Like the Buddhist concept of Emptiness sunyata.

The purpose of this lecture is to defend a reading of Nietzsche that attributes to him an ontology that reduces everything to relations of force against the charge that such an ontology is wildly implausible. Rather than rehearsing the textual evidence supporting such a view, the tactic employed in this chapter is to show that Nietzsche’s relational ontology of force can be understood as a proto-form of a view currently being given serious consideration in contemporary philosophy of science: Ontic Structural Realism. Ontic structural realism is a form of structural realism that eliminates things-in-themselves and inflates the ontological significance of relations vis-à-vis relata. Because Nietzsche appeals to the natural sciences to justify his rejection of things-in-themselves in favour of a relational ontology of force, it is argued that Nietzsche should be understood as offering a proto-version of ontic structural realism.

Informational Structural Realism (ISR) has been presented by Luciano Floridi and others as an alternative form of structural realism that can overcome many of structural realism’s shortcomings. The essential idea behind ISR is that nature is ultimately informational in nature and scientific theories present data structures that represent this information. In this talk I assess whether ISR is able to reconcile the two most important arguments in the realism-antirealism debate: the \.

Initial participants may spend 28 days in these ‘sentinels’—but the firm envisions much, much longer stays.

Humans are not yet done cooking. We’re continuing to evolve and adjust to the world around us, the records of our adaptations written in our bodies.

We know that there are some environments that can make us unwell. Mountain climbers often succumb to altitude sickness – the body’s reaction to a significant drop in atmospheric pressure, which means less oxygen is taken in with each breath.

And yet, in high altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau, where oxygen levels in the air people breathe are notably lower than lower altitudes, human communities thrive.

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The FCC has proposed a $4,492,500 fine against VoIP service provider Telnyx for allegedly allowing customers to make robocalls posing as fictitious FCC “Fraud Prevention Team,” by failing to comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) rules. However, Telnyx says the FCC is mistaken and denies the accusations.

The individuals behind these calls registered Telnyx accounts using the “Christian Mitchell” and “Henry Walker” names with the same address in Toronto, Canada, but IP addresses from Scotland and England. They are known as the “MarioCop” accounts because they both used email addresses on the same mariocop123.com domain.

Between February 6 and February 7, 2024, they made 1,797 imposter calls before Telnyx terminated their accounts. Ironically, their calls also reached over a dozen FCC staff and family members on their personal and work phone numbers one year ago.

Niki Mavragani and Muralee Murugesu discuss the discovery, structure and properties of Mn12, a prototypical single-molecule magnet.