Bodies in Prolegomena §13: Noumena or Phenomena?

Leibniz’s Theory of Bodies: Monadic Aggregates, Phenomena, or Both?

Leibniz’s conception of bodies seems to be a puzzling theory. Bodies are seen as aggregates of monads and as wellfounded phenomena. This has initiated controversy and unending discussions. The paper attempts to resolve the apparent inconsistencies by a new and formally spirited reconstruction of Leibniz’s theory of monads and perception, on the one hand, and a (re-)formulation and precisation o...

Prolegomena to Any Future Prolegomena

The paper by Sacks and Doyle that is the focus of this debate resembles previous papers by Cheeseman and McDermott, leaping from the observation that a speciic application of some AI technology is unable to solve a problem to the conclusion that the technology itself is of limited value. We argue that claims such as this should be made more cautiously in the future, and make constructive sugges...

Prolegomena to sonic toys

A variety of electronic sonic toys is available in the market. However, such toys are usually played by pushing buttons which trigger different sampled sounds. In this paper we advocate the possibility of using continuous natural gestures connected with synthesized sounds for the creation of enactive sonic toys. Keywords— sonic toys, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimodal Interaction

Prolegomena to the semiotic

Prolegomena and Epimythion

A rather simple and non-technical exposition of our new approach to Time, Quantum Physics, Black-Hole dynamics, and Cosmology, based on non-critical string theory, is provided. A new fundamental principle, the Procrustean Principle, that catches the essence of our approach is postulated: the low-energy world is unavoidably an “open” system due to the spontaneous truncation of the delocalized, t...