This paper describes a mechanism, called \persis-tent connection," to preserve stream connections after the communicating peer exits and till it restarts. Such connections have many applications: to survive failures that crash one party, network partitions that cut oo the two parties, and temporary disconnection in a mobile computing environment. They can also facilitate suspension of process e...

We are social animals that seek to connect with others of our kind. However, this common thought stands in need elaboration. In article, I argue for three theses. First, we pursue certain forms communicative interaction their own sake insofar as they ways connecting another. Second, interpersonal connection is a metaphysically primitive emotional relation which resists reductive analysis terms ...