This paper proposes a novel technique for exhibiting and quantifying the determinism in music. A written score of music is modeled as a dynamical system employing an iterated function system to generate a picture from the music. This picture is then analyzed using methods of chaos theory and time-series analysis to quantify the determinism. Comparisons with random and chaotic control data and w...

The problem of interpreting quantum theory on a large (e.g. cosmological) scale has been commonly conceived as a search for objective reality in a framework that is fundamentally probabilistic. The Everett programme attempts to evade the issue by the reintroduction of determinism at the global level of a “state vector of the universe”. The present approach is based on the recognition that, like...

• Environmental adaptation of bacterioplankton decreased after dredging. Stochastic processes community increased Sediment total phosphorus mediated balance between stochasticity and determinism. Disentangling ecological mechanisms behind dredging is meaningful to implement environmental policy for improving water quality. However, assembly in response disturbance are poorly understood. Based o...

The present article intends to outline Kant's incompatibilism compatibilism. Kant defends, besides the compatibility of freedom with determinism, compatibilism incompatibilism. Although commonplace, discussion regarding character or in an exclusionary sense is unproductive and doomed failure. Kantian solution implies famous problematic two-world theory. Are we citizens two worlds do attribute m...

DETERMINISM in philosophical discussions of determinism I believe it is fair to say that there is not ordinarily a sharp separation of a process being deterministic and a process being predictable. Much of the philosophical talk about determinism proceeds as if it is understood that a deterministic process is necessarily predictable. Here is a typical quotation, taken from A. J. Ayer's essay " ...

Job challenges the theological milieu of retributive justice prevalent in NearEastern society by daring to ask the veritable question: can people deserve? This article examines the theories of desert, agency, and righteousness embedded within the Job manuscript. Bracketing the question of theodicy, this study utilizes contemporary philosophical, theological and exegetical considerations to exam...

The science of complexity is based on a new way of thinking that stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy underlying Newtonian science, which is based on reductionism, determinism, and objective knowledge. This paper reviews the historical development of this new world view, focusing on its philosophical foundations. Determinism was challenged by quantum mechanics and chaos theory. Systems th...