Universal structure of objective states in all fundamental causal theories

Thermodynamic depth of causal states: Objective complexity via minimal representations

Thermodynamic depth is an appealing but flawed structural complexity measure. It depends on a set of macroscopic states for a system, but neither its original introduction by Lloyd and Pagels nor any follow-up work has considered how to select these states. Depth, therefore, is at root arbitrary. Computational mechanics, an alternative approach to structural complexity, provides a definition fo...

the role of thematic structure in comprehending spoken language

in fact this study is concerned with the relationship between the variation in thematice structure and the comprehension of spoken language. so the study focused on the following questions: 1. is there any relationship between thematic structure and the comprehension of spoken language? 2. which of the themes would have greated thematic force and be easier for the subjects to comprehend? accord...

Fundamental Theories of Physics

Theories of Causal Ordering

ibis paper is a response to Iwasaki and Sitnon 141 which criticizes de Kleer and Brown I~I.We argue that loans of tilt ir (run ions partu ularl~ nun mint, t ausaltts unodt lint, and stab,lzti, 0z lynaut troun the difference of concerns between engineering and economics. Our notion of causality arises from considerzng the interconnecuions of components not equations. When no fet’dhack is present...

Nonmonotonic causal theories

The nonmonotonic causal logic defined in this paper can be used to represent properties of actions, including actions with conditional and indirect effects, nondeterministic actions, and concurrently executed actions. It has been applied to several challenge problems in the theory of commonsense knowledge. We study the relationship between this formalism and other work on nonmonotonic reasoning...