This research project examines how video games can be programmed to generate the sense of the digital sublime. The digital sublime is a term proposed by this research to describe experiences where the combination of code and art produces games that appear boundless and autonomous. The definition of this term is arrived at by building on various texts and literature such as the work of Kant, Del...

Myth, Power, and Cyberspace: When faced with these three words, what image comes to mind? Could the world conceived in the popular science-fiction movie ‘The Matrix’ be a likely illustration? The enormous potential of the Internet is, to some extent, predicted in this movie by its subtle integration of Myth, Power, and Cyberspace. Such potential can also be seen from the all-around penetration ...

We are so used to think by ourselves that we almost forget how rare and strange this psychological feat actually is. The ability to retract ‘within’ oneself is a recent and culturally determined phaenomenon which was hardly available throughout the major part of human history.[9] To think is to think aloud. Even in our own Antiquity to think and to speak did largely coincide [7]. If we look at ...

Injury to the structures of the medial elbow is common among baseball players. The injury can result from repeated valgus stress of the elbow. Several types of injury to the structures of the medial elbow have been reported.1 These injuries cause valgus instability and pain of medial aspect of the elbow during pitch.2e4 Avulsion fractures of the sublime tubercle of the ulna are rare and general...

The chapter describes a mathematical theory of sapience and consciousness: higher mental abilities including abilities for concepts, emotions, instincts, understanding, imagination, intuition, beautiful, and sublime. The knowledge instinct drives our understanding of the world. Aesthetic emotions, our needs for beautiful and sublime are related to the knowledge instinct. I briefly discuss neuro...