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Conjoined twinning & biological individuation
Philosophical Studies, 2020 In dicephalus conjoined twinning, it appears that two heads share a body; in cephalopagus, it appears that two bodies share a head. How many human animals are present in these cases?
A. Boyle
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Algorithmic Personalization as a Mode of Individuation
Theory, Culture and Society. Explorations in Critical Social Science, 2019 Recognizing that many of the modern categories with which we think about people and their activities were put in place through the use of numbers, we ask how numbering practices compose contemporary sociality.
Celia Lury, S. Day
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Physical Culture and Sport: Studies and Research, 2021 Since the person behind the practitioner has been recognised as a core foundation of professional practice in sport psychology, research attention has diffused to focus on navigating the ‘rocky road’ towards individuation.
Verner Daryl +2 more
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Nothing personal: algorithmic individuation on music streaming platforms
Media Culture and Society, 2017 Raymond Williams once wrote, ‘… there are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses’. In an age of personalized media, the word ‘masses’ seems like an anachronism.
R. Prey
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Temporal brain dynamics of multiple object processing: the flexibility of individuation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The ability to process concurrently multiple visual objects is fundamental for a coherent perception of the world. A core component of this ability is the simultaneous individuation of multiple objects. Many studies have addressed the mechanism of object
Veronica Mazza, Alfonso Caramazza
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Name-giving motives in Lithuania and Brazil
Domínios de Lingu@gem, 2021 TThis research aims at analysing and comparing the motives for choosing the first name of a child in Lithuania and Brazil in the years 1958-2016. By combining qualitative and quantitative methods and applying social and cultural approaches, it reveals ...
Karolina Butkuvienė +3 more
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Ruyer and Simondon on Technological Inventiveness and Form Outlasting its Medium [PDF]
, 2017 A summary is provided of Ruyer's important contribution, also a reversal from some conclusions held in his secondary doctoral dissertation, about the limits inherent in technological progress, and an attempt is made to show the coherence of this position
Gagnon, Philippe
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Catastrophic Individuation Failures in Infancy: A New Model and Predictions
Psychology Review, 2019 Comparison of infant findings from the physical-reasoning and object-individuation literatures reveals a contradictory picture. On the one hand, physical-reasoning results indicate that young infants can use featural information to guide their actions on
Maayan Stavans +3 more
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Explaining Leibniz-equivalence as difference of non-inertial appearances: dis-solution of the Hole Argument and physical individuation of point-events [PDF]
, 2006 "The last remnant of physical objectivity of space-time" is disclosed in the case of a continuous family of spatially non-compact models of general relativity (GR). The {\it physical individuation} of point-events is furnished by the intrinsic degrees of
Lusanna, Luca, Pauri, Massimo
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Technics, individuation and tertiary memory: Bernard Stiegler's challenge to media theory [PDF]
, 2012 Media studies as a field has traditionally been wary of the question of technology. Discussion of technology has often been restricted to relatively sterile debates about technological determinism. In recent times there has been renewed interest, however,
Roberts, Ben
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