26 Writing it up, writing it down: being reflexive in accounts of
... Notes: Standpoint theory is probably one of the most controversial theories in feminist studies I summarize below some of the issues raised by Harding (2004).Its origins can be traced to a period when women felt that they had been treated primarily as the object and not the subject of knowledge proj ...
... Notes: Standpoint theory is probably one of the most controversial theories in feminist studies I summarize below some of the issues raised by Harding (2004).Its origins can be traced to a period when women felt that they had been treated primarily as the object and not the subject of knowledge proj ...
Behaviour as a Complex Adaptive System - laral
... 1.2 On the advantages of self-organizing over design techniques From a theoretical point of view, the complex adaptive system nature of behaviour has several important consequences that are far from being fully understood. One important aspect, for instance, is the fact that motor actions partially ...
... 1.2 On the advantages of self-organizing over design techniques From a theoretical point of view, the complex adaptive system nature of behaviour has several important consequences that are far from being fully understood. One important aspect, for instance, is the fact that motor actions partially ...
The neural basis of moral cognition
... This has allowed motivational mechanisms to be integrated with an exceptional power to predict outcomes, and has characterized humans through their recent evolutionary steps in the cultural explosion of the Upper Paleolithic period16. The challenge for moral cognitive neuroscience is that it require ...
... This has allowed motivational mechanisms to be integrated with an exceptional power to predict outcomes, and has characterized humans through their recent evolutionary steps in the cultural explosion of the Upper Paleolithic period16. The challenge for moral cognitive neuroscience is that it require ...
The Importance of Cognitive Architectures
... cognitive capabilities. Another perspective on this is that of a progression from engineering to science. While most of the work on hybrid systems (mostly within the field of artificial intelligence) takes an engineering approach, the research on cognitive architectures (mostly within the field of c ...
... cognitive capabilities. Another perspective on this is that of a progression from engineering to science. While most of the work on hybrid systems (mostly within the field of artificial intelligence) takes an engineering approach, the research on cognitive architectures (mostly within the field of c ...
Markie, Speckles, and Classical Foundationalism
... Rather, one is appeared to only many-speckled-ly, and when one is directly acquainted with the exemplification of that property as one has the relevant thought and awareness of the relevant correspondence, one has only noninferential justification for believing that one is appeared to many-speckled- ...
... Rather, one is appeared to only many-speckled-ly, and when one is directly acquainted with the exemplification of that property as one has the relevant thought and awareness of the relevant correspondence, one has only noninferential justification for believing that one is appeared to many-speckled- ...
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... might “see the world in a grain of sand | And heaven in a wild flower” (William Blake); we might see the oppression of the working classes “written” into the uniformity of industrial landscapes 2) Marx - “life is not determined by consciousness but consciousness by life.” Our aesthetics lives, at th ...
... might “see the world in a grain of sand | And heaven in a wild flower” (William Blake); we might see the oppression of the working classes “written” into the uniformity of industrial landscapes 2) Marx - “life is not determined by consciousness but consciousness by life.” Our aesthetics lives, at th ...
The Unconscious Mind as a Means for Authentication - E
... In general, any variation in the individual’s IUP poses a challenge to authentication. First, let’s assume we can measure an IUP, say IUPi. We need to know if this IUPi is stable enough to be measured repeatedly as a way to authenticate the individual. Second, if measurable and stable and not easily ...
... In general, any variation in the individual’s IUP poses a challenge to authentication. First, let’s assume we can measure an IUP, say IUPi. We need to know if this IUPi is stable enough to be measured repeatedly as a way to authenticate the individual. Second, if measurable and stable and not easily ...
Skepticism and Perceptual Faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley
... instance, is not one fact among others whose accuracy I can immediately verify: it is taken for granted as part of my entire outlook on the world. Outside of the abstract, self-contained realm of logical and mathematical propositions, our beliefs about empirical reality always involve some possibili ...
... instance, is not one fact among others whose accuracy I can immediately verify: it is taken for granted as part of my entire outlook on the world. Outside of the abstract, self-contained realm of logical and mathematical propositions, our beliefs about empirical reality always involve some possibili ...
The origin of concepts and the nature of knowledge revision boo
... made up of simple ideas that were copied from earlier feelings or sensations. Even ideas that at first glance seem to be the furthest removed from that origin are found on closer examination to be derived from it. The idea of God—meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise, and good Being—comes from ext ...
... made up of simple ideas that were copied from earlier feelings or sensations. Even ideas that at first glance seem to be the furthest removed from that origin are found on closer examination to be derived from it. The idea of God—meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise, and good Being—comes from ext ...
The Turing Test
... human would be unlikely to doubt that the pen-pal was a human. One point of the Turing test is that if the pen-pal were, in fact, a computer, still the human would not question its humanity (i.e., its human level of intelligence or its human ability to think). 2. As Stuart Shieber (2004a) points out ...
... human would be unlikely to doubt that the pen-pal was a human. One point of the Turing test is that if the pen-pal were, in fact, a computer, still the human would not question its humanity (i.e., its human level of intelligence or its human ability to think). 2. As Stuart Shieber (2004a) points out ...
Computational rationality: A converging paradigm
... of probabilistic inference and MEU decisionmaking at the heart of many contemporary AI approaches (3) and, together with ever-increasing computational power and data set availability, have been responsible for dramatic AI successes in recent years (such as IBM’s Watson, Google’s self-driving car, an ...
... of probabilistic inference and MEU decisionmaking at the heart of many contemporary AI approaches (3) and, together with ever-increasing computational power and data set availability, have been responsible for dramatic AI successes in recent years (such as IBM’s Watson, Google’s self-driving car, an ...
High Fashion with an Edge: A campaign to reposition Dr. Martens as
... aged 18-35 who are upper-middle class and fashion-savvy, our audience is already paying close attention to the places that we’ve put the ads themselves (high-fashion publications, fashion forward television shows, etc.). Since the ads offer something new, something different, our audience is likely ...
... aged 18-35 who are upper-middle class and fashion-savvy, our audience is already paying close attention to the places that we’ve put the ads themselves (high-fashion publications, fashion forward television shows, etc.). Since the ads offer something new, something different, our audience is likely ...
From format to function: Embodiment and the functional roles of
... far enough. It’s not merely the case that existing evidence cannot distinguish between modal and amodal representational formats. Rather, the representational debate rests on an unjustified premise—a distinction in kind between modal and amodal neural systems—and we argue that no type of neural evid ...
... far enough. It’s not merely the case that existing evidence cannot distinguish between modal and amodal representational formats. Rather, the representational debate rests on an unjustified premise—a distinction in kind between modal and amodal neural systems—and we argue that no type of neural evid ...
The future of the social sciences and humanities in the science of
... Some emergent behaviour can be predicted from previous experience but often it cannot. Computer simulation provides an important method of predicting behaviour that emerges from the interactions of many things – behaviour that may never have been seen before. Since the systems simulated are usually ...
... Some emergent behaviour can be predicted from previous experience but often it cannot. Computer simulation provides an important method of predicting behaviour that emerges from the interactions of many things – behaviour that may never have been seen before. Since the systems simulated are usually ...
Dimensions of integration in embedded and extended cognitive
... extended than others (Sutton et al. 2010; Michaelian and Sutton 2013; Arnau et al. 2013). The nature of their embeddedness or extendedness depends on the degree of integration and, consequently, there is a grey area between systems that are embedded or extended. So, rather than providing a set of ne ...
... extended than others (Sutton et al. 2010; Michaelian and Sutton 2013; Arnau et al. 2013). The nature of their embeddedness or extendedness depends on the degree of integration and, consequently, there is a grey area between systems that are embedded or extended. So, rather than providing a set of ne ...
方法論讀書心得四 : The Nature of Meaningful Behavior (Chap 2) and
... social context. With the ‘N’ example, Winch deploys one of his main argument, “if words are to retain any meaning, they (people) cannot be said to be ‘voting’ unless they have some conception of the significance of what they are doing” (p51)(…) “all behavior which is meaningful (therefore all specif ...
... social context. With the ‘N’ example, Winch deploys one of his main argument, “if words are to retain any meaning, they (people) cannot be said to be ‘voting’ unless they have some conception of the significance of what they are doing” (p51)(…) “all behavior which is meaningful (therefore all specif ...
collective intelligence
... the principle behind the division of labour that sustains the functioning of complex social and economic systems: when humans and possibly other non–human animals work together, they achieve bigger results than individuals working on their own. Indeed, the people involved in mapping sessions engage ...
... the principle behind the division of labour that sustains the functioning of complex social and economic systems: when humans and possibly other non–human animals work together, they achieve bigger results than individuals working on their own. Indeed, the people involved in mapping sessions engage ...
Fichamento do artigo: PANGARO, Paul. Cybernetics, A Definition
... not depend on the indefinite retention of a structural invariant that represents an entity (an idea, image or symbol), but on the functional ability of the system to create, when certain recurrent demands are given, a behavior that satisfies the recurrent demands or that the observer would class as ...
... not depend on the indefinite retention of a structural invariant that represents an entity (an idea, image or symbol), but on the functional ability of the system to create, when certain recurrent demands are given, a behavior that satisfies the recurrent demands or that the observer would class as ...
Toward Conversational Human
... fact, most information can be extracted by simple patterns designed for the specific domain. For example, given the utterance “When does the Niagara Bullet leave Rochester?” patternmatching techniques could identify values for the following parameters: the train (answer: The Niagara Bullet), the eve ...
... fact, most information can be extracted by simple patterns designed for the specific domain. For example, given the utterance “When does the Niagara Bullet leave Rochester?” patternmatching techniques could identify values for the following parameters: the train (answer: The Niagara Bullet), the eve ...
An action perspective on motor development
... the environment. The brain undoubtedly has its own dynamics that makes neurons proliferate, migrate and differentiate in certain ways and at certain times. However, the emerging action capabilities are also crucially shaped by the subject’s interactions with the environment. Without such interaction ...
... the environment. The brain undoubtedly has its own dynamics that makes neurons proliferate, migrate and differentiate in certain ways and at certain times. However, the emerging action capabilities are also crucially shaped by the subject’s interactions with the environment. Without such interaction ...
Eleanor Dare - Department of Computing
... acknowledge the irrational aspects of human psychology outlined by Freud (among others). In fact, Henriques claims the non-rational subject is ‘denied altogether in its own accounts’ (Henriques et al, 1984: 80). Section two of this review will look at Lorraine Code’s ideas for an alternative form of ...
... acknowledge the irrational aspects of human psychology outlined by Freud (among others). In fact, Henriques claims the non-rational subject is ‘denied altogether in its own accounts’ (Henriques et al, 1984: 80). Section two of this review will look at Lorraine Code’s ideas for an alternative form of ...
Agent
... Includes answering questions, translating between languages, learning from written text, and speech recognition Some aspects of language understanding: Associating spoken words with “actual” word Understanding language forms, such as prefixes/suffixes/roots Syntax; how to form grammaticall ...
... Includes answering questions, translating between languages, learning from written text, and speech recognition Some aspects of language understanding: Associating spoken words with “actual” word Understanding language forms, such as prefixes/suffixes/roots Syntax; how to form grammaticall ...
KBMS Requirements of Knowledge
... Though many database features (e.g., concurrency and security) appear less critical in NLI than in traditional database applications due to the single-user workstation approach usually taken by such systems, the availability of KBMS could significantly extend the practical scope for NLI. The most i ...
... Though many database features (e.g., concurrency and security) appear less critical in NLI than in traditional database applications due to the single-user workstation approach usually taken by such systems, the availability of KBMS could significantly extend the practical scope for NLI. The most i ...
Personality and Social Psychology Review
... behaviors are interdependent: Each agent’s ability to achieve its goals depends on not only what it does but also what other agents do. An ABM is a simulated multiagent system constructed with a particular goal: to capture key theoretical elements of some social or psychological process (for a revie ...
... behaviors are interdependent: Each agent’s ability to achieve its goals depends on not only what it does but also what other agents do. An ABM is a simulated multiagent system constructed with a particular goal: to capture key theoretical elements of some social or psychological process (for a revie ...
Introduction to AI (COMP-424) - McGill School Of Computer Science
... course in just 6 hours and 53 minutes without human intervention and guided only by global positioning satellite waypoints. The feat, which won a $2 million prize from the Pentagon Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, was compared by exuberant Darpa officials to the Wright brothers’ accomplishmen ...
... course in just 6 hours and 53 minutes without human intervention and guided only by global positioning satellite waypoints. The feat, which won a $2 million prize from the Pentagon Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, was compared by exuberant Darpa officials to the Wright brothers’ accomplishmen ...