The concept of human intelligence includes several types of intellectual activity – rational thinking, emotional thinking, unconscious thinking, intuitive thinking, and automatic control of the biological systems. Rational thinking refers to the cognition of the phenomena and laws of the animate and the inanimate nature. It is realized through the processing of mostly visual images and is there...

in this research, the viewpoint of mīzā mahdī iṣfahānī, as the founder of tafkīk school (separatism), concerning the most important epistemological issues like the quiddity of cognition (or episteme), types of cognition, truth, and justification of knowledge (ma‘rifa) are studied. given the fact that epistemology has not been regarded as an independent science in the muslim world, but the musli...

Sadly, progress in AI has confirmed earlier conclusions, reached using formal domains, about the strict limits of human i formation processing and has also shown that these limits are only partly remedied by intuition. More positively, AI offers mankind a unique avenue to circumvent its cognitive limits: (1) by acting as a prosthesis extending processing capacity and size of the knowledge base;...

There is nothing which is more common than to hear people speak of possessing a knowledge of human nature. It is usual to signify by this a mere acquaintance with the vices of mankind, which does, indeed, form one part of this knowledge, but it is not all. What is called a knowledge of human nature is said to be acquired only by mixing with the world, which implies that a real intimacy with the...

In this paper we present an outline of the MANKIND project: MANKIND is an acronym for Multimedia Applied to Networked Knowledge-transfer Introduces New Dimensions. It is an ambitious undertaking that combines know-how obtained through extensive research and efforts in network based training and education with work on digital libraries and the development of the advanced WWW server system Hyperw...