Abstract We have the capacity to act together in shared intentional and cooperative ways. This lecture argues that our for plan-based, mind-supported cross-temporal organization of individual activities, with certain further elements, suffices mind-supported, small-scale social characteristic acting together. These two fundamental forms human practical organization––diachronic social––are us gr...

Cognitive Architectures (CAs) are the core of artificial cognitive systems. A CA is supposed to specify the human brain at a level of abstraction suitable for explaining how it achieves the functions of the mind. Over the years a number of distinct CAs have been proposed by different authors and their limitations and potentials were investigated. These CAs are usually classified as symbolic and...

Everyday life demands explanations and predictions from everybody all the time. Using experience based knowledge, the human mind is well suited to draw the required causal inferences. However, due to failures in the past, such inferences are usually drawn under uncertainty and come along with different degrees of confidence. We present an ACT-R model describing the cognitive processes of induct...

Shared psychotic disorder also known as folie a dues is thought to occur in persons who live close together, so that delusions of the primarily ill patient are transferred to the partner. A case of shared paranoid psychotic disorder, with primary diagnosis of persecutory delusional disorder in the husband is described. The delusion and its consequent safety behaviors were so strong that led to ...

Abstract Ancient philosophy has been a source of inspiration for contemporary in recent decades. An outstanding example is the renaissance hylomorphism field biology. For mind, little discussed so far. Therefore, ancient models mind are still interest. This article argues that Plato’s Phaedo can act as debates. As starting point, Simmias’s objections to immortality soul analyzed. Plato does not...

PRIORITY ISSUES IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY Sir, Forensic psychiatry is an emerging area of psychiatric specialization in the world. The last few decades have seen many important advances in the field of forensic psychiatry. These include the formulation of newer laws regulating the functioning of mental health care delivery systems, laws relating to the possession and use of psychotropic drugs, as ...