Everything about Existence

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ExistenceA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Industry 4.0 vs. Industry 5.0: Co-existence, Transition, or a HybridInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Discours de la méthodeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Evidence for the Existence of Three Primary Strategies in Plants and Its Relevance to Ecological and Evolutionary TheoryCited 4,513 times
5. Go sideways: OntologyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: MetaphysicsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Evidence for the Existence of Three Primary Strategies in Plants and Its Relevance to Ecological and Evolutionary Theory

  J. P. Grime · 1977 · The American Naturalist · 4,513 citations

• Existence of an Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy

  Kenneth J. Arrow, Gerard Debreu · 1954 · Econometrica · 3,335 citations

• Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

  Adrienne Rich · 1980 · Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society · 2,354 citations

• Quantized Hall conductance, current-carrying edge states, and the existence of extended states in a two-dimensional disordered potential

  B. I. Halperin · 1982 · Physical Review B · 2,307 citations

• Existence and Uniqueness of Equilibrium Points for Concave N-Person Games

  J. B. Rosen · 1965 · Econometrica · 2,154 citations

• Existence of Long-Range Order in One and Two Dimensions

  P. C. Hohenberg · 1967 · Physical Review · 2,143 citations

• Nonlinear scalar field equations, I existence of a ground state

  H. Berestycki, P. -L. Lions · 1983 · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis · 2,133 citations

• Existence of a photonic gap in periodic dielectric structures

  K. M. Ho, C. T. Chan, C. M. Soukoulis · 1990 · Physical Review Letters · 2,094 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Industry 4.0 vs. Industry 5.0: Co-existence, Transition, or a Hybrid

  Mariia Golovianko, Vagan Terziyan, Vladyslav Branytskyi · 2023 · Procedia Computer Science · 336 citations

• Integrated information theory (IIT) 4.0: Formulating the properties of phenomenal existence in physical terms

  Larissa Albantakis, Leonardo Barbosa, Graham Findlay · 2023 · PLOS Computational Biology · 263 citations

• A new class of double phase variable exponent problems: Existence and uniqueness

  Ángel Crespo-Blanco, Leszek Gasiński, Petteri Harjulehto · 2022 · Journal of Differential Equations · 218 citations

• Best friend or broken tool? Exploring the co‐existence of humans and artificial intelligence in the workplace ecosystem

  Katja Einola, Violetta Khoreva · 2022 · Human Resource Management · 197 citations

• Adsorptive behavior of micro(nano)plastics through biochar: Co-existence, consequences, and challenges in contaminated ecosystems

  Rakesh Kumar, Anurag Verma, Md. Refat Jahan Rakib · 2023 · Science of The Total Environment · 160 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Discours de la méthodeRené Descartes · 1644
• Meditationes de prima philosophiaRené Descartes · 1642
• A general view of the arguments for the unity of God, and against the divinity and pre-existence of Christ, from reasons, from the scriptures, and from historyJoseph Priestley · 1783
• The courage to bePaul Tillich · 1952
• Les 12 preuves de l'inexistence de DieuSébastien Faure · 1919
• 📕AvadānakalpalatāKṣemendra · 1965
• The nature of existenceJohn McTaggart · 1921
• Existence and existentsEmmanuel Levinas · 1947

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🔗 Related topics

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