Manipulating Nature

Manipulating nature: Might there be a cardiovascular price to pay for the miracle of assisted conception?

Manipulating Brains

The desire to manipulate brain function is not new. In manipulating brain function the goal is to manipulate behaviour and we have been manipulating behaviour for the whole of our evolution as social animals. Primates, such as ourselves, living in social groups carry out mind manipulation with astonishing speed and accuracy throughout the day. We are all a little friendlier, some unknowingly, o...

Manipulating Perception

Maurice Merleau-Ponty observed that consciousness exists in the world and experience of things in the world exist in consciousness. We similarly believe that the physiological foundations of perception exist in the world and can be acted upon. As way of argument, we describe the experience of several devices that manipulate the precepts. Such devices act on consciousness but also the set of thi...

Manipulating Consciousness

Manipulation of the effects of consciousness by external influence on the human brain is considered in the context of the nonlinear dynamical modeling of interaction between automatic and conscious processes. In previous papers [1,2] an approach to nonlinear dynamical modeling of interaction between automatic (A) and conscious (C) processes in the brain was presented. The idea is to use quatern...

XML-manipulating test case prioritization for XML-manipulating services

A web service may evolve autonomously, making peer web services in the same service composition uncertain as to whether the evolved behaviors are compatible with its original collaborative agreement. Although peer services may wish to conduct regression testing to verify the agreed collaboration, the source code of the former service may be inaccessible to them. Owing to the black-box nature of...