scholarly journals Ontological Laughter: Comedy as Experimental Possibility Space

ASAP/Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-336
Author(s):  
Timothy Morton
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Possibility ◽  
Possibility Space

scholarly journals Agency and the Successive Structure of Time-Consciousness

Erkenntnis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camden Alexander McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
The Self ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Epistemic Status ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
Time Consciousness ◽  
Possibility Space ◽  
The Right ◽  
Wrong Sort

AbstractI argue for constraining the nomological possibility space of temporal experiences and endorsing the Succession Requirement for agents. The Succession Requirement holds that the basic structure of temporal experience must be successive for agentive subjects, at least in worlds that are law-like in the same way as ours. I aim to establish the Succession Requirement by showing non-successively experiencing agents are not possible for three main reasons, namely that they (1) fail to stand in the right sort of causal relationship to the outcomes of their actions, (2) exhibit the wrong sort of epistemic status for agency, and (3) lack the requisite agentive mental attitude of intentionality. I conclude that agency is incompatible with non-successive experience and therefore we should view the successive temporal structure of experience as a necessary condition for agency. I also suggest that the Succession Requirement may actually extend beyond my main focus on agency, offering preliminary considerations in favor of seeing successive experience as a precondition for selfhood as well. The consequences of the Succession Requirement are wide-ranging, and I discuss various implications for our understanding of agency, the self, time consciousness, and theology, among other things.

Developing a Theory of Global Biodiversity

2018 ◽  
pp. 93-123
Author(s):  
Boris Worm ◽  
Derek P. Tittensor
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Global Distribution ◽  
Biodiversity Patterns ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Possibility Space ◽  
Competing Hypotheses ◽  
Global Biodiversity

This chapter develops a body of theory to capture and test the key processes governing the global distribution of biodiversity. From this theory, it devises a spatial metacommunity model that enables the reconstruction of documented patterns of species richness from first principles and the prediction of their major features. The chapter starts with a simple, flexible, and tractable framework that can be built on and expanded in order to test competing hypotheses. This modeling approach may be described as an experimental toolbox for global biodiversity patterns. The aim is not necessarily to achieve the highest predictive power, but to explore the possibility space of global biodiversity patterns and their drivers.

Possibility space for GIS suitability analysis

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wutthigrai Boonsuk ◽  
Chris Harding
Keyword(s):  
Suitability Analysis ◽  
Possibility Space

ANALYSIS AND ALGORITHMS OF BIFUZZY SYSTEMS

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 357-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIAN ZHOU ◽  
BAODING LIU
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Experiments ◽  
Fuzzy Variable ◽  
Expected Value ◽  
Real Numbers ◽  
Fuzzy Variables ◽  
Chance Distribution ◽  
Expected Value Operator ◽  
Possibility Space ◽  
Bifuzzy Variable

A fuzzy variable is a function from a possibility space to the set of real numbers, while a bifuzzy variable is a function from a possibility space to the set of fuzzy variables. In this paper, a concept of chance distribution is originally presented for bifuzzy variable, and the linearity of expected value operator of bifuzzy variable is proved. Furthermore, bifuzzy simulations are designed and illustrated by some numerical experiments.

The magnetic entropy concept

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. MINARDI
Keyword(s):  
Current Density ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Global Behavior ◽  
Magnetic Entropy ◽  
Predictive Tool ◽  
Density Distributions ◽  
System Of Particles ◽  
Possibility Space

The magnetic entropy concept is an interpretative and predictive tool based on probability and information, defined in a suitably coarse-grained possibility space of all current density distributions under testable constraints. This paper develops the concept starting from its statistical foundations and then proceeds illustrating its potentiality in the description of the global behavior of macroscopic plasma configurations with practical interest. Finally, the paper discusses the relations of the concept to the dynamics of the underlying system of particles.

scholarly journals Wilhelm Wien’s Photons Creating the BohEmian Pilot Wave for the Guiding of the Individual Huygens - de Broglie Particles on the Helical Path Governed by the Newton - Bohm Evolute (the Bohmian Pilot Wave) through the Young - Feynman Double - Slit Barrier.

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Jiri Stavek
Keyword(s):  
Interference Pattern ◽  
Beam Splitter ◽  
Zehnder Interferometer ◽  
Pilot Wave ◽  
System Temperature ◽  
Experimental Possibility ◽  
Diffraction Patterns ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Double Slit ◽  
Mach Zehnder Interferometer

In our approach we have combined knowledge of Old Masters (working in this field before the year 1905), New Masters (working in this field after the year 1905) and Dissidents under the guidance of Louis de Broglie and David Bohm. In our model the quantum particle is represented as the Huygens-de Broglie’s particle on the helical path (full wave) guided by the Newton-Bohm entangled helical evolute (Bohmian Pilot Wave). These individual Huygens - de Broglie particles in the Young - Feynman double - slit experiment react with Wilhelm Wien’s photons that are always present inside of the apparatus (Wien’s displacement law). Wilhelm Wien’s photons form collectively the Wien filter guiding the Huygens - de Broglie particles through the double - slit barrier towards a detector (BohEmian Pilot Wave). The interplay of those events creates the observed interference pattern. In the very well-known formula describing the intensity of double-slit diffraction patterns we have newly introduced the concept curvature κ of the Huygens - de Broglie particle and thus giving a physical interpretation for the Newton - Bohm guiding wave (the Bohmian Pilot Wave): for photons κ = π/λ, for electrons κ = 2π/λ. Moreover, we have introduced into that formula the expression λmax from the Wien’s displacement law to describe geometry of the double - slit barrier. We propose to modify the value λmax by the change of the system temperature. There is a second experimental possibility - we can insert into those slits filters to remove Wien’s photons while the Huygens - de Broglie particles continue towards a detector - we should observe the particle behavior. The similar situation might occur in the Mach - Zehnder interferometer. In this case the individual Huygens - de Broglie particle reacts in the first beam splitter with the Wien photon: the Huygens - de Broglie particle goes through one path while the Wien photon goes through the second path. In the second beam splitter they interact again and create the interference pattern on one detector. We can experimentally modify the resulting interference pattern in the Mach - Zehnder interferometer - by the temperature change of the system or by inserting filters to remove Wien’s photons from one or both paths. Can it be that Nature cleverly creates those interference patterns while the Bohmian pilot wave and the BohEmian pilot wave are hidden in plain sight? We want to pass this concept into the hands of Readers of this Journal better educated in the Mathematics and Physics.

scholarly journals Types, Styles, and Spaces of Possibility : Phenomenology and Musical Improvisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-270
Author(s):  
Mitchell Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Improvised Music ◽  
Possibility Space ◽  
Musical Improvisation ◽  
Musical Styles ◽  
A Performance

SummaryI outline an approach to the phenomenology of improvised music which takes typification and the development of multi‐ordered phenomenological structures as central. My approach here is firmly in line with classical Husserlian phenomenology, taking the discussion of types in Experience and Judgment (Husserl, 1973) and Brudzińska (2015) as guide. I provide a phenomenological analysis of musical types as they are found in improvisational contexts, focusing on jazz in the 20th century. Styles are higher‐order musical types. Musical types are structures that are temporally “thick,” relying on sedimented typification and knowledge, driving expectations as definitional. In most forms of music (including improvised music), musical styles involve maintaining a balance between confirming expectations and flouting expectations. I show that improvised music has a phenomenal structure which is enriched by the communicative and “ real‐time” nature of improvised music. Improvised music can be seen as an exploration of a possibility space rendered by the juxtaposition of the musical types afforded by a performance environment (instrumentation, harmonic and melodic traditions, etc.). I show that improvisation in music is a multi‐vectoral form of communication. The communication is founded in what Dieter Lohmar calls “non‐linguistic thinking.” The expression is constituted in the results of active and synthesis. The culmination of improvisational exploration of possibility spaces is the precisification and enrichment of styles‐as‐types, while in some cases developing new styles in the process.

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