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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Synchronous Online Philosophy Courses: An Experiment in Progress [PDF]
, 2018 There are two main ways to teach a course online: synchronously or asynchronously. In an asynchronous course, students can log on at their convenience and do the course work.
McDonald, Fritz
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is a truism of mathematics that differences between isomorphic number systems are irrelevant to arithmetic. This truism is deeply rooted in the modern axiomatic method and underlies most strands of arithmetical structuralism, the view that arithmetic is about some abstract number structure.
Balthasar Grabmayr
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On the Algorithmic Nature of the World
, 2009 We propose a test based on the theory of algorithmic complexity and an experimental evaluation of Levin's universal distribution to identify evidence in support of or in contravention of the claim that the world is algorithmic in nature.
Delahaye, Jean-Paul, Zenil, Hector
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Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Large language models (LLMs) challenge long‐standing assumptions in linguistics and linguistic anthropology by generating human‐like language without relying on rule‐based structures. This introduction to the special issue Language Machines calls for renewed engagement with LLMs as socially embedded language technologies.
Siri Lamoureaux +2 more
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Variations of Checking Stack Automata: Obtaining Unexpected Decidability Properties
, 2018 We introduce a model of one-way language acceptors (a variant of a checking stack automaton) and show the following decidability properties: (1) The deterministic version has a decidable membership problem but has an undecidable emptiness problem.
Ibarra, Oscar H., McQuillan, Ian
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
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What Makes a Computation Unconventional?
, 2013 A coherent mathematical overview of computation and its generalisations is described. This conceptual framework is sufficient to comfortably host a wide range of contemporary thinking on embodied computation and its models.Comment: Based on an invited ...
Cooper, S. Barry
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Earth and Space Science, Volume 13, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract Hailstorms over the Yunnan‐Guizhou Plateau cause significant losses in key cash crops such as tobacco, inflicting substantial economic impacts. Weining, an eastern plateau region prone to spring‐summer hailstorms, requires further research on hailstorm environmental conditions to improve forecasting and disaster mitigation.
Shiyi Wang +5 more
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Classical computing, quantum computing, and Shor's factoring algorithm [PDF]
, 1999 This is an expository talk written for the Bourbaki Seminar. After a brief introduction, Section 1 discusses in the categorical language the structure of the classical deterministic computations.
Manin, Yuri I.
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