Monday, August 1, 2011
Religion and Tradition.
An essential understanding of religion is that it arose from a primordial tradition that has been passed down through the generations since the beginning of the world. The Roman Catholic traditionalists maintained such a notion and argued that both faith and tradition played substantial roles in the formation of Christianity.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
The World's Highest IQs.
One possible way to measure genius is in terms of raw intelligence. This raw intelligence can be measured by an IQ test. The following is a list of the world's highest IQs. You will note that some of the highest IQs had few accomplishments while others included some of the greatest geniuses ever known to man.
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
Several Notes and Trends.
First, the masses are coming. 1 billion people have used the internet now and the masses are taking over at an unprecedented rate. The internet is no longer safe and a new form of social Darwinism has taken over. Atheism is also spreading and your thoughts are now crimes.
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Three Possible Universes.
There are three possible universes. The first is the Christian (or theist) universe which was spoken into existence at t =0 through a Big Bang explosion and has since been expanding outward. Such a universe will become self aware when human life is created within it. And such a universe will expand outwards until it reaches a situation of maximum e ntropy and die in a heat death apocalypse. The second possibility is that there is no deity and that the universe is eternal. The third possibility is a diabolical universe created by a Demiurge at t = 0. Such a Demiurge would not be the Christian deity but a blind creator as maintained by the gnostic heretics.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Is Our World a Simulation.
One of the recurrent trends of the past few decades has been the attempt to derive the science of physics from the science of information. Whereas at one time, the atomic theory prevailed in physics and its various derivatives systematized ultimately in the form of quantum mechanics, a new understanding sees the universe as ultimately composed of informational bits. With this understanding comes a novel idea, likely advanced because of the rise of modern computers and the internet, that our world is in fact a simulation. This notion has been advanced and it has been suggested that a sufficiently advanced future computer program could effectively simulate our world. This raises further questions as to what is the nature of reality and whether it would ever be possible to recognize that we are in fact in a simulation. An heroic stance would maintain that perhaps someday we could come to know this, though the possibility of ever achieving this remains difficult to understand. If there exist glitches in the simulation then how would we ever be able to come to locate them and know what they are. Perhaps our physical death is the ultimate "glitch", and our present reality is different from the reality that we currently understand ourselves to have.
The Blackening of the Future.
In the late nineteenth century two separate viewpoints prevailed. On one side were those who maintained that Europe had reached an age of degeneration and that technological progress would bring about the ultimate decline and destruction of humanity. On the alternative side were those who saw a new era of progress about to be unleashed. Many predicted the rise of airplanes and even of space travel, as well as genetic engineering, and radical life extension. However, these optimists foresaw various things which never materialized such as the furtherance of the human race on other worlds. With the modern decline of science we may be witnessing a new era in which the early beliefs become manifest and a gradual decline in human accomplishment and Western civilization.
Culture and Metaphysics.
In his book, von Inwagen considers the difficulty encountered by philosophers in formulating metaphysical problems and their solutions. The lack of results achieved by philosophy remains a fundamental problem. One possibillity is that certain cultures lend themselves better to formulating and achieving results in metaphysics. Obviously the culture of the ancient Greeks was unique in this respect. Von Inwagen notes that European culture from the middle ages on has been unique in allowing for the development of science and technology on an unprecedented level. He then poses the question as to whether there could exist a certain culture in which the solution of metaphysical questions is made possible. Such a culture could be a unique possibility for the future. However, there is some reason for pessimism. Perhaps the human mind is not developed in a manner so as to enable answers to metaphysical problems. Arguments to this effect frequently rely on an appeal to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.
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