The Quest for God: Rethinking Desire

ACCENT: Letters to a lonely God VIEWPOINT: Rethinking London

D uarte , a U niversity of N otre D am e g rad u a te in 1948, w as of­ fe red an en thusiastic official recep tion as he began a s ta te v isit and he showed his ap ­ p recia tion for U.S. support by k issing an A m erican flag dis­ p layed on the W hite House South Lawn. A fter a cerem ony th a t fea­ tu red full m ilita ry honors, R eag an said peace prospects for C en tral A m erica have be...

Unlocking the Quest for Artificial Wisdom as Integration of Artificial Intelligence with Desire

Wisdom = Knowledge + Desire. Desire = Need Knowledge of Self Unbiased Reasoning. Wisdom is the process of dynamic correlations among knowledge quanta (KQ), and desire quanta to generate new knowledge, and desire quanta, that in turn generates new propositions as priori, or, counterbalanced, or self-presenting to have 'true belief de re' to enable belief without sufficient evidence or dis-belief...

God or Country? Fusion With Judaism Predicts Desire for Retaliation Following Palestinian Stabbing Intifada

Research indicates that existential threat may motivate in-group members to retaliate against out-group members. Less is known about the impact of alignment with one’s religious or national group on retaliatory activity. We addressed this deficiency in a longitudinal study before, and soon after, the beginning of the 2015 Palestinian Stabbing Intifada—a terror wave that is still ongoing. We ass...

the quest for an hiv vaccine

On the desire to not kill your players: Rethinking sound in pervasive and mixed reality games

A commonly encountered argument for using sound in games is that sound increases the sense of immersion of a game. Immersion refers to an experience of being drawn into the game world, a process is centrally dependent on the players’ simultaneous removal from everyday life also called disassociation. The immersive power of sound has been linked to its capacity to disassociate: to transport the ...