ID No.: 2003HZ67002 NAME OF THE STUDENT: BHAUSAHEB R. BIRADAR DISSERTATION TITLE: The ‘Hard Problem’ And Some Directionalities Toward Disentangling It ABSTRACT “Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” –Wernher Von Braun When I commenced grappling with the Hard problem, I had not stipulated any […]
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ID No.: 2000HZ67002 NAME OF THE STUDENT: RAJESH PARASURAMAN DISSERTATION TITLE: A Critical Review of the Concept of Attention and its Role in Consciousness Studies ABSTRACT Consciousness is a very broad concept, it can be approached by studying a tractable, well-defined and testable component of itself such as attention (eg […]
ID No.: 2000HZ67006 NAME OF THE STUDENT: Anant Bhaskar Garg DISSERTATION TITLE: The Concept of Information: A Critical Examination ABSTRACT This dissertation explores the concept of ‘information’ and bring into focus semantic aspects of information. We begin with an overview of the thesis in the introduction. In Chapter 1 the […]
ID No.: 2000HZ67001 NAME OF THE STUDENT: Balaraju Battu DISSERTATION TITLE: Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen Paradox ABSTRACT This thesis analyzes Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen paradox (EPR). First chapter discusses the notion of classical laws, quantum phenomena such as, Blackbody radiation, photoelectric effect, nature of quantum world, and measurement of spin. […]
ID No.: 2000HZ67005 NAME OF THE STUDENT: Vinod Kumar. U DISSERTATION TITLE: Visual Illusions: The Significance of Context ABSTRACT Over the past forty years, research in vision has given us a fairly good understanding of the visual mechanisms that govern visual perception. All the way through, visual illusions have proven […]
ID No. : 1999HZ67001 NAME OF THE STUDENT : Meenakshi Parab DISSERTATION TITLE : Dream Phenomenology and Physical Health Status: A Case Study ABSTRACT : The belief that dreams reflect the psychosocial characteristics of the dreamer is well entrenched. But, the idea that dreams might reflect the physical health status […]
ID No.: 1999HZ67003 NAME OF THE STUDENT: N. S. Srinivasan DISSERTATION TITLE: Exploring Cognition and Cognitive Processes: A Novel Approach ABSTRACT This dissertation is primarily concerned with the- 1. The Evolving Paradigm in Scientific Inquiry: 2. The Role that “Assumptions” will play in development of the new conceptual scaffold. The […]
ID No.: 96HZ67760 NAME OF THE STUDENT: Shaji V. Thomas DISSERTATION TITLE: The Role of Ergodicity in Foundations of Statistical Mechanics: A Critical Review ABSTRACT This thesis analyzes the role of ergodicity in the foundations of statistical mechanics. The first chapter discusses developments in the kinetic theory of matter. Various […]
ID No.: 1999HZ67002 NAME OF THE STUDENT: Chakravarthi Ramakrishna DISSERTATION TITLE: On The Timing Of Conscious Experience: A Critical Review Of Libet’s Work ABSTRACT: Benjamin Libet performed experiments on the timing of conscious experience over a span of three decades. His intention was to discover the underlying neural processes that […]
ID No.: 1998HZ67858 NAME OF THE STUDENT: Matthew R. Ellis DISSERTATION TITLE: The Act of Conceptualization: An Exploration of Concepts and Cognition ABSTRACT This dissertation explores the act of conceptualization and its resulting concepts. It will investigate, examine, and analyze what exactly the existence of concepts amounts to. The preliminary […]