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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2004 Abstract:This article draws on ideas published in my “Intimations of Immortality” essay inScience(Vol. 288, No. 5463, p. 59, April 7, 2000) and my “Intimations of Immortality—The Ethics and Justice of Life Extending Therapies” in editor Michael Freeman'sCurrent Legal Problems(Oxford University Press 2002: 65‐97).
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Pallas, 2018 Nectar and ambrosia are often considered the drink and the food of the gods. But if the gods are eternal, why should they need to drink and eat? To put it differently, is it a necessity for the gods to nourish themselves in order to keep on being ...
Adeline Grand-Clément
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On Quentin Meillassoux and the Problem of Evil
Open Theology, 2020 The problem of evil and the injustice it brings out has a long history in western philosophy and it has been one of the core arguments against the existence of God as an all-powerful and all-good Being.
Mangion Claude
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Time in the ontology of Cornelius Castoriadis [PDF]
, 2017 We can locate the problematic of time within three philosophical questions, which respectively designate three central areas of philosophical reflection and contemplation. These are: 1) The ontological question, i.e.
Schismenos, Alexandros
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A note on Huemer’s Claim to immortality
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2020 According to Huemer (2019), existence is evidence of immortality, provided past time is infinite. The argument is based on, inter alia, an alleged contradiction between the fact of one’s existence now and its improbability.
Inge-Bert Täljedal
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Methis: Studia Humaniora Estonica, 2018 This paper explores the Baltic German reception of English graveyard poetry. The first translation of a graveyard poem was published in 1783 by Gottlieb Schlegel (Gray’s “Elegy”). Next, a poem by Elisa von der Recke is analysed in its dialogue with Blair’
Kairit Kaur
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Pre-Darwinian species change: reincarnation and transformism in George Sand’s Évenor et Leucippe [PDF]
, 2018 No abstract ...
Mathias, Manon
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Artificial Life, Divinity, and Mythology in Star Trek
ReligionsThe Star Trek franchise’s depiction of artificial intelligence (AI) and affiliated technologies—namely, supercomputers, androids, and holograms—evokes common themes and motifs from the myths of the ancient Mediterranean.
Amy L. Norgard
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Digital Theology: Is the Resurrection Virtual? [PDF]
, 2012 Many recent writers have developed a rich system of theological concepts inspired by computers. This is digital theology. Digital theology shares many elements of its eschatology with Christian post-millenarianism.
Steinhart, Eric
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Shadows of the SIS immortality transition in small networks
, 2015 Much of the research on the behavior of the SIS model on networks has concerned the infinite size limit; in particular the phase transition between a state where outbreaks can reach a finite fraction of the population, and a state where only a finite ...
Holme, Petter
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