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DEBRA: On the Unsupervised Learning of Concept Hierarchies from (Literary) Text

With this work, we introduce a novel method for the unsupervised learning of conceptual hierarchies, or concept maps as they are sometimes called, which is aimed specifically for use with literary texts...

Topic Modeling and Clustering Case Study

We look in detail at some of the most common clustering and topic modeling techniques in NLP against a philosophical text to see how they perform. Focused on Python sklearn and gensim libraries that support K-Means, Hierarchical and Non-negative…
Connecting the Physical and Philosophical Realms

Applied philosophy podcast hosted by Ron Macklin

I recently joined Ron Macklin and Deb Dendy of MacklinConnection on “The Story in Your Head” podcast. Together we discussed the connections between the physical, metaphysical, and philosophical realms. We talked about a number of philosophical…
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Idealogical Reference Architecture (IRA), abridged version published in Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP)

Abridged version available in the latest issue (Vol.12 No.3 2022) of Open Journal of Philosophy (OJPP), accessible here. Complete text available online here.   Abstract With this work we introduce a system of idealogical metaphysics which…
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The Tree of Life

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And…
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On Qualified Dualism, (the) Intellect & (the) Psyche

So let us have a look at the metaphysical architecture of IRA and contextualize it, primarily within the philosophical traditions, but this will invariably blend into theology and psychology as well, for at its core, philosophy - which in this…
idealogical architecture (IRA)
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On Idealogical Mechanics

With respect to defining the notion of an idea (i) within the context of our idealogical mechanics, we start with the very basic premise that what we are describing is reflective of a certain aspect of a complex system, not a physical system…
Law of Vibration by Leon Van Kraayenburgby Leon Van Kraayenburg
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On the Universal Mind

When we pivot our notion of reality (physics really as we define it herein - physis, or nature more broadly), away from objective reality as the benchmark of truth toward an epistemic, process-based model, we end up with a view of the world…
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On Digital vs. Biological Information Processing (IRA Excerpt)

We now look to more formally address the definition of this theoretical idealogical information processing (Turning) machine as a system of idealogical state configuration(s) in its own, abstract (really transcendent), “space”, or spatial…
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On Mind, Matter & Meaning (IRA Excerpt)

If we take this epistemic bent then, presume that knowledge, really information, is the most basic structure of the universe, our epistemological ontology as we’re calling it, we end up with a very different picture of the universe than say…