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[3] viXra:2408.0116 [pdf] replaced on 2024-09-04 10:22:00

The Future Collapse of the Global Human Population.

Authors: Richard Michael Blaber
Comments: 17 Pages. Creative Commons License, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

As a follow-up to a preceding paper (Blaber, 2024 [1]), this paper will supply a simple mathematical model of the collapse of the global human population coinciding with that of the advanced industrial capitalist society predicted therein, and expand on the thesis presented earlier, taking account of such issues as global supply chains and the vulnerability of nodes in complex systems, giving rise to social entropy. The super-exponential growth of human population was enabled by the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, and renewable forms of energy will not be able to sustain a remotely similar level of population.
Category: Social Science

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A Dictionary of British Surnames by P. H. Reaney and the Graphical Law

Authors: Anindya Kumar Biswas
Comments: 20 Pages. A mistake in plotting BW(c=0.01) has been rectified

We study A Dictionary of British Surnames by P. H. Reaney. We draw the natural logarithm ofthe number of entries, normalised, starting with a letter vs the natural logarithm of the rank ofthe letter, normalised. We conclude that the Dictionary can be characterised by BP(4,βH = 0.01) i.e. a magnetisation curve for the Bethe-Peierls approximation of the Ising model with four nearestneighbours in the presence of external magnetic field, H, with βH = 0.01. β is 1/(k_B T), where, T istemperature and k_B is the tiny Boltzmann constant.
Category: Social Science

[1] viXra:2408.0014 [pdf] submitted on 2024-08-04 21:23:02

How Free Will, Determinism, Consciousness, and Time Interact with Information Storage and Loss

Authors: Davis C. Hayden
Comments: 5 Pages. (Note by viXra Admin: Please cite and list scientific references)

In the following, I will primarily use the concept of Information storage and information loss to first explain my understanding of consciousness. I will then show that there can be no such thing as determinism, not just at the quantum level, but also in daily living. Next, my understanding of what is free will, or the feelings that there is free will will be explored. Finally, I will present how time is also tied to this issue of lack of information. All of these "long discussed" concepts are, in my view, tied together in how our mind works and in how information, or lack of information plays an important role. This is a "thought" paper, however, most of the following bits and pieces can be backed up with academic papers, but I avoided that here to make for a short, easy to follow and I believe somewhat original thoughts on these complicated topics.
Category: Social Science