Roland Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3640938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johannes Kepler University of Linz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4766-1215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The use of health care during the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic: Repeated cross-sectional survey of the adult Swiss general population
Compared to 2018, GPs remained the most important source of medical advice for the population during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland. While the self-appraisal of health problems and of the need for medical advice remained constant, individuals seemed to change their provider choice during the pandemic, with an increased utilisation of accident and emergency units and pharmacies, which represent easily accessible and low-thr…
Physical Activity and Snus: Is There a Link
The study aimed at assessing the link between physical activity (PA), sports activity and snus use among young men in Switzerland. Data from the Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors (C-SURF) were used to measure PA with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire and sports activity with a single item. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted to measure the association between snus use, PA and sports activity. Similar m…
On The Story-Telling Imperative That We Have In Mind
The psychotherapeutic nature of the relatedness of literature and religion is part and parcel of the story-telling imperative that we have in mind. There is not a shred of evidence that a historical character Jesus lived, to give an example, and Christianity is based on narrative fiction of high literary and cathartic quality. On the other hand Christianity is concerned with the narration of things that actually take place in human life. The huma…
A Story of the Utopian Vision of the World
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at, for it leaves out the country at which humanity is always landing.Oscar WildeThe further ahead one looks, the more the vision of the distant future resembles the golden age of the mythical past.John CohenBeing condemned (or chosen?) to be "the missing link" on its way to perfectibility (or redemption?) - half animal/half human - we always need in some way or another the tra…
A Cartography of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive States of Consciousness
A theory of consciousness is proposed which integrates much of what we know about the evolution and functioning of the human brammmd. The organism constructs its world of experience as an adaptation to the problem of moving in the world. The relationship between the observed and unobserved world is discussed. A cartography of state-bound meaning is described in which the continuum of arousal states is linked to different states of consciousness. …
Mathematik und gesellschaftlicher Wandel
Why the Mind is Not in the Head but in the Society's Connectionist Network
Nothing seems more possible to me than that people some day will come to the definite opinion that there is no copy in the... nervous system which corresponds to a particular thought, or a particular idea, or, memory.WittgensteinIn a recent essay it was emphasized that brain and mind appear to the mind as complementary and reciprocally recursive domains of a hermeneutic circle (Fischer, 1987). An outstanding and not yet recognized feature of this…
The Time-Like Nature of Mind: On Mind Functions as Tem Poral Patterns of the Neural Network
It follows from the temporal nature of mind-the main concern of this essay-that mind functions are not localized in brain space." Time is extendedness, probably of the mind itself", concludes Saint Augustine in Book XI of his Confessions (26.33), and, in our days, this extendedness can be made visible through an oscilloscopic "line" or trace of slow potentials. These graded, additive (not all-or-none) autorhythmic and seemingly self-generating po…
Emergence of Mind From Brain: The Biological Roots of the Hermeneutic Circle
Brain functions are stochastic processes without intentionality whereas mind emerges from brain functions as a Hegelian "change from quantity", that is, on the order of 1012 profusely interconnected neurons, "into a new quality": the collective phenomenon of the brain's self-experience. This self-referential and self-observing quality we have in mind is capable of (recursively) observing its self-observations, i.e., interpreting change that is me…
The bilingual school of the Slovenes in Austria
The Slovenes in Southern Austria are a small group under assimilatory pressure. Bilingual education in Slovene and German has been defended vigorously, despite falling census returns and registrations of pupils. The curriculum allocation of languages to subjects is described in detail and the objectives of bilingual education are analysed. The significance of the education system for the maintenance of the Slovene minority in the face of hostilit…
Deconstructing Reality
The word "real" (from the Latin "res" = thing) was coined in the 13th century to signify "having Properties" (Pierce. 1958, p. 358), whereas a "model" refers to an analogical representation, the structure of which should correspond to the structure or properties of that which it represents. For Scudder the mind is a system of models and each mind develops different models. We all have a different reality in mind and so we each live in a slightly …
Unterricht als Prozeß der Befreiung vom Gegenstand — Visionen eines neuen Mathematikunterrichts
Matter's Mastermind: The Model-Making Brain
Innovative understanding or explanation stems almost exclusively from analogical reasoning. Induction systematizes the familiar; deduction casts it into formal relationship. Reasoning by analogy brings to bear on the familiar a new perspective derived from another realm of inquiry. Models are fruits from the tree of analogical knowledge
Soviet Semiotics, an Anthology
On the Remembrance of Things Future: The Psychobiology of Divination
Real prophecy is always "if... then..." If you commit adultery with your neighbor's wife, then you will roast in hell. But if you love God with all your heart, then you can create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth."According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology the meanings of 'divine' are 'pertaining to God, godlike, soothsayer and seer' while 'to divine' (after the Latin divinare) is to 'foretell, predict or make out as by supernatural in…
Entre Moi et Moi, Essais Critiques Sur la Conscience de Soi
Three Books on the Human Brain: The Brain Looks into the Mirror
The present view of our brain rests on a general belief in an evolutionary expansion of the primate forebrain along the lines of three basic patterns characterized as reptilian (the 'crocodyle' in us), paleomammalian (the 'horse' in us), and neomammalian (the 'human' in us). Thus, brain stem, limbic system and neocortex, which radically differ in structure and chemistry [4], replaced Father, Son and the Holy Ghost (in the Christian concept of the…
On Symmetries and the Structure of Our Own Nature
There is a remarkable passage in a discussion given by the late Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky at the Art and Science Symposium in Tel Aviv, 19 April, 1971 [1]. He emphasizes that beyond all relative points of view there are absolutes and these absolutes are principles of symmetry. 'The symmetries of modern science are very abstract symmetries like balance in modern art', he concludes. Are not these symmetries and balances very much reminiscent of Pyth…
A Cartography of the Ecstatic and Meditative States
In this age so concerned with travel in outer as well as inner-space, it is strange that, while we have detailed charts of the moon, we have no cartography of the varieties of human experience. In order to draft a map of inner space, I am ready to be your travel guide and take you on two voyages: one along the perceptionhallucination continuum of increasing ergotropic (1) arousal, which includes creative, psychotic, and ecstatic experiences; and …
Spectral Analysis of Fluctuations in Sound Energy in Certain Insects and Humans
Power density spectra of the fluctuations in sound energy are presented in stridulations emitted by Pterophylla Camellifolia. The original emplitude recording, used for the computation of power spectra, reveals a characteristic temporal pause-stridulation-pause pattern possibly related to the insect's available metabolic energy. It is suggested that power spectra be used not only for insect identification and philogenetic characterization, but al…
Emergence of Mind From Brain: The Biological Roots of the Hermeneutic Circle
Brain functions are stochastic processes without intentionality whereas mind emerges from brain functions as a Hegelian "change from quantity", that is, on the order of 1012 profusely interconnected neurons, "into a new quality": the collective phenomenon of the brain's self-experience. This self-referential and self-observing quality we have in mind is capable of (recursively) observing its self-observations, i.e., interpreting change that is me…
Deconstructing Reality
The word "real" (from the Latin "res" = thing) was coined in the 13th century to signify "having Properties" (Pierce. 1958, p. 358), whereas a "model" refers to an analogical representation, the structure of which should correspond to the structure or properties of that which it represents. For Scudder the mind is a system of models and each mind develops different models. We all have a different reality in mind and so we each live in a slightly …
On The Story-Telling Imperative That We Have In Mind
The psychotherapeutic nature of the relatedness of literature and religion is part and parcel of the story-telling imperative that we have in mind. There is not a shred of evidence that a historical character Jesus lived, to give an example, and Christianity is based on narrative fiction of high literary and cathartic quality. On the other hand Christianity is concerned with the narration of things that actually take place in human life. The huma…
Why the Mind is Not in the Head but in the Society's Connectionist Network
Nothing seems more possible to me than that people some day will come to the definite opinion that there is no copy in the... nervous system which corresponds to a particular thought, or a particular idea, or, memory.WittgensteinIn a recent essay it was emphasized that brain and mind appear to the mind as complementary and reciprocally recursive domains of a hermeneutic circle (Fischer, 1987). An outstanding and not yet recognized feature of this…
The Time-Like Nature of Mind: On Mind Functions as Tem Poral Patterns of the Neural Network
It follows from the temporal nature of mind-the main concern of this essay-that mind functions are not localized in brain space." Time is extendedness, probably of the mind itself", concludes Saint Augustine in Book XI of his Confessions (26.33), and, in our days, this extendedness can be made visible through an oscilloscopic "line" or trace of slow potentials. These graded, additive (not all-or-none) autorhythmic and seemingly self-generating po…
The bilingual school of the Slovenes in Austria
The Slovenes in Southern Austria are a small group under assimilatory pressure. Bilingual education in Slovene and German has been defended vigorously, despite falling census returns and registrations of pupils. The curriculum allocation of languages to subjects is described in detail and the objectives of bilingual education are analysed. The significance of the education system for the maintenance of the Slovene minority in the face of hostilit…
Matter's Mastermind: The Model-Making Brain
Innovative understanding or explanation stems almost exclusively from analogical reasoning. Induction systematizes the familiar; deduction casts it into formal relationship. Reasoning by analogy brings to bear on the familiar a new perspective derived from another realm of inquiry. Models are fruits from the tree of analogical knowledge
On the Remembrance of Things Future: The Psychobiology of Divination
Real prophecy is always "if... then..." If you commit adultery with your neighbor's wife, then you will roast in hell. But if you love God with all your heart, then you can create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth."According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology the meanings of 'divine' are 'pertaining to God, godlike, soothsayer and seer' while 'to divine' (after the Latin divinare) is to 'foretell, predict or make out as by supernatural in…
Spectral Analysis of Fluctuations in Sound Energy in Certain Insects and Humans
Power density spectra of the fluctuations in sound energy are presented in stridulations emitted by Pterophylla Camellifolia. The original emplitude recording, used for the computation of power spectra, reveals a characteristic temporal pause-stridulation-pause pattern possibly related to the insect's available metabolic energy. It is suggested that power spectra be used not only for insect identification and philogenetic characterization, but al…
A Cartography of the Ecstatic and Meditative States
In this age so concerned with travel in outer as well as inner-space, it is strange that, while we have detailed charts of the moon, we have no cartography of the varieties of human experience. In order to draft a map of inner space, I am ready to be your travel guide and take you on two voyages: one along the perceptionhallucination continuum of increasing ergotropic (1) arousal, which includes creative, psychotic, and ecstatic experiences; and …
On Symmetries and the Structure of Our Own Nature
There is a remarkable passage in a discussion given by the late Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky at the Art and Science Symposium in Tel Aviv, 19 April, 1971 [1]. He emphasizes that beyond all relative points of view there are absolutes and these absolutes are principles of symmetry. 'The symmetries of modern science are very abstract symmetries like balance in modern art', he concludes. Are not these symmetries and balances very much reminiscent of Pyth…
Three Books on the Human Brain: The Brain Looks into the Mirror
The present view of our brain rests on a general belief in an evolutionary expansion of the primate forebrain along the lines of three basic patterns characterized as reptilian (the 'crocodyle' in us), paleomammalian (the 'horse' in us), and neomammalian (the 'human' in us). Thus, brain stem, limbic system and neocortex, which radically differ in structure and chemistry [4], replaced Father, Son and the Holy Ghost (in the Christian concept of the…
Entre Moi et Moi, Essais Critiques Sur la Conscience de Soi
On the Remembrance of Things Future: The Psychobiology of Divination
Real prophecy is always "if... then..." If you commit adultery with your neighbor's wife, then you will roast in hell. But if you love God with all your heart, then you can create the Kingdom of Heaven on earth."According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology the meanings of 'divine' are 'pertaining to God, godlike, soothsayer and seer' while 'to divine' (after the Latin divinare) is to 'foretell, predict or make out as by supernatural in…
Soviet Semiotics, an Anthology
Matter's Mastermind: The Model-Making Brain
Innovative understanding or explanation stems almost exclusively from analogical reasoning. Induction systematizes the familiar; deduction casts it into formal relationship. Reasoning by analogy brings to bear on the familiar a new perspective derived from another realm of inquiry. Models are fruits from the tree of analogical knowledge
Unterricht als Prozeß der Befreiung vom Gegenstand — Visionen eines neuen Mathematikunterrichts
Deconstructing Reality
The word "real" (from the Latin "res" = thing) was coined in the 13th century to signify "having Properties" (Pierce. 1958, p. 358), whereas a "model" refers to an analogical representation, the structure of which should correspond to the structure or properties of that which it represents. For Scudder the mind is a system of models and each mind develops different models. We all have a different reality in mind and so we each live in a slightly …
The bilingual school of the Slovenes in Austria
The Slovenes in Southern Austria are a small group under assimilatory pressure. Bilingual education in Slovene and German has been defended vigorously, despite falling census returns and registrations of pupils. The curriculum allocation of languages to subjects is described in detail and the objectives of bilingual education are analysed. The significance of the education system for the maintenance of the Slovene minority in the face of hostilit…
Emergence of Mind From Brain: The Biological Roots of the Hermeneutic Circle
Brain functions are stochastic processes without intentionality whereas mind emerges from brain functions as a Hegelian "change from quantity", that is, on the order of 1012 profusely interconnected neurons, "into a new quality": the collective phenomenon of the brain's self-experience. This self-referential and self-observing quality we have in mind is capable of (recursively) observing its self-observations, i.e., interpreting change that is me…
The Time-Like Nature of Mind: On Mind Functions as Tem Poral Patterns of the Neural Network
It follows from the temporal nature of mind-the main concern of this essay-that mind functions are not localized in brain space." Time is extendedness, probably of the mind itself", concludes Saint Augustine in Book XI of his Confessions (26.33), and, in our days, this extendedness can be made visible through an oscilloscopic "line" or trace of slow potentials. These graded, additive (not all-or-none) autorhythmic and seemingly self-generating po…
Why the Mind is Not in the Head but in the Society's Connectionist Network
Nothing seems more possible to me than that people some day will come to the definite opinion that there is no copy in the... nervous system which corresponds to a particular thought, or a particular idea, or, memory.WittgensteinIn a recent essay it was emphasized that brain and mind appear to the mind as complementary and reciprocally recursive domains of a hermeneutic circle (Fischer, 1987). An outstanding and not yet recognized feature of this…
Mathematik und gesellschaftlicher Wandel
A Cartography of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive States of Consciousness
A theory of consciousness is proposed which integrates much of what we know about the evolution and functioning of the human brammmd. The organism constructs its world of experience as an adaptation to the problem of moving in the world. The relationship between the observed and unobserved world is discussed. A cartography of state-bound meaning is described in which the continuum of arousal states is linked to different states of consciousness. …
A Story of the Utopian Vision of the World
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at, for it leaves out the country at which humanity is always landing.Oscar WildeThe further ahead one looks, the more the vision of the distant future resembles the golden age of the mythical past.John CohenBeing condemned (or chosen?) to be "the missing link" on its way to perfectibility (or redemption?) - half animal/half human - we always need in some way or another the tra…
On The Story-Telling Imperative That We Have In Mind
The psychotherapeutic nature of the relatedness of literature and religion is part and parcel of the story-telling imperative that we have in mind. There is not a shred of evidence that a historical character Jesus lived, to give an example, and Christianity is based on narrative fiction of high literary and cathartic quality. On the other hand Christianity is concerned with the narration of things that actually take place in human life. The huma…
Physical Activity and Snus: Is There a Link
The study aimed at assessing the link between physical activity (PA), sports activity and snus use among young men in Switzerland. Data from the Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors (C-SURF) were used to measure PA with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire and sports activity with a single item. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was conducted to measure the association between snus use, PA and sports activity. Similar m…
The use of health care during the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic: Repeated cross-sectional survey of the adult Swiss general population
Compared to 2018, GPs remained the most important source of medical advice for the population during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland. While the self-appraisal of health problems and of the need for medical advice remained constant, individuals seemed to change their provider choice during the pandemic, with an increased utilisation of accident and emergency units and pharmacies, which represent easily accessible and low-thr…
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