There are potentially many situations in which creatures will be subject to infrequent but regular culling. In terms of controlling crop pests, some farmers may only be able to afford to apply pesticides occasionally. Alternatively, pesticides may be applied only occasionally to limit their unwelcome side effects, which include pesticide resistance, chemical poisoning of agricultural workers, a...

Research on exploratory and searching behavior of animals and robots has attracted an increasing amount of interest recently. Existing works have focused mostly on exploratory behavior guided by vision and audition. On the other hand, research on smell-guided exploration has been lacking, even though animals may use the sense of smell more widely than sight or hearing to search for food and to ...

As part of the Darwin celebrations in 2009, the Natural History Museum in London unveiled TREE, the first contemporary artwork to win a permanent place in the Museum. While the artist claimed that the inspiration for TREE came from Darwin's famous notebook sketch of branching evolution, sometimes referred to as his "tree of life" drawing, this article emphasises the apparent incongruity between...

This paper provides a checklist of 35 hypotheses concerning the identity yeti – hairy creature in Sherpa folklore, Tibetan literature, and cryptozoology. Most scientists dismiss idea is an unidentified animal instead suggest

By “pantheism” I mean to pick out a model of God on which is identical with the totality existents constitutive universe. assume that, pantheism, an omnispatiotemporal mind who given divine omnispatiotemporality, knows everything that can be known in This includes having knowledge de se minds every conscious creature. Hence, if has creature, then omniscience implies omnisubjectivity. Assuming e...

Collective behavior refers to coordinated group motion, common to many animals. The dynamics of a group can be seen as a distributed model, each "animal" applying the same rule set. This study investigates the use of evolved sensory controllers to produce schooling behavior. A set of artificial creatures "live" in an artificial world with hazards and food. Each creature has a simple artificial ...

Abstract. Let χ be the minimum cardinal of a subset of 2 that cannot be made convergent by multiplication with a single Toeplitz matrix. By an application of creature forcing we show that s < χ is consistent. We thus answer a question by Vojtáš. We give two kinds of models for the strict inequality. The first is the combination of an א2-iteration of some proper forcing with adding א1 random rea...

The communication of emotion plays an important role in social interaction. Research in affective display both in the social sciences and in social human-robot interaction has focused almost exclusively on the modalities of vision and audition; however, touch has received disproportionate attention. This paper presents an overview of the Haptic Creature project, where we seek to develop a deepe...

BACKGROUND It is well known how often psychiatric patients report religious experiences. These are especially frequent in schizophrenic and epileptic patients as the subject of their delusions. The question we pose is: are there differences between this kind of religious experiences and those we find in religious texts or in the mythological tradition? RESULTS An overview on famous mythologic...