Life Span Development 18th

Following the Protestant Reform of the 16th century, Geneva became a recognized intellectual and religious centre. Attracting an important community of foreign nobility, the city did not stray from European artistic trends. Itinerant musicians, amateurs and dancing masters were essential actors of the transmission of musical practices as required by proper education.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2017.

Paul Owhadi's improbable entrepreneurial journey began as a first-generation immigrant coming to America with just a few hundred dollars in his pocket. Having learned a remarkable level of self-reliance, as a child sent to a French boarding school at age four, he was educated in London—and then headed to New York City and a whole new life.

Why is the universe conscious? What kindles mind inside matter? Why do fundamentalist sciences and religions never ask these questions?