Free Will with Afterthoughts: A Quasichemical Model

Quasichemical Model of a Ternary Solution

A quasichemical model is one type of statistical models of solutions. It is more realistic than the ideal and regular models. The solutions in a quasichemical model have a finite enthalpy change and nonrandom atomic configuration of mixing. Two improvements to the previous ternary interstitial quasichemical model have been made in this work. The new model is more general and rigorous, which mea...

A study of Determinism and Free-will in Persian Proverbs

Proverbs as a part of colloquial literature are always nourished by religion, culture, traditions, and philosophical beliefs of a community, and thus they mirror the common beliefs of a people. The frequent repletion of a proverb pregnant with a specific thought makes that type of thought a behavioral pattern and affects the actions and behaviors of the people of a society. In the Iranian socie...

Modeling electrolyte solutions with the extended universal quasichemical (UNIQUAC) model*

The extended universal quasichemical (UNIQUAC) model is a thermodynamic model for solutions containing electrolytes and nonelectrolytes. The model is a Gibbs excess function consisting of a Debye–Hückel term and a standard UNIQUAC term. The model only requires binary ion-specific interaction parameters. A unique choice of standard states makes the model able to reproduce solid–liquid, vapor–liq...

The Scope of Man's Free Will

A Model of Free Will for Artificial Entities

The impression of free will is the feeling according to which our choices are neither imposed from our inside nor from outside. It is the sense we are the ultimate cause of our acts. In direct opposition with the universal determinism, the existence of free will continues to be discussed. In this paper, free will is linked to a decisional mechanism: an agent is provided with free will if having...