Asif Farrukhi: Larger Than Life (1959–2020)

Larger than Life: Humans' Nonverbal Status Cues Alter Perceived Size

BACKGROUND Social dominance and physical size are closely linked. Nonverbal dominance displays in many non-human species are known to increase the displayer's apparent size. Humans also employ a variety of nonverbal cues that increase apparent status, but it is not yet known whether these cues function via a similar mechanism: by increasing the displayer's apparent size. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL...

RealLife: The continuum limit of Larger than Life cellular automata

Let A := {0, 1}. A cellular automaton (CA) is a shift-commuting transformation of AZD determined by a local rule. Likewise, a Euclidean automaton (EA) is a shiftcommuting transformation of ARD determined by a local rule. Larger than Life (LtL) CA are long-range generalizations of J.H. Conway’s Game of Life CA, proposed by K.M. Evans. We prove a conjecture of Evans: as their radius grows to infi...

Thomas Mainiero Syed Asif

The aim of the geometric quantization program is to describe a quantization procedure in terms of natural geometric structures. To date, this program has succeeded in unifying various older methods of quantizing finite dimensional physical systems. The generalization to infinite-dimensional systems (for example, field theories) remains an active area of research. As such, we will restrict our a...

Asif Ghazanfar

Asif Ghazanfar is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and an associated faculty member in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. Born in Washington state and raised in neighboring Idaho, he graduated with a philosophy degree from the University of Idaho, then went on to earn his PhD in Neurobiology from Duke University under the guidance of Miguel Nicolelis. After that, ...

"A Rationality Larger Than The Material Universe"