Challenges in astrochemistry: The spectroscopic point of view: Comment on “Prebiotic chemistry and origins of life research with atomistic computer simulations” by A. Pérez-Villa, F. Pietrucci, and A.M. Saitta
Publication date: Available online 20 November 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Cristina Puzzarini, Vincenzo Barone (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - November 21, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Introduction to the special issue on physics of mind
Publication date: Available online 19 November 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Felix SchoellerAbstractIn recent years, both fields of physics and psychology have made important scientific advances. The emergence of new instruments gave rise to a data-driven neuroscience allowing us to learn about the state of the brain supporting known mental functions and conversely. In parallel, the appearance of new mathematics allowed the development of computational models describing fundamental brain functions and implementing them in technological applications. While emphasizing the methodology of physics, the special ...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - November 21, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
The final frontier in connectomics: Forward engineering brain networks: Comment on “What would a synthetic connectome look like?” by Ithai Rabinowitch
Publication date: Available online 12 November 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Emma K. Towlson (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - November 19, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
The next frontier in connectomics: forward engineering brain networks: Comment on “What would a synthetic connectome look like?” by Ithai Rabinowitch
Publication date: Available online 12 November 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Emma K. Towlson (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - November 13, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Connectome of synthetic cells: Comment on “What would a synthetic connectome look like?” by Ithai Rabinowitch
Publication date: Available online 12 November 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Jose L. Alejo, Katarzyna P. Adamala (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - November 13, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Driving the connectome by-wire: Comment on “What would a synthetic connectome look like?” by Ithai Rabinowitch
Publication date: Available online 12 November 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Eli Shlizerman (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - November 13, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
The complementarity of ‘Muscleless’ motor synergies with motor control strategies in humans and robots: Reply to comments on “Muscleless motor synergies and actions without movements: From motor neuroscience to cognitive robotics”
Publication date: Available online 11 November 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Vishwanathan Mohan, Pietro Morasso, Ajaz Bhat (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - November 12, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Enhancing human emotions with interoceptive technologies
Publication date: Available online 25 October 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): F. Schoeller, A.J.H. Haar, A. Jain, P. MaesAbstractHistorically, multiple theories have posited an active, causal role for perceived bodily states in the creation of human emotion. Recent evidence for embodied cognition, i.e. the role of the entire body in cognition, and support for models positing a key role of bodily homeostasis in the creation of consciousness, i.e. active inference, call for the test of causal rather than correlational links between changes in bodily state and changes in affective state. The controlled stimulati...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - October 26, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
A Simple Theory of Every ‘Thing’
Publication date: Available online 25 October 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Ines HipolitoAbstractOne of the criteria to a strong principle in natural sciences is simplicity. This paper claims that the Free Energy Principle (FEP), by virtue of unifying particles with mind, is the simplest. Motivated by Hilbert's 24th problem of simplicity, the argument is made that the FEP takes a seemingly mathematical complex domain and reduces it to something simple. More specifically, it is attempted to show that every ‘thing’, from particles to mind, can be partitioned into systemic states by virtue of self-organisi...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - October 26, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Elements of qualitative cognition: An information topology perspective
Publication date: Available online 25 October 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Pierre BaudotAbstractElementary quantitative and qualitative aspects of consciousness are investigated conjointly from the biology, neuroscience, physic and mathematic point of view, by the mean of a theory written with Bennequin that derives and extends information theory within algebraic topology. Information structures, that accounts for statistical dependencies within n-body interacting systems are interpreted a la Leibniz as a monadic-panpsychic framework where consciousness is information and physical, and arise from collectiv...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - October 26, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Unconscious emotions of human learning
Publication date: Available online 24 October 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Leonid Perlovsky, Felix SchoellerAbstractBrain and behavioral data have provided ample evidence that the largest part of emotion processes occur below the threshold of conscious awareness. In this article, we present computational models of the relation between emotion and cognition describing emotions as homeostatic signals critical to need regulation. These models suggest that an innate drive to regulate information and accompany the genesis of meaning evolved over the history of life. Most emotions underlying this innate mechanis...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - October 25, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
The neural code of intelligence: From correlation to causation
Publication date: Available online 23 October 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Norbert JaušovecAbstractResearch into the neural underpinning of intelligence has mainly adopted a construct perspective: trying to find structural and functional brain characteristics that would accommodate the psychological concept of g. Few attempts have been made to explain intelligence exclusively based on brain characteristics – the brain perspective. From a methodological viewpoint the brain intelligence relation has been studied by means of correlational and interventional studies. The later providing a causal elucidation...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - October 25, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
From cells to sensations: A window to the physics of mind
Publication date: Available online 23 October 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Kunjumon I. VadakkanAbstractPrinciples of methods for studying particles and fields that cannot be sensed by third-person observers by routine methods can be used to understand the physics of first-person properties of mind. Accordingly, whenever a system exhibits disparate features at multiple levels, unique combination of constraints offered by them direct us towards a solution that will be the first principle of that system. Using this method, it was possible to arrive at a third-person observable solution-point of brain-mind int...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - October 25, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Uncovering the spatiotemporal scales of common neuro-mental constructs: Comment on “Is temporo-spatial dynamics the ‘common currency’ of brain and mind? In Quest of ‘Spatiotemporal Neuroscience‴ Georg Northoff et al.
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Manel Vila-Vidal, Katerina Capouskova, Selen Atasoy, Morten L. Kringelbach, Gustavo Deco (Source: Physics of Life Reviews)
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - October 23, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
Intelligent architectures for robotics: The merging of cognition and emotion
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2019Source: Physics of Life ReviewsAuthor(s): Luiz PessoaAbstractWhat is the place of emotion in intelligent robots? In the past two decades, researchers have advocated for the inclusion of some emotion-related components in the general information processing architecture of autonomous agents, say, for better communication with humans, or to instill a sense of urgency to action. The framework advanced here goes beyond these approaches and proposes that emotion and motivation need to be integrated with all aspects of the architecture. Thus, cognitive-emotional integration is a k...
Source: Physics of Life Reviews - October 23, 2019 Category: Physics Source Type: research
