Human creativity is intimately bound with the objects used in the creative process. Creation, creator, and tools exist as actors in a constantly undulating assemblage, both the weight of each component and the connection between components adapting to present circumstances. What changes in our understanding of creativity, then, need to occur when one of the actors is a non-human object with at ...

The Problem: While many robots in industry and research have proven capable of operating in complex environments, most robots still fall well short of living creatures in their ability to deal with extreme variations in their environment. Living creatures, by contrast, will typically cope in any environment to the extent that their physical bodies allow. Living creatures never give up trying to...

" Perception and choice are the products of context dependent and comparative evaluation mechanisms that can be systematic and predictable, but that do not readily lend themselves to analyses that assume consistency, independence and invariance. "-Eldar Shafir Eldar Shafir's paper powerfully reinforces the notion that we are indeed different creatures from what much economics supposed. To cite ...

ne of the four real attributes of the necessary being is divine knowledge, which enjoys special significance. reviewing various views in defining knowledge and giving the rational arguments as well as narrated proofs to establish divine knowledge , the present paper deals in detail with the objects and the how of divine knowledge. among different things that are the objects of divine knowledge,...

seals can help to identify the unknown aspects a culture. parthian seals and bullaes not only have played an important role in business in the community, but also they are important to identify the art and culture of this period. except a few reports about parthian site and a few works that can be found in collections and museums little has been written with regard to the seals of this period. ...

“In Venice, I am treated as a nobleman.... I really am somebody, whereas at home I am just a hack,” (1) said Albrecht Dürer of his life and studies abroad. During his travels, he came under the influence of Italian Renaissance, which had a transforming effect on the way he viewed art. Challenging his Gothic roots as well as his use of color, travel opened the door to the work of Leonardo da Vin...

In this workshop, I introduce some of the reasons for my fascination with alife and my desire to use it for music making. I also talk about some of the joys and sorrows of the collaboration process. Four alife worlds, Feeping Creatures, Spinners, Gakkimon Planet and Listening Sky are described in the order they were made. I talk about what I like and dislike about each one and how I would like ...