Depression: A change of mind

Mind Change Efficient Learning

This paper studies efficient learning with respect to mind changes. Our starting point is the idea that a learner that is efficient with respect to mind changes minimizes mind changes not only globally in the entire learning problem, but also locally in subproblems after receiving some evidence. Formalizing this idea leads to the notion of uniform mind change optimality. We characterize the str...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

The predictive role of depression in the defect of the Theory of Mind

Depression is a common disorder in psychiatry. Depressed people are likely to have difficulty in adaptive behaviors and social interactions; like Mind Reading ability. The present study was a descriptive-correlation study and was performed on depressed patients and the healthy counterpart. Subjects were evaluated by RME and BDI-II. The findings showed that depression had a significant predictiv...

Indian Philosophy of Mind: A Comparative Study

In this paper I explore surprising parallels in the arguments between dualists and materialists in the philosophy of mind in India and the West. In particular, I compare the Nyaya School of India with Cartesian dualism and its Western defenders and the Carvaka School of India with contemporary Western materialists.

Does God Change His Mind?