Simon Richter: Missing the Breast. Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment, University of Washington Press, Seattle 2006.

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Pethes
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
University Of Washington ◽  
German Enlightenment

Representing utility and deploying the body

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Spurrett
Keyword(s):  
Functional Activity ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
The Body ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Processing Demands ◽  
The Many

Abstract Comprehensive accounts of resource-rational attempts to maximise utility shouldn't ignore the demands of constructing utility representations. This can be onerous when, as in humans, there are many rewarding modalities. Another thing best not ignored is the processing demands of making functional activity out of the many degrees of freedom of a body. The target article is almost silent on both.

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