A restrictive view of self-control identifies exercises with synchronic intrapsychic processes, and pictures diachronic externally-scaffolded strategies not as proper instances self-control, but clever ways avoiding the need to exercise that ability. In turn, defenders an inclusive typically argue we should construe more than effortful inhibition, that, on grounds functional equivalence, all th...

Self-replicating loops presented to date are essentially worlds unto themselves, inaccessible to the observer once the replication process is launched. In this paper we present a self-replicating loop which allows for user interaction. Specifically, the user can control the loop’s replication and induce its destruction. After presenting the design of this novel loop, we delineate its physical i...

1 RESUMEN El resumen será traducido al español por los editores. The globally-averaged star formation rate in the Universe has been steadily declining since at least z ∼ 1. This may be due either to very local processes operating within the average galaxy, or to external, environmental effects. Specifically, the build-up of structure may be responsible for terminating star formation in some gal...