The article tries to explain suicide missions of islamic extremism. The sociological routine of explaining actions by external attribution of causal forces (poverty, oppression) is avoided and substituted by a system-theoretical approach. This approach allows internal attributions while constructing conflict systems of the Near (and middle) East with global reach. It further allows to different...

The causal frame problem is an epistemological puzzle about how the mind is able to disregard seemingly irrelevant causal knowledge, and focus on those factors that promise to be useful in making an inference or coming to a decision. Taking a subject’s causal knowledge to be (implicitly) represented in terms of directed graphical models, the causal frame problem can be construed as the question...

In this paper I will present my ideas about how to implement Marvin Minsky’s Society of Mind theory in a game-playing domain, specifically shogi (Japanese chess). The following concepts play an important role in Minsky’s theory: Agents, K-lines, nemes and nomes, frames, difference-engines, censors and suppressors, A-brains and B-brains, connection lines, types of learning and mental managers. I...

For planning purposes, the time frame for the MAP states’ accession to NATO matters greatly. If a country is likely to be a NATO member in the near-term, then shaping activities should be designed with that in mind. For more distant time frames, shaping activities should be designed to ensure that the potential member can provide for its own credible deterrent and, in order to strengthen that d...

A clinical approach to the understanding of disturbances of the psyche that otherwise would be regarded as pathological states of mind is described. A parallel is drawn between psychoanalytic object relations theory and "spiritual object relations," working from the premise that mind comes before matter. A number of clinical examples illustrate how both psychological and spiritual interpretatio...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to compare the relationship between theory of mind and inhibitory responses in normal children and adhd. methods: this study is descriptive study, a sample size of 25 patients adhd children and 30 normal children, who were randomly selected. research instruments are questionnaires theory of mind and computerized stroop test. results: the results showed ...

Important recent developments in brain and cognitive sciences offer new avenues for productive cooperation between archaeology and neuroscience. Archaeologists can now learn more about the biological and neural substrates of the human cognitive abilities and use that knowledge to better define and identify their archaeologically visible traces and possible signatures. In addition, important que...

an experimental study is conducted on three ½ scales, single-story, single-bay, frame specimens. the first specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with solid-brick infill. the second specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with hollow clay perforated-brick infill. the last specimen was a reinforced concrete frame without any infill. these three specimens were tested by pseudostatic method. di...