I Choose for Myself, Therefore I Am

I am therefore I think

This article offers an account of embodied exchange with the world that associates conscious operations with actively inferring the causes of our sensations. Its agenda is to link formal (mathematical) descriptions of dynamical systems to a description of perception in terms of beliefs and goals. The argument has two parts: the first calls on the lawful dynamics of any (weakly mixing ergodic) s...

I Think, Therefore I Am (Unhappy)

When not performing a task, we are usually engaged in a variety of thoughts, for instance about current problems, opportunities, our self-image, our relationships, about past experiences, and about plans for the future. Such mind wandering was found to occupy almost half of our time spent awake (Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). Mind wandering may have had the evolutionary advantage of better a...

Here I Am, Despite Myself

As I sit down to write this abbreviated tale of my laboratory's research and my own professional journey, I'm struck by how things have turned out. I often will tell students who visit Fox Chase Cancer Center, where I've been a faculty member for 20 years, that a common Image 1. Glenn Rall.

Embodied Inference : or “ I think therefore I am , if I am what I think ”

I compute, therefore I am (buggy): methodic doubt meets multiprocessors

As a community, we (programmers, compiler writers, hardware architects, etc.) often take folklore, e.g. claims in programming guides, for granted. Inspired by Descartes’ methodic doubt, i.e. challenging the truth of one’s beliefs, we question this folklore. Thus, we have developed a tool suite to systematically test the memory ordering behaviour of multiand manycore chips and compared our obser...