The hidden influencers who code our world

Hidden protocols: Modifying our expectations in an evolving world

When agents know a protocol, this leads them to have expectations about future observations. Agents can update their knowledge by matching their actual observations with the expected ones. They eliminate states where they do not match. In this paper, we study how agents perceive protocols that are not commonly known, and propose a semantics-driven logical framework to reason about knowledge in ...

Higher education in a complex world: nurturing “chaordic” influencers

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Welcome to our world.

Richard Branson, David Neeleman and Paul Orfalea - what do these entrepreneurs have in common, other than wealth? They have a disorder that affects about one in 25 adults in North America - Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. In this article, comedian and TV producer Rick Green outlines some of the history and costs of the disorder, and shares with us first-hand insight into the struggles...

How our body influences our perception of the world

Incorporating the fact that the senses are embodied is necessary for an organism to interpret sensory information. Before a unified perception of the world can be formed, sensory signals must be processed with reference to body representation. The various attributes of the body such as shape, proportion, posture, and movement can be both derived from the various sensory systems and can affect p...

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