Imagining one of his utopian scenarios — trillions of digital minds thriving across the cosmos — he reasons that, if there is even a one-per-cent chance of this happening, the expected value of reducing an existential threat by a billionth of a billionth of one per cent would be worth a hundred billion times the value of a billion present-day lives.
Imagining one of his utopian scenarios trillions of digital minds thriving across the cosmos he reasons that, if there is even a one-per-cent chance of this happening, the expected value of reducing an existential threat by a billionth of a billionth of one per cent would be worth a hundred billion times the value of a billion present-day lives.
15, 16 The scale consists of 23 items measuring the six dimensions of: 1) negative emotions; 2) physical discomfort; 3) value of life; 4) existential distress; 5) care and support; and 6) food-related concerns, on a 4-point Likert scale, and the scores ranged from 1, "the least satisfaction" to 4, "the most satisfaction" toward the condition, with higher scores indicating a better QOL.
So the idea of existential value is the idea of value that's not ameliorative: things that are worth doing but not because they solve a problem you'd rather not be dealing with, but are positively worth doing.
GFODDs generalize function-free first order logic and include numerical values and numerical generalizations of existential and universal quantification.
Positive impact refers to traumatic event-related personal growth and includes lifestyle changes such as health behaviour, modification of existential values, or changes in self-evaluation as self-esteem.
Although area under management and farming strategy varied amongst managers, they all had a positive view toward the existential value of TRBs.
His baccalaureate thesis, De Principio Individui ("On the Principle of the Individual"), which appeared in May 1663, was inspired partly by Lutheran nominalism (the theory that universals have no reality but are mere names) and emphasized the existential value of the individual, who is not to be explained either by matter alone or by form alone but rather by his whole being (entitate tota).
Moreover, through "slices of life" and stories that depict and challenge the human condition, the existential value of film and filmmaking, especially through the lens of the festival experience, is enhanced significantly.
In terms of the adaptational value of fighting spirit and existential courage, heart failure would seem a better candidate than breast cancer.
