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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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Life, but Not as We Know It: Why Fine‐Tuning Arguments Fail
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Definitions of “life” and theories of life are systematically neglected in arguments for and from fine‐tuning. Despite claims to be neutral about the definition of “life,” fine‐tuning arguments generally presuppose that life requires a form of structural complexity only afforded by physicochemical complexity of the sort with which we are ...
Joe Gough
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Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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Blankness in post‐post‐postmodern poetry
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Jameson's “myth” identifies reification as the leading cause of cultural change. The myth also adumbrates the semiotic form of post‐postmodernism and post‐post‐postmodernism, which Jameson himself did not explore. One of the most extreme varieties of post‐post‐postmodern verse is the would‐be blank poem, pursued by Russian Futurists, Lettrists,
Shawn Normandin
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Spontaneous decay of the effective cosmological constant
, 1998 We discuss the notion that quantum fields may induce an effective time-dependent cosmological constant which decays from a large initial value.
Taha, M. O., Ozer, Murat
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Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
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Adelic Universe and Cosmological Constant
, 2003 In the quantum adelic field (string) theory models, vacuum energy - cosmological constant vanishes. The other (alternative?) mechanism is given by supersymmetric theories.
Makhaldiani, N
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT AND SOFT TERMS IN SUPERGRAVITY
, 1994 Some of the soft supersymmetry breaking parameters in the hidden sector supergravity model depend on the expectation value of the hidden sector scalar potential, [V-h], whose tree level value is equal to the tree level cosmological constant.
Choi, Ki-Woon, KIM, JE, NILLES, HP
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The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
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