“He Wouldn’t Turn Me Loose”

He Endorses Me – He Endorses Me Not – He Endorses Me ... Contextualized Reasoning in Complex Systems

Interaction between agents representing real world actors in computational models must be informed by knowledge about interaction processes occurring amongst real world actors. We propose the use of endorsements to implement the cognitive processes underlying the decisions that lead to interactions among agents. The main advantage in applying the idea of endorsements lies in the fact that they ...

He Loves Me Not.

Sir In the article in your current issue on making so-called ‘orphan drugs’ available via the NHS, it seems to be tacitly assumed that our overriding duty as physicians and surgeons is to prolong the existence of our patients whether or not that is their main preoccupation and what our overpopulated world needs. We do not of course ever ‘save’ lives when we prolong them unless we concern oursel...

A critical study on commentaries of : He said: This is a right way with Me

On the forty first verse of the chapter Hijr no acceptable commentary has given so far. The verse can be regarded as one opposed to the diversity of commentators` views. The origin of the diversity of the two groups, Shiite and Sunni, has been known to be the meaning of This and with Me. The paper has critically given four ways of reading the verse firstly and then studied commentator`s four vi...

You Turn Me Cold: Evidence for Temperature Contagion

INTRODUCTION During social interactions, our own physiological responses influence those of others. Synchronization of physiological (and behavioural) responses can facilitate emotional understanding and group coherence through inter-subjectivity. Here we investigate if observing cues indicating a change in another's body temperature results in a corresponding temperature change in the observer...

Loose Couplings