In this paper, we present a conditional argument for the moral permissibility of some kinds of infanticide. The argument is based on a certain view of consciousness and the claim that there is an intimate connection between consciousness and infanticide. In bare outline, the argument is this: it is impermissible to intentionally kill a creature only if the creature is conscious; it is reasonabl...

For the creation of a virtual 3D creature it is necessary an underlying structure that provides to it some desired capabilities. One of our main research objectives is creating a virtual 3D creature that resembles human behavior in an actual environment. In this paper, we propose a cognitive architecture inspired in the recent findings of the neuroscience which will represent the underlying str...

The environment greatly influences acquirement of the behavior on the artificial life creature (AC) and artifact object (AO). However, the conventional studies like Karl Sims’ ones have not accurately considered in an environmental influence. Instead, these influences are considered by replacing them into a simple environment. In this study, we accurately model the under-water environmental inf...

Recently, small model fish, medaka and zebrafish, have been casted a light on environmental science. Transgenic technique is a method that introduce exogenous gene into host genome and enables to generate unique model creature. Adapting transgenic technique on these fish, they become more powerful tool for evaluating aquatic contamination. Chemical analysis and in vitro bioassay, such as ELISA,...

Career happiness is reexamined for relevance to non-Western cultures. Joseph Campbell’s (1968, 1972, 1988) interpretations of myth are reviewed for individualistic vs. interdependent themes and critiqued in light of Asian American vocational concerns, with examples from Chinese culture. Counselors are encouraged to reflect cultural sensitivity and understanding through collectivist interpretati...

In the paper the sustainable development in historical view and theoretical aspects (conception, definition and aims of sustainable, dominant trends in UE agriculture) was presented. In the research on this problem, construction of the tools and models for the estimation of farms sustainable development level is necessary – the paper presents mythological trial of systematization of the princip...

PSD allows you to move the creature to any pose and resculpt the skin surface in that pose. The sculpted alteration is smoothly (rather than linearly) interpolated as the creature moves to and away from that particular pose. Because the edits can occur at any pose, the underlying interpolation problem is one of scattered interpolation, as opposed to interpolation schemes such as splines that as...

I argue that zombies are inconceivable. More precisely, I argue that the conceivability-intuition that is used to demonstrate their possibility has been misconstrued. Thought experiments alleged to feature zombies founder on the fact that, on the one hand, they must involve ®rst-person imagining, and yet, on the other hand, cannot. Philosophers who take themselves to have imagined zombies have ...