AI planning systems tend to be disembodied and are not situated within the environment for which plans are generated, thus losing information concerning the interaction between the system and its environment. This paper argues that such information may potentially be valuable in constraining plan formulation, and presents both an agentand domainindependent architecture that extends the classica...

As an alternative to naturalistic and servile virtual agents highlighted in recent years this paper presents idiosyncratic, supernatural and attentionbegging assistants as a new approach to agent based assistance. The paper portrays a society of disembodied, location-specific conversational agents (DELCA) called ‘Ghosts’ inhabiting a social Darwinist interactive narrative universe designed to p...

AI planning systems tend to be disembodied and are not situated within the environment for which plans are generated, thus losing information concerning the interaction between the system and its environment. This paper argues that such information may potentially be valuable in constraining plan formulation, and presents both an agentand domainindependent architecture that extends the classica...

Quantum indeterminism is frequently invoked as a solution to the problem of how a disembodied soul might interact with the brain (as Descartes proposed), and is sometimes invoked in theories of libertarian free will even when they do not involve dualistic assumptions. Taking as example the Eccles-Beck model of interaction between self (or soul) and brain at the level of synaptic exocytosis, I h...

The article starts with a phenomenological account of the implicit functioning of the body in everyday perception and performance, turning the physical body into a living medium of the subject’s relation to the world. This transparency of the body is conceptualized as a mediated immediacy, based on the coupling and synthesis of single elements of perception and movement to form the integrated i...

Teleportation is a quantum information processes without classical counterparts, in which the sender can disembodied transfer unknown states to receiver. In probabilistic teleportation through partial entangled channel, transmission exact (with fidelity 1), but may fail probability and initial state destroyed simultaneously. We propose scheme for nondestructive of high-dimensional states. With ...

As the electronic version of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Wilson and Keil, 1999) has now lost its disembodied (and unquotable) form and become incarnate as the official reference work of a vital and expansionary cognitive science, a less reassuring picture of the field is evoked by Two Sciences of Mind, the result of the workshop on Reaching for Mind: Foundations of Cognitive...