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Sartre’s Godless Theology: Dualist Monism and Its Temporal Dimensions [PDF]
, 2019 My task in this paper is to study Sartre’s ontology as a godless theology. The urgency of defending freedom and responsibility in the face of determinism called for an overarching first principle, a role that God used to play.
Liu, Renxiang
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Determining Causal Skeletons with Information Theory [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 Modeling a causal association as arising from a communication process between cause and effect, simplifies the discovery of causal skeletons. The communication channels enabling these communication processes, are fully characterized by stochastic tensors, and therefore allow us to use linear algebra.
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review highlights recent advances in electrospun nanofiber‐based triboelectric nanogenerators, emphasizing how material design, fiber architecture, and interface engineering collectively enhance output performance and mechanical durability. Key developments in porous, aligned, core‐shell, and hierarchical nanofibers are discussed alongside ...
MD Fajla Rabbi +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Philosophers have long debated whether, if determinism is true, we should hold people morally responsible for their actions since in a deterministic universe, people are arguably not the ultimate source of their actions nor could they have done otherwise
Ivar R. Hannikainen +44 more
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Anomalous Dualism: A New Approach to the Mind-Body Problem [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, I explore anomalous dualism about consciousness, a view that has not previously been explored in any detail. We can classify theories of consciousness along two dimensions: first, a theory might be physicalist or dualist; second, a theory ...
Bourget, David
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Miniature Soft Robot With Magnetically Reprogrammable Surgical Functions
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Miniature soft robots have great prospects to revolutionize minimally invasive treatments. Here we present a miniature soft robot, which can be reprogrammed to perform five surgical functionalities with six‐degrees‐of‐freedom motions. This soft robot can prospectively make minimally invasive surgery considerably safer and painless, and enable ...
Chelsea Shan Xian Ng +4 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Elephant‐skin‐inspired crack networks are programmed in porous diatomaceous earth (DE)‐cement composites using substrate‐guided, stress‐concentration induced fracture. The resulting crack lattices act as capillary conduits that redistribute water, while the porous matrix stores moisture.
Qingya Huang +5 more
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A Freewheeling Defense of Kant's Resolution of the Third Antinomy [PDF]
Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 2008 In the Critique of Pure Reason, in a chapter of the Transcendental Dialectic entitled "The Antinomy of Pure Reason," Kant addresses the question whether a thoroughgoing mechanistic determinism is reconcilable with the ascription of free agency to human ...
Todd D. Janke
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How quantum brain biology can rescue conscious free will
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2012 Conscious ‘free will’ is problematic because 1) brain mechanisms causing consciousness are unknown, 2) measurable brain activity correlating with conscious perception apparently occurs too late for real-time conscious response, consciousness thus being ...
Stuart eHameroff
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Karma Theory, Determinism, Fatalism and Freedom of Will [PDF]
, 2017 The so-called theory of karma is one of the distinguishing aspects of Hinduism and other non-Hindu south-Asian traditions. At the same time that the theory can be seen as closely connected with the freedom of will and action that we humans supposedly ...
Silvestre, Ricardo Sousa
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