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Solaris (Andrei Tarovski): The duck test

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 16:39:05 +0000

Stability of character is important for personal identity. Without stability, Kelvin’s two colleagues suggest that Hari can be destroyed as an object. The correctness of Kelvin’s intuition is also demonstrated by the famous inductive reasoning test of the duck. Unlike … Read More

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Ontology of Gravitational Singularities

Nicolae Sfetcu — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 21:00:08 +0000

General relativity allows singularities, and we need to understand the ontology of singularities if we want to understand the nature of space and time in the present universe. Although some physicists believe that singularities indicate a failure of general relativity, … Read More

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Origins of Christmas

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 21:12:42 +0000

No Christian text does not specify what day of the year was born Jesus Christ. Christmas is not part of the celebrations followed by the early Christians and is not included in the lists published by Irenaeus and Tertullian. Given … Read More

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Philosophy of Death

Nicolae Sfetcu — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 16:55:00 +0000

In paleontology, the discovery of funeral rites is an important factor in determining the degree of social awakening of a hominid. This awareness of death is an engine of social cohesion (uniting to resist disasters and enemies) and action (to … Read More

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Sculpting in Time, with Andrei Tarkovsky

Nicolae Sfetcu — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 14:37:27 +0000

Tarkovsky opposed to the movie editing and considered that the basis of the art of cinematography (movie art) is the internal rhythm of images. He considers cinema as a representation of distinctive currents or time waves, transmitted in the film … Read More

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Intelligence cycle

Nicolae Sfetcu — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:58:39 +0000

The intelligence cycle is a set of processes used to provide useful information for decision-making. The cycle consists of several processes. The related counter-intelligence area is tasked with preventing information efforts from others. A basic model of the process of … Read More

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