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Sleeping Beauty and the demands of non‐ideal rationality

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
Abstract If an agent can't live up to the demands of ideal rationality, fallback norms come into play that take into account the agent's limitations. A familiar human limitation is our tendency to lose information. How should we compensate for this tendency?
Wolfgang Schwarz
wiley   +1 more source

The HIAL storm: Resisting the technological transformation of air traffic control

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
Abstract Whether and under what conditions the implementation of technology can be resisted hinges on how labour can mobilise structural, associational, institutional, coalitional and ideational power resources. The failed attempt of Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL) to create a remote tower centre at Inverness to control air traffic at ...
Huw Thomas, Peter Turnbull
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons from the void: What Boltzmann brains teach

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Some physical theories predict that almost all brains in the universe are Boltzmann brains, that is, short‐lived disembodied brains that are accidentally assembled as a result of thermodynamic or quantum fluctuations. Physicists and philosophers of physics widely regard this proliferation as unacceptable, and so take its prediction as a basis ...
Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

Quantum correlations between each two-level system in a pair of atoms and general coherent fields

open access: yesResults in Physics, 2016
The quantitative description of the quantum correlations between each two-level system in a two-atom system and the coherent fields initially defined in a coherent state in the framework of power-law potentials (PLPCSs) is considered.
S. Abdel-Khalek   +2 more
doaj  

Quantum Discord for d⊗2 Systems. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep, 2015
Ma Z, Chen Z, Fanchini FF, Fei SM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Similarity accounts of counterfactuals: A reality check1

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
Abstract To an unusual extent, philosophers agree that counterfactuals have truth conditions involving the most similar possible worlds where their antecedents are true, in the style of the celebrated and path‐breaking Stalnaker/Lewis accounts. Roughly, these accounts say that the counterfactual if A were the case, C would be the case is true if and ...
Alan Hájek
wiley   +1 more source

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