Several alternatives vie today for recognition as the most plausible ontology, from physicalism to panpsychism. By and large, these ontologies entail that physical structures circumscribe consciousness by bearing phenomenal properties within their physical boundaries. The ontology of idealism, on the other hand, entails that all physical structures are circumscribed by consciousness in that they exist solely as...
ConCise is a Philips research project on Configurable Architecture Processors, which is expected to make this kind of systems cost-effective for large scale production in the near future. This article starts by presenting the ConCISe architecture. Then it describes the development of a simulator for a ConCISe processor and discusses some of the simulation results. The analysis of these results is done from a co...