This study examines the role of online daters’ physical attractiveness in their profile selfpresentation and, in particular, their use of deception. Sixty-nine online daters identified the deceptions in their online dating profiles and had their photograph taken in the lab. Independent judges rated the online daters’ physical attractiveness. Results show that the lower online daters’ attractive...

Many physical theories like chaos theory are fundamentally concerned with the conceptual tension between determinism and randomness. Kolmogorov complexity can express randomness in determinism and gives an approach to formulate chaotic behavior.

The main concern of this paper is the study of the interplay between functionality and non determinism. Indeed the rst question we ask is whether the analysis of parallelism in terms of sequentiality and non determinism, which is usual in the algebraic treatment of concurrency, remains correct in presence of functional application and abstraction. We identify non determinism in the setting of -...

Environmental determinism is often used to explain past social collapses and predict the future of modern human societies. We assess availability natural resources resulting carrying capacity (a basic concept environmental determinism) through a toy model based on Hurst–Kolmogorov dynamics. also highlight role cohesion, we evaluate it from an entropic viewpoint. Furthermore, make case that, whe...

In standard computation, non-determinism is used for specifying programs’ behaviour, without having to specify details of implementation. In quantum computation, non-determinism is either meant to be “classical” probabilism or it is not considered at all, since quantum computation is the physical theory of computation and thus it does not deal with non-implementable features. In this work we wi...

We discuss some of the choices that arise when one tries to make the idea of physical determinism more precise. Broadly speaking, ‘ontological’ notions of determinism are parameterized by one’s choice of mathematical ideology, whilst ‘epistemological’ notions of determinism are parameterized by the choice of an appropriate notion of computability. We present some simple examples to show that th...

We discuss several ways of making precise the informal concept of physical determinism, drawing on ideas from mathematical logic and computability theory. We outline a programme of investigating these notions of determinism in detail for specific, precisely articulated physical theories. We make a start on our programme by proposing a general logical framework for describing physical theories, ...