“To Let it Be Without Pretense”

Wanting to be it: children's understanding of intentions underlying pretense.

How children understand the mental state of pretense has recently become an active area of inquiry, with some research suggesting that young children do not understand that pretending is based on mentally representing some alternate state of affairs. Because intention is thought to be understood earlier than mental representation generally, these experiments tested whether children understand p...

Poison ivy 'leaves of three, let it be!'.

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Virtual Humanoids: Let Them Be Autonomous without Losing Control

There have been several efforts to build life-like autonomous creatures in virtual worlds, but only few of them have focused their intentions in presenting human-like autonomous creatures. In this paper we discuss the problem of building autonomous virtual humanoids with goal directed behaviors. We present the decision-making as a process compound of: goal achievement planning, dynamic belief m...

Winter pressures. Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow.

How to Be Responsible for Something without Causing It*

condition that is realizable by different combinations of individual omissions by voters. For instance, consider an election with 100 potential voters, in which Bad gets 30 votes, Good gets 20, and the rest are abstentions. Suppose that all of the abstainers are like Lazy: they would have voted for Good if they had voted, but they abstained. Thus, given how things turned out, Good would have wo...