Artificial intelligence (AI) companiosns (e.g., social machine agents, robots) are becoming increasingly available. Considering that AI companions can be beneficial for individuals seeking companionships or relationships, the and relational aspects of an companion important to investigate. To understand people’s perceptions companion, this study examines roles presence warmth through online exp...

This paper analyzes the influence of the long-run decline in U.S. energy intensity on projections of energy use and carbon emissions to the year 2050. We build on our own recent work which decomposes changes in the aggregate U.S. energy-GDP ratio into shifts in sectoral composition (structural change) and adjustments in the energy demand of individual industries (intensity change), and identifi...

The protection of legitimate political protest is one of the hallmarks of a functional liberal democracy. Certainly, there is increasing legal debate about the parameters of what constitutes legitimate protest and the appropriate scope of police powers to regulate it. However, there is no widespread call for the dismantling of the concept of a right to protest. The same consensus is not present...

It is currently debated whether the meanings of words and objects are represented, in whole or in part, in a modality-specific format-the embodied cognition hypothesis. I argue that the embodied/disembodied cognition debate is either largely resolved in favor of the view that concepts are represented in an amodal format, or at a point where the embodied and disembodied approaches are no longer ...

The problem of category learning has been traditionally investigated by employing disembodied categorization models. One of the basic tenets of embodied cognitive science states that categorization can be interpreted as a process of sensory-motor coordination, in which an embodied agent, while interacting with its environment, can structure its own input space for the purpose of learning about ...

Quantum teleportation circumvents the uncertainty principle using dual channels: a quantum one consisting of previously-shared entanglement, and a classical one, together allowing the disembodied transport of an unknown quantum state over distance. It has recently been shown that a classical bit can be counterfactually communicated between two parties in empty space, “Alice” and “Bob.” Here, by...

The problem of inductive learning is hard, and| despite much work|no solution is in sight, from neural networks or other AI techniques. I suggest that inductive reasoning may be grounded in sensorimotor capacity. If an arti cial system to generalize in ways that we nd intelligent it should be appropriately embodied. This is illustrated with a network-controlled animat that learns n-parity by re...

Introduction The disruption of minimal Self is believed to be a core element Schizophrenia and intimately connected bodily self, which in turn leads impairments intersubjectivity dimension. Motor abnormalities have been associated since the early conceptualization disorder, as well inefficient body-related multisensory integration processes are considered nowadays plausible origin disembodied S...

The 1980s and 1990s saw a reorientation of the field of artificial intelligence (AI) away from disembodied software, a domain where AI research continues predominantly as software engineering, and toward situated and embodied robotics. Crucially, the publication of Braitenberg's (1984) Vehicles and, later on, the behavior-based robotics movement (e.g., Brooks, 1995) catalyzed this emphasis on a...