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Boldog Karacsonyt es Uj Evet

by Pléh Csaba

Kedves Barataim, uj ev, uj honlap. Ime BUEK helyett is udv Csaba http://www.itm.bme.hu/ktk/csaba/indexpleh.htm

23 years, 3 months

DARPA IPTO Cognitive html oldal

by Lorincz, Andras

http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/Solicitations/PIP_02-21.html BAA #02-21 Cognitive Information Processing Technology Proposer Information Pamphlet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cognitive Information Processing Technology SOL BAA 02-21 Abstracts Due: April 4, 2003 Proposals Due: Friday, June 6, 2003 POC: Dr. Ronald J. Brachman, Mr. Zachary J. Lemnios, DARPA/IPTO E-Mail: baa02-21(a)darpa.mil FAX: (703) 741-7804 WEB: http://www.darpa.mil/ipto/Solicitations/index.html Elnezest... Lorincz Andras

23 years, 3 months

Re: Back to the Oral Tradition: Call for Commentators

by Stevan Harnad

Discussion begins today, January 27, 2003. You are invited to comment on the following paper (and others) at: http://www.interdisciplines.org/defispublicationweb/papers/6 Back to the Oral Tradition Through Skywriting at the Speed of Thought Stevan Harnad From the origin of human language 100,000 years ago until the invention of writing 5000 years ago the oral tradition had been the principal creator, conserver and communicator of human knowledge. Our brains are biologically adapted to the tempo of oral interaction in real time. Lapidary writing lost all of that, but soon skywriting will again catch up with the speed of thought. Discussion begins today, January 27 2003. http://www.interdisciplines.org/defispublicationweb/language/en

23 years, 3 months

off topic: kerdoiv!

by szocial pszichologia

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23 years, 3 months

DARPA announcement on cognitive information processing technology

by Lorincz, Andras

http://www.darpa.mil/leaving.asp?url=http://www.dyncorp-is.com/BAA/index.as… The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) often selects its research efforts through the Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) process. The BAA will be posted directly to FedBizOpps.gov, the single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000. The following information is for those wishing to respond to the Broad Agency Announcement. The DARPA Information Technology Processing Office (IPTO) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of information technology for a new class of cognitive systems that can be characterized simply as follows: a cognitive system is one that, among other things, Ø can reason in a variety of ways, using substantial amounts of appropriately represented knowledge; Ø can learn from its experiences so that its performance improves as it accumulates knowledge and experience; Ø can explain itself and can accept direction; Ø can be aware of its own behavior and reflect on its own capabilities; and Ø can respond in a robust manner to surprises. Architecturally, a cognitive information processing system is likely to comprise three types of processes: reactive processes, where system responses are provided with low latency in direct response to inputs; deliberative processes, where planning and other reasoning processes are carried out, including those that deal thoughtfully with natural language and other forms of communication; and reflective processes that operate based on observations made about the system itself. Complete and capable cognitive information processing systems and their underlying processes are likely to be implemented in some combination of novel software and hardware, and are further likely to be augmented with memories of various sorts (long-term, short-term, etc.) and with associated modules for perception and taking action, as appropriate for the end application. Given their abilities to process knowledge and to reflect on their own behavior, cognitive systems might be best characterized as systems that know what they are doing. .... The abstract (original and designated number of hard and electronic copies) must be submitted to DARPA/IPTO, ATTN: BAA 02-21, 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1714, in time to reach DARPA by 12:00 NOON (EST) Friday, April 4, 2003.

23 years, 3 months

LAST CFP: Context 2003

by Roberta Ferrario

LAST REMINDER: DEADLINE FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION IS APPROACHING: MONDAY, JANUARY 27 --------------------------------------------------------------- | | | CONTEXT'03 | | | | Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on | | Modeling and Using Context | | | | Stanford, California (USA) | | June 23-25, 2003 | | | | (www.context.umcs.maine.edu/CONTEXT-03) | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ The Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'03) will provide a high-quality forum for discussions about context among researchers active in artificial intelligence and other areas of computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, the organizational sciences, philosophy, and psychology. Context affects a wide range of activities in humans and animals as well as in artificial agents and other computer programs. The importance of context is widely acknowledged, and "context" has become an area of study in its own right, as evidenced by the numerous workshops, symposia, seminars, and conferences held recently. CONTEXT, the oldest conference series focusing on context, is unique due to its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research. Previous CONTEXT conferences have been held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (CONTEXT'97), Trento, Italy (CONTEXT'99), and Dundee, Scotland (CONTEXT'01). Each of these brought together researchers in many disparate fields to discuss and report on research on context-related topics. The proceedings of CONTEXT'03 will be published in a Lecture Notes series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lnai) of SpringerVerlag, as were those of the previous two CONTEXT conferences. TOPICS OF INTEREST To guide potential submissions, a representative sampling of topics of interest for CONTEXT'03 are as follows (in alphabetical order). This is not an exhaustive list, and other contributions are welcome, although all submissions must have a focus on context. Analogy and case-based reasoning Autonomous Agents and Agent-based Systems Cognitive Modeling Commonsense Reasoning Context Issues in Databases Context-aware Applications Contextual effects on language Contextual effects on problem-solving, understanding and production decision-making, and categorization Decision Support and Expert Systems Distributed Information Systems Formal Theories of Context Heterogeneous Information Integration Human-Computer Interaction Information Management Intelligent Tutoring Systems Intelligent/Semantic Web Systems Interagent Communication Knowledge Engineering and Management Knowledge Representation Machine Learning Multiagent Systems Natural Language Processing Neuroscience and context Organizational Theory and Design Philosophical Foundations SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Since CONTEXT'03 will be an interdisciplinary forum, all submissions, in addition to being evaluated for their technical merit, will be evaluated for their accessibility to an interdisciplinary audience. Works that transcend disciplinary boundaries are especially encouraged. Papers will be accepted either for oral presentation or for presentation at a poster session. Each submission will be evaluated by three referees. Complete formatting requirements and detailed instructions for authors can be found on the conference Web page. Note that papers cannot be longer than 14 pages. Papers must be submitted electronically--no hardcopy submissions will be accepted without prior approval from the Program Co-Chairs well in advance of the submission deadline. LaTeX and Word templates are available at the conference Web page. Papers must be in PDF format. See the conference Web page for instructions on converting to this format from Word, LaTeX, etc. Submitted papers should be received by the Program Co-Chairs no later than January 27, 2003. The conference Web page contains instructions for submitting papers electronically. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline....................................January 27, 2003 Notification of acceptance/rejection for all submissions.......March 13, 2003 Deadline for final versions of accepted papers.................April 13, 2003 Conference...................................................June 2325, 2003 CONFERENCE CHAIR Fausto Giunchiglia (fausto(a)cs.unitn.it) Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Patrick Blackburn (Patrick.Blackburn(a)loria.fr) LORIA, France Chiara Ghidini (C.Ghidini(a)csc.liv.ac.uk) University of Liverpool, UK Roy Turner (rmt(a)umcs.maine.edu) University of Maine, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Varol Akman (akman(a)cs.bilkent.edu.tr) Bilkent University, Turkey Massimo Benerecetti (bene(a)cs.unitn.it) University of Naples, Italy Paolo Bouquet (bouquet(a)cs.unitn.it) Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy Patrick Brezillon (Patrick.Brezillon(a)lip6.fr) University of Paris VI, France Boicho Kokinov (bkokinov(a)nbu.bg) New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria John Perry (john(a)csli.stanford.edu) Stanford University, USA Francois Recanati (Francois.Recanati(a)ehess.fr) L'Ecole Polytechnique, France Luciano Serafini (serafini(a)irst.itc.it) Istituto Trentino di Cultura (ITC), Italy Rich Thomason (rich(a)thomason.org) University of Michigan, USA Roger A. Young (R.A.YOUNG(a)dundee.ac.uk) University of Dundee, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Horacio Arlo-Costa Carnegie Mellon University, USA John Barnden The University of Birmingham, UK Carla Bazzanella Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy John Bell University of London, UK Jose Luis Bermudez University of Stirling, UK Matteo Bonifacio University of Trento, Italy Anind K. Dey Intel Research, California, USA Christo Dichev Winston Salem State University, USA Bruce Edmonds Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Paul Feltovich University of West Florida, USA Tim Fernando Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Anita Fetzer Universitaet Stuttgart Christopher Gauker University of Cincinnati, USA Alain Giboin INRIA, France Avelino Gonzalez University of Central Florida, USA Jerry Hobbs USC/ISI, USA Lucja Iwanska LxLinks, Inc., Michigan, USA Ruth Kempson King's College London, UK David Leake Indiana University, USA Mark Maybury MITRE Corporation, Massachusetts, USA Bernard Moulin Université Laval, Canada Rolf Nossum Agder University College, Norway Jean-Charles Pomerol DRITT/Universite P and M Curie, France Marina Sbisà University of Trieste, Italy Carles Sierra Spanish Scientific Research Council, Spain Munindar Singh North Carolina State University, USA Steffen Staab University of Karlsruhe, Germany Elise Turner University of Maine, USA Peter Turney National Research Council, Ontario, Canada Johan van Benthem University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Robert J. van den Bosch Univ. Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands Teun A. van Dijk Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Terry Winograd Stanford University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIR Roberta Ferrario (ferrix(a)cs.unitn.it) Universita degli Studi di Trento, Italy LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE Dikran Karagueuzian, Chair (dikran(a)roslin.stanford.edu) Michele King (mking(a)csli.stanford.edu) John Perry (john(a)csli.stanford.edu) Keith Devlin (devlin(a)csli.stanford.edu) Elisabetta Zibetti (ezibetti(a)psych.stanford.edu) ********************************************************* * For more information, see www.context.umcs.maine.edu. * *********************************************************

23 years, 3 months

utolso ertesites

by Tamas Makany

Kedves XI. MAKOG résztvevő, Örömmel fogadtuk jelentkezését a XI. MAKOG Konferenciára. Mellékelten küldjük a konferencia programját, továbbá néhány hasznos információt az utazással és a pécsi tartózkodással kapcsolatban. A regisztráció megkönnyítése érdekében az esetleges számlaigényekhez szükséges adatokat érkezéskor kérjük készítsék elő. További részletek találhatóak a honlapunkon: http://makogxi.btk.pte.hu Bármilyen kérdést, problémát az alábbi emailcímen kérjük jelezni: Kállai János jkallai(a)btk.pte.hu Viszlát Pécsett,

23 years, 3 months

Philosophy of Science Colloquium, February Program

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Department of HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Eotvos University, Budapest Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 Department's Home Page:http://hps.elte.hu Philosophy of Science Colloquium Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM ____________________________________ Fabruary Program 10 February 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Hungarian) P é t e r M e k i s <mailto:mekis@philo.u-szeged.hu> Department of Logic Eötvös University, Budapest A logikai tér mint szemléleti forma Wittgenstein Tractatusában Wittgenstein korai filozófiája "a tiszta nyelv kritikájára" tett kísérletként vált a filozófia klasszikusává. Elo"adásomban a Tractatus kantianizmusát a logikai tér fogalmából kiindulva szeretném tesztelni. Elgondolásom szerint - a szakirodalmi konszenzussal szemben - a logikai tér nem csupán a szimbolikus reprezentáció tere, hanem az észlelésé is; következésképpen ugyanaz a funkciója, mint a szemléleti formáknak Kant transzcendentális esztétikájában. (Wittgensteint nem kötik közvetlen történeti szálak Kanthoz. A Tractatus híres képelmélete nem kanti kontextusban, hanem a logikai formák russelli elméletének kritikájaként jelent meg. Reális vagy ideális természetu"ek a logikai formák? E probléma wittgensteini megoldása a történeti távolság ellenére feltu"no" párhuzamot mutat azzal, ahogy Kant rövidre zárta a tér és az ido" reális vagy ideális volta körüli vitákat.) Ha tartható az az értelmezés, amely szerint a logikai tér szemléleti forma, annak több fontos következménye van: 1. A logika mintegy a logikai tér geometriája. Az észlelés és a szimbolikus reprezentáció leheto"ségfeltételeit ragadja meg; ilyen értelemben transzcendentális. 2. Minden nyelv. Az észlelés és az észleletek nyelvi kifejezése között nincs lényegi különbség; mindketto" a logikai szimbolika törvényeinek van alávetve. 3. A logikai igazságok szemléleti evidenciával bírnak. A talányos wittgensteini megmutatkozás a kanti szemléleti evidencia örököse. Wittgenstein, a közkeletu" felfogással szemben, nem kiküszöböli a szintetikus a priori kijelentéseket, hanem felszámolja a szintetikus-analitikus distinkciót. A tautológiák igazságát sajátos logikai szemléletre - a megmutatkozásra - támaszkodva lehet bizonyítani. A logikai térnek tehát tézisem szerint a szemléleti forma szerepét kell betölteni a Tractatusban. Hogy valóban be tudja-e tölteni, azt a fogalom részletes elemzése mutatja meg. Több, egymással összeegyeztethetetlen kísérlet született a fogalom formális és/vagy szemléletes rekonstrukciójára. (Ezek közül Erik Steniusét, Max Blackét és Robert Fogelinét fogom megvizsgálni az elo"adáson.) Az egymással nem konzisztens, de egyaránt védheto" értelmezések azt mutatják, hogy a Tractatusban is két, egymással összeegyeztethetetlen értelemben szerepel a logikai forma és a logikai tér fogalma. Elo"adásom végkövetkeztetése az lesz, hogy e két értelem közül csak az egyik alkalmas arra, hogy a szemléleti forma funkcióját betöltse. Az, hogy a Tractatus rendszerében létezik a szemlélet számára hozzáférhetetlen logikai forma is, már a kantiánus értelmezés korlátait mutatja. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17 February 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (Hungarian) G á b o r B e t e g h <http://www.ceu.hu/phil/faculty_staff_9.html> Deprtment of Philosophy Central European University, Budapest MEGRAJZOLNI A VÉGTELENSÉG TÉRKÉPÉT Vizuális reprezentációk szerepe az antik kozmológiában (The role of visual representation in the ancient cosmology) Az elo"adás a következô, egymással szorosan összefüggô kérdéseket fogja tárgyalni: (a) milyen módszerekkel vizualizálták a korai görög szerzôk a kozmoszt illetve annak legfontosabb alkotórészeit? (b) a vizuális reprezentációk különbözô formái (diagrammok, globuszok, armilláris gyu"ru"k stb.) milyen szerepet játszhattak az egyes szerzôk fogalom- és elméletalkotásában? (c) a vizualizálás különbözô módjai mennyiben lehettek hatással a görög kozmológiai diszkurzus fejlo"désére, annak specifikus irányára? A vizsgálat módszertanában azt a fajta "kognitív archeológiát" kívánja alkalmazni, amelyet Reviel Netz "The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: a Study in Cognitiv History (Cambridge, 1999) címu" kiemelkedo" jelento"ségu" munkájában a geometria diszciplinájára dolgozott ki. Netz alapkérdése az, hogy a betu"kkel jelzett diagrammok alkalmazása milyen szerepet játszott a görög geometriai gondolkodás, a geometria nyelvének és bizonyítási formáinak kialakulásában. Könnyen belátható, hogy a két- és háromdimenziós ábrázolások központi jeleto"ségu"ek voltak nem csak a geometria, de a csillagászat és a kozmológia történetében is. Mi az, amit ebbo"l forrásaink alapján rekonstruálhatunk történeti és episztemológiai szempontból? Mint látni fogjuk, a vizualizálásra történo" hivatkozások nem pont ott szerepelnek, ahol azt elvárnánk. Vajon miért? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24 February 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 (English, except all participants speak Hungarian) L o r á n d A m b r u s - L a k a t o s <http://www.ceu.hu/phil/faculty_staff_6.html> Deprtment of Philosophy Central European University, Budapest John Rawls: Getting beyond Social Choice Theory I will present first the main tenets of Arrovian social choice theory, and explain its relationship to decision and game theory. Then I will offer conjectures why it was thought by many that this theory could ground political philosophy. At the end, I will sketch John Rawls' solution to the social choice problem. ___________________________________ The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we held a 30-60-minute discussion.The participants may comment the talks and initiate discussion on the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.elte.hu) -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924 Home: (36-1) 200-7318 Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

23 years, 3 months

Roberts/Self-Experimentation Source of Ideas: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Self-Experimentation as a Source of New Ideas: Ten Examples About Sleep, Mood, Health, and Weight by Seth Roberts http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Roberts/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Self-Experimentation as a Source of New Ideas: Ten Examples About Sleep, Mood, Health, and Weight Seth Roberts University of California, Berkeley ABSTRACT: We know little about how to generate plausible new scientific ideas. So it is noteworthy that 12 yr of self-experimentation led to the discovery of several surprising cause-effect relationships and helped produce a new theory. The cause-effect relationships are: (a) Seeing faces in the morning on television decreased mood in the evening (> 10 h later) and improved mood the next day (> 24 h later), yet had no detectable effect before that (0-10 h later). The effect was strongest if the faces were life-sized and at a conversational distance. Travel across time zones reduced the effect for a few weeks. (b) Standing 8 h/day reduced early awakening and made sleep more restorative, even though more standing was associated with less sleep. (c) Morning light (1 h/day) reduced early awakening and made sleep more restorative. (d) Breakfast increased early awakening. (e) Standing and morning light together eliminated colds (upper respiratory tract infections) for > 5 yr. (f) Drinking lots of water, eating low-glycemic-index foods, and eating sushi each caused a modest weight loss. (g) Drinking unflavored fructose water caused a large weight loss, accompanied by much less hunger than usual, that has been sustained > 1 yr. Unflavored sucrose water had similar effects. The sugar-water effect was discovered with the help of a new theory of weight control, which assumes that flavors associated with calories raise the body-fat set point-the stronger the association, the greater the increase. Between meals the set point declines. Long-term self-experimentation seems to be a good way to generate ideas. KEYWORDS: breakfast, circadian, colds, depression, discovery, innovation, insomnia, obesity, sitting, sugar http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Roberts/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. 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23 years, 3 months

Roberts/Self-Experimentation Source of Ideas: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

Dear Dr. Qwerty, Below is a link to the forthcoming BBS target article Self-Experimentation as a Source of New Ideas: Ten Examples About Sleep, Mood, Health, and Weight by Seth Roberts http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Roberts/Referees/ This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or suggested by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please reply by EMAIL within three (3) weeks to: calls(a)bbsonline.org The Calls are sent to 10,000 BBS Associates, so there is no expectation (indeed, it would be calamitous) that each recipient should comment on every occasion! Hence there is no need to reply except if you wish to comment, or to suggest someone to comment. If you are not a BBS Associate, please approach a current BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work to nominate you. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. An electronic list of current BBS Associates is available at this location to help you select a name: http://www.bbsonline.org/Instructions/assoclist.html (please note that this list is being updated) If no current BBS Associate knows your work, please send us your Curriculum Vitae and BBS will circulate it to appropriate Associates to ask whether they would be prepared to nominate you. (In the meantime, your name, address and email address will be entered into our database as an unaffiliated investigator.) ======================================================================= ** IMPORTANT ** ======================================================================= To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, it would be most helpful if you would send us an indication of the relevant expertise you would bring to bear on the paper, and what aspect of the paper you would anticipate commenting upon. (Please note that we only request expertise information in order to simplify the selection process.) Please DO NOT prepare a commentary until you receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Self-Experimentation as a Source of New Ideas: Ten Examples About Sleep, Mood, Health, and Weight Seth Roberts University of California, Berkeley ABSTRACT: We know little about how to generate plausible new scientific ideas. So it is noteworthy that 12 yr of self-experimentation led to the discovery of several surprising cause-effect relationships and helped produce a new theory. The cause-effect relationships are: (a) Seeing faces in the morning on television decreased mood in the evening (> 10 h later) and improved mood the next day (> 24 h later), yet had no detectable effect before that (0-10 h later). The effect was strongest if the faces were life-sized and at a conversational distance. Travel across time zones reduced the effect for a few weeks. (b) Standing 8 h/day reduced early awakening and made sleep more restorative, even though more standing was associated with less sleep. (c) Morning light (1 h/day) reduced early awakening and made sleep more restorative. (d) Breakfast increased early awakening. (e) Standing and morning light together eliminated colds (upper respiratory tract infections) for > 5 yr. (f) Drinking lots of water, eating low-glycemic-index foods, and eating sushi each caused a modest weight loss. (g) Drinking unflavored fructose water caused a large weight loss, accompanied by much less hunger than usual, that has been sustained > 1 yr. Unflavored sucrose water had similar effects. The sugar-water effect was discovered with the help of a new theory of weight control, which assumes that flavors associated with calories raise the body-fat set point-the stronger the association, the greater the increase. Between meals the set point declines. Long-term self-experimentation seems to be a good way to generate ideas. KEYWORDS: breakfast, circadian, colds, depression, discovery, innovation, insomnia, obesity, sitting, sugar http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Roberts/Referees/ ======================================================================= ======================================================================= *** SUPPLEMENTARY ANNOUNCEMENT *** (1) Call for Book Nominations for BBS Multiple Book Review In the past, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) had only been able to do 1-2 BBS multiple book treatments per year, because of our limited annual page quota. 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