منابع مشابه
Ago Ergo Sum
In this paper I explore the hypothesis that some of today robots might possess a form of consciousness whose substrate is a mere algorithm. First, consciousness is deened within an evolutionary framework as awareness of one's own state in relation to the external environment. Then, the basic prerequisites for such conscious activity are discussed, namely embodiment , autonomy, and adaptation me...
متن کاملCogito ergo sum by MRI.
What is left of the human being when the brain is badly damaged has been a question for philosophers and theologians. Now, however, an imaginative series of experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain, culminating in the article by Monti and colleagues in this issue of the Journal,1 has revealed a form of preserved cognition in ostensibly unconscious patients. The...
متن کاملVideo ergo sum: manipulating bodily self-consciousness.
Humans normally experience the conscious self as localized within their bodily borders. This spatial unity may break down in certain neurological conditions such as out-of-body experiences, leading to a striking disturbance of bodily self-consciousness. On the basis of these clinical data, we designed an experiment that uses conflicting visual-somatosensory input in virtual reality to disrupt t...
متن کاملAcido, ergo sum: Holger Hydén--the neuroscientist in Cortázar's Hopscotch.
The fictional Italian author Morelli is throughout the novel "Hopscotch" (1963) Julio Cortázar's alter ego. This character proposes an unoriginal literary hypothesis in chapter 62. There is an allusion to a particular Swedish that 'is working on a chemical theory of thought.' The Swedish neuroscientist under analysis is Holger Hydén (1917-2000), by then professor and chairman of the Department ...
متن کاملCiencia Ergo Sum. Soliton Management for Ultra-high Speed Telecommunications
The methodology developed provides for a systematic way to find an infinite number of the novel stable bright and dark ‘‘soliton islands’’ in a ‘’sea of solitary waves’’ of the non linear Schrödinger equation model with varying dispersion, non linearity and gain or absorption. It is shown that solitons exist only under certain conditions and the parameter functions describing dispersion, non li...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Illapa Mana Tukukuq
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1813-8195
DOI: 10.31381/illapa.v0i8.1936