Mind (is) your body

Mind Your Body

Method of Production: First the appropriate supplied data files (150000 data points, 500Hz sampling rate, corresponding to 5 minutes of acquisition) were given headers so that they could be recognised as 16 bit aiff 44.1kHz audio files. A Python routine was written to do this; the purpose of this was to permit using them as audio files with realtime audio rate reading and manipulation of the da...

Why Your Body Can Jog Your Mind

Philosophical tradition influences the way we think about body and mind (Rogers, 1936). We have a body to move around and a mind to think and to learn (Descartes, 1637). At school, we sit, listen, and read, but we are not allowed to move. However, cognitive science has shown that our body is tightly linked to the mind (Wilson, 2002; Pecher and Zwaan, 2005; Gärtner, 2013). In this paper, we prov...

Commentary: Why Your Body Can Jog Your Mind

Emperor AI, Where Is Your New Mind?

Any theory of the mind must explain how the mind works, and an Al theory is no exception. Many critics have correctly argued that Al researchers have failed to produce such a theory. However, their discussion has focused mainly on what current computer (or particular programs). can or cannot do. Few have examined whether the field itself provides a foundation for producing a theory of the mind....

Microbes Manipulate Your Mind

Take Toxoplasma gondii, the single-celled parasite. When mice are infected by it, they suffer the grave misfortune of becoming attracted to cats. Once a cat inevitably consumes the doomed creature, the parasite can complete its life cycle inside its new host. Or consider Cordyceps, the parasitic fungus that can grow into the brain of an insect. The fungus can force an ant to climb a plant befor...