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THE SET-THEORETIC MULTIVERSE [PDF]
The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2012 AbstractThe multiverse view in set theory, introduced and argued for in this article, is the view that there are many distinct concepts of set, each instantiated in a corresponding set-theoretic universe. The universe view, in contrast, asserts that there is an absolute background set concept, with a corresponding absolute set-theoretic universe in ...
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.Background Hunger has established detrimental impacts on physical health, with emerging evidence indicating negative impacts on mental health. However, there is a pronounced knowledge gap outside high‐income settings and for adolescents. Previous research also provides differing estimates of hunger's impacts, potentially underpinned by a wide range of ...
Mirela Zaneva +3 more
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The EEG multiverse of schizophrenia [PDF]
Cerebral Cortex, 2020 Abstract Research on schizophrenia typically focuses on one paradigm, for which clear-cut differences between patients and controls are established. Great care is taken to understand the underlying genetical, neurophysiological, and cognitive mechanism, which eventually may explain the clinical outcome.
Dario Gordillo +8 more
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Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study examines the link between physical attractiveness and partnership outcomes among a group of young male refugees, drawing on Social Exchange Theory, which posits that individuals exchange valued traits—such as attractiveness—for higher status in other domains.
Irena Kogan +2 more
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Quantum Reports, 2023 The 2022 Tel Aviv conference on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics highlighted many differences between theorists. A very significant dichotomy is between Everettian fission (splitting) and Saunders–Wallace–Wilson divergence. For fission,
Paul Tappenden
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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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The Multiverse Theodicy Meets Population Ethics
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophyThe multiverse theodicy proposes to reconcile the existence of God and evil by supposing that God created all and only the creation-worthy universes and that some universes like ours are, despite their evils, creation-worthy.
Han Li
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Can an Eternal Life Start From the Minimal Fine-Tuning for Intelligence? [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2016 Since modern physicists made more and more advances in precisely measuring the fundamental constants in nature, cosmologists have been confronted with this problem: how do we declare that nature’s constants are fine-tuned for the emergence of life?
Ward Blondé
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The Ramadan Gambit: The Impact of Fasting on Cognitive Performance
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high‐stakes decision‐making. We study these effects in tournament chess, an incentivised, real‐world cognitive task in which move quality can be evaluated objectively by a strong ...
Samuel Buckland, David Smerdon
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