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Efficient, Formal, Material, and Final Causes in Biology and Technology
Entropy, 2023 This paper considers how a classification of causal effects as comprising efficient, formal, material, and final causation can provide a useful understanding of how emergence takes place in biology and technology, with formal, material, and final ...
George F. R. Ellis
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Intraocular pressure modifications in patients with acute central/hemicentral retinal vein occlusions [PDF]
International Journal of Ophthalmology, 2021 Intraocular pressure (IOP) modifications in patients with acute central/hemicentral retinal vein occlusions (RVOs) consist in IOP reductions and increases.
Dan Calugaru, Mihai Calugaru
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PLoS ONE, 2022 In response to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), governments worldwide have introduced multiple restriction policies, known as non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs).
Vesna Barros +7 more
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Between quantum logic and concurrency [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2014 We start from two closure operators defined on the elements of a special kind of partially ordered sets, called causal nets. Causal nets are used to model histories of concurrent processes, recording occurrences of local states and of events. If every
Luca Bernardinello +2 more
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The Causal Exclusion Argument and its Critique in Debates on Reductionism: The Case of One Specific Clash [PDF]
Философия и космологияOne of the modern forms of philosophical discussion about the essence of mentality is the dispute between (“classical”) physicalists (who take a reductionist position) and the so-called non-reductive materialists.
Oleksandr Holubenko
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The Causal Closure Principle [PDF]
The Philosophical Quarterly, 2015 In the mental causation debate, there is a common assumption that interactive dualism is false because of the principle of the causal closure of the physical domain. However, this paper argues that recent advances in metaphysics—more specifically, in the philosophy of causation—reveal a serious, general flaw in contemporary formulations of this ...
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The Measurement of Consciousness: A Framework for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Scientists studying consciousness are attempting to identify correlations between measurements of consciousness and the physical world. Consciousness can only be measured through first-person reports, which raises problems about the accuracy of first ...
David eGamez
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Causal Closure Principles and Emergentism [PDF]
Philosophy, 2000 AbstractLooking at a wide range of causal closure principles of differing strengths, this chapter argues that the stronger principles are less plausible than the weaker while the weaker are less capable of playing an adequate role in any causal closure argument for physicalism. The upshot is that there is plenty of scope for a psychophysical dualist to
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Establishment of the Heart and Brain Team for Patent Foramen Ovale Closure in Stroke Patients: An Expert Opinion [PDF]
Journal of Stroke, 2022 The online 2021 Asian-Pacific Heart and Brain Summit was organized to present and discuss experiences within leading Asian-Pacific centers with regard to institutional heart and brain teams managing the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of cryptogenic ...
Jong S. Kim +8 more
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Causal Pathway Extraction from Web-Board Documents
Applied Sciences, 2021 This research aim is to extract causal pathways, particularly disease causal pathways, through cause-effect relation (CErel) extraction from web-board documents.
Chaveevan Pechsiri, Rapepun Piriyakul
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