The domain of intelligent creatures, systems and entities is suffering today profound changes, and the pace of more than a hundred meetings (congresses, conferences, workshops) per year shows there is a very large community of interest, eager of innovations and creativity. There is now no unanimity and homogeneity of the crowd, no convergence on what concerns scientific or technological goals, ...

We show that (consistently) there is a clone C on a countable set such that the interval of clones above C is linearly ordered and has no coatoms.

there are three main ideas about relation between creatures and god. one of them is the theory of separation, according to this theory there's not any homogeneity between creatures and god it means the essence and existence of creatures are completely inhomogeneity with god's essence and existence. the second is the theory of oneness, according to this theory creatures and god are uni...

Abstract In thirteenth-century Castile, the kabbalist R. Joseph of Hamadan offered an unprecedented articulation idea reincarnation ( gilgul ), proposing that Jewish men could be reborn as gentiles, women, or even animals. This article studies formation belief in transmigration human souls into animal bodies, focusing on question pain. It contextualizes kabbalistic literary treatment animals by...

An association between childhood cruelty to animals and dangerous aggression against people at a later age could have important implications regarding early detection and treatment, preventive psychiatry, and a social ethic that encourages positive attitudes toward living creatures in general. Research reports in the literature are inconsistent and inconclusive regarding a possible relationship...

Often, the behavior of animals can be better explained and predicted, it seems, if we ascribe the capacity to have beliefs, intentions, and concepts to them. Whether we really can do so, however, is a debated issue. Particularly, Donald Davidson maintains that there is no basis in fact for ascribing propositional attitudes or concepts to animals. I will consider his and rival views, such as Col...

We continue the theory of evasion and prediction which was introduced by Blass and developed by Brendle, Shelah, and Laflamme. We prove that for arbitrary sufficiently different f, g ∈ ωω, it is consistent to have eg < ef , where ef is the evasion number of the space ∏ n<ω f(n). For this we apply a variant of Shelah’s “creature forcing”.

I discuss an argument for non-conceptualism based on animal and infant perception. Crudely put, some animals and infants who possess no concepts nonetheless have perceptual states with non-conceptual content. Perceptual experiences of adult humans have the same kind of content as the experiences of animals and infants, so the content of the perceptual experiences of adult humans is also non-con...

2270 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 10, No. 12, December 2004 tapped into the universal wish for harmony and peace. Well ahead of his time, he invited to his kingdoms not only leading human figures and innocent children but also a consortium of animals whose presence he found indispensable. Domesticated animals, part of his life as a farmer, appeared in realistic detail, ...