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A few years ago I started editing my notes on experiential reality. Having to navigate the ever-shifting contours of reality made me forego free-flowing blog styles in favor of a tightly structured, synoptic format. Iterative winnowing and condensing (while allowing space-saving jargon or acronyms but no SMS lingo) gradually produced the version in front of you. For those who never laid eyes on single-page chapters before; behold a triad of four-page Synopses, plus Prelude and Postlude, for a grand total of fourteen poster-style pages... Reality Redux is too highly condensed to serve as an introductory textbook. Unpacking its contents requires a firm understanding of basic scientific principles and methods as well as willingness to fill in blanks on-the-go; e.g. via internet searches or science & technology fora. It does not serve up ready-to-eat 'reality tv' dinners but, rather, a choice of key ingredients and methods with which to compose, or merely spice up, one’s own favored cuisine. Bon Appetit! ...

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"Socrates’ haunting cave scenario, immortalized by Plato, exposes reality issues that still bewitch us today: duality, dimensionality, experiential vs agreement reality, free will and our quest for purpose"............ "Now, 2,500 yr later, billions of humans chained to reality TV are de facto agreement reality prisoners like the hapless souls in fig 30.".................. "Direct brain-to-brain (b2b) communication of experiential reality objects, scenes and events sounds perhaps farfetched but is a reasonable extrapolation from recent advances in nSPEC, GUI & MDA techniques (e.g. figures) that do not require quantum jumps in science & technology. Our smartphones already incorporate all elements of “universal translators”, viz. speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversion plus language translation." ................ "Mark Zuckerberg’s recent prediction that future Facebook users will communicate by telepathy [71] may have caused consternation. However, the b2b route outlined in figs. 31c and 32 essentially leads to that same endpoint." ...

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Prelude: Into the Blue Yonder (an experiential reality check) ~ Weighing Anchor ~ Experiential Reality ~ Tsunami Warning! ~ Philosophy Dead? ~ Synopsis I: Exponential Virtualization (the price of human self-awareness) I.1: Retrospective I.2: Man’s Midas Touch ~ virtualization by symbolic communication I.3: Data Transmission Tsunami ~ mankind faces functional dementia I.4: Freeze, Flee or Fight ~ innate responses to existential threats Synopsis II: Saving Experiential Reality (by preserving intrinsic dimensionality) II.1: Perspective II.2: Brain Activity Patterns ~ our (3+1)D link with experiential reality II.3: Multichannel Spectroscopy ~ n-dimensional detection & processing II.4: Multivariate Data Analysis ~ navigating & manipulating hyperspace Synopsis III: Redesigning Agreement Reality (using n-dimensional language) III.1: Prospective III.2: A Holographic Principle ~ information, energy & mass equivalence III.3: The ALIAS Hypothesis ~ am I already living inside a simulation? III.4: Jailbreaking Mankind ~ nascent brain-to-brain communication ~ Postlude: Quo Vadis H commu...

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Ce Volume 1 de la Deuxième partie examine les facteurs qui font progresser la science. Il expose les différences entre la science normale et la pseudoscience en montrant l'importance de la méthode scientifique dans l'avancement de la science. Il introduit le concept de Vérité dans la science en soulignant que même si la vérité est basée sur la méthode scientifique, la science peut-elle être vraie? Peut-elle représenter la réalité? L'auteur se concentre sur la science moderne qui, selon lui, est née de la révolution scientifique qui a commencé avec Galilée et qui a conduit à la révolution industrielle. Les impacts de celle-ci sont analysés à la lumière du modernisme, de la modernisation et de la modernité, tous trois liés au progrès scientifique. Le livre traite également du bond scientifique Newtonien – en analysant particulièrement le tissu sociopolitique de l’Angleterre d'alors – et d’Albert Einstein en montrant comment il a changé l’histoire. Selon l'auteur, notre monde physique lui-même peut nous aider à comprendre le progrès scientifique. Ainsi, il explique, entre autres, la structure des atomes et des molécules, le rôle de la ...

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La science se distingue souvent des autres domaines de la culture humaine par sa nature progressive: contrairement à l'art, à la religion, à la philosophie, à la morale et à la politique, il existe des normes claires ou des critères normatifs pour identifier les améliorations et les progrès scientifiques. Cependant, de nombreux philosophes des sciences des années 1960 et 1970 ont contesté efficacement la vision cumulative traditionnelle des connaissances scientifiques et la notion de progrès a également été remise en question dans le domaine de la science. Les débats sur le concept normatif du progrès portent en même temps sur des questions axiologiques concernant les buts et objectifs de la science. La tâche de l’analyse philosophique est d’examiner des réponses alternatives à la question: que signifie le progrès scientifique? Cette question conceptuelle peut alors être complétée par la question méthodologique: comment reconnaître les avancées progressives de la science? Par rapport à une définition du progrès et à un compte rendu de ses meilleurs indicateurs, on peut alors étudier la question factuelle: dans quelle mesure et à que...

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Remerciements…….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 CHAPITRE I: Qu’est-ce que la science?.........................................................................................................................................................................14 1. Types de Science……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..18 A. Science normale et progrès scientifique……………………………………………………………...……….........................18 B. Pseudoscience et progrès scientifique….……………………………………………………………………………………….22 2. Le rôle de la méthode scientifique dans le progrès scientifique………………………………………………..........................26 CHAPITRE II: La science et la recherche de la vérité……………………………………………………………………………………………………….31 Valeurs en science…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………41 CHAPITRE III: La révolution scientifique………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………44 CHAPITRE IV: La révolution industrielle..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..57 1. Impacts de la révolution industrielle sur le monde…….…………………………………...

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This Volume 1 of Part II considers the factors that make science progress. It lays out the differences between normal science and pseudoscience by showing the importance of the scientific method in the advancement of science. It introduces the concept of Truth in science by raising the point that even though truth is based on the scientific method, can science be true? Can it depict reality? The author focuses on modern science, which, he thinks, was born thanks to the Scientific Revolution which started with Galileo Galilei and led to the Industrial Revolution. The impacts of the latter is analyzed in light modernism, modernization, and modernity, all three linked to scientific progress. The book also talks about the Newtonian scientific leap – by analyzing particularly the then social and political fabrics of England – and Albert Einstein by showing how he changed history. According to the author, our very physical world can help us understand scientific progress. So, he explains, among other things, the structure of atoms and molecules, the role of physics in the understanding of our universe, Quantum Mechanics, and the importanc...

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Science is often distinguished from other domains of human culture by its progressive nature: in contrast to art, religion, philosophy, morality, and politics, there exist clear standards or normative criteria for identifying improvements and advances in science. However, the traditional cumulative view of scientific knowledge was effectively challenged by many philosophers of science in the 1960s and the 1970s, and thereby the notion of progress was also questioned in the field of science. Debates on the normative concept of progress are at the same time concerned with axiological questions about the aims and goals of science. The task of philosophical analysis is to consider alternative answers to the question: What is meant by progress in science? This conceptual question can then be complemented by the methodological question: How can we recognize progressive developments in science? Relative to a definition of progress and an account of its best indicators, one may then study the factual question: To what extent, and in which respects, is science progressive? What is driving the dynamism of science? Why are science and man inse...

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Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 CHAPTER I: What Is Science?...........................................................................................................................................................................................13 1. Types of Science………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..17 A. Normal Science and Scientific Progress……………………………………………………………...……….........................17 B. Pseudoscience and Scientific Progress………………………………………………………………………………………….20 2. The Role of Scientific Method in Scientific Progress…………………………………………………………………..........................24 CHAPTER II: Science and the Quest for Truth……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….28 Values in Science…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..37 CHAPTER III: The Scientific Revolution………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..40 CHAPTER IV: The Industrial Revolution……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….52 1. Impacts of the Industrial Revolution on the World..………………………………………………………...

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A former mathematical physicist, who is both experienced in theory and experimental science--working for both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force--provides a scathing investigation into the fundamental premise supporting belief in Climate Change. Analysis proves a frequent blunder made in thermodynamics, common to both children and history, where heat is wrongly perceived a "thing" and imbued with associative properties. This common misconception about heat and how it works leads to a conclusion fatal for Climate Change theory, at least, in the opinion of the author....

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It is indeed a rare occurrence to encounter so grave a philosophy as occasioned by Climate Change, especially, within our Science; but, to be afforded an opportunity, so fortuitous, to enable overturning accepted theory is even rarer still. If one should allay, if only momentarily, hysteria conjured up by those more dire prognostications of this rather dreary eschatology, one should find their intellect free to reckon with a rather foolish error. There, at the heart of this turgid mess, lay its Achilles’ heel, the Greenhouse Effect, which is its cornerstone premise and simultaneously its fateful undoing. It is by a childish error in judgment concerning heat that this troubling theory rest, a common misconception shared by elementary students, and is reminiscent of that now defunct and discredited theory of heat, the Caloric Theory. It is not to say, once understood, all mankind be exonerated, necessarily, from both his individual and collective behavior, which often affects environment, Self and Other so detrimentally; contrary, proper understanding does promise a more sober perspective towards what is more likely Man’s influence up...

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A semi-biographical review of the life and philosophy of Matt Blevins.

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Shall we take our rest again here, reader, and pull out our wine flask for the other? May I offer you my final confession? May I make you the last promise I am certain to keep?...

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En este libro se muestran con esquemas y gráficos las ideas expresadas en mis libros anteriores.

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Exploring the secrets of the Universe as far as physics can go, and even beyond.. Along with its Vedantic integration. This book is has two sections. The first section is a work in physics which presents an in-depth exploration of Avyakta - the hidden metaphysical reality behind the apparent universe - through scientific study. A condensed version of this part has been published in the Prespacetime Journal Vol 7 Issue 16 on 08/01/2017, titled "Avyakta" The Fabric of Space". (Prespacetime Journal (ISSN: 2153-8301), QuantumDream, Inc., P.O. Box 267, Stony Brook, NY 11790-0267, USA; is a physics journal which focuses on the origin, nature and mechanism of space-time and its possible connection to a prespacetime; and models and experimental results on elemental particles, fundamental forces including gravity and related topics.) The second section of the book presents in-depth study of cosmology in Vedanta, as outlined in verses from the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads. The discussions shed light on many previously unknown levels and aspects. Since God cannot be considered in physics due to lack of experimental evidence, this sec...

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Part 1. Physics - The Next Step Abstract Introduction to Avyakta Section 1 - Fundamental Particles, Forces and Fields 1.1 Matter waves 1.2 Movement through avyakta 1.3 Gravitational field 1.4 Mass 1.5 The fields in classical physics 1.6 The 'vacuum' state – the 'zero' point energy of all fields in space 1.7 Virtual particles 1.8 The quantized wave 1.9 Antiparticle 1.10 Phonon, Particle, Photon and Fabric Section 2 – The Universe 2.1 Big bang and creation 2.2 Generations of matter 2.3 Formation of galaxy groups 2.4 The explanation of dark matter 2.5 Red-shift 2.6 Possibilities in the far future 2.7 History and philosophical implications Part 2 Philosophy – Towards Convergence Introduction to core Vedantic concepts Verses from ancient texts and discussions Further reading References (Physics)...

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This book is written by looking problems faced by the students in their life.this book is must for all those students who makes their life meaningless and can't understand true meaning of life.I wrote this book for understanding life and extra dimensionality thinking about struggles, Success, dreams and many more.This book is must for all level students. I hope this helps more....

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The book is a socio-economic manifesto from an artist's perspective. It forces the reader to look again at the current models in place while planting the seed for a new paradigm in the public realm....

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PROLOGUE 1. The purpose of this discourse is to make assumptions, provide generalized statements and explanations based on facts, raise awareness and with some imagination provide a thoretical concept for an abstract direction. 2. The manifesto is a selective aggregate of capitalism, socialism and communism. It adheres to utilitarianism while recognizing the human condition. The requirement of some form of rules and regulations are generally agreed as necessary. However, the term “government” in this manifesto refers to the people and not a disparate entity. 3. The planet is ecologically and environmentally sagging under the weight of the humanity’s footprint. Therefore, a proposal of fundamental adjustments, including the redistribution of the human populous with disregard to the axiological, is necessary for sustainability. 4. There is a substantial economic and literary contrast amongst the people of the world due to the restrictions imposed on the freedom of movement. One of the objectives is to propose an egalitarian alternative to eliminate this disparity. 5. Establishment of interdependence rather than independence albe...

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Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science

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Essays and articles about modern physics, speculations in science, pseudo-science and the alleged incompatibility between God and modern science.

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John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. It went through four editions during Mill's lifetime with minor additions and revisions. Although Mill includes discussions of utilitarian ethical principles in other works such as On Liberty and The Subjection of Women , Utilitarianism contains Mill's only major discussion of the fundamental grounds for utilitarian ethical theory. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Father Ferapont. Alyosha was roused early, before daybreak. Father Zossima woke up feeling very weak, though he wanted to get out of bed and sit up in a chair. His mind was quite clear; his face looked very tired, yet bright and almost joyful. It wore an expression of gaiety, kindness and cordiality. ?Maybe I shall not live through the coming day,? he said to Alyosha. Then he desired to confess and take the sacrament at once. He always confessed to Father Paissy. After taking the communion, the service of extreme unction followed. The monks assembled and the cell was gradually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began coming from the monastery. After the service was over the elder desired to kiss and take leave of everyone. As the cell was so small the earlier visitors withdrew to make room for others. Alyosha stood beside the elder, who was seated again in his arm-chair. He talked as much as he could. Though his voice was weak, it was fairly steady....

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Excerpt: The Republic by Plato.

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Blending a subtle cocktail of Physics and Metaphysics, and building on inspiration from cutting edge thinkers, this new age opus takes the reader beyond the edge of modern science and into a higher dimensional realm where consciousness dictates its own destiny through the creation of multiple realities and a process of self-refinement, eventually achieving supreme omniscience. This book proposes a meaning and purpose to all we experience as physical beings....

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Über den Zorn (De Ira) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (etwa 4 v. Chr. - 65 n. Chr.), übersetzt von J. Moser (1782 -1871), veröffentlicht 1828. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, genannt Seneca der Jüngere, war ein römischer Philosoph, Dramatiker, Naturforscher, Staatsmann und als Stoiker einer der meistgelesenen Schriftsteller seiner Zeit. Seneca griff klassisches stoisches Gedankengut auf. Das Problem der Affektkontrolle wird hier auf vielfältige Weise lebenspraktisch, historisch-exemplarisch und politisch abgehandelt. (Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia)...

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The present book, being a sequel to Dialectics of Force: Ontobia, is dedicated to the topics of progress and force of society - topics that may appear trivial at first sight, for a mountain of literature has been written on them. The author, however, having conscientiously presented the views on progress and force of all prominent thinkers over the past and the present, chose to follow a distinct path and formulated the criteria of progress based on entirely different scientific paradigms. Moreover, he dared to formulate the two Principles of Social Development, which are akin in their fundamental nature to the first and second laws of thermodynamics. The result is a book that is very complex in content. Nonetheless, the style of presentation used throughout most of the work makes it accessible even to those who have never read Hegel....

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This book is intended for instructors and students of philosophy and social sciences, and also for all those who are interested in problems of man and mankind....

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The writings listed here represent books about Soren Kierkegaard. A fragment of his work, On the Dedication to That Single Individual, has made it to the public domain. Who was Soren Kierkegaard? He was a Danish philosopher and religious author; b. Copenhagen May 6, 1813; d. there Nov. 11, 1855. His father, Michael, a clothing merchant, once cursed God when he was young. This one incident caused him so much distress that it affected him with a deep melancholy, which he transferred to poor Soren. Michael was an evil man. He tricked Soren into thinking that the whole world existed in his own living room by taking him for imaginary walks about the neighborhood, or anywhere Soren wanted to go, as long as it existed in his imagination only. Later in life, when Soren was on his own, he rarely left Copenhagen, but he did walk about the streets and greet passersby, discussing events of the day. After 6 years of “splendid inactivity” he obtained his degree in Theology from the University of Copenhagen with the submission of his thesis paper in 1841, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates. Just before graduation he fell ...

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The answers cover such topics as: - why livestock are critical to food security - why free trade and markets can't solve food shortages - why aid shouldn't insist poor countries follow our model - how to reconcile science and commerce with popular ideals - how grass domestic happiness can be a serious topic - how more food can be produced with less land and fertilizer - why labels like Buddhist and vegetarian confuse life - what traditional wisdom is critical to development - how misrepresentation fuels fears about climate change - why small farmers and foreign agribusiness must coexist...

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Question and Answer How to reprise lost paradise, where clansmen were always content? On this we ever ask advice, not noting our command’s contempt. Replies arise if we ask right, as sages’ sayings still console, except when wished as black or white, thus missing their integral whole. Each answer’s angst makes us ask more – thus are our suspect lives sustained, supremely sure if we spark war, for our ideals are deep ingrained. We’re punished by our primal rites, wedding hubris with hoarded wealth, monopolizing basic rights, and molding ethics in our stealth. Blinded by our biased questions, we trust faith as truth we squander, never knowing our great fortune – blind in paradise we wander. ...

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Question and Answer Acknowledgements Author’s Preface The 10 Questions Chapter 1 Introducing Food Security Seeing Livestock Correctly Who is Food Insecure? Animal Products in Food Security Animal Production in a Food-insecure World Animal Production Systems Future Animal Production in Food Security Answering the Question Chapter 2 The West is not the Context Defining ‘Food Insecurity’ Food Security Planning National Policy Implications for Food Security Regulations on Sustainability and Climate Change How Government Meets the Challenge Answering the Question Chapter 3 The Success of the West Balancing the Bias Aid to Do What? Facing Some Facts Famine in the West 20th Century Famine in Europe Answering the Question Chapter 4 What are we Feeding? Language in Religion, Science and Spirit Feeding the Spirit Scientia and Sapientia Answering the Question Chapter 5 The Nebulous Concept of GDH Global Fears and Small Farmers Smallholder Self-Sufficiency What is Wellbeing? Explaining the Sufficiency Economy Idea Implementing Wellbeing Answering the Question Chapter 6 ‘Sustainin...