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Since the advent of quantum mechanics, our fundamental physical descriptions of the universe have included a strong element of randomness. While this randomness goes against aspirations to comprehend a fundamental, deterministic order... more
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      PhysicsScience and ReligionHypercomputationRandomness
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      StatisticsTeachingRandomnessTeaching Statistics
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      StatisticsTeachingRandomnessTeaching Statistics
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      CriminologyTerrorismMiddle East StudiesPolitical Science
Detection of a material particle is accompanied by emission of bremsstrahlung. Thus the dynamics of the energy loss of the particle is determined by radiation reaction force. The description of radiation reaction is a difficult problem... more
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      PhysicsQuantum PhysicsQuantum MechanicsInterpretation
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      RiskParanormalUncertaintyIllusion of Control
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      Randomnessgame of chance
In a game of chess, pieces can sometimes be sacrificed in order to win the overall game. Similarly, engineers know that two unstable systems, if combined in the right way, can paradoxically become stable. But can two losing gambling games... more
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      Stochastic ProcessNonlinear Dynamics and StochasticityStochastic processesRandomness
It can easily be shown that the prior probability of the spontaneous formation of a living system is near zero. The same is true even for the prior probability of the spontaneous formation of a single macromolecule carrying biological... more
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      Self-OrganizationOrigins of LifeArt SpiegelmanRandomness
Stock price movements being random in its nature, prediction of stock prices using time series analysis presents a very difficult and challenging problem to the research community. However, over the last decade, due to rapid development... more
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      SeasonalityTime series decompositionRandomnessTrend Analysis
Randomness presents a limit for human knowledge. As such, it enters in contradiction with the modern definition of architecture as an art of measure and order, operating through quantification contrathe fuzziness and complexity of the... more
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      Theory Of ArchitectureInventionMarcel DuchampRandomness
Montaigne understood well the crucial link between narrative and randomness. The role of narrative ("discours") is to string a causality chain where none actually exists. For Montaigne, most significant events in life are generated... more
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      Critical TheoryFrench LiteratureNarrativeCritical Thinking
We introduce Parrondo's paradox that involves games of chance. We consider two fair gambling games, A and B, both of which can be made to have a losing expectation by changing a biasing parameter . When the two games are played in any... more
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      Stochastic ProcessNonlinear Dynamics and StochasticityRandomnessParrondo's Paradox
Cheap micro-controllers, such as the Arduino or other controllers based on the Atmel AVR CPUs are being deployed in a wide variety of projects, ranging from sensors networks to robotic submarines. In this paper, we investigate the... more
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      Computer SecurityCryptographyArduinoRandom Number Generator (RNG)
The Global Financial Crisis exposed among others many frailties of Neo-Classical Economics, especially in Macroeconomics and Financial Economics. Many of these frailties come from the Neo-Classical core beliefs. These core beliefs are... more
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      RandomnessStrategic BehaviorPhysics Envy
From early cinematic depictions of quotidian urban life and “cinematic exploration of city space” like Charles Sheeler’s 'Manhatta' (1921) and Dziga Vertov’s 'Man with a movie camera' (1929) to dystopic masterpieces such as Ridley Scott’s... more
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      Cultural StudiesUrban ExperienceCinema StudiesRandomness
Deductionism assimilates nature to conceptual artifacts (models, equations), and tacitly holds that real physical systems are such artifacts. Some physical concepts represent properties of deductive systems rather than of nature.... more
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      Formal Methods (Formal Verification)Deductive reasoningMathematical ModellingIndeterminacy
A common type of argument against the existence of God is to argue that certain essential features associated with the existence of God are inconsistent with certain other features to be found in the actual world. A recent example of this... more
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      PhilosophyPhilosophy of SciencePhilosophy Of ReligionTheology
A random variable is a numerical description of the outcomes of the experiment or a numerical valued function
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      Mathematical StatisticsFractal GeometryFinancial EconomicsEthics
In 1874, Thomas Hardy was thirty-four and moonlighting as a writer. His day job as an architect paid the bills. Far from the Madding Crowd, his fourth published novel, was being anonymously serialized in the popular London magazine... more
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      ComedyShakespeareDisaster risk managementLiterary Theory
Poietics of the indiscernible is an aesthetic approach to perceptual and imaginary modalities deployed in relationship to virtual and oneiric environments. In our research-creation, it designates a singular... more
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      AestheticsPerceptionEye trackingVirtual Reality (Computer Graphics)
Darwin introduced the concept that random variation generates new living forms. In this paper, we elaborate on Darwin's notion of random variation to propose that biological variation should be given the status of a fundamental... more
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      Evolutionary BiologyBiophysicsOrganizational ChangePlasticity
Looks are examined to nature of musical flows of ХХ-ХХІ century look to Chaos as on aesthetic artistic principle of forming of piece of music and method of work expose a look to such.
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      Electronic MusicChaos/Complexity TheoryChaosRandomness
Biological evolution is a complex blend of ever changing structural stability, variability and emergence of new phenotypes, niches, ecosystems. We wish to argue that the evolution of life marks the end of a physics world view of law... more
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      AutopoiesisBiologyCausationEvolution
В статье совершается попытка объединения двух известных философских проблем. Проблемы ментальной каузальности, или более широко, проблемы каузальности в дуализме вообще, и проблемы онтологии случайного. Показано, что оба эти вопроса часто... more
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      PhilosophyMental CausationMind/body ProblemRandomness
This paper presents a philosophical argument for divine providence by Aquinas. I suggest that upon returning to Aristotle’s Physics and Metaphysics to prepare his commentaries on these texts, Aquinas recognized that his stock argument... more
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      PhilosophyMetaphysicsPhilosophy of ScienceMedieval Philosophy
«Adam Olszewski (1999) propone que la Tesis de Church-Turing puede ser usada para refutar el platonismo matemático1. Para ello postula una máquina que al lanzar una moneda define una función que ―computa el valor (0 o 1) para la moneda n... more
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      Computability TheoryLogicChurch-Turing ThesisRandomness
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      Probability TheoryPhilosophy of ScienceComplexity TheoryRandomness
This paper analyzes, in terms of critical transitions, the phase spaces of biological dynamics. The phase space is the space where the scientific description and determination of a phenomenon is given. We argue that one major aspect of... more
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      Evolutionary BiologyMathematicsPhysicsBiophysics
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      Raymond RuyerDoctrine of CreationChanceHeinz von Foerster
We give a nontechnical account of the mathematical theory of randomness. The theory of randomness is founded on computability theory, and it is nowadays often referred to as algo-rithmic randomness. It comes in two varieties: A theory of... more
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In this text, we revisit part of the analysis of anti-entropy in Bailly and Longo (2009) and develop further theoretical reflections. In particular, we analyze how randomness, an essential component of biological variability, is... more
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      Evolutionary BiologyComplexity TheoryMacroevolutionComplex Systems
How do recent artistic movements employ chance and design to construct their work and what relationships exist between these practices?
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      Art HistoryArt TheoryAbstract ArtAbstract Expressionism
Certain enterprises at the fringes of science, such as intelligent design creationism, claim to identify phenomena that go beyond not just our present physics but any possible physical explanation. Asking what it would take for such a... more
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      Philosophy of PhysicsPhysicalismHypercomputationIntelligent design
With Nassim Nicholas Taleb we got the new fanboy of anti-economists narrative dressed up with all the demeanours of an outliner and almost like a Promethean demiurge coming to life from some Marvel Comics book to offer the stolen fire... more
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      PhilosophyPoliticsRandomness
I take a close look at a text in Insight in which Lonergan argues that the fallacy of mechanistic determinism is down to faulty cognitional theory, in particular, that it relies on an “impoverished replica” notion of abstraction and that... more
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      Galileo GalileiAbstractionBernard LonerganRandomness
A classic problem in probability theory is as follows. Two players, A and B, bet on the sum of the rolls of two six-sided dice. Player A bets that a total of 12 will be rolled first. Player B bets that two consecutive 7's will be rolled... more
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      Probability TheoryProbabilistic Markov ModelingProbability and Mathematical StatisticsProbability
A strategy for adaptive control and energetic optimization of aerobic fermentors was implemented, with both air flow and agitation speed as manipulated variables. This strategy is separable in its components: control, optimization,... more
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      Information SystemsElectrical EngineeringElectronic EngineeringCommunication Engineering
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      PsychologyCognitive SciencePerceptionStatistics
This doctoral dissertation investigates the notion of physical necessity. Specifically, it studies whether it is possible to account for non-accidental regularities without the standard assumption of a pre-existent set of governing laws.... more
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      Statistical MechanicsMetaphysicsChaos TheoryMetaphysics of Modality
Close attention to levels of organization leads one to doubt the random character of the regulations of the cosmos as a whole. Scientific knowledge seems able, after all, to bring into focus the enigma of the individual histories that... more
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      Systems ThinkingRaymond RuyerScience and ReligionGregory Bateson
Can stable regularities be explained without appealing to governing laws or any other modal notion? In this paper, I consider what I will call a ‘Humean system’—a generic dynamical system without guiding laws—and assess whether it could... more
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      MetaphysicsPhilosophy of PhysicsComplex Systems ScienceDynamical Systems
Size biraz garip gelebilir, ancak rastgele bir sürecin ne olduğunu tam olarak tanımlayamayız. Ancak her ne kadar rastgele bir şeyin ne olduğunu birebir olarak tanımlayamıyor olsak da ne olmadığını tanımlayabiliriz. Eğer bir süreç tahmin... more
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      Quantum TheoryDeterminismRandom Number Generator (RNG)Randomness
一般的に、不可能、不完全性、パラコンフィニティ、不決定性、ランダム性、計算能力、パラドックス、不確実性、理性の限界は、科学的な物理的または数学的な問題がほとんどまたは何もないと考えられている。共通。私は、彼らが主に80年以上前にヴィトゲンシュタインによって解決された標準的な哲学的問題(すなわち、言語ゲーム)であることを示唆しています。... more
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      HistorySociologyCultural StudiesPsychology
Literatura folyóirat, XL. évfolyam, 2014/2. szám, 99-108. o.
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      LiteratureConspiracy TheoriesLiterary TheoryRoland Barthes
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      PsychologyArtificial IntelligenceMultiagent SystemsFuzzy Logic
The notion of emergent evolution is under consideration in the article. Distinguished French scholars Edgar Morin, Isabel Stengers and Joel de Rosnay have made a considerable contribution to the investigation of the notion. This notion... more
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      Complexity TheoryConstructivismSelf-OrganizationEdgar Morin