To investigate the unique kinds of mentality involved in skilled performance, this paper
explores the performance ecology of the Māori haka, a ritual form of song and dance of the …

Why you are more than just a brain, more than just a brain-and-body, and more than all your
assumptions about who you are. Who are you? Are you just a brain? A brain and a body? All …

Phenotypic plasticity is usually defined as a property of individual genotypes to produce
different phenotypes when exposed to different environmental conditions. While the benefits …

The ability to respond to environmental stimuli with appropriate actions is a property shared
by all living organisms, and it is also sought in the design of robotic systems. Phenotypic …

Evolutionary robot systems are usually affected by the properties of the environment
indirectly through selection. In this paper, we present and investigate a system where the …

Phenotypic plasticity is usually defined as a property of individual genotypes to produce
different phenotypes when exposed to different environmental conditions. While the benefits …

Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory is fixed in scientific thought as a dogma despite the lack
of congruence with some observable and theoretical phenomena related to culture …

Given that selection removes genetic variance from evolving populations, thereby reducing
exploration opportunities, it is important to find mechanisms that create genetic variation …

The Māori haka is one of the most widely recognized indigenous performances in the
modern era, and also one of the most commonly misunderstood (Hartigan, 2011). Haka is …

Preamble. There are multiple tasks that, desirably, would be carried out by robots instead of
humans. Some examples are industrial maintenance, housework, agriculture, construction …