The role of embodiment in the perception of the duration of emotional stimuli was investigated with a temporal bisection task. Previous research has shown that individuals overestimate the duration of emotional, compared with neutral, faces (S. Droit-Volet, S. Brunot, & P. M. Niedenthal, 2004). The authors tested a role for embodiment in this effect. Participants estimated the duration of angry...

The question of how an agent is affected by its embodiment has attracted growing attention in recent years. A new field of artificial intelligence has emerged, which is based on the idea that intelligence cannot be understood without taking the embodiment into account. The contribution of an agent’s embodiment to its behaviour is also known as morphological computation. In this work, we propose...

In this article, I chart a trajectory from deconstruction to embodiment in the intellectual history of Buddhist traditions in Tibet. I focus on embodiment as a participatory approach to radically deconstructed and unthematized meaning, in contrast to an interpretation of truth as purely an analytic category or an approach to meaning that deals with values, such as emptiness, as simply truth cla...

Two experiments were conducted to investigate the relative effectiveness of physical embodiment on social presence of social robots. The results of Experiment 1 show positive effects of physical embodiment of social robots (PESR) in the feeling of social presence, the general evaluation of social robots, the assessment of public opinion of social robots, and the evaluation of interaction with s...

Creativity is a highly sought-after skill. Prescriptive advice for inspiring creativity abounds in the form of metaphors: People are encouraged to "think outside the box", to consider a problem "on one hand, then on the other hand", and to "put two and two together" to achieve creative breakthroughs. These metaphors suggest a connection between concrete bodily experiences and creative cognition...

In this paper we consider the nature of the machine intelligences we have created in the context of our human intelligence. We suggest that the fundamental difference between human and machine intelligence comes down to embodiment factors. We define embodiment factors as the ratio between an entity’s ability to communicate information vs compute information. We speculate on the role of embodime...

the concept of logos is seen figuratively before christianity in ancient greek philosophy and judaism (old testament and some works of filon of alexandria). in ancient greek philosophy, logos is counted as the first principle, at least up to the middle platonism period, and more importantly, until the platonism period; that is to say, as it will be pointed out, logos was the first principle wit...