What does it mean to listen what cannot be heard? In this article, the “unheard-of” is explored along two different tracks: (a) as something God-given or divinely revealed (in context of theology and philosophy religion) (b) egregious criminal ethics trauma studies). Theological epistemology here developed with a special focus on limits cognition knowledge God in Christianity (Anselm Canterbury...

Semantic systems for the representation of declarative knowledge are usually unconnected to neuro-biological mechanisms in the brain. In this paper we report on efforts to bridge this gap by proposing a neural-symbolic network based on processing principles of the cortical column. We show how a locally controlled activation spread on conceptual nodes leads to bottom-up and top-down processing s...

The issue of the breakdown of the marriage bond in Western societies has become a routine object of social and moral concern, political and public debate. This is striking, given that in most non-western cultures still and in every society heretofore, marriage has been insisted upon as the required precondition for the mating of men and women as the act that initiates and sustains the family or...

In this paper, we performed surveys of bio-inspired techniques for information hiding. The applications of bio-inspired optimization for information hiding or watermarking have emerged in early 2000’s. Due to the flexibility of algorithm designs, parameter selections, and performance metrics, the uses of bio-inspired optimization techniques provide effective solutions for information hiding. Re...

changes that took place from the early Victorian to the modem age. The perception of a divinely designed world was transformed to that of a godless universe, and in the process Huxley famously coined "agnosticism". Desmond follows Bernard Lightman in ascribing religious qualities to Huxley's agnosticism. Specifically and most intriguingly, he characterizes Huxley as a Cromwellian Calvinist, rel...

In this chapter, research on visual information classification based on biologically inspired visually selective attention with knowledge structuring is presented. The research objective is to develop visual models and corresponding algorithms to automatically extract features from selective essential areas of natural images, and finally, to achieve knowledge structuring and classification with...

The Knowledge Base Management Systems (KBMS) Project at the University of Toronto (1985-1995) was inspired by a need for advanced knowledge representation applications that require knowledge bases containing hundreds of thousands or even millions of knowledge units. The knowledge representation language Telos provided a framework for the project. The key results included conceptual modeling inn...