This paper responds to Espen Aarseth’s provocative proposition about the way First Person Shooter games reveal a fundamental modality of human experience by embodying a dialectic of “aporia and epiphany.” It is argued that if the First Person Shooter Doom tells us something fundamental about living today, then this is because of the programmatic nature of the prevailing cybernetic world view of...

We report the discovery of two very cold and massive molecular cloud cores in the region ISOSS J18364-0221. The object has been identified by a systematic search for very early evolutionary stages of high-mass stars using the 170μm ISOPHOT Serendipity Survey (ISOSS). Submm continuum and molecular line measurements reveal two compact cores within this region. The first core has a temperature of ...

BACKGROUND For many microbial processes, the complexity of the metabolisms and the responses to transient and realistic conditions are difficult to capture in mechanistic models. The cells seem to have an innate intelligence that enables them to respond optimally to environmental changes. Some "intelligent" models have therefore been proposed and compared with a mechanistic model for fed-batch ...

Mammalian cells grown in suspension produce waste metabolites such as lactate, alanine, and ammonia, which reduce the yield of cell mass and the desired product on the nutrients supplied. Previous studies (Cruz et al., 1999; Europa et al., 2000; Follstad et al., 1999) have shown that the cells can be made to alter their metabolism by starving them on their nutrients in continuous cultures at lo...

The previously proposed cybernetic definition of a living (biological) individual and the cybernetic model of a psychical individual (a self endowed with subjective consciousness) are extended and compared, and their formal similarities are isolated and highlighted. It is argued that the emergence of the biological level of reality from the physical level and of the psychical level from the bio...

By drawing upon philosophical repercussions of cybernetics, this article reformulates the notion performativity in context new media aesthetics. It links to aesthetics via cybernetic notions information processing and generating systems, recursive electronic digital feedback loops, emergency, complexity, dynamism, autonomously evolving systems. In doing so, I argue that operational logic infras...

This paper deals with structural terms system description and stochastic causal system transformation procedure performed from discrete-time into continuous-time domain. Such a process is called the continualisation procedure. According to the basic axioms of the new approach to system theory, the discrete-time stochastic causal system is considered as the original cybernetic system because it ...