Search results for "Determinism"

L’historien et ses modèles

2010

Parler des modèles en histoire est une affaire délicate, car le mot recouvre des pratiques historiennes différentes depuis son apparition dans la discipline, après la dernière guerre mondiale. Pour une minorité d’historiens surtout spécialisés en histoire économique, il correspond à une vision nouvelle de la discipline qui tenterait d’intégrer certaines démarches mathématiques, en particulier aujourd’hui la théorie des jeux. Pour d’autres, en revanche, parler de modèles relèverait surtout d’une évolution du vocabulaire, sans impliquer de véritable mutation disciplinaire. Les historiens construisent et utilisent surtout des modèles explicatifs, voire palliatifs quand ils ont de trop grandes …

La dominación sin ideología

2009

The Imperative of Addressing the Contemporary Crisis of Economics with Spiritual Intelligence

2013

Abstract The current global economic crisis has also drawn an increasingly obvious crisis of the economic theories. Thereby are more and more voices that calls for quitting the rather mechanistic, mathematical, determinist or pure rational approaches in favor of either sociological, psychological, historical, cultural or merely ethical ones, or, most often, a combination of some or all of these. In this paper I argue that the most needed approaches are now the anthropological ones that start from the spiritual considerations about human intelligence.

How to simulate free will in a computational device

1999

Since we believe that human brain is not a purely deterministic device merely reacting to the environment but rather it is capable to a free will, Theoretical Computer Science has also tried to develop a system of notions generalizing determinism. Nondeterministic and probabilistic algorithms were the first generalizations. Nondeterministic machines constitute an important part of the Theory of Computation. Nondeterminism is a useful way to describe possible choices. In real life there are many regulations restricting our behavior. These regulations nearly always leave some freedom for us how to react. Such regulations are best described in terms of nondeterministic algorithms. Nondetermini…

The value of statistical laws in physics and social sciences

2007

The deterministic conception of nature implies in itself a real cause of weakness in the irremediable contradiction that it faces with the most certain data of our consciousness. G. SOREL attempted to compose this disagreement with the distinction between artificial nature and natural nature (this last acausal), but in this way he denied the unity of science. On the other hand, the formal analogy between the statistical laws of physics and the ones of social sciences credited the opinion that human facts also undergo a rigid determinism. It is therefore important that quantum mechanics principles have brought to recognize the statistical character of basic laws of elementary processes, in a…

Correlating stress and somatic embryogenesis for NBT: myth or reality?

2018

Global warming and growing demography have increased demand for agronomic resources, leading to increasing lack of land suitable for agriculture and provoking several abiotic stresses which, added to biotic ones, result in physiological and metabolic disorders that impact on crop yield when most needed. Reducing this impact is a major scientific and agronomic challenge and biotechnology would be an efficient alternative. However, to reduce risks of somaclonal variation among regenerants it is better to produce them by somatic embryogenesis directly from explants or gametes, or indirectly from callus or cell suspensions. Thus, globular embryos regenerate and develop through to the heart, tor…

Diversité et déterminisme génétique de l’aptitude du pois protéagineux (Pisum sativum) à la culture associée avec le blé (Triticum aestivum).

2018

National audience; Les cultures en association avec des légumineuses sont aujourd’hui une des voies privilégiées pour développer une agriculture plus respectueuse de l’environnement. En effet, stabilisation de la qualité et de la productivité de la parcelle, diminution des apports azotés, meilleure gestion des adventices et pathogènes, meilleure nutrition des deux partenaires et augmentation de la diversité microbienne du sol sont autant de services éco-systémiques attendus vis-à-vis de ce type de culture. Cependant, peu de travaux ont porté sur l’aptitude génétique à l’association du pois avec d’autres espèces et notamment le blé, alors que nous disposons désormais d’outils de phénotypage …

Freedom and Necessity in The Winter's Tale

2011

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Libertad, determinismo y responsabilidad moral

2015

Este trabajo comienza con un análisis de los conceptos de determinismo, libertad y responsabilidad moral. En relación con la libertad, distinguimos tres aspectos o condiciones de esta: posibilidades alternativas, control volitivo-racional y control u origen último. Aunque estas tres condiciones parecen inicialmente necesarias para la responsabilidad moral, no todos aceptan que realmente lo son; y hay también divergencias por lo que respecta a su compatibilidad con el determinismo. La actitud ante estas dos cuestiones define las principales posiciones en el debate actual sobre las relaciones entre libertad, responsabilidad moral y determinismo: por un lado, el incompatibilismo en distintas v…

Freedom and Necessity in The Winter’s Tale

2014

From the first expository scene, The Winter’s Tale exhibits a concern with necessity, either through the use of the word itself, its derivatives (necessities, necessary), and their synonyms (needful, required) or through the notion of what “must” happen, what “cannot but” happen. The recurrence of such terms conveys a sense that this is a world where no one is free, and every action is dictated by force of circumstance. This is reinforced by the widespread use of the traditional imagery of fate. Yet the characters of the play are reluctant to submit to necessity. Some even fantasize states of absolute freedom, including freedom from the laws of nature. The play itself, notwithstanding the o…