This paper examines whether Chinese development finance is associated with faster progress toward Millennium Development Goal style targets in low- and middle-income countries. We combine AidData’s ...

What was your favorite toy growing up? This paradox claims that memory—and every other one—is just a random fluctuation.

Why some physical systems are accompanied by subjective experience remains unresolved in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Building on predictive processing and the Free Energy Principle, I propose ...

Publisher Astrolabe Games and developer 91Act have released the story trailer and announced the voice cast for 2D action roguelite game BlazBlue: Entropy Effect X. In BlazBlue: Entropy Effect X, the ...

An information theory-based framework is proposed in attempt to explain insistence on sameness in autism as an instance of a general behavior pattern in which an individual tries to reduce surprise ...

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This replication package contains all data, code, and documentation necessary to reproduce the main results reported in "Monetary Entropy and Economic Coordination: An Impossibility Theorem." The ...

Entropy also increases in initially ordered quantum systems until it reaches a final state of disorder. Entropy and the direction of time Equating 'entropy' with 'disorder' is not entirely correct.