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The Complexity–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition
No full textI present evidence for a systematic complexity–coherence trade-off in cognition. I show how feasible strategies for increasing cognitive complexity along three dimensions come at the expense of a heightened vulnerability to incoherence. I discuss two normative implications of the complexity–coherence trade-off: a novel challenge to coherence-based theories of bounded rationality and a new strategy for vindicating the rationality of seemingly irrational cognitions. I also discuss how the complexity–coherence trade-off sharpens recent descriptive challenges to dual process theories of cognition
Christology and Metaphysics
No full textThis chapter focuses on how contemporary analytic theology uses metaphysical models to clarify the doctrine of the Incarnation. It examines three main categories of models—compositional versus transformational, abstract versus concrete nature, and two-part versus three-part theories—exploring how each seeks to explain Christ as one person with two complete natures without fragmenting his personhood or conflating his natures. The chapter identifies key philosophical problems confronting these models, including the Nestorian Problem, the Attributes Problem, and the Assumption Problem, and evaluates solutions proposed by scholars such as Leftow, Hasker, Swinburne, Loke, and Sijuwade. It concludes that metaphysical modelling provides valuable conceptual resources for understanding the Incarnation while maintaining orthodox Christology
Hacia una AGI Posible
No full textLa búsqueda de una Inteligencia Artificial General (AGI) es el desafío central en la informática contemporánea y a diferencia de los sistemas actuales, que destacan en tareas específicas pero carecen de generalización, una AGI debe ser capaz de adaptarse a contextos no entrenados y desarrollar objetivos propios. Proponemos que la AGI no surgirá de un único modelo, sino de la interacción estructurada de múltiples modelos especializados. Un punto importante que se suele pasar por alto es que gran parte de la ingeniería en la búsqueda de la AGI, no debe basarse solo en la inteligencia o en construir modelos gigantescos, con cada vez más billones de parámetros, sino apoyarse en su arquitectura. Incluso modelos antiguos tienen mucha inteligencia sin explotar, que puede liberarse con un buen diseño como lo demostró un reciente estudio de Arcade dev con GPT-3.5-turbo (un modelo más antiguo y más económico) que podía superar a modelos más nuevos como o1-mini en tareas complejas cuando se le proporcionaban herramientas externas efectivas. Priorizando la dinámica asociativa sobre el modelo monolítico; este trabajo propone una arquitectura modular y multinivel, para la construcción de una Inteligencia Artificial General (AGI) basada en la interacción de múltiples modelos destilados especializados, coordinados a través de un sistema de orquestación, controlado desde propósito implicado emergente y regulado y calibrado por un motor de metas. Inspirados en la teoría de sistemas complejos, introducimos un modelo matemático del propósito implicado para cuantificar cómo las interacciones entre modelos generan objetivos adaptativos no programados explícitamente, lo que en el nivel superior de orquestación daría lugar a la emergencia de una AGI
Sustainable Access Management for Cloud Instances With SSH Securing Cloud Infrastructure With PAM Solutions
No full textIn the era of cloud computing, securing access to cloud instances is paramount for protecting sensitive
data and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Secure Shell (SSH) access management plays
a critical role in safeguarding cloud environments by controlling how users interact with cloud-based
systems. However, traditional SSH access management methods can often be cumbersome, error-prone,
and vulnerable to breaches. This paper explores the implementation of Privileged Access Management
(PAM) solutions for enhancing the security of SSH access to cloud instances. By integrating PAM systems
with cloud infrastructure, organizations can enforce stricter access controls, enable detailed session
auditing, and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. The paper discusses best practices for managing
SSH keys, monitoring user activity, and automating access management workflows using PAM solutions,
ultimately improving the security posture of cloud environments
Deflationism, Naturalism and Particularism on the Scientific Realism Debate
No full textThe debate between scientific realists and antirealists has been going on for a long time, and neither side seems to prevail. To resist the objections raised by antirealists, a long series of versions of realism have been proposed, but none seems to work across the board. Therefore, various critics suggested that supporters and adversaries of realism speak past each other, and the debate is at a stalemate. In this paper, written in honour of Fabio Minazzi, I examine and criticize some recent proposals to deflate or radically change the dispute: deflationism, radical naturalism and particularism: none of them, I argue, is satisfactory, nor actually required. I suggest, instead, that the debate is in better shape than it might seem, having already made significant progresses and converged on certain conclusions
Are dream emotions fitting?
No full text(equal contribution) When we dream, we feel emotions in response to objects and events that exist only in the dream. One key question is whether these emotions can be said to be “essentially unfitting”, that is, always inappropriate to the evoking scenario. However, how we evaluate dream emotions for fittingness may depend on the model of dreams we adopt: the imagination or the hallucination model. If fittingness requires a match between emotion and evaluative properties of objects or events, it is prima facie plausible that dream emotions could fail to fit under the imagination model because it is unfitting to have an emotion toward an object we do not believe to be real. Under the hallucination model, dream emotions could be unfitting because their objects do not exist but we believe them to be real. More nuance, however, is required. By comparing dream emotions with the emotions we experience while imagining, engaging with fiction, and hallucinating, we conclude that although there are compelling arguments in support of the claim that dream emotions are essentially unfitting, these arguments are not entirely convincing, and it is more plausible that particular dream emotions can be assessed for fittingness under either model of dreaming
Metaphysics First or Language First: The Notion of a Single Object
No full textThis paper argues that the notion of a single object or 'being one' does not require worldly or perceived conditions of integrity and even less so concept-relative atomicity. It generally is based on conditions of integrity of some sort, but not strictly so. It rather is imposed by the use of count categories in natural language and thus makes a case for linguistic idealism
Education OS for the Consciousness Civilization v1.0 — Canonical Release
No full textEducation OS for the Consciousness Civilization v1.0 is the canonical educational operating system of the Consciousness Civilization Framework (CCF). It replaces competitive, test-driven material-civilization schooling with a consciousness-indexed architecture grounded in OE–EE–RE dynamics and the CFE⁺ indices VCE, CRI, and CFI, using CAIS and Sal-Meter–based sensing to stabilize and elevate learner consciousness across health, emotion, and relational fields. The standard specifies curriculum design, teacher OS, and family–school–community coherence protocols, together with a global deployment strategy for UNESCO/OECD-scale transition toward consciousness-governed education
Philosophy, History, and Other Productively Useless Endeavors: Essays in Honor of David C. K. Curry
No full textThis book is a festschrift (a celebratory collection of writings) honoring Dr. David C. K. Curry, edited by his three children and presented to him upon his retirement in the summer of 2025. The festschrift includes autobiographical reflections from Dr. Curry’s students, colleagues, friends, and family; scholarly essays on evil, pedagogy, and the historiography of philosophy; a pastiche of Miguel de Cervantes; and several instances of what can only be described as “original multimedia content.
A note on superluminalization of SRT and some central concerns of contemporary physics
No full textOver the past decades and more recently, there has been a significant effort and renewed interest in extending special relativity theory beyond the speed of light. In this comprehensive note, the paper “Relativity of superluminal observers in 1+3 spacetime” by Dragan et al. [1] is examined. The authors attempted to extend the aforementioned theory to superluminal inertial reference frames by generalizing Parker’s two-dimensional transformation with the addition of two pairs of spatial dimensions. This approach is not novel and is already well-documented in the literature. It is demonstrated that unlike Lorentz transformations, the authors’ transformations do not form an orthogonal-orthochronous group due to their negative determinant. Consequently, principles such as relativity, causality, spatial isotropy, and temporal ordering cannot be preserved. The authors’pseudo-transformations are revealed to be reflections in a plane through the origin rather than true transformations. Also, a theoretical maximum limit of the Lorentz factor is introduced, which leads to an extension of Lorentz transformations to luminal inertial reference frames and raises an important conceptual question about the status and role of the symbolic quantity ‘c’, commonly called the speed of light in vacuum, as the neutrino and particularly the photon have non-zero mass. Therefore, it appears that as long as the non-zero mass of the photon is not taken seriously into full consideration, our current knowledge of physics, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology remains not only incomplete but above all vague and doubtful. Unfortunately, it seems that many present-day researchers are unaware that distinguished physicists like Einstein [59-62], de Broglie [63-66], Proca [67-71], Schrödinger [72-74], and many others [75-92] had already attributed non-zero mass to the photon because they realized that the photon itself behaves like a massive particle, carrying not only energy but also momentum and can exert pressure on a target. And at no stage may we really be able to conclude experimentally the exact masslessness of the photon because the Heisenberg uncertainty principle gives the lowest mass m that can be measured in the Universe’s age as m~ℏt^(-1) c^(-2)~1.5×10^(-33) eV/c^2. Once again, therefore, non-zero photon mass gives rise immediately to a conceptual question: What is the primary purpose of the symbolic quantity ‘c’ when it appears in some important equations describing the laws of physics? Moreover, this inclusive note highlights Hassani superluminal spatio-temporal transformations, which possess the algebraic structure of a linear group and serve as a generalization of Lorentz transformations for superluminal inertial reference frames. These transformations are anticipated to be fundamental in superluminal relativistic mechanics [50]