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Ecological Clues to the Nature of Consciousness [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 Some dynamics associated with consciousness are shared by other complex macroscopic living systems. For example, autocatalysis, an active agency in ecosystems, imparts to them a centripetality, the ability to attract resources that identifies the system ...
Robert Ulanowicz, Ulanowicz Robert E
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Unravelling the spatial directionality of urban mobility [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsAs it is central to sustainable urban development, urban mobility has primarily been scrutinised for its scaling and hierarchical properties. However, traditional analyses frequently overlook spatial directionality, a critical factor in city centre ...
P Zhao, Qiyang Liu, Xiao-Yong Yan
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Information Across the Ecological Hierarchy [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 The ecosystem is a theatre upon which is presented, in various degrees and at differing scales, a drama of constraint and information vs. disorganization and entropy. Concerning biology, most think immediately of genomic information.
Robert Ulanowicz, Ulanowicz Robert E
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Morphological typology pedigree of centripetal spatial schema in traditional Chinese settlements [PDF]
Frontiers of Architectural ResearchCentripetality, as a spatial prototype characterized by “collective memory”, manifests within the context of traditional Chinese culture as the inherent concept of “human-centeredness” which have existed since ancient times.
Lijun Wang, Jia Wei
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Did Music Cause the End of the World? [PDF]
Transposition, 2020 This essay seeks to clarify the relationship between music and environmental violence. After a reflection on the distortions and insights that different frames of reference produce, it places music within an expansive environmental register that ...
J. Martin Daughtry
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Dimensions Missing from Ecology
Philosophies, 2018 Ecology, with its emphasis on coupled processes and massive heterogeneity, is not amenable to complete mechanical reduction, which is frustrated for reasons of history, dimensionality, logic, insufficiency, and contingency. Physical laws are not violated,
Robert Ulanowicz, Ulanowicz Robert E
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Quantifying sustainable balance in ecosystem configurations
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 2020 The literature on sustainability is overwhelmingly occupied with conservation and efficiency as they pertain to individual actions and processes. At the whole-systems level, however, functional redundancy, which imparts flexibility, is mutually exclusive
Robert Ulanowicz
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Socio-Ecological Networks: A Lens That Focuses Beyond Physics
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Contemporary systems ecology has long been occupied with mechanical explanations of behavior; however, the physical theory that undergirds such explanations has certain limits.
Robert E. Ulanowicz, Robert E. Ulanowicz
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Training GANs with centripetal acceleration [PDF]
Optimization Methods and Software, 2020 Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) often suffers from cyclic behaviors of iterates. Based on a simple intuition that the direction of centripetal acceleration of an object moving in uniform circular motion is toward the center of the circle, we present the Simultaneous Centripetal Acceleration (SCA) method and the Alternating Centripetal ...
Wei Peng 0010 +3 more
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Movement in the interstice: village, city, and modernity in the prose of Dobroslav Chrobák [PDF]
Slovenska LiteraturaThe study takes as its starting point the thematic and poetological bipolarity of Dobroslav Chrobák’s (1907–1951) prose along the axis of village and city.
Matej Masaryk
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