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  • The Question Regarding the Nature of Time

    Discussions of the nature of time, and of various issues related to time, have always featured prominently in philosophy, but they have been especially important since the beginning of the 20th Century. This article contains a brief overview of some of the main topics in the philosophy of time — Fatalism; Reductionism and Platonism with…

  • Time Begins, When Counting Begins?

    Like Copernicus’ heliocentric theory, Newton’s law of gravitation, and Darwin’s theory of evolution, non-Euclidean geometry has radically affected science, philosophy, and religion. It is fair to say that no more cataclysmic event has ever taken place in the history of all thought.Saccheri’s Flaw while eliminating Euclid’s “Flaw” The Evolution of Non-Euclidean Geometry The basis of…

  • Think About Nature on Edge.Org

    Lee Smolin The main question I’m asking myself, the question that puts everything together, is how to do cosmology; how to make a theory of the universe as a whole system. This is said to be the golden age of cosmology and it is from an observational point of view, but from a theoretical point…

  • Getting Perspective on Time

    Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it. — Albert Einstein Currently with the new book written by Lee Smolin about Time, to me, it is a fundamental question about what arises, and,  on how we use time to measure. Also for me,  to ask what relevance…

  • Intent in the Actualized

     Remembering Return to Home,Safety seeking,In my mind,Continually speaking Out of the sky,Eyes Earthbound,Stalagmite in open cavern,Fertile lands all around. The era of design,Like a Justice Hall,Women in bonnets,Mennonite clothes, In the Town of Williams,Some time ago,In the late eighteen hundreds,Scenery I know. by Platohagel  Before I begin I just wanted to say I am deeply…

  • The Synaptic World of Experience and Knowledge

     It is important that people realize that as much as topological seasoning is added to the world by myself,  I see ourselves intrinsically linked to the inductive/deductive process. It is as if the tail of each is linked as a image of a our inner and outer relation with the world continually exchanged. We are…

  • Another Kind of Sideways

     I wanted to expand on where the title,”Another Kind of Sideways.” This blog posting  came from an interview with Clifford of Asymptotia by PBS. He had a posting of his own entitled Multiverse Musings about a Nova series on PBS in the Fall related to Brian Greene’s book, The Fabric of the Cosmos. Where would…

  • How Time Ages the Pyramids

    Chanticleer – A Pleasure Garden Believing that something must be true about the world because you can’t imagine otherwise is, five hundred years into the Age of Science, not a recommended strategy for acquiring reliable knowledge. It goes back to the classic conflict of rationalism vs. empiricism. “Rationalism” sounds good — who doesn’t want to…

  • Igniting Neurons:Time Travel

    Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward.Soren Kierkegaard The image illustrates the Wayback machine from the Mr. Peabody and Sherman segment of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. The image supports the article on the subject: Wayback machine. The screen shot was selected to illustrate the nature and size of the Wayback…

  • Internet Archive: WayBack Machine

    Internet Archive Coordinates: 37°46′56.3″N 122°28′17.65″W Internet Archive Type Digital library Founded 1996 Key people Brewster Kahle (Chairman) Website archive.org Alexa rank 230 (April 2011)[1] Available in English Internet Archive headquarters was in the Presidio, a former US military base in San Francisco, from 1996 to 2009. As of November 2009, new Internet Archive headquarters at 300…

  • The Socratic Method…..and Plato’s Ideas, is Replaced by Google?

    http://youtu.be/dk60sYrU2RU The idea that truth is timeless and resides outside the universe was the essence of Plato’s philosophy, exemplified in the parable of the slave boy that was meant to argue that discovery is merely remembering. Lee Smolin  Bold added for me for emphasis….as well as saying that this philosophy is not “outside of time.”…