I plan to pull together some material posted to the internet from 1993 to 2005, together with unpublished material and some material from the published essays on this page, to provide a sound foundation to my key theory of Conceptual Homeorhesis (an abbreviated table is presented below taken from Consciousness II).

• the One and the Many and where to start, what the Planck length and the Planck moment refer to in common
• why not to start with motion or mind, the centrality of the liquid properties of the smallest bits of substance
• what gravity and the cosmological constant are, why they work the way they do and why they have a scalar limit
• what energy and space are, what matter and time are
• why things move and Zeno’s paradox
• the path from gravity to consciousness, scaled coherency or fractal dimensions of the “chain of being”
• the physical location of the source of the coherency and intelligibility of our universe, and the inalienable rights articulated in the Declaration of Independence
• what our place is within the universe and the consequence that we are not one world and one species with one destiny, that “even the smallest person can change the course of the future”
• the Synergetic Exclusionary Principle - some molecular ensembles, moving together under a common volitional intention (whether a person, a consensual polity or an ecosystem), are permitted and some are not
• the correspondance of the triune realms of ontology & epistemology with the transcendent via metaxy

There will be little attention paid to cosmological inflation & the Big Bang or its predecessor, the epicycles of Ptolemy, nor will information or motion be taken as an ontological primitive. There will be more affinity to Leibniz’s Monadology, the Husserl/Russell/Feynman sum-of-all-histories perspectivism, Bergson’s Creative Evolution, Whitehead’s Process Philosophy, David Bohm’s Undivided Universe, John Cramer’s Transactional Analysis and Hannes Alfven’s Plasma Cosmology (or Electric Universe).

I might touch on Karl Jaspers’ & Etienne Gilson’s notes on starting points and on Eric Voegelin’s, Michael Polanyi’s and William Poteat’s observations on gnostic errors and the mindbody conjunction. If you catch a whiff of Intelligent Design, let me know its fragance. It is intended that this will be foundational to the philosophy of technology, particularly in how technology both increaseses the scope and complexity of molecular ensembles subject to common volitional intentions and alters volitional intention itself.

Reality

Infinitely Divisible-and-Indivisible	Transcendent Realm via Metaxy
Energy-and-Matter	Existence
Past-and-Present	Future
Purpose-and-Truth	Meaning
Function-and-Form	Design

Life

Competition-and-Cooperation	Catalysis
Search-and-Consolidate	Metabolism
Novelty-and-Ordinary	Recognition
Subject-and-Object	Perspective
Knower-and-Known	Information
Freedom-and-Necessity	Vitality
Interpretation-and-Map	Judgment
Fear-and-Greed	Motivation
Individual-and-Species	Communication
Evolvability-and-Sustained Fitness	Adaptability

Thought

Imagination-and-Abstraction	Emotions
Exploration-and-Discovery	Adventure
Coherence-and-Correspondence	Context
Cause-and-Effect	Prediction
Self-and-Nonself	Centering
Consciousness-and-Being	Certainty
Holism-and-Reductionism	Understanding
Value-and-Fact	Knowledge
Evaluation-and-Breadth of Description	Wisdom
Universal-and-Particular	Sublimity

Reilly Jones

© 2005-2008

Home Page