How Unique Cultural Concept Translation is Made Possible

How an eggshell is made.

o a housewife an egg is an article of food, and its shell serves to protect it from physical damage and to prevent the entry of dirt and microorganisms. To the hen an egg is a potential chick, and the shell serves not only as a protective covering but also as a source of calcium for the embryo and as a membrane through which the embryo respires. The eggshell performs its various functions with ...

How Darwinian is cultural evolution?

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

How emotion is made and measured

How we design and evaluate for emotions depends crucially on what we take emotions to be. In affective computing, affect is often taken to be another kind of information discrete units or states internal to an individual that can be transmitted in a loss-free manner from people to computational systems and back. While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cogni...

How is space made in sound

How Is Epistemic Reasoning Possible?

a SPECIAL ISSUE IV, pp. 7– 20, 2009 HOW IS EPISTEMIC REASONING POSSIBLE?