I propose a conceptual framework for emotions according to which they are best understood as the feedback mechanism a creature possesses in virtue of its function to learn. More specifically, emotions can be neatly modeled as a measure of harmony in a certain kind of constraint satisfaction problem. This measure can be used as error for weight adjustment (learning) in an unsupervised connection...

In Darwin’s world the user creates robot-like graphical creatures with behavior defined by a simple programming language. These creatures migrate around a small two-dimensional grid, each according to its simple program created by the user. The GUI application that controls and displays the location of these creatures must interpret the program instructions supplied in a simple text file for ea...

S ince the beginning of recorded history, people have been fascinated with the idea of non-human agencies. 1 Popular notions about androids, hu-manoids, robots, cyborgs, and science fiction creatures permeate our culture , forming the unconscious backdrop against which software agents are perceived. The word " robot, " derived from the Czech word for drudgery, became popular following Karel Cap...

Comparative studies of auction and negotiation exchange mechanisms are inconclusive. These studies have typically compared outcomes obtained from the two mechanisms. The question which this paper aims to address is the viability of outcome-based comparisons. Such comparisons assume that both mechanisms produce the same types of outcomes but their values differ. An argument can be made that this...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis strategi pengembangan usaha gula aren dengan mengidentifikasi faktor internal dan factor eksternal di Kabupaten Soppeng Sulawesi Selatan. Analisis data menggunakan analisis SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses,Opportunities, Threats). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan kekuatan pada yaitu: adanya pedagang yang menjuan produk tidak bahan kimia, sarana produksi terjan...

Imagine a zombie world that looks “from the outside” just like ours, but where there is no phenomenal consciousness. Creatures look us move about as we do and make same noises do, nobody experiences or feels anything. How much of epistemic value that's exemplified in our survives one? The short answer is: any kind requires occurrence consciousness for its exemplification cannot exist world, doe...

In Artificial Life, the production of new artificial creatures always needs more and more computation power. Whereas artificial morphogenesis methods construct complete creatures using blocks, artificial embryogeny develops smaller creatures starting from a unique cell. To obtain a complete creature, organized in tissues and organs, we propose a developmental model in which cells are coded as t...