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In a culmination of humanity's millennia-long quest for self
knowledge, the sciences of the mind are now in a position to offer
concrete, empirically validated answers to the most fundamental
questions about human nature. What does it mean to be a mind? How
is the mind related to the brain? How are minds shaped by their
embodiment and environment? What are the principles behind
cognitive functions such as perception, memory, language, thought,
and consciousness?
By analyzing the tasks facing any sentient being that is subject
to stimulation and a pressure to act, Shimon Edelman identifies
computation as the common denominator in the emerging answers to
all these questions. Any system composed of elements that exchange
signals with each other and occasionally with the rest of the world
can be said to be engaged in computation. A brain composed of
neurons is one example of a system that computes, and the
computations that the neurons collectively carry out constitute the
brain's mind.
Edelman presents a computational account of the entire spectrum of
cognitive phenomena that constitutes the mind. He begins with
sentience, and uses examples from visual perception to demonstrate
that it must, at its very core, be a type of computation.
Throughout his account, Edelman acknowledges the human mind's
biological origins. Along the way, he also demystifies traits such
as creativity, language, and individual and collective
consciousness, and hints at how naturally evolved minds can
transcend some of their limitations by moving to computational
substrates other than brains. The account that Edelman gives in
this book is accessible, yet unified and rigorous, and the big
picture he presents is supported by evidence ranging from
neurobiology to computer science. The book should be read by anyone
seeking a comprehensive and current introduction to cognitive
psychology.
A moving account of survival and faith from Israel Meir Lau, a
Holocaust survivor and former Chief Rabbi of Israel, with forewords
by former President of Israel Shimon Peres and the bestselling
author of Night, Elie Wiesel—both Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
 One of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, Israel Meir
Lau was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945.
Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to
become Chief Rabbi of Israel--and like many of the great rabbis,
Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing,
miraculous, and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis’
deadliest concentration camps and how he managed to survive against
all possible odds. Lau, who lost most of his family in the
Holocaust, also chronicles his life after the war, including his
emigration to Mandate Palestine during a period that coincides with
the development of the State of Israel. The story continues through
the present day, with that once-lost boy of eight now a brilliant,
charismatic, and world-revered figure who has visited with three
popes, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and countless global
leaders, including Queen Elizabeth, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama,
and Tony Blair.  Lau’s insightful reflections on his
experiences during the Holocaust and World War II make Out of the
Depths a compelling tribute to the strength and resilience of the
human spirit. Originally published in Hebrew under the title Do Not
Raise a Hand Against the Boy, this is a deeply inspiring and
powerful memoir for readers of Holocaust books such as The Daughter
of Auschwitz and Man’s Search for Meaning. Â
This book instructively introduces the reader to the basics of
Jewish law. It gives a detailed, cutting-edge analysis of
contemporary public and private law in the State of Israel, as well
as Israel's legal culture, its system of government, and the roles
of its democratic institutions: the executive, parliament, and
judiciary. The book examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion,
constitutionalization, and equality.
This book focuses on the systematic modeling of complex situations
characterized by escalating disruptions, and on cycles of dynamic
collaboration for the best handling of disruptions. What can we do
about disruptive events and their cascading effects? Thanks to the
evolution of intelligent technologies for interaction,
communication, sharing, and collaboration, cyberspace is a rapidly
expanding world. Our systems of machines, software services, and
human organizations have become increasingly interdependent, in
other words - networked. As a result, disruptions that initially
affect only a small part of any network tend to escalate. At the
same time, cyber solutions can support first responders and
emergency handlers, enhancing their responsiveness and ability to
collaborate with one another in controlling disruptions and
preventing their escalation. In this book, we are chiefly
interested in how effectively these collaborations can be supported
and how we can further optimize such support. Solution guidelines
for optimizing collaborations are illustrated with examples in
various application domains: agricultural robotics, civil
cyber-physical infrastructure, visual analytics, manufacturing
automation, and supply chains. Open-source simulation tools are
also provided to supplement the main content.
This book provides a concise introduction to the basics of Jewish
law. It gives a detailed analysis of contemporary public and
private law in the State of Israel, as well as Israel's legal
culture, its system of government, and the roles of its democratic
institutions: the executive, parliament, and judiciary. The book
examines issues of Holocaust, law and religion,
constitutionalization, and equality. It is the ultimate book for
anyone interested in Israeli Law and its politics. Authors Shimon
Shetreet is the Greenblatt Professor of Public and International
Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He is the
President of the International Association of Judicial Independence
and World Peace and heads the International Project of Judicial
Independence. In 2008, the Mt. Scopus Standards of Judicial
Independence were issued under his leadership. Between 1988 and
1996, Professor Shetreet served as a member of the Israeli
Parliament, and was a cabinet minister under Yitzhak Rabin and
Shimon Peres. He was senior deputy mayor of Jerusalem between 1999
and 2003. He was a Judge of the Standard Contract Court and served
as a member of the Chief Justice Landau Commission on the Israeli
Court System. The author and editor of many books on the judiciary,
Professor Shetreet is a member of the Royal Academy of Science and
Arts of Belgium. Rabbi Walter Homolka PhD (King's College London,
1992), PhD (University of Wales Trinity St. David, 2015), DHL
(Hebrew Union College, New York, 2009), is a full professor of
Modern Jewish Thought and the executive director of the School of
Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The rector
of the Abraham Geiger College (since 2003) is Chairman of the Leo
Baeck Foundation and of the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship
Foundation in Potsdam. In addition, he has served as the executive
director of the Masorti Zacharias Frankel College since 2013.The
author of "Judisches Eherecht" and other publications on Jewish Law
holds several distinctions: among them the Knight Commander's Cross
of the Austrian Merit Order and the 1st Class Federal Merit Order
of Germany. In 2004, President Jacques Chirac admitted Rabbi
Homolka to the French Legion of Honor.
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Mismatch or best match? This book demonstrates that best matching
of individual entities to each other is essential to ensure smooth
conduct and successful competitiveness in any distributed system,
natural and artificial. Interactions must be optimized through best
matching in planning and scheduling, enterprise network design,
transportation and construction planning, recruitment, problem
solving, selective assembly, team formation, sensor network design,
and more. Fundamentals of best matching in distributed and
collaborative systems are explained by providing: Methodical
analysis of various multidimensional best matching processes
Comprehensive taxonomy, comparing different best matching problems
and processes Systematic identification of systems' hierarchy,
nature of interactions, and distribution of decision-making and
control functions Practical formulation of solutions based on a
library of best matching algorithms and protocols, ready for direct
applications and apps development. Designed for both academics and
practitioners, oriented to systems engineers and applied operations
researchers, diverse types of best matching processes are explained
in production, manufacturing, business and service, based on a new
reference model developed at Purdue University PRISM Center: "The
PRISM Taxonomy of Best Matching". The book concludes with major
challenges and guidelines for future basic and applied research in
the area of best matching.
Collaboration in highly distributed organizations of people,
robots, and autonomous systems is and must be revolutionized by
engineering augmentation. The aim is to augment humans' abilities
at work and, through this augmentation, improve organizations'
abilities to accomplish their missions. This book establishes the
theoretical foundations and design principles of collaborative
e-Work, e-Business and e-Service, their models and applications,
design and implementation techniques. The fundamental premise is
that without effective e-Work and e-Services, the potential of
emerging activities, such as e-Commerce, virtual manufacturing,
tele-robotic medicine, automated construction, smart energy grid,
cyber-supported agriculture, and intelligent transportation cannot
be fully materialized. Typically, workers and managers of such
value networks are frustrated with complex information systems,
originally designed and built to simplify and improve performance.
Even if the human-computer interface for such systems is well
designed, the information and task overloads can be overwhelming.
Effective delivery of expected outcomes may not occur. Challenges
and emerging solutions in the context of the recently developed
CCT, Collaborative Control Theory, are described, with emphasis on
issues of computer-supported and communication-enabled integration,
coordination and augmented collaboration. Research results and
analyses of engineering design methods and complex systems
management techniques are explained and illustrated.
This book promotes healthy collaborations between scene and costume
designers. It presents case studies for a deepening of the
understanding of professional careers across a broad spectrum of
venues. It acknowledges and offers equity to fields in technical
theatre by delving into the key role they play in the success of
live production.
In three main divisions the book covers combinational circuits,
latches, and asynchronous sequential circuits. Combinational
circuits have no memorising ability, while sequential circuits have
such an ability to various degrees. Latches are the simplest
sequential circuits, ones with the shortest memory. The
presentation is decidedly non-standard. The design of combinational
circuits is discussed in an orthodox manner using normal forms and
in an unorthodox manner using set-theoretical evaluation formulas
relying heavily on Karnaugh maps. The latter approach allows for a
new design technique called composition. Latches are covered very
extensively. Their memory functions are expressed mathematically in
a time-independent manner allowing the use of (normal,
non-temporal) Boolean logic in their calculation. The theory of
latches is then used as the basis for calculating asynchronous
circuits. Asynchronous circuits are specified in a
tree-representation, each internal node of the tree representing an
internal latch of the circuit, the latches specified by the tree
itself. The tree specification allows solutions of formidable
problems such as algorithmic state assignment, finding equivalent
states non-recursively, and verifying asynchronous circuits.
Spinors are used extensively in physics. It is widely accepted that
they are more fundamental than tensors, and the easy way to see
this is through the results obtained in general relativity theory
by using spinors -- results that could not have been obtained by
using tensor methods only.
The foundation of the concept of spinors is groups; spinors
appear as representations of groups. This textbook expounds the
relationship between spinors and representations of groups. As is
well known, spinors and representations are both widely used in the
theory of elementary particles.
The authors present the origin of spinors from representation
theory, but nevertheless apply the theory of spinors to general
relativity theory, and part of the book is devoted to curved
space-time applications.
Based on lectures given at Ben Gurion University, this textbook
is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in
physics and mathematics, as well as being a reference for
researchers.
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The author’s main concern is to promote understanding of the basic ideas underlying switching theory. Nothing is taken for granted, whether it is the concept of a logic variable, that of feedback in a latch or sequential circuit, or the necessity to encode internal states. This very basic and thorough approach enables the development of new concepts such as Composition, or Verification. The theoretical side is enhanced by using predicate (instead of propositional) logic allowing for formal proofs till now unattainable. On the practical side, sequential circuits that hitherto were obtained intuitively are now open to a formal synthesis procedure.
This book presents new algorithms for reinforcement learning, a
form of machine learning in which an autonomous agent seeks a
control policy for a sequential decision task. Since current
methods typically rely on manually designed solution
representations, agents that automatically adapt their own
representations have the potential to dramatically improve
performance. This book introduces two novel approaches for
automatically discovering high-performing representations. The
first approach synthesizes temporal difference methods, the
traditional approach to reinforcement learning, with evolutionary
methods, which can learn representations for a broad class of
optimization problems. This synthesis is accomplished by
customizing evolutionary methods to the on-line nature of
reinforcement learning and using them to evolve representations for
value function approximators. The second approach automatically
learns representations based on piecewise-constant approximations
of value functions. It begins with coarse representations and
gradually refines them during learning, analyzing the current
policy and value function to deduce the best refinements. This book
also introduces a novel method for devising input representations.
This method addresses the feature selection problem by extending an
algorithm that evolves the topology and weights of neural networks
such that it evolves their inputs too. In addition to introducing
these new methods, this book presents extensive empirical results
in multiple domains demonstrating that these techniques can
substantially improve performance over methods with manual
representations.
The objective of this book is to bring together contributions by
eminent researchers from industry and academia who specialize in
the currently separate study and application of the key aspects of
integration. The state of knowledge on integration and
collaboration models and methods is reviewed, followed by an agenda
for needed research that has been generated by the participants.
The book is the result of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on
"Integration: Information and Collaboration Models" that took place
at II Ciocco, Italy, during June 1993. Significant developments and
research projects have been occurring internationally in a major
effort to integrate increasingly complex systems. On one hand,
advancements in computer technology and computing theories provide
better, more timely, information. On of users and clients, and the
the other hand, the geographic and organizational distribution
proliferation of computers and communication, lead to an explosion
of information and to the demand for integration. Two important
examples of interest are computer integrated manufacturing and
enterprises (CIM/E) and concurrent engineering (CE). CIM/E is the
collection of computer technologies such as CNC, CAD, CAM. robotics
and computer integrated engineering that integrate all the
enterprise activities for competitiveness and timely response to
changes. Concurrent engineering is the complete life-cycle approach
to engineering of products. systems. and processes including
customer requirements, design. planning. costing. service and
recycling. In CIM/E and in CE, computer based information is the
key to integration.
In this book, the esoteric dimension gives insights into the
philosophy of astrology. Kabbalistic principles, cosmic symbols and
archetypal images reveal deeper aspects of personal horoscope and
historic events. Together with celestial patterns and rhythms, free
will and choice are seen as crucial aspects of the unfolding of a
fate.
Kabbalistic working methods include both theory and practice. This
book describes the ways of Action, Devotion and Contemplation as
well as specific exercises to access interior processes and even
past lives. Such knowledge integrates everyday life with spiritual
experiences and opens up a deeper understanding of Existence.
The Osirian Codex was written as if were three sage scribes each
having a different point of views but in essence all of them are
looking at the same thing from different windows. This literary
work of esoteric philosophy, ethics and wisdom also includes the
subtitle, "Twt-Mos and the Homosexual," the "Eye of Heru," "The
Divine Androgyny, Adam" and others esoteric and apocryphal work,
which may be radical. The book is also apocalyptic and apocryphal
in some sense but it is not intended to harm no one or to impose
and convert but to show and reflect gnosis, the salvation of
humanity and the path of esoteric enlightenment.
A Kabbalistic Universe describes the processes behind the origin
and purpose of Existence. A metaphysical scheme of four
interlocking Worlds shows humanity's role in the Chain of Being,
which includes angelic and organic creatures. This book brings
ancient and medieval kabbalistic cosmology up to date with modern
science and psychology.
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