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Phaneron. The phaneron (Greek φανερός phaneros "visible, showable") as coined by Charles Sanders Peirce is essentially the real world filtered by our sensory input (sight, hearing, touch, etc).

Phaneron

Origin of the Term[edit] The term 'phaneron' was coined by Charles Sanders Peirce: "[B]y the phaneron I mean the collective total of all that is in any way or in any sense present to the mind, quite regardless of whether it corresponds to any real thing or not. If you ask present when, and to whose mind, I reply that I leave these questions unanswered, never having entertained a doubt that those features of the phaneron that I have found in my mind are present at all times and to all minds. " (Adirondack Lectures, 1905; in Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 1 [eds. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931], paragraph 284) References[edit] The Commens Dictionary of Peirce's Terms Edited by Mats Bergman & Sami Paavola. Pando (tree) Pando (Latin for "I spread"), also known as The Trembling Giant,[1][2] is a clonal colony of a single male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) determined to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers[3] and assumed to have one massive underground root system.

The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kg (6,600 short tons),[4] making it the heaviest known organism.[5] The root system of Pando, at an estimated 80,000 years old, is among the oldest known living organisms.[6][7] Pando is located 1 mile southwest of Fish Lake on Utah route 25.[8] in the Fremont River Ranger District of the Fishlake National Forest, at the western edge of the Colorado Plateau in South-central Utah, at N 38.525 W 111.75. During intense fires, the organism survived underground, with its root system sending up new stems in the aftermath of each wildfire. Pando was researched by Burton V. A trunk or stem of Pando ...quaking aspen regularly reproduces via a process called suckering. Solipsismo. Solipsismo, del latín "[ego] solus ipse" (traducible de forma aproximada como "solamente yo existo") es la creencia metafísica de que lo único de lo que uno puede estar seguro es de la existencia de su propia mente, y la realidad que aparentemente le rodea es incognoscible y puede no ser más que parte de los estados mentales del propio yo.

Solipsismo

De esta forma, todos los objetos, personas, etc., que uno experimenta serían meramente emanaciones de su mente y, por lo tanto, la única cosa de la que podría tener seguridad es de la existencia de sí mismo. Contexto[editar] Por solipsismo se entiende la teoría filosófica que postula que la realidad externa sólo es comprensible a través del yo, ya que éste es la única realidad tangible, así como la imposibilidad de conocer la realidad objetiva, en caso de que ésta fuera real, de manera consistente.

Aun así no se puede decir que existe un sólo tipo de interpretación y definición de solipsismo, pero entre estas definiciones existen puntos de acuerdo. How Many People Are In Space Right Now? An Overview. Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition.

An Overview

It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as an Artangel commission, and is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust. Longplayer can be heard in the lighthouse at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, where it has been playing since it began. It can also be heard at several other listening posts around the world, and globally via a live stream on the Internet.

Longplayer is composed for singing bowls – an ancient type of standing bell – which can be played by both humans and machines, and whose resonances can be very accurately reproduced in recorded form. The Long Term Longplayer grew out of a conceptual concern with problems of representing and understanding the fluidity and expansiveness of time. Composition in Time Technology.