People, multitude, society

Mapping the Multitude. Categories in Representations

One of the main problems with artificial intelligence is the fact that the information which artificial intelligence is typically required to handle is heterogeneously structured. Ontologies are designed to mitigate this effect. From a philosophical perspective, we refer to an ontology when we have a systematic representation of principles whose various relations can adequately describe a subse...

Democracy and the Multitude Spinoza against Negri

Negri celebrates a conception of democracy in which the concrete powers of individual humans are not alienated away, but rather are added together: this is a democracy of the multitude. But how can the multitude act without alienating anyone’s power? To answer this difficulty, Negri explicitly appeals to Spinoza. Nonetheless, in this paper, I argue that Spinoza’s philosophy does not support Neg...

Follow the Multitude—A Thermodynamic Approach

When a bit is added to a file, its entropy increases by one nat regardless of the length of the file or the value of the bit. However, when a node is added to a network, the entropy increase is a function of the ratio between the links and the nodes in the network. Therefore, the thermodynamic incentive for a node to join a highly linked network is higher than to join a poorly linked network.

p53 hides a multitude of CIN

In Focus • THE JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY p53 hides a multitude of CIN C ells missegregate a chromosome approximately once every hundred divisions. But don't be too alarmed: Thompson and Compton report that the tumor suppressor p53 limits the growth of cells with incorrect numbers of chromosomes and prevents their progression toward cancer (1). Tumor cells tend to missegregate chromosomes at a par...

The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Society Building and Empowerment of the Palestinian People