It is briefly demonstrated that Gisin’s so-called ‘locality’ assumption [in http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4255] is in fact equivalent to the existence of a local deterministic model. Thus, despite Gisin’s suggestions to the contrary, ‘local realism’ in the sense of Bell is built into his argument from the very beginning. His ‘locality’ assumption may more appropriately be labelled ‘separability,’ c...

Artificial Intelligence has been the field of study for exploring the principles underlying thought, and utilizing their discovery to develop use­ ful computers. Traditional AI models have been, consciously or subconsciously, optimized for available computing resources which has led AI in certain directions. The emergence of mas­ sively parallel computers liberates the way in­ telligence may be...

In this issue of Blood, Bolaños-Meade et al reported the results of the randomized phase 3 study Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network (BMTCTN) 0802. It compared the addition of mycophenolate mofetil to steroids vs steroids/placebo to treat newly diagnosed acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Unfortunately, it failed to show a significant difference in outcomes.

Thought shape fusion (TSF) is a cognitive distortion associated with eating psychopathology in which individuals believe that simply thinking about fattening food leads to weight gain. The current study sought to determine if it was possible to manipulate the distorted beliefs underlying TSF and, if so, whether this impacted negative affect and social outcomes. Findings provided some support th...

The Hamiltonian of classical anti-de Sitter gravity is a pure boundary term on-shell. If this remains true in non-perturbative quantum gravity then i) boundary observables will evolve unitarily in time and ii) the algebra of boundary observables is the same at all times. In particular, information available at the boundary at any one time t1 remains available at any other time t2. Since there i...

People inhabit a variety of spaces, the space of the body, the space around the body, the space of navigation. They also create spaces to promote cognition, communication, and collaboration. People’s mental representations of each of these spaces differ, and differ systematically from Euclidean space. Instead people’s conceptions reflect their perception of and action in each space.

This article examines the phenomenon of thought insertion, one of the most extreme disruptions to the standard mechanisms for self-knowledge, in the context of Kant’s philosophy of mind. This juxtaposition is of interest for two reasons, aside from Kant’s foundational significance for any modern work on the self. First, thought insertion presents a challenge to Kant’s approach. For example, the...

Both a synopsis and extension of Gesture and Thought (the book), the present essay explores how gestures and language work together in a dialectic. In this analysis the ‘purpose’ of gesture is to fuel and propel thought and speech. A case study illustrates the dependence of verbal thought on context and how it functions. Problems for computational modeling, the presence and absence of gesture ‘...

The processes involved in the digitalisation of audiovisual knowledge call for a change of perspective. This derives from diverse factors: the adaptation of perceptual abilities required for using digital devices, the change in social and cognitive profiles involved in computerhuman relations, and the operational dimension of time. While networked technologies introduces a system of proximity i...