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TED/2many_ideas.md

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-##What problem did you have?
+## What problem did you have?
 
 I had a problem and the problem was big and ubiquitous: I had too many ideas per day.
 I have started blogging: https://cosmicdustman.wordpress.com/category/rd/ expressing the
 ideas just in the internet space like radiating them. Then I have understood that radiating the ideas
 have not make much sense without their implementation.
 I needed some focus and that was the Machine Consciousness.
 
-##What influenced you? 
+## What influenced you?
 
 The book.
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Let's have a look at the human brain and mind! Again.
 To be honest the history of modern computing starts with high-level model of human brain implemented in
 chips that what we know as Von Neumann architecture.
 
-##What was the solution
+## What was the solution
 
 When I turned 40 I have understood that there is no more time to waste if I want to do something interesting
 I have to do this now. At this time I was SDA(Software design architect) and had some experience in some research

TED/app.md

@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
-#TED application
+# TED application
 
-##Tell us about yourself
+## Tell us about yourself
 
 We take this portion of the application very seriously. Please take the time to answer the questions thoughtfully and with plenty of detail, to help us understand who you are.
 
 All responses are limited to 1500 characters except where noted.
-###Tell us about your work, and the projects you are currently working on! *
+### Tell us about your work, and the projects you are currently working on! *
 
 [Work](work.md)
 
-###What is your idea worth spreading? *
+### What is your idea worth spreading? *
 
 [Idea](idea.md)
 
-###What are you best known for? What is your crowning achievement? *
+### What are you best known for? What is your crowning achievement? *
 
 [Affective computing and machine consciousness](consciousness.md)
 
-###What other accomplishments would you like to share? Please give context! (e.g. you're a wine expert, you own a bakery, etc.)
+### What other accomplishments would you like to share? Please give context! (e.g. you're a wine expert, you own a bakery, etc.)
 
 [industrial projects](ind_projects.md)
 
-###List any awards, prizes or other Fellowships you have won, with the details below:
+### List any awards, prizes or other Fellowships you have won, with the details below:
 
     The name of the award, prize or Fellowship
     The date it was received
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ All responses are limited to 1500 characters except where noted.
 (Note: Awards are not required to receive a TED Fellowship.)
 
 
-###What type of education have you received? Please add details for any degrees, including:
+### What type of education have you received? Please add details for any degrees, including:
 
     Educational institution
     Type of degree
@@ -41,29 +41,29 @@ All responses are limited to 1500 characters except where noted.
 (Note: Formal education is not required to receive a TED Fellowship. Many Fellows have not been to school or did not finish.)
 
 
-###What hobbies, causes or activities are you passionate about aside from your work? *
+### What hobbies, causes or activities are you passionate about aside from your work? *
 
 [Childhood, punk rock, bike](hobbies.md).
 
-###Share an example of something you have been a part of, created, led, or joined that you consider unique. Why do you think it is groundbreaking? *
-(Limit 2250 characters) check this 
+### Share an example of something you have been a part of, created, led, or joined that you consider unique. Why do you think it is groundbreaking? *
+(Limit 2250 characters) check this
 
 [Menta](menta.md)
 
 
-###What questions should we have asked, but didn’t? Please write them down and answer them! (In other words, tell us something about yourself that we don’t know yet.) *
-(Limit 2250 characters) check this 
+### What questions should we have asked, but didn’t? Please write them down and answer them! (In other words, tell us something about yourself that we don’t know yet.) *
+(Limit 2250 characters) check this
 
 [Too many ideas](2many_ideas.md)
 
 
-###Can you share a memorable anecdote from your life that will give us a further sense of what makes you tick? *
+### Can you share a memorable anecdote from your life that will give us a further sense of what makes you tick? *
 
 [Birthday](birthday.md)
 
-###How did you hear about the TED Fellows program? If you can, share the specific person, organization, etc.
+### How did you hear about the TED Fellows program? If you can, share the specific person, organization, etc.
 
-###Have you participated in TED before? If so, to what extent? (e.g. you watch TED Talks, you’ve attended / hosted / spoken at a TEDx event, you’re a TED Translator, etc.)
+### Have you participated in TED before? If so, to what extent? (e.g. you watch TED Talks, you’ve attended / hosted / spoken at a TEDx event, you’re a TED Translator, etc.)
 
 
 List at least one website (more if you like!) that will help us understand you better.
@@ -89,5 +89,3 @@ URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness
 
 Website Description: David Chalmers TED speech
 URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_chalmers_how_do_you_explain_consciousness
-
-

TED/birthday.md

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-Once I have spent two month in business trip in the UK, at that time I was working for Fujitsu UK in the integration project. The team was so freindly and efficient that made the project and team work a real pleasure.
-At the end of my trip that was in middle of Autumn the team members invited me to farewell dinner in the Chinese restaurant.
-In the middle of the dinner the personnel of the restaurant dimmed the light and waitress with the cake with one candle started her trip to the lucky guy. As my birthday is in Spring and I knew that I was completely astonished when the waitress put the cake in front of me. The only phrase that I could say for a next minute was: "It is not my birthday".
+<p>Once I have spent two month in business trip in the UK, at that time I was working for Fujitsu UK in the integration project. The team was so freindly and efficient that made the project and team work a real pleasure.</p>
+<p>At the end of my trip that was in middle of Autumn the team members invited me to farewell dinner in the Chinese restaurant.</p>
+<p>In the middle of the dinner the personnel of the restaurant dimmed the light and waitress with the cake with one candle started her trip to the lucky guy. As my birthday is in Spring and I knew that I was completely astonished when the waitress put the cake in front of me. The only phrase that I could say for a next minute was: "It is not my birthday".
 And whole the restaurant laughed. My colleague that organized the farewell party told me a bit later:
-"This is something to remember".
+"This is something to remember".</p>

TED/hobbies.md

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-##Imagination
+## Imagination
 When I was 12 years old my mind was enormously influenced by the stories of my grandpa
 about the astrophysics.
 Whole world expanded from building and streets to the galaxies and universe.
 I still can remember the image of the trolleybus shrinking to the size of point of a needle.
 This is the way I have discovered the power of imagination.
 
-##Protest
+## Protest
 Later when I was something like 20 and life during 90es in Russia was not easy, the ideas of
 protest was really natural and easy to understand. I have started the musical punk rock group
 Definitely
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ the creative part of the programming in general and later in the AI.
 Switching the perspective and using unconventional angles and approaches to look a scientific
 problem is one of the powerful tools that I currently use.
 
-##Bike and midlife crisis
+## Bike and midlife crisis
 At my 35-38 during midlife crisis I bought a bike, possibly this is not really original. I perceived it
-as escape from the ordinary life and way to detach from the everyday routine. 
+as escape from the ordinary life and way to detach from the everyday routine.
 Later I understood that powerful emotions as much dangerous as alcohol and this triggers my interest
 to human emotions and their simulations.

TED/idea.md

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#Fear simulation
+# Fear simulation
 
 Recently we have managed to simulate the fear in its simplest form
 and indicate the connection of emotions and computational system parameters: computational power consumption,
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ I completely agree with the position and more than that we propose that emotions
 creates proper basement for the values system of future safe and friendly artificial intelligence or
 super-intelligence.
 
-#Machine consciousness 
+# Machine consciousness
 
 Currently we have a lot of machines that can do a lot of interesting and amazing things like IBM Watson. But still
 there is no sign of the consciousness they still are unconsciously following the program that collective of

TED/intro.md

@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-#Introduction
+# Introduction
 
-##I was born in childhood
+## I was born in childhood
 
 When I was 12 years old my mind was enormously influenced by the stories of my grandpa about the astrophysics.
 Whole world expanded from building and streets to the galaxies and universe.
 I still can remember the image of the trolleybus shrinking to the size of point of a needle.
 This is the way I have discovered the power of imagination.
 
-##Problem
+## Problem
 
 I had a problem and the problem was big and ubiquitous: I had too many ideas per day.
 I have started [blogging](https://cosmicdustman.wordpress.com/category/rd/) expressing the
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ some progress in the automation but still the system was:
 
 So we had to use different approach.
 
-##The book
+## The book
 
 Around 2007 I have explored the book of Marvin Minsky "The emotion machine". That was fresh and unusual view on
 the Artificial Intelligence(AI) and the emotions. For some historical reason we still perceive the machines
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Let's have a look at the human brain and mind! Again.
 To be honest the history of modern computing starts with high-level model of human brain implemented in
 chips that what we know as Von Neumann architecture.
 
-##Solution
+## Solution
 
 When I turned 40 I have understood that there is no more time to waste if I want to do something interesting
 I have to do this now. At this time I was SDA(Software design architect) and had some experience in some research
@@ -67,21 +67,21 @@ We have started the book about the machine consciousness mainly as the neural co
 to several mental activities, in other words: explaining philosophical/psychological phenomena in neurobiological
 terms.
 
-##The TED speech
+## The TED speech
 
-###Fear simulation
+### Fear simulation
 
 Recently we have received the preliminary results of the simulation of fear in the machines.
 We have managed to simulate the fear in its simplest form
 and indicate the connection of emotions and computational system parameters: computational power consumption,
 learning and storage and we are able to indicate the moment when machine was in fear-like state.
 
 Nick Bostrom in his [TED speech](http://www.ted.com/talks/nick_bostrom_what_happens_when_our_computers_get_smarter_than_we_are) indicated the importance that super-intelligence "shares our(human) values". We completely agree
-this position and more than that we propose that emotions and consciousness 
+this position and more than that we propose that emotions and consciousness
 creates proper basement for the values system of future safe and friendly artificial intelligence or
 super-intelligence.
 
-###Machine consciousness 
+### Machine consciousness
 
 Why consciousness is interesting and so complex/challenging?
 Mainly because we do not understand the human consciousness, there are brilliant minds working on this problem:
@@ -104,6 +104,3 @@ We have to have conscious machines and capable of having emotional feelings not
 I'm pretty sure that if there was no crucial need for the consciousness and emotions then the evolution would get rid
 of them. We want to create responsible and reasonable members of society
 that will help us possibly already "old humans" in future.
-
-
-

affective_computing_course/analysis/acs.md

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-#Cognitive approach to emotions articles analysis
+# Cognitive approach to emotions articles analysis
 
-##Interoceptive  inference,  emotion, and the  embodied  self
+## Interoceptive  inference,  emotion, and the  embodied  self
 
 Crucially, none  identify  emotional  states  with  top-down  inference  of the  causes  of  interoceptive  signals,  as  argued  here  (and  as recently  taken  up  by  others  [9]).  Rather,  they  emphasize  a continuous,  dynamic,  but  largely  bottom-up  interoceptive representational  hierarchy  that  interacts  with  other perceptions  to  motivate  behaviour.  Perhaps  more  closely related  is  the  suggestion  that  the  AIC  is  involved  in  errorbased  learning  of  feeling  states  and  uncertainty  [15];  here, the  notion  of  ‘prediction  error’  is  expressed  in  terms  of change  detection  and  salience  rather  than  through  mechanisms  of  predictive  coding.
 
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ For  example,  word recognition  memory  is  modulated  by  the  timing  of  vis
 Considering  interoceptive  inference  and  the  AIC  as  its  likely  brain basis  further  enhances the  explanatory  potential  of  this  framework  for psychopathology.  Links  between  perceptions  of  bodily  state  and emotional  and  neuropsychiatric  disorders  are  well  established.  For
 example,  alexithymia  (broadly,  deficits  in  emotional  awareness)  is associated  with  failure  to  engage  AIC  [81]  and  with  degeneration  of AIC  and  of  VENs  (Box  2)  in  the  context  of  fronto-temporal  dementia [82,83].
 
-##On the Role of Emotion in Embodied Cognitive Architectures: From Organisms to Robots
+## On the Role of Emotion in Embodied Cognitive Architectures: From Organisms to Robots
 
-of a larger shift from the so-calledcomputer metaphor for mind and the view of cognition as mainly taking place ‘in the head’ toward theories and models ofembodied cognition that emphasize the interaction of agents and their environments [12, 13, 31, 61, 62, 73, 76, 86]. 
+of a larger shift from the so-calledcomputer metaphor for mind and the view of cognition as mainly taking place ‘in the head’ toward theories and models ofembodied cognition that emphasize the interaction of agents and their environments [12, 13, 31, 61, 62, 73, 76, 86].
 
 Damasio [19], on the other hand, identified what he called ‘‘the prevalent absence of a notion of organism in the sciences of mind and brain’’ as a problem, which he elaborated as follows: ‘‘It is not just that the mind remained linked to the brain in a rather equivocal relationship, but that the brain remained consistently separated from the body and thus not part of the deeply interwoven mesh of
 body and brain that defines a complex living organism.’

affective_computing_course/cognitive_architectures.md

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-#Cognitive architectures
+# Cognitive architectures
 
-##Cognitive affective architecture by [Ziemke and Lowe]
+## Cognitive affective architecture by [Ziemke and Lowe]
 
 ![Cognitive affective architecture](figure17_cognitive_affective_architecture.png)
 
 "Cognitive-affective architecture schematic involving different levels of homeostatic regulation and behavioral organization in robotic agents. The left-hand side relates essential mechanisms to organism-integrated organization with respect to adequate to superior"
 
-##References
+## References
 
 1. [Tom Ziemke and Robert Lowe, On the Role of Emotion in Embodied Cognitive Architectures: From Organisms to Robots](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12559-009-9012-0?LI=true)

affective_computing_course/lab_0.md

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-#Intro lab
+# Intro lab
 
-##Research project for affective computation
+## Research project for affective computation
 Artificial emotions
 
 1. Requirements (vision)
@@ -20,6 +20,6 @@ Artificial emotions
    2. Demo
 1. Conclusion
 
-##Vision
+## Vision
 
 Bla bla