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Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...simple (a sentence or two, or simply ‘yes’ or ‘no’) as that will make it easier to compare your views now with those you will have later. Activity 1 Timing: Spend around 5 minutes on this activity. In the text box below, make some brief notes on your views in response to the following questions. Can damage ever be made right? Can restoration ever make anything...
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...simple to draw firm conclusions from this, and the parents had loved and supported the child continually through his experience. But it's worth bearing in mind that early experiences can be compensated for...Understanding children: Babies being heard: 6.3 Responding to need - How adults react to babies’ needs will depend on a number of things. These include how relaxed...
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...simple as thermostats can be said to have beliefs’. Searle asked McCarthy what beliefs his thermostats had, and McCarthy answered: ‘My thermostat has three beliefs. My thermostat believes – it's too hot in here, it's too cold in here and it's just right in here (Searle 1984, p.30). This probably seems preposterous, an extreme and egregious case of anthropomorphising...
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application. So it fares with the wise Shakespeare and his book of life. He wrote the airs for all our modern music: he wrote the text of modern life; the text of manners: he drew the man of England and Europe; the father of the man in America: he drew the man and described the day, and what is done in it:...
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...code could be interpreted. There was a deliberate attempt to be obtuse and enigmatic, to see what it would draw from her collaborator. Her image was then altered and posted to the web site. It now contained military elements and reference to the Gulf War, which was threatening to escalate at the time. The hands, which originally appeared to be welcoming, now looked as if...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...code to follow, around being of service to others, with role models in the form of teachers or facilitators an antidote to the guilt or shame they feel about the crimes they committed a sense of belonging with the other prisoners who are part of the meditation, mindfulness or Dharma group a place to talk openly and honestly about their struggles, and to receive support....
Getting started with Spanish 2
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 2

...code. A further option for both PCs and Macs is to set your computer to use a Spanish keyboard layout; on a PC, go to ‘Start’ and open the ‘Control Panel’, then click on ‘Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options’ (‘Region and Language’ then ‘Keyboards and languages’ in Windows 7). Activity 4 Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...coded to be suffering from "Other specified depressive disorder with anxious distress”' (Möller et al., 2016). Patients who meet ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for MADD frequently present in primary care settings, and many present initially with somatic complaints (e.g. muscle tension, headaches, palpitations, tachycardia, shortness of breath, etc.) that can ‘mask’ an...