The development of classical and contemporary informatics, the
cross-fertilization between computer science, software engineering, cognitive
science, and neuropsychology, has led to a whole range of extremely interesting
new research areas known as cognitive informatics. Cognitive informatics is the
transdisciplinary study of cognitive and information sciences that investigates
into the internal i... hiện toàn bộ
This article develops a theory for how caringbehavior fits into the makeup of
humans andother mammals. Biochemical evidence for threemajor patterns of
response to stressful orotherwise complex situations is reviewed. There is the
classic fight-or-flight response;the dissociative response, involving
emotionalwithdrawal and disengagement; and the bondingresponse, a variant of
which Taylor et al.(200... hiện toàn bộ
Two strains of male mice have bred over fortygenerations, starting with the work
of RobertCairns and his colleagues, one strain with ahigh level of intra-species
aggression, theother a low level of aggression. Thehigh-aggression mice tend to
establishdominance hierarchies and particularly fight inthe presence of female
mice. Thelow-aggression mice tend, in groups of theirown, to have a high degree... hiện toàn bộ
Present discussions in philosophy of mind focuson ontological and epistemic
characteristics ofmind and on mind-brain relations. In contrast,ontological and
epistemic characteristics ofthe brain have rarely been thematized.
Rather,philosophy seems to rely upon an implicitdefinition of the brain as
"neuronal object''and "object of recognition'': henceontologically and
epistemically distinct fromthe ... hiện toàn bộ