Modeling Mental Qualities

Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines

Ascribing mental qualities like beliefs, intentions and wants to a machine is sometimes correct if done conservatively and is sometimes necessary to express what is known about its state. We propose some new definitional tools for this: definitions relative to an approximate theory and second order structural definitions.

Modeling Link Qualities in a Sensor Network

Sensor networks are ad-hoc wireless networks of small, low-cost sensors, which can measure characteristics of their environment. Autonomous low-cost sensors often have limited battery life, and are prone to failures and communication losses. It is thus important to devise efficient power usage, communication and message routing schemes. In this work, we concentrate on estimating the link qualit...

Sensory Qualities, Sensible Qualities, Sensational Qualities

In theorizing about perception, philosophers have often multiplied qualities. To perceptible qualities of external objects, like colors and shapes (‘sensible’ qualities), have been added qualities of experiences (‘sensory’ qualities) or of sense-data (‘sensational’ qualities). Start with sensory qualities. The phrase ‘sensory quality’ is not much in use these days, having lost out to ‘phenomena...

Mental Qualities and Employed Mental Techniques of Young Elite Team Sport Athletes

Research on the psychological characteristics of elite performers has primarily focused on Olympic and World champions; however, the mental attributes of young developing and talented athletes have received less attention. Addressing this, the current study had two aims: (a) to examine the perceptions held by youth athletes regarding the mental qualities they need to facilitate their developmen...

Mental Modeling in Conceptual Change