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What (who) is A Calculus of Angels - definition
A Calculus of Angels
BOOK BY GREGORY KEYES
A Calculus of Angels is an alternate history and fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Keyes, the second book in The Age of Unreason series. It was initially published by Del Rey on March 30, 1999.
A Swarm of Angels
OPEN SOURCE FILM PROJECT
A swarm of angels
A Swarm of Angels (ASOA) was an open source film project and participatory film community, whose aim was to make the world's first Internet-funded, crewed and distributed feature film. The collaborative project aimed to attract 50,000 individual subscribers (the "Swarm of Angels"), each contributing £25 to the production, but after three years only 1,000 subscriptions were made.
Felicific calculus
ALGORITHM MEASURING THE AMOUNT OF PLEASURE THAT A SPECIFIC ACTION IS LIKELY TO CAUSE
Utility calculus; Hedonic calculus; Hedonic Calculus; Hedonistic calculus; Hedon (unit); Mathematics of philosophy; Hedons and dolor; Pleasure calculus; Utilitarian calculus
The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1747–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to induce. Bentham, an ethical hedonist, believed the moral rightness or wrongness of an action to be a function of the amount of pleasure or pain that it produced.
