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Several essays centered on how the world will cope with humanity’s natural drive towards cultural and physical speciation.
We cannot all culturally and physically speciate equally at once; therefore, such speciation occurs under conditions where excellence is the social ideal and not under conditions where equality is the social ideal.
Homeorhetic philosophy- a philosophy steering a course between idealism and materialism: the Tao, the Logos, the living arrow of creation. A conceptual flux between chaos and order approaching the source of coherency and intelligibility, the transcendent realm. The self-organizing honing in on a moving point of purposeful disequilibrium in a dynamic pattern of increasing complexity.
In Isaiah Berlin’s words: “An unstable equilibrium in need of constant attention and repair.... an open future.” Berlin adds, “The glory and dignity of man consist in the fact that it is he who chooses, and is not chosen for, that he can be his own master.”
Consider the consequences of the concept that we are not one world, that we are not one species, that we are not approaching one destiny, when thinking about the future... observe carefully the fences of a “one-world” philosophical stockyard that restricts our liberty, they are well camouflaged. Outside this stockyard, as J.R.R. Tolkien phrased it, “Resistance still had somewhere where it could take counsel free from the Shadow.”
Guide to technological innovation and the future for interested individuals with limited time - streamlined access to: 1) my generalized preferences, 2) my recommendations for source material, 3) my evaluation methodology for source material and 4) short samples of my writing from this Website
“Salus gubernantium suprema lex esto” (Let the safety of the rulers be the supreme law )
“Post iure” (After the rule of law)
Selected Quotations- Thought provoking
Conceptual History Timeline: Part I- Born 9th cent. BC through 1860 AD
Conceptual History Timeline: Part II- Born after 1860 AD plus Addendum
Ontology of Technology*- Foundational to the philosophy of technology, particularly in how technology both increases the scope and complexity of molecular ensembles subject to common volitional intentions and alters individual volitional intention itself
Early Transhumanist Philosophy within the Universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune - Themes of physical and cultural speciation within the 6 canonical books (1965-1985)
Education and Brain Structure- Updated and restated education initiative designed to maximize innovation in a knowledge-based economy; the metabolism of knowledge
2003 August - Purpose of Education- Preparing the individual for future conditions of extreme novelty
1998 March - Review of The Transparent Society by David Brin (1999)
1996 2nd Half - A Critique of Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”
1995 June - A History of Extropic Thought: Parallel Conceptual Development of Technicism and Humanism
1995 2nd/3rd Quarter *- Consciousness: Spontaneous Order and Selectional Systems - Part II
1995 1st Quarter *- Consciousness: Spontaneous Order and Selectional Systems - Part I
1994 3rd Quarter *- Review of Origins of Order by Stuart Kauffman (1993)
Science and Rationality- *The Philosophy of Biology (1993) by Elliott Sober & The Nature of Rationality (1993) by Robert Nozick
Ominous Crimson Glow- New Science (1744) by Giambattista Vico & The Crooked Timber of Humanity (1990) by Isaiah Berlin
Ethics of Human Speciation- Sapience, Intolerance and Volitional Freedom
Defining Human- Evangelium Vitae (1995) by Pope John Paul II
Recycled Nihilism and Determinism- The Life of Greece (1939) by Will Durant & The Killing of History (1997) by Keith Windschuttle
Epistemology- *Three Aspects of Reality, Conceptual Attractors, Search for Ground & Hermeneutics
Unity and the Death Wish- The Tragic Sense of Life (1913) by Miguel de Unamuno & Way to Wisdom (1951) by Karl Jaspers
Cyber-Chartres- Learning the Design Processes Which Cross the Line between Profane and Sacred Spaces
Conversation with a Physicist- The Revolt of the Masses (1930) by José Ortega y Gasset
Two American Traditions- Decline of the West (1918-1922) by Oswald Spengler & Dominations and Powers (1951) by George Santayana
We must maintain the bootstrap to our past cultural history, to preserve the rich context necessary to be able to form and adapt consciences, aimed at a higher ideal than ourselves or than the state, during conditions of rapid technological innovation.
2005 November - Fabric Mosaic Art-Inspired by historical works showing the great range of differing aspects of women’s strength
2003 Summer - Prometheus Bound - by Aeschylus(updated rendition, complete with rich vocabulary, faithful to the original with humor and delightful illustration)
2001 Summer - Oedipus Rex - by Sophocles(updated rendition, complete with rich vocabulary, faithful to the original with humor and delightful illustration)
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