Do Medieval and Renaissance Androids Presage the Posthuman?

Do Medieval and Renaissance Androids Presage the Posthuman?

In his article "Do Medieval and Renaissance Androids Presage the Posthuman?" Kevin LaGrandeur analyzes the relationships between literary images of artificial humans associated with medieval alchemists and alchemy, their modified reemergence in the Renaissance, and how such androids may forecast the idea of a posthuman subjectivity that is connected with their present-day descendents. For examp...

Medieval aspects of Renaissance learning

Do Androids dream of Opportunistic Applications?

THE next to come urban scenario will be pervasively equipped with a huge of road side hotspots and Wi-Fi access points enabling profiled and mobile users to access the desired contents with some logical or functional scope. Today, the most part of the mobile computing services are rigidly server-centric: imagine that Alice meets Bob and wants to share some content with him. With a traditional a...

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PreSage-MS: Metric Spaces in PreSage

We consider adaptation in open systems, i.e. systems without global objects or common objectives. There are three related issues: how to make the degrees of freedom (DoFs) transparent to all agents, how to define a ‘fair’ process for performing adaptation, and how to retain some control over the adaptation to avoid, for example, undesirable configurations. We represent the specification DoFs in...