Book Review: Code: From Information Theory to French Theory

Book Review: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory

Consciousness, with its irreducible subjective character, was almost exclusively a philosophical topic until relatively recently. Today, however, the problem of explaining the felt quality of experience has also become relevant to science and engineering, including robotics andAI: “What would we have to build into a robot so that it really felt the touch of a finger, the redness of red, or the ...

Information Theory Tutorial Review of ‘To code or not to code - Lossy Source Channel Communication revisited’

In this tutorial, the paper ”To code or not to code Lossy Source Channel Communication revisited’ [1] is reviewed. This paper investigates the conditions under which a source-channel communication system is optimal. To test the optimality of a communication system, it is sufficient to measure the average cost and the average distortion, and check if these quantities lie on the optimal costdisto...

Mindfulness from theory to therapy

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy involves, components of Beck cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy provided by Kabat-Zinn and in a therapy group to work with persons with a history of depression and thus vulnerable period later developed.This training of people to broaden their perspective to see maladaptive thoughts, ruminations thought processes and cognitive im...

BOOK REVIEW Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory

This collection Bohmian Mechanics and Quantum Theory gives us the broadest perspective yet on this important realist alternative to standard quantum theory. The book treats the history, philosophical rami"cations and consistency of theories arising from Bohm's original model and their relations to other alternative theories. Signi"cantly, it also contains applications of these theories to pract...

Elements of Finite Model Theory [book review]