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On Computational Models of Interconnected Perception, Reasoning, and Action — in Dream Worlds

2023

We distinguish between real versus unreal worlds, and include in the latter category fictional worlds and — perhaps the hardest type of unreal world to plumb — dream worlds. Dream worlds, from the standpoint of building computational cognitive models, present a number of acute challenges in at least three areas of human mentation that are for us as AI researchers and computational cognitive scientists deeply interconnected; these areas are: perception, reasoning, and action. We are attempting to specifically answer three tough questions, one in each of these three areas; the answers (for us) must be based upon robust computational models that are both theoretically well-founded, and brought…

I sogni del feuilleton: la Trilogia dei moschettieri e il Conte di Montecristo

2001

Il saggio studia la tematizzazione del sogno in alcuni dei principali romanzi di Dumas. The essay deals with dream's theme in Dumas' main novels

Attraverso lo specchio

2020

La fiaba racconta un faticoso processo di costruzione dell'identità attraverso un percorso doloroso che conduce la protagonista a rivisitare il suo intricato passato e, andando al cuore delle ferire, a conquistare degli spazi di vita meno densi di certezze, ma sicuramente più autentici. The fairy tale tells of a tiring process of building identity through a painful path that leads the protagonist to revisit her intricate past and, going to the heart of the wounds, to conquer living spaces less dense with certainties, but certainly more authentic.

Do Narcissists Self-Enhance? Disentangling the Associations Between Narcissism and Positive Versus Enhanced Self-Views Across Aspects of Narcissism, …

2020

Across psychological disciplines, grandiose narcissism and self-enhancement have been treated as two closely related constructs. However, empirical research has not yielded conclusive insights about their association: It is currently unclear whether self-views of narcissistic individuals are more enhanced, in comparison with some criterion value, or whether their self-views are simply more positive than those of less narcissistic individuals. We aimed to clarify this fundamental issue with regard to (a) different aspects of narcissism (narcissistic admiration and rivalry), (b) different content domains of self-views (agency and communion), and (c) different criteria against which self-perc…

Is It Really That Funny? Laughter, Emotional Contagion, and Heuristic Processing During Shared Media Use

2017

ABSTRACTWhen people use humorous media content, their behavior and assessments of the content may depend on the emotional expressions (e.g., laughter) of those around them. In a laboratory experiment in which 80 participants watched a movie clip with a confederate who either laughed or remained silent, we identified two parallel processes. The confederate’s laughter induced behavioral responses in our participants (laughing or smiling). Through those responses, a corresponding appraisal of the media content was generated: The content was rated funnier in comparison to situations in which the confederate did not laugh. This effect corresponds to emotional contagion processes and was especial…

Research as Response

2010

In this article research is viewed as a response to a questioning from outside. Knowledge develops in steps, each step understood as a response to the questioning of the previous step. Today’s research is a conglomerate of responses to the questioning of yesterday’s research. Under the current conditions the questioning of knowledge and research is more directed towards the individual than before. The researcher is challenged to answer the questioning directed to his or her research. From this it is argued that the ability of the researcher to respond implies a responsibility. The content of this responsibility depends on the discourse in question. In business management the responsibility…

Social Dreaming e dimensione sociale del sognare.

2005

Apperception, content-based psychology and design

2003

A core area of scientific thinking is explaining. This means answering to the “why-questions and how questions” (Hempel 1965). Why does Sam have a fewer? Why did an organization fail abroad? Why a structure is able to support the weight of snow? How more effective valves for an engine can be designed? How to make computer games more attractive for female users? These are typical examples of design problems, all of which should be based on scientific explanation, i.e., what should be answered based on the laws of nature or as is becoming increasingly more evident, based on the laws of the human mind.

Can Artificial Intelligence Interprete Legal Norms? A Problem of Practical Reason

2021

La formalización del razonamiento jurídico y, específicamente, de la interpretación es un viejo sueño de nuestra cultura. Hoy, la Inteligencia Artificial parece lista para cumplir esa tarea. Teóricos computacionales y lógicos están desarrollando herramientas técnicas para estructurar modelos formales de interpretación jurídica útiles para la Inteligencia Artificial. Sin embargo, estos esfuerzos han conseguido sólo formalizaciones abstractas, que no son capaces de resolver cuestiones materiales sobre la respuesta correcta ante un caso nuevo. Los algoritmos no pueden descubrir, ni evaluar, problemas humanos sin la ayuda de programadores; no pueden decidir entre hipótesis interpretativas alter…

Adolfo Bioy Casares: la ficción biopolítica

2017

ABSTRACTMost academic works on Adolfo Bioy Casares can be put into two categories: those that stress Bioy Casares's political ideas and those that emphasize his mastery of the fantastic genre as if he were two different writers at once. Can we read a politics of the fantastic in his works? Beyond the Peronist polemics in which Casares's books are framed, if we take into consideration the existential logic that runs through his novels—always in the boundaries between life and death, dream and reality, body and spirit, etc.—we note an exploration of the body and living, of the human and the animal. This exploration is informed by scientific laws that progressively invade the spheres of subjec…