In this paper a computational method to find the solutions of a system of nonlinear equations as the utopia points of a suitable multiobjective optimization problem is proposed. These utopia points are points that minimize/maximize all the objective functions of the multiobjective problem at once. The proposed algorithm finds the utopia points as limit points of trajectories which are solutions...

The likely advent of AGI and the long-established trend of improving computational hardware promise a dual revolution in coming decades: machines which are both more intelligent and more numerous than human beings. This possibility raises substantial concern over the moral nature of such intelligent machines, and of the changes they will cause in society. Will we have the chance to determine th...

Jill Craigie's controversial BBC documentary, Who ?re the vandals?, brought into focus many of the inherent shortcomings of so much of new mass houslng in the last twenty years. Miss Craigie pinpointed a number of doubts about housing policy which have lurked just beneath the surface in the minds of many of the architects and I. Planners working within its present framework. 'Build up, not out'...

This paper describes recent developments in the use of the "absent but implicit" in narrative therapy. Michael White used the term "absent but implicit" to convey the understanding that in the expression of any experience of life, there is a discernment we make between the expressed experience and other experiences that have already been given meaning and provide a contrasting backdrop, which "...

Richard Heersmink argues that self-narratives are distributed across embodied organisms and their environment, given building blocks, autobiographical memories, distributed. This argument faces two problems. First, it commits a fallacy of composition. Second, relies on Marya Schechtman's narrative self-constitution view, which is incompatible with the cognition framework. To solve these problem...

This article sets out to explore the dynamics of play in three selected science-fiction novels by contemporary Scottish author Iain M. Banks. Drawing on typology literary designed German theoretician Wolfgang Iser, focuses particularly Banks’s second novel from Culture series, The Player Games (1988), concentrating ludic that inform and form these texts narrative, discursive thematic terms. Hig...

Diagnosis is arguably the cornerstone of medicine. Without at least some form of diagnosis the practice of medicine would not be possible. This narrative review explores common philosophical assumptions and challenges the notion that a certain diagnosis can ever be made. The idealistic concept of "primum non nocere" is discussed, and whether the utilitarian goal of achieving "the greatest happi...