The quest for the Holy Grail was considered the greatest adventure in the Arthurian legend. The quest for consciousness (the holy grail of contemporary neuroscience) is, similarly, one of the greatest scientific adventures of all times. Koch's book summarizes a 14-year old effort –and a personal quest-to understand, and narrow down, the neuronal correlates of consciousness (the NCC). The Quest ...

The question of how to represent and process uncertainty is of fundamental importance to the scientific process, but also in everyday life. Currently there exist a lot of different calculi for managing uncertainty, each having its own advantages and disadvantages. Especially, almost all are defining the domain and structure of uncertainty values a priori, e.g., one real number, two real numbers...

ali shariati was undoubtedly among the most important of the prerevolutionary islamist thinker particularly insofar as he made islam a politically respectable force for many young men and women in iran's traditional middle classes. shariati was novel for the time in terms of his education and intellectual influences. the clear attraction of ideology for shariati is that he believes by means of ...

First, we replicate the remarkable result of Hossain & Morgan (AER 2009), in which subjects in an experimental market tip almost perfectly to the superior platform even if an inferior platform enjoys initial monopoly. Next, we show that this result disappear when seemingly innocent increases in out-of-equilibrium payoffs are introduced. The inflated payoffs do not alter payoffor risk-dominance ...

We have developed a computer model of human question answering, called QUEST. QUEST simulates tile answers that people produce when they answer different types of questions, such as why, how, when, where, what-if, and yes/no verification questions. When QUEST answers a particular question, the model identifies relevant information sources and taps information within each source. Each informatio...

Here I have explicitly displayed the pairs (ν, e−) and (u, d) as weak doublets, but I have not explicitly shown the color quantum numbers of u, d and u, d. The subscript is the hypercharge quantum number Y . This structure looks strange at first sight. Part of the strangeness, relative to the way physics was formerly understood, is that the leftand right-handed fermions transform differently un...

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Alex Bennet and David Bennet 1 Co-Founder, Mountain Quest Institute, Frost, West Virginia; Chair Emeritus, U.S. Federal Knowledge Management Working Group; former Chief Knowledge Officer and Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Integration of the U.S. Department of the Navy. 2 Co-Founder, Mountain Quest Institute, Frost, West Virginia; former Chairman of the Board and CEO of a profes...