搜索结果: 1-5 共查到“哲学 Irreversibility”相关记录5条 . 查询时间(0.078 秒)
Potentiality, Possibility, and the Irreversibility of Death
death irreversibility life metaphysics potentiality soul Aquinas Aristotle
2014/11/17
In this paper, I will consider the case of cryopreservation. A central conceptual focus throughout this discussion is the purportedly irreversible nature of death and the criteria by which a human bod...
The Connection between Logical and Thermodynamical Irreversibility
Landauer's principle Irreversibility Thermodynamics
2008/4/21
There has recently been a good deal of controversy about Landauer's Principle, which is often stated as follows: The erasure of one bit of information in a computational device is necessarily accompan...
Thermodynamic Irreversibility: Does the Big Bang Explain what it Purports to Explain?
Past Hypothesis Big Bang Reversibility objection
2008/4/21
In this paper I examine Albert’s (2000) claim that the low entropy state of the early universe is sufficient to explain irreversible thermodynamic phenomena. In particular, I argue that conditionalisi...
Time-reversal invariance and irreversibility in time-asymmetric quantum mechanics
quantum mechanics irreversibility time-reversal invariance
2008/4/21
The aim of this paper is to analyze the concepts of time-reversal invariance and irreversibility in the so-called 'time-asymmetric quantum mechanics'. We begin with pointing out the difference between...
Indeterminism, Asymptotic Reasoning, and Time Irreversibility in Classical Physics.
determinism indeterminism acausality
2008/4/14
A recent proposal of Norton (2003) to show that a simple Newtonian system can exhibit stochastic acausal behavior by giving rise to spontaneous movements of a mass on the dome of a certain shape is ex...