John Searle’s Chinese Room argument raises many important questions for traditional, symbolic AI, which none of the standard replies adequately refutes. Even so, the argument does not necessarily imply that machines will never be truly able to think. Nevertheless, we must be willing to make some changes to the foundations of traditional AI in order to answer Searle’s questions satisfactorily. T...

BACKGROUND The possibility to better understand the relationships within the men, the nature and their culture has extreme importance because allows the characterisation of social systems through their particular environmental perception, and provides useful tools for the development of conservation policies. METHODS The present study was planned to disentangle environmental and cultural fact...

strategies and tools must be based on some theory of learning and cognition. Of course, crafting well-articulated views that clearly answer the major epistemological questions of human learning has exercised psychologists and educators for centuries. What is a mind? What does it mean to know something? How is our knowledge represented and manifested? Many educators prefer an eclectic approach, ...

Interpersonal acceptance-rejection theory (IPARTheory) is an evidence-based theory of socialization and lifespan development. It is composed of three subtheories, each of which deals with a separate but interrelated set of issues. IPARTheory’s personality subtheory – which is the most highly developed component of the theory – deals primarily with the pancultural nature and effects of interpers...