data-driven age, greater amounts
of information, along with the facility to harvest, sort and
process said information, have permitted an expansion of the
capability to study a society’s various factors to a degree of
detail and inclusiveness that has never before been available to
researchers. As a result, an increasing number of throughlines is
being discovered, revealing heretofore unknown connections between
various disciplines and enhancing the study of such societal tropes
as finance, language, shared behavior, and many others. As the
reader will see, with clearer understanding of the
interconnectedness of society’s assorted parts comes a clearer
understanding of the society as a whole. We have received
critical thoughts from noted experts in social and natural sciences
to explore possible interconnections. The editors of this book
earnestly hope that the critical reviews presented in this volume
will stimulate further scholarly interest, but also interest among
policy practitioners for the purpose of exploring possibilities for
creating a new paradigm for comprehending pressing issues of deep
uncertainty and emergence in social dynamics.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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