[...]... unity These three aspects correspond to the current use of the term in psychology (with the meaning of purpose), in medicine (with the meaning of the mode of healing and integration of the body), and in analytic philosophy (with the meaning of the way in which beliefs and thoughts are connected with or about objects and events in the world, also known as the symbolgrounding problem) Intent comprises the. .. Chapter X: The Future Quantum Computer: Biotic Complexity.” Hector Sabelli and Gerald H Thomas present the notion of quantum computing and how it forces a reexamination of logics The authors examine its historical roots in logos, the logic of nature, and the laws of physics They also describe the logical design of computers according to the logic of quantum physics that will allow the full use of quantum... measure of profitability, and second, directly setting the financial trading system while using it The authors take into account as a measure of profitability the reciprocal of the returns weighted direction symmetry index instead of the widespread Sharpe ratio They propose a simple procedure for the management of drawdown-like phenomena and apply their financial trading approach to some of the most... present an experience in progress at the CNR-ISE (Italian National Research Council, Italian Institute of Ecosystems Study) of Pallanza, Italy The main features of the current state of the art in this field of application of mathematical modeling techniques are summarized and the characteristics of the computer code now in use for their studies on Lake Maggiore (Northern Italy and Switzerland) are described... group of artists that ex­change their ideas of beauty with amazing speed and persistence The authors proposed some methods for extracting spiral forms from pieces of visual arts using modern technologies of IS Sometimes, these forms are a consequence of a conscious and sometimes of an unconscious action of the artist The results support the thesis that there is a constant need of systematic recording of. .. mass was the possibility to reach the threshold, which in terms of dynamical systems is the number of degrees of freedom necessary for effective psychodynamics (Freeman, 1975; Orsucci, 1998) The mirror-system hypothesis states that the matching of neural code for execution and observation of hand movements in the monkey is present in the common ancestor of monkey and human It is the precursor of the crucial... a simple replicator theory of the coevolution of genes and memes The presented coevolutionary theory assumes that units of information acquired from parents by imitation (memes) are not independent of genes, but are bounded with genes as composites, which are a subject of Darwinian evolution A population composed of couples of genes and memes, the so-called m‑genes, is postulated as a subject of Darwinian... that have renewed the interest in the mind-body problem, the ancient philosophical debate on the nature of the mind and its relationship with the brain The author says the new version of the mind-body problem concerns the relationship between computational complexity and self-aware thought She also introduces the progresses of micro-, nano-, and biotechnologies that allow creating the first bionic creatures,... within the observed The riddle of the Sphinx is understood as a paradox of self-reference in apparent contradiction with all known laws of science The author of this chapter describes Oedipus’ capacity for full self-reference as equated with the operation of the most powerful universal Turing machine with both implicit and explicit memory of its past Chapter III: “Theory of Cooperative Coevolution of Genes... inspired by the foraging behavior of ant colonies The authors describe the characteristics of ACO and they derive from it ant colony routing (ACR), a novel framework for the development of adaptive algorithms for network routing They also state, through the concrete application of ACR’s ideas to the design of an algorithm for mobile ad hoc networks, that the ACR framework allows the construction of new . Slovakia The authors propose a simple replicator theory of the coevolution of genes and memes. The presented coevolutionary theory assumes that units of information. Italian Institute of Ecosystems Study) of Pallanza, Italy. The main features of the current state of the art in this eld of application of mathematical modeling