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Anthromes and terrestrial carbon
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Anthony P. Walker +5 more
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The Turing Test as a Sceptical Scenario
ABSTRACT The Turing test is usually seen as an operationalisation of the question whether machines can think. In this paper, my aim is to show that by understanding the test in this way, one ends up in scepticism about the existence of minds in general. By focusing on whether some particular machine can pass the test, or whether it can be said to be an
Marvin Tritschler
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Roboter als Modellsysteme für aktive Materie: Abkühlungsphänomene durch Haftreibung
Die Fortschritte in der Robotik in den letzten Jahrzehnten haben die Entwicklung von Geräten ermöglicht, die lebende Organismen nachahmen und häufig für bestimmte Tätigkeiten eingesetzt werden. Für solche selbstgetriebenen Agenten spielt die Haftreibung eine zentrale Rolle.
Alexander Antonov +3 more
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
ABSTRACT Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman animals. These concepts are difficult to apply because they are implicitly grounded in the special status of humans.
Steve Cooke
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Newton’s insight that “the rays are not colored” anticipated a constructivist view of perception in which physical stimuli provide input but perceptual qualities arise from neural processing. Framed by Newton’s view, early sensory psychology and modern neuroscience converged on the conclusion that color is an internally generated percept, shaped by ...
Billy R. Wooten, Billy R. Hammond
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“R.C.”: Rosicrucianism and Cartesianism in Joyce and Beckett
This paper explores the possible theosophical and philosophical implications of James Joyce’s recurrent use of the initials “R. C.” in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
Steven Bond
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Katrina's Diaspora: Lessons in Black Ambivalence
Abstract This essay examines post‐Katrina New Orleans to challenge overdetermining narratives of Black resistance at the expense of other modes of being, while countering portrayals reducing resistance to demands for inclusion into violent subjectivity.
Jaz Riley
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This study examines the moral agency of French secondary school headteachers through the lens of the theory of conventions. Using qualitative data from interviews with fifteen headteachers involved in professional development, this study explores how ...
Romuald Normand
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ABSTRACT We live in a time of global crises: a deteriorating environment that is struggling to provide all the resources and services we demand of it, changing climate and its consequences for the biosphere, its habitats, inhabitants and biodiversity, conflicts‐divisive ideologies‐competition for resources, increasing societal inequalities and human ...
Kenneth Timmis +29 more
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DOĞUŞTAN DÜŞÜNCELER ÜZERİNE RENE DESCARTES, JOHN LOCKE VE GOTTFRJED WILHELM LEİBNİZ
DOĞUŞTAN DÜŞÜNCELER ÜZERİNE RENE DESCARTES, JOHN LOCKE VE GOTTFRJED WILHELM ...
Hülya Yaldır
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