This article studies the problem of eternal life from a philosophical perspective. It focuses on the approaches of Bergson, Husserl, and Heidegger from contemporary philosophy, and shows that using these three philosophical approaches can better explain certain aspects of revealed theology, such as resurrection of flesh, eternity in a transcendent dimension, and eternal life as the angels in he...

In his 2000 best-selling novel, Dan Brown tells the fictional story of an apparent plot by the Illuminati, the self-proclaimed "enlightened ones," against the Vatican. Apparently life truly does sometimes imitate art.

We analyze the funding of start-up companies across financing rounds, focusing on dynamic interactions between angel investors and venture capitalists. Using unique data from British Columbia, Canada, we show that angels capitalists are substitutes. This substitutes pattern applies performance range companies. It is less pronounced for serial angels. An instrumental variable analysis, based ava...

In this paper we propose a new probabilistic Fair Exchange Protocol which requires no central Trusted Third Party. Instead, it relies on a virtually distributed and decentralized Trusted Third Party which is formalized as a Guardian Angel: a kind of Observer e.g. a tamper proof security device. We thus introduce a network model with Pirates and Guardian Angels which is well suited for Ad Hoc ne...

Embodied cognition, kinaesthetic knowledge, and kinesic imagination are central not only to acts of creation but also the reception artworks. This article substantiates this claim by focusing on sensorimotricity in art literature, presenting two sets analytical distinctions that pertain dynamics gesture movement. The first set distinctions—kinesis, kinaesthesia, kinetics, kinematics—and second ...