Unacknowledged distinctions: Corporeality versus embodiment in later life

Later life civic engagement of elderly in Ahwaz -Iran

Background and Purpose: The problematic reduction of civic engagement in local communities of Khuzestan province in the southwest of Iran has became a serious issue for research in social planning and policy making. Efforts have been made to study the risk factors as the deterrents to engaging in the society. Methods: this study aims to investigate the factors influencing civic engagement amon...

Embodiment versus memetics

The term embodiment identifies a theory that meaning and semantics cannot be captured by abstract, logical systems, but are dependent on an agent’s experience derived from being situated in an environment. This theory has recently received a great deal of support in the cognitive science literature and is having significant impact in artificial intelligence. Memetics refers to the theory that k...

Suicide in later life.

Epilepsy in later life.

Epilepsy is most likely to develop in later life. The burden of this disorder on health-care resources will rise further as the world's population continues to age. Making a secure diagnosis can be challenging because the clinical manifestations of seizures and the differential diagnoses and causes of epilepsy can be different in older individuals compared with younger individuals. Obtaining a ...

Meaning and Embodiment in Life-Like Agents

The paper discusses the role of historical grounding, embodiment and meaning in designing agents that appearìife-like'. Examples are taken from research on social robotics, simulated/virtual agents, and cyberpets. A dynamic account of human memory suggests that humans seem to integrate and interpret new experiences on the basis of previous ones, e.g. see Bar32]. Previous experiences are reconst...