Mind-like Behaviour in Artefacts

Externalism, Epistemic Artefacts and the Extended Mind

Simulating Normative Behaviour in Multi-agent Environments Using Monitoring Artefacts

Norms are an efficient way of controlling the behaviour of agents while still allowing agent autonomy. While there are tools for programming Multi-Agent Systems, few provide an explicit mechanism for simulating norm-based behaviour using a variety of normative representations. In this paper, we develop an artefact-based mechanism for norm processing, monitoring and enforcement and show its impl...

Bell’s inequality for conditional probabilities as a test for quantum-like behaviour of mind

We define quantum-like probabilistic behaviour as behaviour which is impossible to describe by using the classical probability model. We discuss the conjecture that cognitive behaviour is quantum-like. There is presented the scheme for an experimental test for quantum-like cognitive behaviour based on a generalization of the famous Bell’s inequality. This generalization is an analogue of Bell’s...

On the cognitive experiments to test quantum-like behaviour of mind

We describe cognitive experiments (based on interference of probabilities for mental observables) that could verify quantum-like structure of mental measurements. In principle, such experiments could be performed in psychology, cognitive and social sciences. Recently one of such experiments (described in the previous version of the preprint) based on recognition of images was performed. It conf...

1995 The Institute of Mind and Behaviour

The "modern" era of psychiatric drug treatment began with the introduction of chlorpromazine into the chaotic mental hospital setting in the 1950s as a new psychotropic agent for controlling excitement, agitation, and aggressivity. In that setting the urgency of management problems operated to shrink the complexity of the patient as a psychosocial being down to specific "symptoms" targeted for ...