Brent Wiseman, of Salina, published his first book, "Causal Happenstance," a look at the philosophical idea of determinism ...

(This article was coauthored with Kathleen D. Vohs and first published in Dialogue, the newsletter for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, alongside a companion piece by John Bargh and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article examines Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space sequence (with a focus on the trilogy Revelation Space [2000], Redemption Ark [2002 ...

Back in 1814, Pierre-Simon Laplace was mulling over the implications of Newtonian mechanics, and realized something profound. If there were a vast intelligence -- since dubbed Laplace's Demon-- that ...

It is a basic premise of most futurology that tomorrow will be profoundly shaped by technological change. But in 2019 there will be a widespread pushback against technological determinism. While some ...

Our last Insights puzzle explored how a smooth, random distribution of objects arises in a classic, deterministic machine called a Galton board or bean machine. We examined the inner workings of this ...

On the basis of three physical axioms, we prove that if the choice of a particular type of spin 1 experiment is not a function of the information accessible to the experimenters, then its outcome is ...