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ToothAgent: Brushing on Your Behalf

Common interests among people in different communities and levels are driving plenty of research groups and industry developers to pay more attention to such a vast zone of opportunities. Nowadays, unifying service architectures and implementations has become achievable, advanced and sophisticated mobile services early-adopters and late-integrators are standing over one tangible concept; troubl...

A reply on Spinoza’s behalf

It is remarkable how many important philosophers of the past have come to think: “If my own philosophy were to be rejected, the only alternative would be Spinozism.” As the papers in the present collection illustrate, conclusions of roughly this form were reached in one way or another by Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Jacobi, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling. Perhaps, then, the most general reply that might ...

Niche construction on Bali: the gods of the countryside.

Human niche construction encompasses both purely biological phenomena, such as the evolution of lactose tolerance, and dual inheritance theory, which investigates the transmission of cultural information. But does niche construction help to explain phenomena in which conscious intention also plays a role? The creation of the engineered landscape of Balinese rice terraces offers a test case. Pop...

You Shall Be as Gods

the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separat...

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