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In Praise of Quantum Uncertainty [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy, 2020
Quantum uncertainty has a tremendous explanatory power. Coherent superposition, quantum equations of motion, entanglement, nonlocal correlations, dynamical nonlocality, contextuality, discord, counterfactual protocols, weak measurements, quantization ...
Eliahu Cohen, Avishy Carmi
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Quantum Randomness is Chimeric [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy, 2021
If quantum mechanics is taken for granted, the randomness derived from it may be vacuous or even delusional, yet sufficient for many practical purposes.
Karl Svozil
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Agent Inaccessibility as a Fundamental Principle in Quantum Mechanics: Objective Unpredictability and Formal Uncomputability [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy, 2018
The inaccessibility to the experimenter agent of the complete quantum state is well-known. However, decisive answers are still missing for the following question: What underpins and governs the physics of agent inaccessibility?
Jan Walleczek
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Probability Theory as a Physical Theory Points to Superdeterminism [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy, 2019
Probability theory as a physical theory is, in a sense, the most general physics theory available, more encompassing than relativity theory and quantum mechanics, which comply with probability theory.
Louis Vervoort
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Indeterminate Colitis [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 2004
Indeterminate colitis (IC) originally referred to those 10–15% of cases of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in which there was difficulty distinguishing between ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) in the colectomy specimen. However, IC is increasingly used when a definitive diagnosis of UC or CD cannot be made at colonoscopy, in colonic ...
William, Hale   +5 more
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Simondon and Bohm between determinism and indeterminism [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2022
The radical redefinition of the landscape of physics that followed the contributions of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg at the start of the 20th century led to plethora [of] new perspectives on age-old metaphysical questions on determinism and ...
Jovićević Andrej
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Indeterminism belief protects against uncertainty: first empirical findings

open access: yesDiscover Psychology, 2023
We empirically explore whether perceptions of (in)determinism are related to the willingness to tolerate uncertainty. We argue that the belief in indeterminism supports a sense of personal autonomy and independence from external influence, a stance that ...
David J. Grüning, Joachim I. Krueger
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Bergson's Theory of Free Will

open access: yesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2020
Bergson argues that there is an incompatibility between free will and determinism: while free will has a dimension of creation, of invention, determinism corresponds to the idea that the future is fixed in advance by laws.
Joel Dolbeault
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An Investigation into Sadra and Suhravardi’s Views regarding the World of Ideas [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018
The way God intervenes in the natural world is considered a major and long-standing issue in the realm of theology and philosophy of religion where efforts to resolve it has led to proposing various and, at times, opposing views, spanning from ...
Mahbobeh Vahdatipoor   +2 more
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Untangling Determinism: Revisiting the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the * Post-Avicennian Debates on Free Will [PDF]

open access: yesNazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2023
Avicenna was one of the premodern philosophers who argued for the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), namely the claim that everything has a cause and that no uncaused beings can exist.
10.12658/Nazariyat.9.2.M0210en
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