Totem Worship in Shanhaijing Xishanjing

Hero worship

This month, as the surest route to public embarassment, I decided to write about scientific heroes. Today’s world is full of talk of mentoring. Graduate students are told to find supervisors who will intellectually nourish them, emotionally support them, and teach them networking and grantspersonship. As I tap away, I can almost hear Uncle Syd muttering that the world is going to the dogs. In h...

The grounds of worship

Although worship has a pivotal place in religious thought and practice, philosophers of religion have had remarkably little to say about it. In this paper we examine some of the many questions surrounding the notion of worship, focusing on the claim that human beings have obligations to worship God. We explore a number of attempts to ground our supposed duty to worship God, and argue that each ...

In Worship of an Echo

The Totem System

The Totem system supports fault-tolerant applications in which distributed processes cooperate to perform a commontask and in which replicated data must be updated consistently in the presence of asynchrony and faults. Reliable totally ordered delivery of messages to processes within process groups is provided on a single local-area network or over multiple local-area networks interconnected by...

Exploding Totem in Art and Biology

hat could be better than dying in the place you spent your life work-ing…? " Jack Shadbolt's wife Doris mused, as she and friends moved his bed into the studio during the final days of his life. " When I can't paint, I don't want to live, " he had said (1). Around the bed was Blue Breaking, a triptych he had painted, filled with shadowy forms, " like butterflies' footprints. " A few days later,...