LITERATURE

 

Tozzi, A. To Know them, Remove their Information: An Outer Methodological Approach to Biophysics and Humanities. Philosophia (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-022-00576-y. This paper collects articles about various topics:

the 1599 letter by Giordano Bruno’s accuser, Celestino of Verona: all is not as it seems;

Dante Aligheri’s “amor, ch’a nullo amato…”: an “ex nihilo” account of “a nullo”; Dante Alighieri's Amore Cortese: correlated with the 1277 condemnations?

the mysteries of the Voynich manuscript;

 

Tozzi A.  2023.  Norse Burial Practices and Medieval Fear of Revenants in the Ragnarök Saga.  viXra:2311.0027.  Viking and Christian funeral practices opposing in the Norge saga of the twilight of Gods

 

 L'apocalisse Secondo Isaac Newton (2013) DOI: 10.13140/2.1.4349.0089.  When the Genius thinks about Johannes’ Apocalypse… and he’s sure it’s true!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HISTORY

 

Tozzi A.  2021.  Was the Hittite King Muwatalli II Killed?  viXra:2112.0080.

 

Tozzi A.  2023.  Norse Burial Practices and Medieval Fear of Revenants in the Ragnarök Saga.  viXra:2311.0027.  Viking and Christian funeral practices opposing in the Norge saga of the twilight of Gods

 

 

Tozzi, A. To Know them, Remove their Information: An Outer Methodological Approach to Biophysics and Humanities. Philosophia (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-022-00576-y.  Aldo Moro’s death: new insights.

DUE SCRITTI SULLA MORTE DI ALDO MORO: disponibili su un importante sito di studi su Aldo Moro (SedicIDImarzo)

LA GIACCA DI ALDO MORO                    L’ESECUZIONE DI MORO IN DUE TEMPI E I FANTOMATICI FAZZOLETTI

 

 

 Robert Falcon Scott’s  Last Journey Towards the South Pole: SYNOPSIS. The Figure below provides a synopsis of Scott’s last route in Antarctica. The picture is based on the diaries of the men who took part in the Southern Party (1911-12).

 

 

 

SPORT

 

 

Tozzi A. 2018.  Sonny Liston and the torn tendon.  SportRxiv. September 6. doi:10.31236/osf.io/2p7w6.  Sonny Liston and Cassius Clay: the first match (an heretical account)

 

 

ECONOMICS

 

 

Tozzi A.  2022.  An economic approach to energy budgets: how many resources should living organisms spare? Biosystems.  Volume 211, 104584.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104584.  Ramsey’s economic theory of savings.

 

Tozzi A. 2023.  Laws of taxation for multicellular organisms: The economics of sleep.  Biosystems.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105018.  Ramsey’s economic laws of monopolistic taxation.

 

 

 

PHILOSOPHY

 

 

 

ONTOLOGY

 

Tozzi A, Papo D.  2020.  Projective mechanisms subtending real world phenomena wipe away cause effect relationships.  Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.  151:1-13.  DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.12.002.   Induction reloaded: heretic topological approaches to cause/effect relationships.   Feddoso, Al-Ghazali, Phyrrho, Mirecourt, Autrecourt,  Berkeley, Hume, Montaigne, Feyerabend, Fogelikn, Van Fraassen, Gibson,  Spencer, Tyler.  Gibson, Phenomenology, Mach.

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF, Fingelkurts AA, Fingelkurts AA, Marijuán PC.  2017.  Brain projective reality: novel clothes for the emperor.  Reply to comments on “Topodynamics of metastable brains”by Tozzi et al.  Physics of Life Reviews, 21, 46-55.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2017.06.020.  Projectionism & brain manifolds: the philosophy beyond our approach.  Projective reality (rather than causality).  Kant’s a priori, Mathematical realism, Wigner, Darwin; Pragmatism; Grigolini, Fingelkurts. 

 

 

Tozzi, A. 2022.  Why Should Natural Principles Be Simple? Philosophia 50, 321–335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00359-x.  Against the Ockham's razor.  The Multiple before the One: what if Alain Badiou was right?  relational quantum mechanics, McGinn, Hilbert’s 24th problem, Hermes Trismegistus, Alain Badiou, Deleuze and Guattari, Henry of Harclay, Bechtel’s multilevel emergentism, Thomas Aquinas, BIG Bell Test Collaboration, Eucharist, Gregory of Rimini and complexe significabile, Adam of Wodeham, University of Paris.

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF, Navarro J, Marijuán PC.  2017.   Heidegger’s being and quantum vacuum.  Progress in biophysics and molecular biology.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.07.009.  Heidegger’s Being & quantum vacuum: Being, Essence, Existence and their physical counterparts.

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF.  2016.  Symmetries, Information and Monster Groups before and after the Big Bang. Information 7(4), 73; doi:10.3390/info7040073.  when the Multiple precedes the One in a Spinozian pre-Big Bang, à la Badiou.  

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF.  2017.  The multidimensional world.  Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany.  ISBN-13: 978-3-330-03530-0.   Projectionism, End of causality, Strogatz, Identity, Heidegger, Multidimensional world.

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF. 2019.  Entropy balance in the expanding universe: a novel perspective. Entropy, 21(4), 406.  https://doi.org/10.3390/e21040406.  Observer’s horizon & relational quantum dynamics: when entropy and information become subjective.   

 

Tozzi, A., Peters, J.F. A Topological Approach to Infinity in Physics and Biophysics. Found Sci 26, 245–255 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09674-0. When Achilles meets the Alexander horn, he leaves the straight path and overtakes the turtle.  Atomism, Continuum, Aristotle, Al Ghazali, Averroes, Democritus, Leucippus, Epicurus, Pythagoras, Plato and Walter de Chatton Henry of Harclay, Richard Kilvington, Adam of Whodeham, Bradwardine. William of Ockham, Isaac Barrow, Leibnitz, Guillame de L'Hópital, Euler, Berkeley, Bernard Bolzano, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Karl Weierstrass, Richard Dedekind.  Georg Cantor, Brentano, Peirce, Poincaré, Brouwer, Hermann Weyl.  Wittgenstein, Nicolas de Cusa.  

 

 

Tozzi A.  2024.  Tozzi A.  2024.  Flock members experience gas pressures higher than lone individuals.  Biosystems, Volume 238, 105192.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2024.105192.  A bird acting collectively with its neighbours perceives the nearby atmosphere as denser, compared with an isolated bird: these modifications in physical parameters are not apparent, rather are real phase space’s rearrangements emerging from collective behavior.  

 

Tozzi A, Sengupta B, Peters JF,Friston KJ. 2017. Gauge Fields in the Central Nervous System.193-212.  In: The Physics of the Mind and Brain Disorders: Integrated Neural Circuits Supporting the Emergence of Mind, edited by Opris J and Casanova MF. New York, Springer; Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems.Pages 193-212.  ISBN: 978-3-319-29674-6.  DOI10.1007/978-3-319-29674-6_9.  Angelo Mosso, Thompson D’Arcy, Whitehead, Kurt Lewin, Churchland, Fechner, Autopoiesis (Maturana, Varela)

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF.  2019.  .  Brain/mind relationship, Reductionism, Gazzaniga, Locke, De Cusa, Bruno, Holism, Monism; Herbarth.  The common features of different brain activities.  Neurosci Lett, 692 (23): 41-46.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2018.10.054

 

Tozzi A. 2015.  Information Processing in the CNS: A Supramolecular Chemistry?  Cognitive Neurodynamics 9 (5): 463–477.  Gall, Spurzheim, Jacobs’ cones, Friston

 

 

 

IDENTITY

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF. 2018.  What it is like to be “the same”? Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.  133, 30-35.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.10.005.  Heidegger and the principle of identity reloaded: when A=A turns out A≠A.  Featuring Heidegger, Nagel, De Cusa’s coincidentia oppositorum.

 

Tozzi A. Peters JF.  2017.  Critique of pure free energy principle: Comment on “Answering Schrödinger's question: A free-energy formulation” by Maxwell James Désormeau.  Ramstead et al. Physics of Life Reviews. DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2017.10.003.  Whitehead, Godel, Badiou, Bechtel, Helmotz, Heidegger

 

 

 

INDUCTION

 

Tozzi A, Papo D.  2020.  Projective mechanisms subtending real world phenomena wipe away cause effect relationships.  Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.  151:1-13.  DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.12.002.  Induction reloaded: heretic topological approaches to cause/effect relationships.   Feddoso, Al-Ghazali, Phyrrho, Mirecourt, Autrecourt,  Berkeley, Hume, Montaigne, Feyerabend, Fogelikn, Van Fraassen, Gibson, Spencer, Tyler.  

 

 

Sengupta B, Tozzi A, Coray GK, Douglas PK, Friston KJ. 2016.  Towards a Neuronal Gauge Theory.  PLOS Biology 14 (3): e1002400. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002400.  Prediction errors, Bottom-up; Kant, Friston

 

 

 

EPISTEMOLOGY 

 

 

Tozzi A.  2022.  Bipolar reasoning in feedback pathways. Biosystems.  Volumes 215–216, June 2022, 104652  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104652.  Not just 1 and 0 in logic: paraconsistent logics.  Bipolar Logics, William of Ockham, Nicholas Of Autrecourt, Aristotle, the optimistic concept of cosmic goodness.  Connexion vs causality, Gibson, Avenarius, Selfridge, Mach’s compex of sensations.

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF. 2019.  Topology of Human Perception.  Preprints, 2019030235.  Gibson 4.0:  the topological horizons of the ecological theory of vision. 

 

[1]Tozzi A, Peters JF. 2017.  A Symmetric Approach Elucidates Multisensory Information Integration.  Information 8,1.  doi: 10.3390/info8010004.  Multisensory integration & Borsuk-Ulam theorem: a Machian melting visual and auditory cues. Metaphor, Langacker, Mach, Leonardo da Vinci, Godel, Gardenfors, Kim’s emergence, Holdobbler, Peirce, Goodman.

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF.  2017.  Towards Topological Mechanisms Underlying Experience Acquisition and Transmission in the Human Brain.  Integr Psychol Behav Sci. 51(2), 303–323.  doi: 10.1007/s12124-017-9380-z.  A topologically framed multidimensional theory of knowledge.  Starring: Richard Avenarius, Ernst Mach and their phenomenal account of the brain activity. Gibson, Marr, Churchland, Lewin, Whitehead, Godel, Avenarius, Dabaghian, Quine’s naturalized epistemology. 

 

Tozzi, A.   2018.  Richard Avenarius’ “Kritik Der Reinen Erfahrung” (Critique of Pure Experience): An English Summary. Preprints, 2018090403.  doi: 10.20944/preprints201809.0403.v1.  Richard Avenarius’ Kritik: an English summary.  Empiriocriticism, Mach, Gestalt, phenomenalism, behaviourism, functionalism and cybernetics, autopoiesis, dynamical systems theory, embedded/embodied approaches, experimental psychology

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF.  2019. Points and lines inside our brains.  Cognitive Neurodynamics, 13(5): 417–428.  DOI: 10.1007/s11571-019-09539-8.  When points and lines do not exist, de Cusa’s hyperbolic geometry comes into play: a physical answer to ancient questions on infinity.  Euclid Indivisibles, Continuous, Helmotz, Whitehead, De Cusa, Skepticism, Aristotle, Autrecourt.  Analogy, Cusa, coincidentia oppositorum, common sense.

 

Tozzi A.  2020.  Are Borders Inside or Outside? Found Sci.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09708-7.  The problem of boundaries and borders: from Medieval thinkers (featuring Liber Sex Principiorum, Bradwardine, Albert of saxony, Buridan, Autrecourt, Potentia Dei ordinate et al.) to the contemporary physics and biology.  Sceptical, God with infinite power, Bradwardine, Nicholas of Autrecourt, Aristotelian analytic arguments, Offredus. “incipit” and “desinit”, the “beginning” and the “end”, Medieval scholars, Oxonians, Oxford, University of Paris, primo et ultimo istanti (the first and the last instant), and incipit and desinit (the beginning and the end), Heytesbury, maximum and minimum magnitudes, Autrecourt, maximum quod non, Beginning, borders, Blasius of Parma, Heytesbury, Albert of Saxony, Buridan, celestial spheres, Oresme, Liber sex principiorum, Porretano, Primum Mobile, Augustine, the Being and the Good, the Evil and the Not-Being, principle of non-contradiction hold, Buridan, Potentia Dei infinita, Potentia Dei Ordinata, Isaac Newton, hypotheses non fingo

 

Tozzi, A., Peters, J.F. 2021.  Information-devoid routes for scale-free neurodynamics. Synthese.  199: 2491-2504. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02895-7. Information Entropies Are Unable to Describe Mental Activities: a mathematical alternative from the Banach–Tarski paradox.   

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF.  2020 Removing uncertainty in neural networks. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 14:339–345.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-020-09574-w.  When fuzzy holes demarcate objects.  How to solve decision limit problems... with holes.  Uncertainty, Autrecourt, Decision limit problems, boundaries. 

 

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Tozzi A. 2015.  Information Processing in the CNS: A Supramolecular Chemistry?  Cognitive Neurodynamics 9 (5): 463–477.  Gall, Spurzheim, Jacobs’ cones, Friston

 

 

 

 

 

LANGUAGE

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF, Fingelkurts A, Fingelkurts A, Perlovsky L.  2018. Syntax meets semantics during brain logical computations.  Progr Biophys Mol Biol, 140: 133-141.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.05.010.  A neuroscientific account of lower-dimensional syntax and higher-dimensional semantics says that the Wittgenstein’s Tractatus was right.  Featuring Godel. 

 

Tozzi A.  2022.  Bipolar reasoning in feedback pathways. Biosystems.  Volumes 215–216, June 2022, 104652  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104652.  Not just 1 and 0 in logic: paraconsistent logics.  Bipolar Logics, William of Ockham, Nicholas Of Autrecourt, Aristotle, the optimistic concept of cosmic goodness.  Connexion vs causality, Gibson, Avenarius, Selfridge, Mach’s compex of sensations.

 

Tozzi, A.   2018.  Richard Avenarius’ “Kritik Der Reinen Erfahrung” (Critique of Pure Experience): An English Summary. Preprints, 2018090403.  doi: 10.20944/preprints201809.0403.v1.  Richard Avenarius’ Kritik: an English summary.  Empiriocriticism, Mach, Gestalt, phenomenalism, behaviourism, functionalism and cybernetics, autopoiesis, dynamical systems theory, embedded/embodied approaches, experimental psychology

 

 

 

 

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 

 

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF.  2016.  Symmetries, Information and Monster Groups before and after the Big Bang. Information 7(4), 73; doi:10.3390/info7040073.  when the Multiple precedes the One in a Spinozian pre-Big Bang, à la Badiou.  

 

Tozzi A.  2022.  Informational Approaches Lead to Formulations of Quantum Mechanics on Poincaré Disks.  Proceedings, 81(1), 20; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2022081020.  When Averroe’s Single Intellect meets Shannon’s information: from Alexander of Aphrodisias, Al-Farabi, and Avicenna’s Active Intellect to Quantum dynamics on hyperbolic manifolds.

 

Tozzi A.  2019.  The myth of falsifiability in the assessment of scientific theories.  (electronic response to: Bellmund JLS, Gärdenfors P, Moser1EI, Doeller CF.  2018.  Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking.  Science, 362(6415):eaat6766.  DOI: 10.1126/science.aat6766.  Popper, falsifiability, Lakatos, Sokal, Bartley III.

 

Tozzi, A. 2022.  Why Should Natural Principles Be Simple? Philosophia 50, 321–335. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00359-x. Against the Ockham's razor.  The Multiple before the One: what if Alain Badiou was right? 

McGinn, Hilbert’s 24th problem, Ockham’s razor, Hermes Trismegistus, Alain Badiou, Deleuze and Guattari, Henry of Harclay, Bechtel’s multilevel emergentism. Thomas Aquinas, BIG Bell Test Collaboration, Eucharist, Gregory of Rimini and complexe significabile, Adam of Wodeham, University of Paris   

 

Tozzi A, Peters JF, Navarro J, Kun W, Lin B, Marijuán PC.  2017.   Cellular Gauge Symmetry and the Li Organization Principle.  Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.06.004.  Philosophy of gauge theories. Zhu Xi, Capra, Wu, Craig Venter, Chausson