A large body of evidence, including longitudinal analyses of personality change, suggests that core personality traits are predominantly stable after age 30. To our knowledge, no study has demonstrated changes in personality in healthy adults after an experimentally manipulated discrete event. Intriguingly, double-blind controlled studies have shown that the classic hallucinogen psilocybin occa...

The interactive entertainment industry has become a multi-billion dollar industry with revenues overcoming those of the movie industry (ESA, 2009). Beyond the demand for high fidelity graphics or stylized imagery, participants in these environments have come to expect certain aesthetic and artistic qualities that engage them at a very deep emotional level. These qualities pertain to the visual ...

I believe the first thing to say about value is that it something we do. We things. There no out there independent of valuing beings. This most metaphysically parsimonious way understand what going on. Nevertheless, perfectly compatible with this view, and fitting character our activities, are focused on things or events not merely experiences those events. my children, (necessarily) experience...

Slow Technology is an opportunity to create reflective, mesmerizing and tangible experiences of temporality in relation to human perspectives and situated experiences. Hallnas and Redstrom [1] proposed the concepts of ‘reflective’ and ‘time’ technology as part of their design philosophy of slowness; this paper focuses on these concepts in reference to a specific time based artwork that explores...

The problem of two interacting particles moving in a d-dimensional billiard is considered here. A suitable coordinate transformation leads to the problem of a particle in an unconventional hyperbilliard. A dynamical map can be readily constructed for this general system, which greatly simplifies calculations. As a particular example, we consider two identical particles interacting through a scr...

Review by Genaro J. Mart́ınez Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México International Center of Unconventional Computing, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom Artificial Life, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vol. 18, No. 3, Pages 325–328, 2012 DOI:10.1162/artl r 00068 http://www.mitpressjour...