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Anthropic reasoning in multiverse cosmology and string theory [PDF]
, 2005 Anthropic arguments in multiverse cosmology and string theory rely on the weak anthropic principle (WAP). We show that the principle, though ultimately a tautology, is nevertheless ambiguous.
Weinstein, Steven, Steven Weinstein
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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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Multiverse Fiction: A narratological approach to infinite worlds narratives
BetweenIn recent years, movies and tv shows have increasingly adopted the notion and the structure of the multiverse from superhero comics, resulting in a great popularity of the concept across a wider audience. The article aims to define the basic features of
Gabriele D'Amato, Luca Diani
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Vacuum decay in an interacting multiverse
Physics Letters B, 2016 We examine a new multiverse scenario in which the component universes interact. We focus our attention to the process of “true” vacuum nucleation in the false vacuum within one single element of the multiverse. It is shown that the interactions lead to a
S. Robles-Pérez +3 more
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Mapping the Metaphysics of the Multiverse in Pynchon's Against the Day
, 2016 This article elucidates the metaphysics of the fictional multiverse proposed by Thomas Pynchon in his 2006 novel Against the Day. The structure of this multiverse underpins the novel’s many themes and plots, and the analytic reading given here will open ...
Gazi, J.
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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The World as Wavefunction [PDF]
, 2011 Murray Gell-Mann and James Hartle have made an original proposal for a version of decoherent histories quantum mechanics which is specifically tailored so as not to imply the emergence of multiple quasi-classical worlds.
Tappenden, Paul
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Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.Abstract What is the nature of affective partisan polarization? We answer this question in a preregistered laboratory study conducted in the United States measuring partisans' affective reactions to static images of US politicians with self‐reports and physiological indicators of valence and arousal.
Kevin Arceneaux, Bert N. Bakker
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Cosmic Confusions: Not Supporting versus Supporting Not- [PDF]
, 2012 Bayesian probabilistic explication of inductive inference conflates neutrality of supporting evidence for some hypothesis H (“not supporting H”) with disfavoring evidence (“supporting not-H”). This expressive inadequacy leads to spurious results that are
Norton, John D.
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