... fails, then no actions are per-
formed. A simple example of the if–then–else construct is
if there are cookies in the jar then
eat them
else
go to the shops and buy more
eat them
end
The while ... and the Dobrushin Coefficient 276
11.3.3 Stability via Monotonicity 279
11.3.4 More on Monotonicity 283
11.3.5 Further Stability Theory 288
11.4 Commentary 293
Economic Dynamics...
... conditional models, there is a presumption that the
distributions they specify are static; i.e., they do not change between the time we
learnthemandthetimeweusethem.Ifthisisnottrue,andthedistributionschange
in ... language and so “projectable”
based on the success of their past projections. These terms have earned their right
to be in our language through the service they have perfo...
... of reason of the sort that Plato
and Descartes sought, and even if there were, they would
be too trivial to provide a basis for all the other things we
think we know. Similarly, there are no ... activation of all the units in parallel. The
updated activation of unit is calculated on the basis of its
current activation, the weights on links to other units, and
the activatio...
... own on the subject.
But two aspects of this theory are immediately relevant here. The first is
the significance of the theory of repeated games. The second is the impor-
tance of evolutionary theory.
Repeated ... Does Game Theory Work?
The Bargaining Challenge
Ken Binmore
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
I don’t plan to press the virtues of...
... decentralized and networked character of the OSS
movement. The construction of the hacker is discussed, and the tensions
between the Free Software and Open Source movements are analyzed. They
further ... rather
than the other is generally ideological, rather than functional; the FSF
prefers the use of a term that explicitly refers to freedom, while the OSI
believes tha...
... application of computational mechanics to the understanding of rules evolved by the GA is discussed
further in Crutchfield and Mitchell 1994, in Das, Mitchell, and Crutchfield 1994, and in Das, ... fitness, the rules are ranked and selection is done at random from the
top 20% of the population. Moreover, all of the top 20% are copied without modification to the next
gene...
... Corrupted Boy and the Crowned Poet or The
Material Real ity and the Symbolic Status of the Literary Book at
Rome’’) explores in nuanced fashion the nature of the symbolic status
and function of the bookroll. ... names of the men who receive the money, the very precise sums
passed over, and the reasons for the loan. Much revolves around these
details. At chapter...
... cross-references to other articles in the Handbook. These may occur
either in the body of the article in the form T
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or at the end of the article, designated ... moni-
tor the chemical level of the bloodstream and the state of the heart
and the intestines. Cells in the liver monitor glucose, while others
in the kidney...
... anything. There is a state that zombies go
into when they cut themselves or stub their toes. This state
makes them do the things we do when we are in pain. They
curse and jump up and down and hold the ... on there. I have the sensation of pain.
The question is not whether their visual sensations and my
pain sensation are sensations of the same thing. It is rather
whether my...
... cat on the housesill, the chickadee, the
prarie-dog,
The litter of the grunting sow as they tug at her teats,
The brood of the turkeyhen, and she with her halfspread wings,
I see in them and myself ... of
knowledge and can also account for other gross moral psychological
phenomena, giving them ample explanatory power and making them
the centerpiece of moral cognition....