Artificial Curiosities

Quantum Curiosities of Psychophysics

I survey some of the connections between the metaphysics of the relation between mind and matter, and quantum theory’s measurement problem. After discussing the metaphysics, especially the correct formulation of physicalism, I argue that two state-reduction approaches to quantum theory’s measurement problem hold some surprises for philosophers’ discussions of physicalism. Though both approaches...

Curiosities of REPINs and RAYTs

Repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) sequences are a ubiquitous feature of bacterial genomes. Recent work shows that REPs are remnants of a larger mobile genetic element termed a REPIN. REPINs consists of two REP sequences in inverted orientation separated by a spacer region and are thought to be non-autonomous mobile genetic elements that exploit the transposase encoded by REP-Associated tY...

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

^ one of the means for the progress of science; but, as we cnr> .he complained that in his day "a substantial and severe ection of the heteroclites or irregulars of Nature, well ' artjined and described, I find not." We have here a praisea 1 "y effort to form such a collection for medical science. an??st any section might be expanded into a separate treatise, we may add that almost every sectio...

Curiosities of Curetting

Curiosities at c = − 2 Horst

Conformal field theory at c = −2 provides the simplest example of a theory with “logarithmic” operators. We examine in detail the (ξ, η) ghost system and Coulomb gas construction at c = −2 and show that, in contradistinction to minimal models, they can not be described in terms of conformal families of primary fields alone but necessarily contain reducible but indecomposable representations of ...