Jeffrey Kinsella-Shaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 7518759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Kinsella-Shaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Kinsella-Shaw |
| SIGNATURE | KINSELLA-SHAW J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Affordance Types and Affordance Tokens
Late in their paper on hypersets, Chemero and Turvey characterize affordances as “quicksilvery,” prone to rapid appearance and disappearance. We contrast this view with Gibson’s emphasis on the stability of affordances. We argue that this apparent discrepancy can be resolved by appeal to the distinction between affordances as indefinite abstract types and definite affordance tokens (instances of the type that share the resemblance relation). Thes…
Hints of Intelligence From First Principles
Are intelligent systems necessarily biological or might they be only physical? We propose that a system be deemed intelligent if its actions exhibit intentional dynamics. A lower bound on intelligence appears in such diverse physical systems as black holes making anticipatory adjustments to approaching matter and particles choosing among myriad possible steps the next least action step. While thermodynamic laws are known to govern black hole dyna…
Lessons for Dynamic Touch From a Case of Stroke-Induced Motor Impairment
LW, an individual with a stroke-related motor impairment, was asked to perceive the lengths of rods of different mass distributions by dynamic touch. His impairment dictated that wielding was primarily about the shoulder rather than the wrist. Although perceived rod lengths were in the range of actual rod lengths, scaling to the objects' mass moments was atypical for both the affected and unaffected limbs. A group of healthy young adults asked to…
Could Optical ‘Pushes’ Be Inertial Forces? A Geometro-Dynamical Hypothesis
Under various circumstances perceived optical disturbances have been shown to upset an observer’s upright posture (e.g., Lee’s gliding room), but no principled explanation has yet been proposed that will handle these phenomena. These so-called optical ‘pushes’ are conveyed by kinematic information but they act on the observer as if they were kinetic forces. Information (geometry and time) and forces (geometry, time, and mass) thus are mismatched …
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Could Optical ‘Pushes’ Be Inertial Forces? A Geometro-Dynamical Hypothesis
Under various circumstances perceived optical disturbances have been shown to upset an observer’s upright posture (e.g., Lee’s gliding room), but no principled explanation has yet been proposed that will handle these phenomena. These so-called optical ‘pushes’ are conveyed by kinematic information but they act on the observer as if they were kinetic forces. Information (geometry and time) and forces (geometry, time, and mass) thus are mismatched …
Lessons for Dynamic Touch From a Case of Stroke-Induced Motor Impairment
LW, an individual with a stroke-related motor impairment, was asked to perceive the lengths of rods of different mass distributions by dynamic touch. His impairment dictated that wielding was primarily about the shoulder rather than the wrist. Although perceived rod lengths were in the range of actual rod lengths, scaling to the objects' mass moments was atypical for both the affected and unaffected limbs. A group of healthy young adults asked to…
Hints of Intelligence From First Principles
Are intelligent systems necessarily biological or might they be only physical? We propose that a system be deemed intelligent if its actions exhibit intentional dynamics. A lower bound on intelligence appears in such diverse physical systems as black holes making anticipatory adjustments to approaching matter and particles choosing among myriad possible steps the next least action step. While thermodynamic laws are known to govern black hole dyna…
Affordance Types and Affordance Tokens
Late in their paper on hypersets, Chemero and Turvey characterize affordances as “quicksilvery,” prone to rapid appearance and disappearance. We contrast this view with Gibson’s emphasis on the stability of affordances. We argue that this apparent discrepancy can be resolved by appeal to the distinction between affordances as indefinite abstract types and definite affordance tokens (instances of the type that share the resemblance relation). Thes…
Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Physics (3 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (2 works) · Classical mechanics (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (1 work)