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The Limits of Knowledge and the Problem with Materialism
A Theory of Everything is Not Material What we take for verity and certainty are the limits of knowledge, the limits of what we can know...
Dan Thompson
Jun 1, 20213 min read
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Cosmogenesis (X-chromosomes)
Time was when God judged Kings Sages Who judges now? -Friedrich Holderlin Here’s my opinion if it means anything at all where...
Dan Thompson
May 25, 20211 min read
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So You Think You’ve Got a Theory for Everything (Yes I Realize It’s Theory of Everything
Theories right now are bullish, we are in the midst of an ideas and information boom. But before we oversaturate the market and cause a...
Dan Thompson
May 23, 20212 min read
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Work in Relationship to AI
What is the wisdom in referring to getting paid for work as ‘reward’ instead of ‘compensation’ ‘salary’ ‘wage’ or even ‘bacon’? I say it...
Dan Thompson
May 23, 20211 min read
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Leibniz, Husserl, Godel
The following is an introduction to a future post on Gottfried Leibniz’ characteristica universalis in the context of the philosophy (and...
Dan Thompson
May 14, 20212 min read
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“Learning Without a Brain”
You don’t need a brain… further evidence that physical objects are merely representations (symbols) of deeper levels of meaning… i.e. a...
Dan Thompson
May 14, 20211 min read
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New West, Northwestern, New Wild (NW)
The following is a test post for a chapter in the book of which this blog is the exploratory sounding board. Working title is a...
Dan Thompson
May 6, 20219 min read
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On the Strangeness of Natural Things and the Naturalness of Strange Things
Art critic, André Gide describes Henri Michaux’s fascination with ‘the strangeness of natural things and the naturalness of strange...
Dan Thompson
May 1, 20213 min read
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The Phenomenology of Psychedelics
Psychedelics and phenomenology are at the core of consciousness studies, consciousness itself being psychedelic in nature; the drug that...
Dan Thompson
Apr 30, 202111 min read
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Making Our Own Days (excerpt from The Littoral)
***This is a rare occasion, wherein this excerpt from The Littoral (‘the book’) will be available on this site until it is sent away to...
Dan Thompson
Apr 3, 20219 min read
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Purpose in Place: The Continuity of Care
Through the enlightenment and into the fourth industrial revolution, Anthropocene civilization has succeeded in establishing a practical...
Dan Thompson
Mar 24, 20219 min read
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The Holographic Principle: My Big ‘I’ Idea (after Thomas Campbell’s My Big TOE)
Every Theory of Everything (TOE), in the sense of unifying consciousness and matter, seems like the right one, until another, better one...
Dan Thompson
Mar 7, 202115 min read
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Blue In Green: Where Sky Meets Earth
Land without sky All space contains a horizon of some sort, like the first such distinction in the early universe, cleaving one infinity...
Dan Thompson
Dec 6, 20207 min read
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Education, Mysticism and the Phenomenology of Place
The mystical tradition is the link, the middle distance between the humanities and the sciences. It is the addition of this source...
Dan Thompson
Sep 10, 20204 min read
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Consciousness and the Measurement Problem, part. 1
Everyone from scientists to religious adherents believe in an, as of yet, undiscovered law or theory of everything. Suggestions have...
Dan Thompson
Sep 9, 20204 min read
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Meaning in Adversity in Relation to TOE (Theory of Everything)
Meaning comes through adversity, where traumatic events (as well as fortuitous ones) lead to breakthroughs, realizations; timeless,...
Dan Thompson
Sep 8, 20207 min read
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Purpose in Place: Meaning, Work and the Relationship to the Absolute
Purpose and meaning are often used interchangeably, but are in fact quite distinct. Purpose suggests a more pragmatic or active approach,...
Dan Thompson
Aug 28, 20204 min read
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Northwestern: Theory of Place
The importance of Meaning and Purpose in one’s relationship to Place To illustrate the points to follow, it will be useful to consider...
Dan Thompson
Aug 22, 20204 min read
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