Seeing, Embodying, and Proclaiming Christ

The mentally ill as neighbor: seeing the Christ who dwells within.

Embodying and Improving SODA

We implemented variations on the Self-Organizing Distinctive State Abstraction model for robot state-discretization and task-learning in a Khepera robot. We conclude that hill-climbing as implementd in [5] is detrimental in embodied robots. Because the ultimate goal of developmental systems is intelligent, embodied robots, we believe that implementation in physical robots is an important test o...

Embodying emotion.

Recent theories of embodied cognition suggest new ways to look at how we process emotional information. The theories suggest that perceiving and thinking about emotion involve perceptual, somatovisceral, and motoric reexperiencing (collectively referred to as "embodiment") of the relevant emotion in one's self. The embodiment of emotion, when induced in human participants by manipulations of fa...

Embodying Normalcy

ATEGORIZATIONS OF THE KIND OF BODY we have can prove to be fateful. They have an enormous influence on how we live our lives, and the value that has been loaded onto corporeal distinctions such as height, weight and body shape or form has a very long history indeed. For most of this history, at least in the West, the outward aspects of bodies have entailed certain conclusions about the minds (a...

Seeing and not seeing.

Recent studies revealed that although subterranean mammals inhabit a dark underground environment, they can still perceive light stimuli and use this to entrain their circadian activity rhythm. Regarding spatial orientation, olfactory and tactile cues are employed for short-distance; whereas for long-distance, subterranean mammals employ the earth's magnetic field and self-generated (vestibular...