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Amazon Banned My Book: This is My Response to Amazon

Logic is an enemy  and Truth is a menace. I am nothing more than a reminder to you that  you cannot destroy Truth by burnin...

27 December 2008

The Sacred Universe: Transudationism

The Sacred Universe: Transudationism




















The problem, in a nutshell, is that the world of human interest, the world of values, seems to have little connection to the world of facts as revealed
by the natural sciences. As a result we live bifurcated lives. We accept the world described by science -- purposeless matter in mindless motion -- as the "real" world, while confining the world of meaning and purpose to the subjective psychological realm. The result is a debilitating tension between the subjective and the objective, between the inner world and the outer world. We are aware that how we think of the world, our knowledge of it, shapes our actions, and, hence, influences our social and political orders. But we also sense that we can only be at home in a world when the "facts" reflect and reinforce our "values" -- when, in other words, we no longer feel like aliens on Earth. ...


But what if the cosmic optimists are right? What if we really do belong here, part of a still unknown -- and perhaps humanly unknowable -- cosmic purpose? As Toolan says, "What if the evolution of mind is what this universe has been about since the first three seconds?" What if, to borrow Kauffman's poetic phrase, "life spattered across megaparsecs, galaxies, galactic clusters" to make us "members of a creative, mysteriously unfolding universe?"

The Big Bang was an autotelic cosmic seed, and the universe is an organism for cultivating Consciousness.


26 December 2008

The cosmic Brotherhood of Sentience in the news

The cosmic Brotherhood of Sentience in the news:













Orangutans learn to trade favours

Orangutans can help each other get food by trading tokens, scientists have discovered - but only if the help goes in both directions.

25 December 2008

The Chaos Inside a Cancer Cell

The Chaos Inside a Cancer Cell


















A striking feature of many cancer cells is that the DNA in their chromosomes is all jumbled up. Chunks of DNA containing one or more genes have been ripped out of their chromosome and reinserted in a different place. Other lengths of DNA have been transferred to a different chromosome altogether.

05 December 2008

China tells US to steady economy

China tells US to steady economy

China has told the US to stabilise its economy in a sign that the emerging economic power is ready to challenge the established order.









China's economic power may soon rival that of the US

Bonus link: Paul Craig Roberts at his best: here.





It's time for a Second American Revolution.