Anticipative Generation and In-Situ Adaptation of Maneuvering Affordance in a Naturally Complex Scene

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“Trade Routes of the Mind”: A Brief History of Information Art in Canada

H& IT ON probes the turbulent social environments generated by information technologies. In a suite of all-new photo- and language-based works, conceptual artist IAIN BAXTER& (a.k.a. Iain Baxter) stages a satirical theatre of far-from-equilibrium behaviours and trends characteristic of a chronically web-surfing culture. The artist’s intervention loosely adapts the irreverent format of Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 collaboration with graphic designer Quentin Fiore, The Medium is the Massage—a constant inspiration to “the&Man,” as BAXTER& has recently re-branded himself—to explore the effects of social media on the contemporary information landscape. But make no mistake, there is nothing nostalgic about BAXTER’s nod to the “McCoolman,” as he calls him. As in all his work since 1968, BAXTER&’s approach to information is always hands on. H& IT ON follows BAXTER& as he plays with and repurposes artifacts and affects circulating within the trade routes of the Information Society to create an unruly collage of observation and ideas. H& IT ON also includes new essays by Adam Lauder and Dennis Durham that, for the first time, situate BAXTER&’s pioneering information- based practice historically within a North American context. Lauder’s essay positions BAXTER& within a distinctly Canadian tradition of information art characterized by a persistent focus on affect, embodiment, and the multitude. The first history of information art in Canada, Lauder’s “Trade Routes of the Mind” explores Canadian artists’s reading against the grain of indigenous formulations of information and the Information Society in the work of Harold A. Innis, McLuhan and others—from Bertram Brooker to General Idea and beyond. Durham’s essay compares and contrasts BAXTER&’s art of Visual Sensitivity Information as Co-President of the Vancouver- based N.E. Thing Co. with cybernetic representations of entropy found in the contemporaneous work of American artists Robert Smithson and Dan Graham. Durham’s essay is essential reading for understanding the international significance of BAXTER&. H& IT ON also includes a preface by renowned McLuhan and BAXTER& scholar, Richard Cavell

Communication of Internal Speech with Communicative Associative Robot via Spectral Neurointerface

Thought communications with an associative-communicative robot are carried out through the spectral neurointerface of internal speech.Internal speech is an energy physiological process.Internal speech is vibration from the mental vibration of thought.Mental vibration of thought is a process in the mental ethereal field.The vibrations of thoughts are reflected and observed by the mind in the form of semantic sensual images.Vibrations of semantic sensual images generate vibrations of internal speech action (internal speech) in the form of language communicative and associative stereotypes which are perceived by a touch zone of a brain of Wernicke.Internal speech is a linguistic mental vibration.It is felt and becomes internally audible and drawn to attention.The perception of vibrations of internal speech is carried out through energy channels,such as the internal posterior median canal of the spine.The spectral neurointerface perceives these vibrations.Neocortex makes us a reasonable person - allows us to think and talk.The spectral neurointerface is based on the principles of biosensors,bioenergy detectors,spectral analyzers and electrocorticography for neuroimaging parts of the brain that record vibrations of internal speech,such as the lower frontal gyrus,the upper and middle temporal gyrus,the medial prefrontal cortex,the hind parts of the wedge and precline and the dark temporal region,including the posterior Internal speech activity is associated with the semantic memory of the neocortex

Bio-techno-practice. Personal and social responsibility in the academic work

The new challenges posed by biomedicine and biotechnologies ask for a deeper consideration on the relationship among science, knowledge and social responsibility. On one hand, in fact, technologies seem to shape our idea of human progress and scientific understanding of the natural world and of life in particular. On the other hand, a thoughtful consideration on the philosophical foundations of science as human enterprise is required. This also opens important questions about the new emerging paradigms of ‘excellence’ in the academic, social and market fields and on the role that universities play in training the future leaders and professionals of our society. After a short review of the contemporary philosophical reflections on the unity of knowledge, which is the origin and the goal of academic work, we argue that adherence to our current challenges through the bio-techno-practice prism is a fecund driving force of the academic activities. Moving from the experience of an international project, we also discuss the impact that such interdisciplinary activities have on what we call hidden curriculum, i.e. the embodied style of (skills that allow) people in taking care of each other in their physical, social, professional and scientific needs

Cognitive Robotics

This chapter is dedicated to the memory of Ray Reiter. It is also an overview of cognitive robotics, as we understand it to have been envisaged by him.1 Of course, nobody can control the use of a term or the direction of research. We apologize in advance to those who feel that other approaches to cognitive robotics and related problems are inadequately represented here

In search of a common, information-processing, agency-based framework for anthropogenic, biogenic, and abiotic cognition and intelligence

Learning from contemporary natural, formal, and social sciences, especially from biology, as well as from humanities, particularly contemporary philosophy of nature, requires updates of our old definitions of cognition and intelligence. The result of current insights into basal cognition of single cells and evolution of multicellular cognitive systems within the framework of extended evolutionary synthesis (EES) helps us better to understand mechanisms of cognition and intelligence as they appear in nature. New understanding of information and processes of physical (morphological) computation contribute to novel possibilities that can be used to inspire the development of abiotic cognitive systems (cognitive robotics), cognitive computing and artificial intelligence

Key competencies for technological work: Employers and employees opinion

The purpose of this research is to identify which competencies are more valuable for workers who handle technology or robots in their workplaces. This aspect is explored both by the perspective of employees and employers. Results are gathered through a Delphi study within a group of experts (employers) and a questionnaire within a group of Portuguese workers (employees). It is finding that employees and employers perception of the most valuable competencies are not aligned. Identifying this failure, this research intends to contribute to its overcome.O objetivo desta investigação é identificar as competências que são mais úteis para trabalhadores que lidam com tecnologia ou robots nos seus locais de trabalho. Este aspeto é explorado por ambas as perspetivas: empregados e empregadores. Os resultados são recolhidos através do método Delphi, aplicado a um grupo de peritos (empregadores), e através da utilização de um questionário, aplicado a um grupo de trabalhadores portugueses (empregados). Constata-se que a perceção dos empregados e empregadores não está alinhada. Através da identificação desta falha, esta investigação pretende contribuir para potenciar a sua superação