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92 relations: Akashic records, Argentina, Aristotle, Binary code, Blaise Pascal, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Book of Imaginary Beings, Catalysis, Character encoding, Christopher Nolan, Circumference, City at the End of Time, Computer, Countable set, Cult, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Data, David Hume, David Langford, Democritus, Discworld, Encyclopedia Galactica, English language, Existence of God, Fantasy, Ficciones, Grapheme, Greg Bear, Gustav Fechner, Hexagon, Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel, Immanuel Kant, Infinite monkey theorem, Infinity, Information, Internet, Interstellar (film), Interzone (magazine), Jonathan Nolan, Jorge Luis Borges, Kabbalah, Kurd Lasswitz, Labyrinth, Labyrinths, Language, Law of truly large numbers, Leucippus, Librarian, Mathematical universe hypothesis, ..., Mathematician, Matthew McConaughey, Metaphor, Michael Ende, Milo Manara, Morse code, Normal number, NPR, One-time pad, Permutation, Philosopher, Ramon Llull, Reality, Robert Burton (scholar), Russell K. Standish, Satire, Sequence space (evolution), Sheridan Le Fanu, Short story, Spanish language, Sphere, Steven L. Peck, Superstition, Terry Pratchett, The Anatomy of Melancholy, The Atlantic, The Book of Sand, The Name of the Rose, The Neverending Story, Theodor Wolff, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Translation, Tupper's self-referential formula, Umberto Eco, Universal library, Universe, World Brain, 1901 in literature, 1939 in literature, 1941 in literature, 1944 in literature, 1962 in literature. Expand index (42 more) »
Akashic records
In theosophy and anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all human events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs,; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidiki, in the north of Classical Greece.
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Binary code
A binary code represents text, computer processor instructions, or any other data using a two-symbol system.
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian.
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Bonaventura Cavalieri
Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri (Cavalerius; 1598 – 30 November 1647) was an Italian mathematician and a Jesuate.
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Book of Imaginary Beings
Book of Imaginary Beings was written by Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero and published in 1957 under the original Spanish title Manual de zoología fantástica.
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Catalysis
Catalysis is the increase in the rate of a chemical reaction due to the participation of an additional substance called a catalysthttp://goldbook.iupac.org/C00876.html, which is not consumed in the catalyzed reaction and can continue to act repeatedly.
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Character encoding
Character encoding is used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system.
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Christopher Nolan
Christopher Edward Nolan (born 30 July 1970) is an English film director, screenwriter, and producer who holds both British and American citizenship.
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Circumference
In geometry, the circumference (from Latin circumferentia, meaning "carrying around") of a circle is the (linear) distance around it.
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City at the End of Time
City at the End of Time is a 2008 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear.
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Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.
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Countable set
In mathematics, a countable set is a set with the same cardinality (number of elements) as some subset of the set of natural numbers.
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Cult
The term cult usually refers to a social group defined by its religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs, or its common interest in a particular personality, object or goal.
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Daniel Dennett
Daniel Clement Dennett III (born March 28, 1942) is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life is a 1995 book by Daniel Dennett, in which the author looks at some of the repercussions of Darwinian theory.
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Data
Data is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables.
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David Hume
David Hume (born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS (26 April 1711 OS) – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
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David Langford
David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor and critic, largely active within the science fiction field.
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Democritus
Democritus (Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people") was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe.
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Discworld
Discworld is a comic fantasy book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), set on the fictional Discworld, a flat disc balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle, Great A'Tuin.
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Encyclopedia Galactica
The Encyclopedia Galactica is a fictional or hypothetical encyclopedia containing all the knowledge accumulated by a galaxy-spanning civilization.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Existence of God
The existence of God is a subject of debate in the philosophy of religion and popular culture.
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Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.
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Ficciones
Ficciones is the most popular collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, often considered the best introduction to his work.
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Grapheme
In linguistics, a grapheme is the smallest unit of a writing system of any given language.
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Greg Bear
Gregory Dale "Greg" Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction.
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Gustav Fechner
Gustav Theodor Fechner (19 April 1801 – 18 November 1887), was a German philosopher, physicist and experimental psychologist.
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Hexagon
In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek ἕξ hex, "six" and γωνία, gonía, "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon or 6-gon.
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Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel (colloquial: Infinite Hotel Paradox or Hilbert's Hotel) is a thought experiment which illustrates a counterintuitive property of infinite sets.
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy.
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Infinite monkey theorem
The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.
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Infinity
Infinity (symbol) is a concept describing something without any bound or larger than any natural number.
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Information
Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Interstellar (film)
Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan.
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Interzone (magazine)
Interzone is a British fantasy and science fiction magazine.
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Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan (born 1976) is an English-American screenwriter, television producer, director and author.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.
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Kabbalah
Kabbalah (קַבָּלָה, literally "parallel/corresponding," or "received tradition") is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism.
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Kurd Lasswitz
Kurd Lasswitz (Kurd Laßwitz,; 20 April 1848 – 17 October 1910) was a German author, scientist, and philosopher.
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Labyrinth
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek: Λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.
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Labyrinths
Labyrinths (1962) is a collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges translated into the English-language.
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Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
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Law of truly large numbers
The law of truly large numbers (a statistical adage), attributed to Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, states that with a sample size large enough, any outrageous thing is likely to happen.
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Leucippus
Leucippus (Λεύκιππος, Leúkippos; fl. 5th cent. BCE) is reported in some ancient sources to have been a philosopher who was the earliest Greek to develop the theory of atomism—the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms.
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Librarian
A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library, providing access to information and sometimes social or technical programming.
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Mathematical universe hypothesis
In physics and cosmology, the mathematical universe hypothesis (MUH), also known as the ultimate ensemble theory, is a speculative "theory of everything" (TOE) proposed by the cosmologist Max Tegmark.
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Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his or her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
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Matthew McConaughey
Matthew David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969) is an American actor, producer, model, writer and director.
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Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.
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Michael Ende
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende (12 November 1929 – 28 August 1995) was a German writer of fantasy and children's fiction.
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Milo Manara
Maurilio Manara (born September 12, 1945), known professionally as Milo Manara, is an Italian comic book writer and artist.
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Morse code
Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.
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Normal number
In mathematics, a normal number is a real number whose infinite sequence of digits in every positive integer base b is distributed uniformly in the sense that each of the b digit values has the same natural density 1/b, also all possible b2 pairs of digits are equally likely with density b−2, all b3 triplets of digits equally likely with density b−3, etc.
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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One-time pad
In cryptography, the one-time pad (OTP) is an encryption technique that cannot be cracked, but requires the use of a one-time pre-shared key the same size as, or longer than, the message being sent.
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Permutation
In mathematics, the notion of permutation relates to the act of arranging all the members of a set into some sequence or order, or if the set is already ordered, rearranging (reordering) its elements, a process called permuting.
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Philosopher
A philosopher is someone who practices philosophy, which involves rational inquiry into areas that are outside either theology or science.
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Ramon Llull
Ramon Llull, T.O.S.F. (c. 1232 – c. 1315; Anglicised Raymond Lully, Raymond Lull; in Latin Raimundus or Raymundus Lullus or Lullius) was a philosopher, logician, Franciscan tertiary and Spanish writer.
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Reality
Reality is all of physical existence, as opposed to that which is merely imaginary.
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Robert Burton (scholar)
Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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Russell K. Standish
Russell K. Standish is a computational scientist based in Sydney, Australia.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Sequence space (evolution)
In evolutionary biology, sequence space is a way of representing all possible sequences (for a protein, gene or genome).
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Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction.
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Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Sphere
A sphere (from Greek σφαῖρα — sphaira, "globe, ball") is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space that is the surface of a completely round ball (viz., analogous to the circular objects in two dimensions, where a "circle" circumscribes its "disk").
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Steven L. Peck
Steven L. Peck (born July 25, 1957) is an evolutionary biologist, blogger, poet, and novelist.
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Superstition
Superstition is a pejorative term for any belief or practice that is considered irrational: for example, if it arises from ignorance, a misunderstanding of science or causality, a positive belief in fate or magic, or fear of that which is unknown.
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Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621, but republished four more times over the next seventeen years with massive alterations and expansions.
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Book of Sand
"The Book of Sand" (El libro de arena) is a 1975 short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco.
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The Neverending Story
The Neverending Story (Die unendliche Geschichte) is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, first published in 1979.
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Theodor Wolff
Theodor Wolff (2 August 1868 – 23 September 1943) was a German writer who was influential as a journalist, critic and newspaper editor.
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a short story by the 20th-century Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.
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Tupper's self-referential formula
Tupper's self-referential formula is a formula that visually represents itself when graphed at a specific location in the (x, y) plane.
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Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor.
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Universal library
A universal library is a library with universal collections.
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Universe
The Universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy.
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World Brain
World Brain is a collection of essays and addresses by the English science fiction pioneer, social reformer, evolutionary biologist and historian H. G. Wells, dating from the period of 1936–1938.
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1901 in literature
This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1901.
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1939 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1939.
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1941 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1941.
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1944 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1944.
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1962 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1962.
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