Your Mind Living in Your Body

Why Your Body Can Jog Your Mind

Philosophical tradition influences the way we think about body and mind (Rogers, 1936). We have a body to move around and a mind to think and to learn (Descartes, 1637). At school, we sit, listen, and read, but we are not allowed to move. However, cognitive science has shown that our body is tightly linked to the mind (Wilson, 2002; Pecher and Zwaan, 2005; Gärtner, 2013). In this paper, we prov...

Mind Your Body

Method of Production: First the appropriate supplied data files (150000 data points, 500Hz sampling rate, corresponding to 5 minutes of acquisition) were given headers so that they could be recognised as 16 bit aiff 44.1kHz audio files. A Python routine was written to do this; the purpose of this was to permit using them as audio files with realtime audio rate reading and manipulation of the da...

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What your body and your living room tell my agent

This paper proposes a class of software agent architectures capable of playing some of beneficial roles embodiment accomplishes in living beings. These are component based architectures including sensors, actuators, emotion eliciting mechanisms and action control mechanisms. These architectures through their yellow pages and log services, which maintain updated information about the agent body ...

What's in your Mind?

Neuropsychologists have an advantage on us dry Cognitive Scientists: They always have impressive color slides of PET or MRI or fMRI images showing the exact location of whatever they wish to discuss — the soul or the locus of sinful thoughts or the center of consciousness. If one were to go by popular science articles on the brain one would have to conclude that we know where everything is loca...