: This paper allots creativity a central role in enabling human beings to develop beyond the undertaking and/or fulfilment of simple primary functions. This contention is significa...
According to the traditional conception of the mind, semantical content is perhaps the most important feature distinguishing mental from non-mental systems. And this traditional co...
Abstract. A fundamental and unanalysed logical concept is substitution. This seemingly innocuous operation -- substituting a variable for a term or valuating a variable to an eleme...
Like computers before them, social robots can be used as a fundamental research tool. Indeed, they can help us to turn our attention from putative inner modules to thinking about t...
Philosophy, artificial intelligence and cognitive science have long been dominated by the presupposition that intelligence is fundamentally individual. Recent work in cognitive sci...
Imagination is generally regarded as a very powerful and advanced cognitive ability. In this paper we propose a modelling framework for what we call functional imagination: the ab...
Hugo Gravato Marques, Owen Holland, Richard Newcom...
This position paper argues the case for the application of constructivist theories to Artificial Intelligence, with particular emphasis on Piaget's theory. The idea of buildin...
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to try to understand the structure of time in information technologies. Starting with historical arguments, it first shows that time is neither l...