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Life Is Strange and ‘‘Games Are Made’’: A Philosophical Interpretation of a Multiple-Choice Existential Simulator With Copilot Sartre
The multiple-choice video game Life is Strange was described by its French developers
as a metaphor for the inner conflicts experienced by a teenager in trying to become an
adult. In psychological work with adolescents, there is a stark similarity between what
they experience and some concepts of existentialist philosophy. Sartre’s script for the
movie Les Jeux Sont Faits (literally ‘‘games are made’’) uses the same narrative strategy
as Life is Strange—the capacity for the main characters to travel back in time to change
their own existence—in order to stimulate philosophical, ethical, and political thinking
and also to effectively simulate existential ‘‘limit situations.’’ This article is a dialogue
between Sartre’s views and Life is Strange in order to examine to what extent questions
such as what is freedom? what is choice? what is autonomy and responsibility?
can be interpreted anew in hybrid digital–human—‘‘anthrobotic’’—environments
On the Concept of Creal: The Politico-Ethical Horizon of a Creative Absolute
Process philosophies tend to emphasise the value of continuous creation as the
core of their discourse. For Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze, and others the real is
ultimately a creative becoming. Critics have argued that there is an irreducible
element of (almost religious) belief in this re-evaluation of immanent creation.
While I don’t think belief is necessarily a sign of philosophical and existential
weakness, in this paper I will examine the possibility for the concept of universal
creation to be a political and ethical axiom, the result of a global social
contract rather than of a new spirituality. I argue here that a coherent way to
fight against potentially totalitarian absolutes is to replace them with a virtual
absolute that cannot territorialise without deterritorialising at the same time:
the Creal principle
Direct CP Violation in Charmless B Decays at LHCb
Using data collected by LHCb experiment in 2011 we report the measurements of
charge asymmetries in charmless decays of B mesons in two or three charged
kaons or pions. We find positive charge asymmetries in the channels
Bs->K-pi+(3.3 sigmas), B+->K+pi+pi- (2.8 sigmas), and B+->pi+pi+pi- (4.2
sigmas) and negative in B0->K+pi-(6 sigmas),B+->K+K+K- (3.7 sigma), B+->K+K-pi+
(3.0 sigma).Comment: Proceedings of CKM 2012, the 7th International Workshop on the CKM
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Marginal extension in the theory of coherent lower previsions
AbstractWe generalise Walley’s Marginal Extension Theorem to the case of any finite number of conditional lower previsions. Unlike the procedure of natural extension, our marginal extension always provides the smallest (most conservative) coherent extensions. We show that they can also be calculated as lower envelopes of marginal extensions of conditional linear (precise) previsions. Finally, we use our version of the theorem to study the so-called forward irrelevant product and forward irrelevant natural extension of a number of marginal lower previsions
Independent natural extension for sets of desirable gambles
We investigate how to combine a number of marginal coherent sets of desirable gambles into a joint set using the properties of epistemic irrelevance and independence. We provide formulas for the smallest such joint, called their independent natural extension, and study its main properties. The independent natural extension of maximal sets of gambles allows us to define the strong product of sets of desirable gambles. Finally, we explore an easy way to generalise these results to also apply for the conditional versions of epistemic irrelevance and independence
Finitely additive extensions of distribution functions and moment sequences: The coherent lower prevision approach
We study the information that a distribution function provides about the finitely additive probability measure inducing it. We show that in general there is an infinite number of finitely additive probabilities associated with the same distribution function. Secondly, we investigate the relationship between a distribution function and its given sequence of moments. We provide formulae for the sets of distribution functions, and finitely additive probabilities, associated with some moment sequence, and determine under which conditions the moments determine the distribution function uniquely. We show that all these problems can be addressed efficiently using the theory of coherent lower previsions
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