We begin by distinguishing computationalism from a number of other theses that are sometimes conflated with it. We also distinguish between several important kinds of computation: computation in a generic sense, digital computation, and analog computation. Then, we defend a weak version of computationalism-neural processes are computations in the generic sense. After that, we reject on empirica...

POISON. By G. C. Roy, M.D., F.R.C.S., London, Corresponding Member of the Olasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society. The more wo trace an outbreak of cholera to its source, tlio clearer will stand the fact that, like specific poisons, it is a disease sui generis, that is capable of developing only its own kind. It pre-supposes for its existence the presence of a specific germ ; but how the ultimate pa...

1. In paragraph 4 of decision VIII/5 E, the Conference of the Parties requested the Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions to identify priority elements of sui generis systems as listed in the annex to decision VII/16 H. To date, no Party or others has suggested a particular priority order for the elements, and thus the order below does not imply any greater or lesser importance o...

The Google Spain judgment established a search engine as sui generis controller and the related ‘right to be forgotten’ (right delisting) under data protection legislation, despite controversies surrounding it primarily on account of logic operator’s functioning its consequent inability comply with certain basic requirements. Resulting interpretations, ie contouring legislation CJEU case law (t...

This paper provides an analysis of the judgment by the German Supreme Court in socalled Poem title list III (Gedichttitelliste III) together with relevant background to the case. The dispute concerned the infringement of the Sui Generis database right and the domestic supreme court decided the matter after the European Court of Justice gave its preliminary ruling on the interpretation of the re...

Abstract Because most Sino-Tibetan languages with a literary tradition use Indic derived scripts and those that do not are each sui generis , there advantages to transcribing these also along lines. In particular, this article proposes an Indological transcription for Middle Chinese.