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Goal‐Directed Latent Variable Inference: A Unified Active Inference Framework for Embodied Intelligence in Continuous Spatiotemporal Domains

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
AbstractThis review presents goal‐directed latent variable inference (GLean) as a unified active inference framework for embodied intelligence operating in continuous spatiotemporal domains. We address a central challenge in cognitive science: how agents generate, adapt, and understand goal‐directed actions in noisy, high‐dimensional sensorimotor ...
Takazumi Matsumoto, Prasanna Vijayaraghavan, Jun Tani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Lady and the Plants: Two Notions of Teleology in Agnes Arber's Philosophy of Plants. [PDF]

J Hist Biol
Straetmanns VM.
europepmc   +1 more source

War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
wiley   +1 more source

Caring as a Generative Principle: Reconfiguring the Metaparadigm and Operative Mechanisms in Nursing Theory. [PDF]

J Adv Nurs
Muñoz Devesa A, Rico Becerra JI.
europepmc   +1 more source

Re‐evaluating the Rise of Anglophone Malaysian Historical Fiction in the Twenty‐First Century

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, anglophone Malaysian historical fiction has gained significant global recognition, so much so that it has become the dominant genre. However, notwithstanding this enviable evolution in the country's English‐language literature, it is not without issues, due to the genre's somewhat orientalist representation of ...
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
wiley   +1 more source

Making visible the clinical practice of mentalization-based therapy as illustrated by the therapy session material. [PDF]

Discov Ment Health
Keinänen M, Teräsahjo T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Hypoxia and hypercapnia elicit overlapping but distinct skeletal muscle toxicities

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Hypoxia and hypercapnia cause overlapping skeletal muscle phenotypes, including atrophy, change in myofibre metabolic profile and myogenic response to injury. Both signals operate via distinct cellular pathways. Abstract Skeletal muscle dysfunction is strongly associated with elevated mortality in acute and chronic pulmonary ...
Joseph Balnis, Ariel Jaitovich
wiley   +1 more source

A Dual-Aspect Model of Subjectivity, Teleology, and Non-Libertarian Agency

This paper outlines a dual-aspect model of subjectivity and agency that rejects the standard division between libertarian free will, compatibilism, and mechanistic determinism. Living beings instantiate a single underlying substance with two inseparable aspects—physical and phenomenal.
openaire   +1 more source

Dead Ends and Policy Change in Chinese Experimental Governance

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Not all policy change is expansive, yet non‐expansive trajectories remain underexamined. This article introduces the concept of dead ends: a stage of the policy process in which initiatives cease to develop or be implemented in their existing form, structuring subsequent policy change such as rollback, redirection, or termination.
Vincent Brussee
wiley   +1 more source

The interrelationship between soul and body: Plato as pioneer of the philosophy of health. [PDF]

Med Health Care Philos
Şimşek N.
europepmc   +1 more source