The films embrace the themes of failure, determinism, and fate.
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The economic determinism of the pre-'60s left was embarrassingly myopic.
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Our interest in "what happens" became tied up with psychological determinism.
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You are promoting apathy, not the determinism of a fighter of freedom.
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Nominative determinism (and an opportunistic wight) finally got the better of him.
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As I'd done no such preparation, normative determinism became the guiding principle.
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"The kind of biological determinism makes me a bit uncomfortable," Hediger says.
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Economic determinism offers little to someone so interested in architecture, for example.
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But this determinism also makes it hard for computers to behave randomly.
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Or perhaps we'd have wasted decades looking for determinism where none exists.
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But old fears and myths about genetics and determinism will rear their heads.
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This phenomenon has secured its own line of scientific research, called nominative determinism.
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Cheeky video essayist exurb1a uses human forgetfulness to explain the concept of determinism.
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Nietzsche to chronostrictesis to education to moral determinism to his own disappearing hands.
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You have to think that this was self-determinism, victory over her childhood.
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Biological determinism is the belief that hereditary genetics determine most factors about individuals.
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There's this concept called creeping determinism which is, gosh, the crisis was so obvious.
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Soft biological determinism doesn't inevitably lead to harsh oppression, but that's not the point.
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A century ago the Bolshevik revolution was seen as an endorsement of Marx's determinism.
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My family can testify that I come by this brand of pragmatic determinism honestly.
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If "technological progress" is the same as technological determinism, then there are no remedies.
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In a world free of biological determinism, this wouldn't be much of a concern.
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This is Cinderblock (a feat of nominative determinism), and she's really trying, you guys.
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This is technological determinism at its most aggressive, and it's generally a big fat fallacy.
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But the possibility of "climate determinism" being used for destructive ends has not gone away.
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The open-endedness of "strange dowry" is matched, in this book, by a grim determinism.
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That's why biological determinism misrepresents the experiences of many more people than might first appear.
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It was there that she turned her attention to solving the problem of sex determinism.
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The important thing here is that determinism means that the past determines exactly one future.
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Recently there has been a little wave of discussion about religious determinism in the e-commentariat.
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As a philosophical question, free will and its antithesis, determinism, enlist psychology, biology, environment, and ethics.
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I'm often frustrated by our inability to divorce Marx's historical determinism from his critiques of capitalism.
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The missing determinism is just present in some way that we haven't figured out how to observe.
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Here's why: Creed II follows Jordan's Adonis, (seriously, hello normative determinism), three years after the first film.
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"His fatalism allowed him to hold himself blameless; his determinism convinced him he'd be a winner again,"
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Technological determinism is perhaps the great intellectual temptation of our decade—try not to fall for it.
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The tech superstars got rich and famous while society careened into a ravine of harebrained technological determinism.
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It's half techno-thriller, half art-directed TED Talk on determinism, multiverse theory and the observer effect.
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Although my project and book are called The Cooking Gene, I am no proponent of racial determinism.
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So, causal determinism meaning that we now will think that the world is not random, I guess, right?
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Generally speaking, rapists do not care about the free will, preferences, or determinism of the people they rape.
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Technological determinism is the belief that technology is the main determinant that acts on and modifies our behavior.
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The present, the past and the future are all connected by physical laws, a phenomenon called "causal determinism".
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The western as a genre, like Meinhard, believes in determinism, in a history governed by laws and patterns.
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It is, but I'm always careful about saying that, because I don't want to fall into technological determinism.
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Biologically speaking, there is almost a determinism: Sperm always move towards the chemical signatures of eggs—that's just biology.
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The way we let algorithmic determinism influence our fate is another way in which our freedom might be restricted.
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The larger and more fascinating implications that Lisa brought up of algorithmic determinism was something we couldn't resist tackling.
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On one side is a media determinism that sees the history of art merged with that of ceramic technology.
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"If we understand the biology of something, that doesn't mean we're putting it down to determinism," Dr. Ritchie said.
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Until the mid-1970s, the majority of Republicans favored abortion rights, favoring all the self-determinism that position represented.
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Previous attempts to explain the Hawking radiation while retaining causal determinism have involved throwing some other cherished physical axiom overboard.
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Scripture is not clear on the question of free will or determinism, or it is not interested in the distinction.
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For Addie, who told her doll not to mind grown-ups because they "aren't real anyway," this determinism is devastating.
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At its core, Dark is primarily concerned with determinism and free will, as so many great time travel stories are.
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For Addie, who told her doll not to mind grown-ups because they "aren't real anyway," this determinism is devastating.
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In the other, it's a story of capitalism, free will versus determinism, and the Big Data that controls us all.
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It forks with a complex network of paradoxes of free will and determinism that make up an uncountable number of possibilities.
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Both books offer an optimistic anti-determinism that ought to influence how people educate children, manage employees and spend their time.
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The art of the game, the style that makes basketball worth watching, has been flushed in favor of determinism and organization.
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In that vein, objects from Dodge's internal landscape comfortably speak their minds, opening up dialogues about subjects ranging from assholes to determinism.
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This, in turn, would mean the end of causal determinism—and with it the assumptions which underpin the whole of modern physics.
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Like the 1956 short story "Minority Report" by Phillip K. Dick, Marvel's champions are dealing with questions of free will and determinism.
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"Westworld" is engaging in the age-old philosophical debate over free will versus determinism, which is a favorite among science-fiction writers.
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Sure, some of this could be dismissed by determinism—all genres eventually collide, and members of all races eventually participate in every genre.
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Non-determinism in quantum mechanics is represented by waves, which, instead of representing definite values, represent probabilistic smears between those two (or more) values.
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In this way, the notion of algorithmic determinism echoes what Winston Churchill once said about buildings: We shape our algorithms; thereafter, they shape us.
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I couldn't help feeling unnerved, though, by the strength of her conviction that blood will out, which leads her uncomfortably close to genetic determinism.
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To put it simply, the Jewish Boasian school of Anthropology suggested wrongly, that 'race was a social construct' not rooted in biology or scientific determinism.
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Though her findings were not immediately accepted as scientific fact, her research changed the way scientists understood sex determinism and the field of genetics, forever.
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He calls Professor Hillier's conclusions a "cul-de-sac of architectural determinism", by which social malaise is too conveniently attributed to spatial, not political, causes.
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We don't all get to be The Doctor, The Artist, The Poet, The Carpenter—the pillars of our community, the glowing beacons of self-determinism.
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In order not to fall into dangerous determinism or counterproductive defensiveness, we have to remember that the greatest successes of liberal democracies emerged from hope.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Those who believe in nominative determinism might see little surprise in Tennys Sandgren's brilliant run to the fourth round of the Australian Open.
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Damore generally attempts to support his arguments by citing individual research papers about two pernicious approaches to classifying human ability: biological essentialism and biological determinism.
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Thematically, Minority Report is interested in questions of free will and determinism, but it's perhaps remembered best for its eerily prescient takes on technology and advertising.
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This begins to verge on a larger social and philosophical debate regarding love, sexuality, determinism and the reduction of emotions and personalities to mere biological traits.
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Setting up an entire sophisticated research structure devoted to the nature of genetic and racial determinism, he variously experimented upon Roma, dwarfs and — most obsessively — twins.
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The strong version of the hypothesis, linguistic determinism, holds that you can't experience a feeling the same way if you don't have a word for it.
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In Auerbach's case, the first-person voice allows him to sidestep the problem of technological determinism, a grand theory of the effect technology has on our minds.
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Determinism versus randomnessIn physics-speak, scientists categorize a coin flip as deterministic, since the outcome is determined by factors that are in place before the coin lands.
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Contemporary issues relating to bioethics, virtual reality, free will and determinism, time travel, and the uses of robotic forms of A.I. are addressed in plain, forthright prose.
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The topic is determinism, and personal responsibility, but their musings are interrupted when a half-full water bottle crashes from the sky on the dirt beside them.
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Similarly, the elements ostensibly centered on theodicies and determinism are frustratingly low-level, and it's here that the novel's extensive reliance on magic most impairs deep inquiry.
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RELIGIOUS determinism, or the idea that particular forms of belief and worship lead to particular forms of political and economic behaviour, is always a fascinating field for dabbling.
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But to claim that information technology controls the way an individual's mind works edges into technological determinism, the Marx-adjacent theory that a society's tools determine its culture.
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"Women Talking" is a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism and, above all, forgiveness.
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Scientists have been issuing warnings for nearly two decades that biological essentialism and determinism, with their implied justifications for racism and homophobia, are creeping back into scientific theory.
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This ideology was rooted in biological determinism: Women were considered to be mentally and physically weaker — prone to bouts of hysteria and unable to control their bodily functions.
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We find ourselves lodged in old questions of determinism and free will, both bound to repeat the pain of our forebears and grasping at the possibility of transcending it.
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Asked by a Danish reporter if he had a "message for the Russian people" before the tournament, Cherchesov, the Russia coach, lapsed into a bit of national-identity determinism.
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"There's a technological determinism story you can tell where this is the future and China will eventually buckle under and cave and eventually adopt all of these things," he said.
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Dr. Fisher's attitudes toward non-monogamous relationships and casual sex are case studies of biological determinism, the idea that all human behavior is dictated by genes or other biological characteristics.
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We had these rehearsal sessions in which Alex held our hands and walked us through the ideas of determinism and many-worlds and how they might apply to our program.
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Simple ideas about fate and determinism are worked out at great length and in complicated ways that will appeal to those who like their sci-fi on the heavy side.
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That is if all it takes is a bow to make Pac-Man into Ms. Pac-Man, maybe we don't have to get so caught up in biological binary gender determinism.
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In our particular moment, biology is the king, and the perennial desire for simple solutions to complex problems leads people back time and again to biological determinism: it's all in your genes.
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Green also pointed out that all of these attacks are based on a belief in a certain degree of "genetic determinism," or the notion that our future is foretold in our DNA.
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Those on the Marxist left and the free-market right may imagine themselves to be ideological enemies, and yet both camps place their faith in an economic determinism that diminishes human complexity.
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Their poverty is a complicated phenomenon—too complicated to reduce to determinism of the historical kind (which blames it entirely on slavery) or of the present-day variety (which blames it on sloth).
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In Europe, the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation could restrict extreme forms of algorithmic determinism by giving users the opportunity to ask for an explanation of particular profiling-based algorithmic decisions.
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And yet, though he writes from a zestily male perspective, Mr Samuels is also an avowed feminist himself, raising an implicit question about the relationship between belief in sexual equality and biological determinism.
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This is not ethnic or racial determinism, since the Slavs of southeastern Europe have been shaped politically and economically more by the agency of foreign imperialism than by their own blood and language.
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And progressives like Warren and Sanders who reject technological determinism and face up to the political roots of our problems are, on this issue at least, the actual hardheaded realists in the room.
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Genetic determinism presumed that the weak and disadvantaged passed along their weakness and disadvantage, and that a systematic campaign of eliminating all but the best and strongest could improve the lot of humanity.
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Pretending otherwise, that robots in every use case are inevitable, is the very worst form of technological determinism, and leads to a dearth in critical thinking about when and how automation *is* best implemented.
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But Xi and the Communist Party's Marxist theoreticians who believe in "historical determinism", a phrase that appears repeatedly in the manifesto, see America's retreat as a moment to increase China's influence in the world.
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Soft particles are the area of expertise of Andrew Strominger of Harvard University, one of Dr Hawking's co-authors on the causal-determinism-rescuing paper, to be published next week in Physical Review Letters.
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This is a good thing because if we could see the singularities at the heart of black hole—what is called a 'naked' singularity—this would destroy the determinism that is fundamental to physics.
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If we want to avoid dividing our species into genetic have and have-nots—a dangerous reduction in our diversity—or a genetic determinism that undermines our humanity, we'll need to start living our values.
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Emily's research allows Mr. Elmegreen and Mr. Fornarola to contrast such notions as biological determinism and sexual autonomy, while Ben's ambivalence in choosing between Chris and Emily offers a platform for questioning assumptions about stereotypes.
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The Bolsheviks, secure in their economic determinism, assumed that the outside world would join them as a matter of course, and embraced non-Communist art and literature as both prologue and accompaniment to their own.
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Indeed one might even say that such determinism is itself a form of religion, if that is defined as a system of thought which offers compelling answers to questions that might otherwise be shadowy and elusive.
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Closing track "Reduced Possibility: Endangered Determinism" keeps the LP's fast pace and chaotic energy going to the very end before letting everything fall away, leaving only lightly strummed guitars and choral vocals to finish the album.
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Forest is a tech mogul, and his project is building a computer that uses the principle of determinism — that everything that happens is physically foreordained — to calculate the cause and outcome of any event in the universe.
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And each day of their young lives, the boys are forced to sacrifice their childhoods in grueling practice, bizarre lessons in personal hygiene, exploitative sponsorship arrangements and a constricting determinism about what their lives must amount to.
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"It can be seen in unequal workplaces throughout industry and in academia, in the disparities in hiring and promotion, in the AI technologies that reflect and amplify biased stereotypes, and in the resurfacing of biological determinism in automated systems."
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Some further quick notes: We are only three stories into Exhalation, but already there are threads that are starting to connect these disparate stories, none more important than the meaning of fate in lives increasingly filled with technological determinism.
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Kelvin Droegemeier is a great example of nominative determinism — where your name lines up with your job — as Kelvin is the name of a unit on the thermodynamic temperature scale (one Kelvin is equal to one degree on the Celsius scale).
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As a whole our industry tends towards self-determinism and self-regulation yet we find ourselves today with a number of incredibly important platforms that are not keeping up with the basic test of "know it when we see it".
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Some of this unrest was likely intensified by major eruptions in 46 and 44 BCE, which means those natural disasters may have directly contributed to the fall of the empire, though the authors warn against leaning on "environmental determinism" too heavily.
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Nick Offerman plays a tech mogul in "Devs," a dark sci-fi show about a Silicon Valley company angling to become the Uber of determinism — the philosophical belief that every event in the universe is completely determined by previously existing causes.
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These season-opening scenes serve as a kind of narrative relief valve, alleviating some of the sense of determinism inherent in a show that's a prequel to a series, "Breaking Bad," whose events and characters tended to have big, bold outlines.
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The course included "such topics as the nature and scope of knowledge, meaning and verification, the existence of God, determinism and free will, the mind-body problem, and the nature of moral judgments," according to an online course description for Brooklyn College.
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She also explains that Damore's use of individual scientific articles to support his arguments is misguided, because science as a whole relies on scientific consensus rather than individual findings in individual papers — and scientific consensus does not support Damore's biological essentialism or determinism.
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Major research institutes like Cold Spring Harbor, funded by the likes of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the Kellogg Race Betterment Foundation, provided a scientific underpinning for a progressive eugenics movement growing in popularity as a genetic determinism swept the country.
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All you really need to know about the story is that it took multiple men to cook up this pottage, which hinges on another extraterrestrial invasion and humanity battling aliens as other familiar struggles erupt: technological determinism versus technophobia, secular universalism versus heroic individualism.
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He built futuristic factories and living complexes for his workers in Ivrea and advocated a "third way" between right and left sociopolitical thinking; he started his own political movement—a fusion of liberalism, socialism, and local self-determinism—which took him all the way to Parliament.
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Alan Perry and Richard Domenico's "The Gross Gloss" (2019-ongoing) for example, expanded upon Perry's online work "The Ambulatory" (2018-2019) by placing the latter's exploration of digital determinism into a beautifully illustrated leather-bound tome that preaches a gospel of mystical algorithms and omnipotent AIs.
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If people with progressive political values, who reject claims of genetic determinism and pseudoscientific racialist speculation, abdicate their responsibility to engage with the science of human abilities and the genetics of human behavior, the field will come to be dominated by those who do not share those values.
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Campbell eventually became disillusioned with Dianetics, but moved on to becoming an advocate for other forms of pseudo-science, including the Dean Drive (a perpetual motion machine), the Hieronymus machine (which supposedly amplified telekinesis and other psi powers), racial determinism, and the firm conviction that smoking doesn't cause cancer.
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Free will versus determinism would be a large enough theme for any show of its kind, but this week's episode, titled "The Passenger," turns into a full-on biblical allegory, too, with references to Heaven, to Moses's journey out of Egypt and to the Great Flood in Genesis.
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A cartoon of the three kings saying "do you realize this means 2000 years of Christmas records," becomes the perfect setup for explaining determinism through a paraphrasis of Laplace's demon, or an elaboration of the concept of the butterfly effect, only to point out how quantum physics proved that principle wrong.
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When I asked Van Lange how CLASH avoids that determinism, he replied that he and his co-authors "think it is ultimately climate that is an important cause of culture, and therefore social and individual thinking and behavior," noting research that finds that people who move from warm climates to colder climates "adapt quickly" to their new cultural environments.
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Along with the uncanny determinism of her surname, Helen DeWitt has several assets, inherited or acquired, useful to the comic writer: she is a trained classicist, whose teasing instincts have been schooled in ancient Greek and Roman satire; her style is brilliantly heartless, and cork-dry; original herself, she is a witty examiner of human and cultural eccentricity.
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In an excellent analysis of round-the-clock capitalism, Jonathan Crary argues that while indeed now that our lives are organized by machines, a perfect storm awaits us; rather than one evil (technological determinism) replacing another (the boss), Deleuze's society of control actually enhances Foucault's disciplinary society and accelerates us towards a hyper-monitored world, where the all-seeing, all-knowing managerial dashboard keeps us in check by making use of computerized panopticons.
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Well, because the more northern you are, your crops will grow better, and there are these economic productivity statistics that ... It sounds sort of like geographic determinism, but there's kind of an optimal temperature for economic productivity: about 953 degrees Celsius, which is the historical median of the US. The US has now warmed a little bit beyond them, so the economists say that we're probably losing about a half percent of GDP every year because we're too hot.
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