Most crimes in America require that the defendant have mens rea, Latin for "guilty mind." However, mens rea is not legally required for strict liability crimes, such as speeding, for which someone is guilty even if ignorant or deceived about her speed. In 3 experiments involving participants responding to descriptive vignettes, we investigated whether the division of strict liability crimes in ...

In most paradigm militaries of the world, there seems to be an expectation for ageneral write and publish his or her biography as soon possible after retirementfrom active duty – a type ‘first duty’ in retirement. These biographies are often criticalfor militaries, much like medical, law clerical professions, grow their bodyof knowledge empower next generation soldiers. For armed forces general...

Everyone who has reached the age of discretion is, unless the contrary is proved, presumed by law to be sane and to be accountable for his actions. This is the doctrine of mens rea. ‘Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea’  the deed does not make a man guilty unless his mind is guilty. This is the fundamental basis of English law. For to make a man liable to imprisonment for an offence that he...

MENS is a bio-inspired model for higher level cognitive systems; it is an application of the Memory Evolutive Systems developed with Vanbremeersch to model complex multi-scale, multi-agent self-organized systems, such as biological or social systems. Its development resorts to an info-computationalism: first we characterize the properties of the human brain/mind at the origin of higher order co...

MENS is a bio-inspired model for higher level cognitive systems; it is an application of the Memory Evolutive Systems developed with J.-P. Vanbremeersch [12], to model complex multi-scale, multi-agent self-organized systems, such as biological or social systems. Its development resorts from an info-computationalism: first we characterize the properties of the human brain/mind at the origin of h...