Introduction
This is the beginning. This book is the first half of research notes for a project called ‘The Reunification of Science and Philosophy’. If you think such reunification has already been achieved, I beg to disagree. In order to sharpen its clarity and self-consistency the endeavour has had to develop its own philosophical vehicle called Natural Dialectic.
A galaxy of us humans has always wanted answers to the basic questions of science and philosophy – how did we get here, who am I, how and why does it all work and what, if anything, is behind the whole, massive theatre of existence?
Yet we have recently been schooled, consciously or otherwise, in a reduced version of vision, a preference towards scientific stories, myths and explanations; and, since it is said that ‘attitude is everything’, such materialistic angle of perspective needs adjustment. This project is, within the prism of your mind, intended to redress imbalance.
Thrust
Tidied up notes form the basis from which later books in the series have been derived. A series of abbreviations have led to material suitable for course presentation addressing three major questions – the nature and origin of consciousness, cosmogony (the origin of physicality) and the origin of biological life-forms. Cross-curricular subject matter involves philosophy, information theory, physics, psychology, spiritual practice, biology and sociology. Aspects of all these can be simply, consistently grouped within a binary structure and visualised within the framework of three related models. These are balance in the form of scale, energetic projection in the form of concentric circles and energetic constraint (or degrees of fixity) in the form of a pyramidal ziggurat.
Can the non-conscious, physical universe, studied exhaustively by physics and chemistry, really be reconciled with natural metaphysic in the form of concept, intellect, mathematics, purpose, information, consciousness and the whole world of mind? This is the exploration you could be embarking on.
Contents
Volume 0: Setting the Scene
Book 0: A Systematic Start
Part 0: Natural Dialectic’s ABC
Science and the Soul: Reception
0 Poles Together
The Light in Your Eye
Experience
Perhaps It’s All in Mind
World-view
Natural Dialectic
Opposite Directions of Mind
Two Sorts of Implement
Archetypal Greeks
Two Pillars: a Dialogue of Faith
The Objective Pillar
The Subjective Pillar
Pure Objectivity
Scientific Delusions
Religious Delusions
Models
The Cosmological Axis
Polar Perspectives: Top-Down/ Bottom-Up
Comparative Analysis
Antagonism
A Complementary Course
1. Natural Dialectic’s ABC
First Principles
Nothing
Something
Two Existential Principles
Causality
Polarity
Information
Energy
Informed Energy
2. Cosmic Fundamentals, Stacks and Ziggurats
Ranges
Hierarchy
Event Vectors
Three in One
Primary and Secondary Dialectical Stacks
The Tri-logical Form of Natural Dialectic
Cosmic Fundamentals – Three Qualities
The Essential or Central (Sat) Quality
The Existential Vectors (raj and tam)
Hierarchical, Triplex Construction of the Cosmic Pyramid
Sliding Up and Down a Slope
Subtendence
Transcendence
3. Truth, Appearance and Reality
Paradox
Two Kinds of Paradox
Primary Inversion
Scale Switch
Perspective Switch
Semantic Switch
Truth, Appearance and Reality
Two Value Systems
Rights and Wrongs
Is There an Absolute Morality?
From Science to Conscience
Conscience in Principle
Conscience in Practice
4. Cause and Coincidence
Coincidence or No Coincidence?
Integrity, Coordination and Coherence
An Act of Creation
Stingers
How Can Science Sensibly Cope?
Volume 0: Setting the Scene
Book 0: A Systematic Start
Part 1: Information
5. Information is Immaterial
The God Delusion?
Intelligent Design
Authorisation
Information, Messages, Arrangement
Information is Immaterial
Information is Hierarchical
Orderly Creation
A Cyclical Order of Information
Alignment with Truth
(Sat) Potential or Transcendent Information
Top Teleology
6. Design Dissected
Computation
The Calculations of Mind
Phased Intent
Purposely Down to Earth
Getting Your Way – Pragmatics
What Do You Mean?
Information’s Infrastructure – Code
The Lowest, Physical Level
Active on Passive
Music
Machines
Mind Machines
Universal Authorship
Volume 0: Setting the Scene
Book 1: (Energetic) Stage Before a Play
Part 0: Physics
7. Towards a Theory of Physic and Metaphysic
At Least Two Sides to a Single Story.
Towards a Theory of Physic and Metaphysic?
Can Mathematics Help Us?
Any More Questions?
What Answers?
Are There Any Other Kinds of Answer?
The Principles of a Unified Theory of Matter
The Essential Pair
The Infinite
The Order of the Infinite
The Finite
The Order of the Finite
Order Before a Physical Start
Tugs and Wobbles
Order Below a Physical Start
Bulk Reality
8. Lord Deliberate or Lady Luck?
Accidentally or On Purpose?
An Age of Unreason.
The Order of Invariance
Precondition/ Potential
Is a Finely Tuned Universe Coincidental?
Is the Invariance a Fix?
Symmetry
Valuable Constancy
Emergence from the World’s Nest
Metaphysical Evasion
Getting to Grips with Lady Luck
Are You Certain?
Punting on the Cosmic Stream
Up Horseshoe Creek
Shots in the Dark
An Unholy Apparition
The Chance-Killer
Puppets, Mummery and Dram
No Information from Confusion
Systematic Clarity
A Flight from Science?
A Culture of Doubt
The Matrix
Is The Match Friendly?
Atheism’s Last Refuge
9. Holy Grails
Unity and Unification
Holy Grails
High Wires
Snip, Snip
Flow
Split Flow
The Spring of Inter-polar Motion
Boxing the Infinite
10. Nothing
The Nature of Nothing
The Order of Nothing
There’s More to Nothing
Nihilisms
Pay Attention
Is Nothing Important?
How Does Nothing Physical Work?
Space for Space
Old Vacuums
New Vacuums
Dialectical Vacuum
Gazing into Space
Is Space a Waste?
11. Time
Time
Species of Time
Super-time
Psycho-time
Archetypal Time
Bio-time
Material Times
The Geometry of Time
AC or DC?
DC-time
AC-time
Day-Age Controversy
Grades, Principles and Times
12. Physical Energy
Pure, Polar Energy
Matter’s Holy Ghost
tam/ raj/ Sat
How Absolutely Holy is the Ghost?
Grit in the Ghost
Alpha Points
The Labours of an Empty Womb
PAM’s Miracle
Twinkle, Twinkle
(Raj) Levity
(Sat) Equilibrium
(Tam) Gravity
It Takes Three to Tango
Points Omega
Glossary
Index
Bibliography