Mammalian brains contain at least 7 primal emotional systems--Seeking, Rage, Fear, Lust, Care, Panic and Play (capitalization reflects a proposed primary-process terminology, to minimize semantic confusions and mereological fallacies). These systems help organisms feel affectively balanced (e.g. euthymic) and unbalanced (e.g. depressive, irritable, manic), providing novel insights for understan...

The VASA project develops a multimodal assistive system mediated by a virtual agent that is intended to foster autonomy of communication and activity management in older people and people with disabilities. Assistive systems intended for these user groups have to take their individual vulnerabilities into account. A variety of psychic, emotional as well as behavioral conditions can manifest at ...

reprinted in 1946 and now a third edition has appeared with important alterations in the earlier chapters. The foreword by the late L. A. G. Strong quotes cases in which Phoebe Payne's psychic diagnostic powers were exhibited. Mr. Strong ends by saying that the book's subject matter is not yet susceptible of the kind of proof that would be demanded in a laboratory. Extra-sensory perception is a...

We present early work investigating a one-way delay-tolerant communications channel which affords its users perfect unobservability at the price of a limited bitrate. We suggest an unrealizable protocol, Psychic Routing, against which we can compare the performance of concrete DelayTolerant Networking routing schemes. We then use Psychic Routing to evaluate the performance of routing in our per...