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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A random variable is a numerical description of the outcomes of the experiment or a numerical valued function
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
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
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.
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
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
«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
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
How do recent artistic movements employ chance and design to construct their work and what relationships exist between these practices?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Literatura folyóirat, XL. évfolyam, 2014/2. szám, 99-108. o.
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