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The Incoherent Root of Theological Fatalism

TheoLogica
This paper begins with a standard argument for theological fatalism and unravels deeper dilemmas in stages, arriving at an argument that has nothing to do with divine foreknowledge or free will. I then focus on the problem of the incoherence or at least
Linda Zagzebski
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Problemática da persistência do canal arterial: um vilão ou uma alteração presente ao acaso?

Residência Pediátrica, 2023
OBJECTIVE: To analyze newborns weighing less than 1500g at birth who developed complications like bronchopulmonary dysplasia, retinopathy of prematurity, peri-intraventricular hemorrhage, pulmo-nary hemorrhage and necrotizing enterocolitis with or ...
Marina Mafra Carvalhais, José Mariano Sales Alves Júnior, Eduarda Viana Maia Sutana, Marila Cristina Tessari   +3 more
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The Causal Efficacy of Consciousness

Entropy, 2020
Mental causation is vitally important to the integrated information theory (IIT), which says consciousness exists since it is causally efficacious.
Matthew Owen
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The Causal Closure Argument is No Threat to Non-Reductive Physicalism

Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2015
Non-reductive physicalism is the view that mental events cause other events in virtue of their mental properties and that mental properties supervene on, without being identical to, physical properties.
Peter Menzies
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Zero Tier Execution Substrate for Evolutionary Software Systems

Systems
Adaptive and evolutive software systems are characterized by ontologically defined non-determinism—not a defect but the primary force of their evolution.
Aleksandar Ivanović, Miloš Radenković, Sergei Prokhorov, Aleksandra Labus, Božidar Radenković   +4 more
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Can Western Monotheism Avoid Substance Dualism?

Zygon, 2001
The problem of divine agency and action is analogous to the problem of human agency and action: How is such agency possible in the absence of a dualistic causal interaction between disparate orders of being?
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An exploratory study of voicing-related differences in vowel duration as compensatory temporal adjustment in Italian and Polish

Glossa, 2019
Over a century of phonetic research has established the cross-linguistic existence of the so called “voicing effect”, by which vowels tend to be shorter when followed by voiceless stops and longer when the following stop is voiced.
Stefano Coretta
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Interpretable AI-driven causal inference to uncover the time-varying effects of PM2.5 and public health interventions on COVID-19 infection rates

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Although COVID-19 appears to be better controlled since its initial outbreak in 2020, it continues to threaten citizens in different communities due to the unpredictability of new strains.
Yang Han, Jacqueline C. K. Lam, Victor O. K. Li, Jon Crowcroft   +3 more
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Understanding the Failure of Medical Therapy in PFO-Associated Stroke and the Benefits of Closure: A Narrative Review

Neurology International
Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is present in roughly one quarter of adults and is over-represented among younger patients with cryptogenic ischemic stroke.
Riwaj Bhagat
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The Agent as Her Self: How Taking Agency Seriously Leads to Emergent Dualism

Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2016
To act is to be the author of an intentional bodily movement. I will show that, in order for that authorship to be assured, the agent must both amount to more than the mereological sum of her mental or neural states and events, and have an irreducible ...
Maria Joana Rigato
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