Likewise, the causal relations that hold between any two things in the actual world also hold between their counterparts in any local-quality duplicate world.
The visual internet, all its nooks and crannies, sits as a relatively untapped reservoir of imagery ripe for curation, like some sort of duplicate world that has yet to be blanketed by tourists with smartphones. .
For example, in a toroidal space, travel on a geodesic would bring one back to one's starting point, which, Reichenbach argues, would require either abandoning Euclid or else allowing "causal anomalies" in the form of duplicate worlds at regular distances from one another.
For if the relation of the mental to the physical that obtains at W is one of weak necessity, then not only is physicalism false but it is also false that any world which is a physical duplicate of W is a positive duplicate of W — at some physical duplicate worlds, for example, there will be no psychological properties at all.
Intuitively, the duplicate exists all alone in its world; more precisely, an object y is isolated in a world "if and only if that world contains only (i) y, (ii) y's parts, and (iii) objects whose existence is entail by any of the objects mentioned in (i) and (ii)" (1992, 838 9).
And the strongest art is the work that is frankest about its artifice, its failure, finally, to duplicate the world, or even to arrest its mutability; the art that, when faced with the commonplace boast, ars longa vita brevis, humbly begs to differ.
For if emergentism is true, any physical duplicate of the actual world is a duplicate simpliciter.
The house also literally has no end: Margot and Jules escape outdoors to find that they are still, eerily, inside the house except in a duplicate, alternate world.
Other cave paintings in the world duplicate this; astronomers find the constellation in question and soon, Dr Shaw and Dr Holloway are on board a spacecraft heading there, a mission bankrolled, in the time-honoured manner, by a shadowy corporation.
Oil companies are speculating that the early successes in the United States can be duplicated around the world.
