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(B)
Group B academics leaned-towards the proposition that Neoplatonism as a whole was the closest (albeit indirectly) competing neo-metaphysics. However, Neoplatonism is more a modality of looking at problems, rather than a particular specific all-embracing intellectual or metaphysical structure. Indeed, we all operate on a Neoplatonism platform. Meaning, that there was, indeed, no salient viable directly competing metaphysics.
[However, respectfully, Aristotelianism and its Jewish offshoot, Maimonidean philosophy are important historical systems, still embraced by many, which do so-to-speak on significant levels compete with Summa. D. N. Khalil directly and articulately deals with – and exposes the fatal metaphysical gap in – Aristotle and Maimonides in his Foreword to Summa II: God and Good.]
(C)
Group C academics went along with Oxford scientist and Conference presenter Peter Atkins’ “interesting” mini- metaphysics that “purposeless decay” was the allegedly more powerful and competing metaphysics. Atkins repeatedly articulates this theme in his published works.
When challenged as to whether he preferred to view himself as the product of Birnbaumian Quest for Potential∞/Extraordinariation or of Atkinsonian purposeless decay, Atkins responded with the latter, to the dismay of the assemblage.
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In Summation
“Purposeless
decay”:
Thus, the prime direct challenge to the Potential/Extraordinariation metaphysics, is, according to at least one segment of the Conference, only “purposeless decay.” Frankly, hard-to-believe that this pessimistic quick-fix – which has no formal structure and no answers to many key questions – is even qualified to challenge. Aside from the fact that the ‘visceral appeal’ of “purposeless decay” is not, shall we say, stellar. As well, it has neither a “starting point” nor significant “integration” beyond a few specific physics issues.
Aristotle:
As noted above, Khalil deals with the fatal gap in Aristotelian or neo-Aristotelian systems.***
Conclusion:
Thus, with no readily available seriously challenging metaphysics, we would need to juxtapose Summa against putative competing systems as they are potentially offered-up.
* see also “Appendix Z4: Where is Option B?”
** Chairman, Dept. of Philosophy, Bard College
*** For the record, Orthodox Jewish scientist and academic Khalil does not challenge the religious doctrines of Orthodox Jewish Maimonides. Nor does Khalil truly need to do so in order to challenge the metaphysics of Maimonides. [Please note that Khalil and I are in-sync on both fronts here.]
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APPENDIX Z21:
The Assertion/Claim
The assertion/claim herein is that Summa is the optimal working hypothesis for a unified and integrated metaphysics. Of course, like all hypotheses, it should be probed, challenged and debated.
While it is certainly true that Summa frontally challenges the heavily-entrenched academic status quo, perhaps Summa’s hypothesis is actually right.
Perhaps that* is possibly sufficient reason for establishment academia to very seriously debate and consider it, even if the academic establishment is simultaneously threatened by it.
*being right
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APPENDIX
Z22:
The Q4P∞ ‘Package’
...Includes but is not limited to the components
Recursive / Looping upon itself / Self-Referencing / Iterative / Self-Sustaining*a
As argued, “Possibility” is the sole ‘dynamic’ which can arguably have been eternal. Then hypothesizing that Q4P∞ evolved from [its ‘First Cousin’] ‘Possibility’ is, respectfully, not a major conceptual leap.
Q4P∞ is a rare “conceptualized dynamic” which could be hypothesized to have taken the (budding) cosmic order from the metaphysical to the physical.
It is this sui generis inter-related bundle of attributes*b
– and related – which decisively arm the Q4P∞ candidacy as the prime protagonist in the cosmic drama.
*a Self-sustaing relates, as well, to the “leveraged buyout” aspect delineated in the text: Potentials down-the-road ignite the present (Genesis Point). But note that these same potentials-down-the-road also help sustain and nourish the ongoing drama.
*b It is the architectural/conceptual ‘elegance’ of ‘the package’ which so-to-speak ‘gives it a chance.’
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APPENDIX Z23:
Explication
Q4P∞ is perhaps also explicated as –
The cosmic Supra-Instinct & Essence.
The underling cosmic Progenitor & Dynamic.
The cosmic Common-Denominator & Imperative.
The font, essence and drive of the cosmos.
The [Divine] Qi of the Cosmos.
The (elusive) [Chinese] Tao – the “source of everything.”*a
The (elusive) [Jewish] Lurianic Kabballah mystical En Sof.*b
The Infinite and dynamic Divine.
The Biblical Eheyeh asher Eheyeh.*c
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Simultaneously, the Macro and Micro essence of the cosmic order.
The Holy Grail of the cosmos….
The mysterium tremendum
while at the same time,
encompassing the entire dynamic cosmic order
*a Never explicated by obscure Taoism (Daoism), even though everyone is referred to the collected works of Laozi (and Zhuangzi) which, in turn, never explicate the Tao except very elliptically and very obscurely/ambiguously. [Note that Taoism is a philosophy or religious tradition which emphasizes living in harmony with the aforementioned (obscure) Tao.]
*b The “No End”: Dealt with extensively in Summa I: God and Evil
*c “I WILL BE THAT WHICH I WILL BE” – The self-proclaimed Identity of the God of Israel to Moses at the ‘Burning Bush’ episode – when God reveals Himself to Moses.
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APPENDIX Z24:
Context
Heretofore, we essentially generally operated without overall context. Most fields of knowledge have floated essentially on their own (or linked to close fields) in an ineffable and greatly inexplicable cosmos. Not explicated-by or tethered-to an all-enveloping metaphysics. Summa, however, offers a powerful all-embracing context and integrated thesis. Summa, however, offers a powerful all-embracing context and integrated thesis.
While the author and many academic luminaries believe Summa to be on-the-mark, it may or may not be. But, certain aspects regarding Summa are hard to dispute:
It seems to be elegant, powerful, overarching, integrated and holistic.
Its core thesis has remained unchallenged.
It alone among known metaphysical schemas systematically and conceptually seems to truly unify Science, Spirituality, Philosophy and Religion.
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And, finally, Summa is essentially “the only game in town.” There is simply no known bona fide directly competing, even somewhat compelling (overarching and well-integrated) metaphysics known to us.*
* Respectfully, classic religious philosophies are not counted here as competing metaphysics. Respectfully, their systems tend to include as integral to their core paradigms, a particular ineffable and inexplicable deity or divine. Ditto for (obscure) Taoism. Rather, religious philosophies can and should consider Summa as a potential add-on or wrap-around schema.
The alleged competitor to Summa – Neoplatonism’s ancient offshoot schema Aristotelianism – is, respectfully, simply too simplistic, too assumption-laden, too incomplete and, respectfully, more accurately in the realm of religious philosophy. As noted [see Khalil “Foreword”]: Aristotelianism has a gaping-hole in it.
As well, Aristotelianism is often dead-wrong. For instance, it postulates that the Sun rotates around the Earth.
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APPENDIX Z25:
Where is the Divine?
Metaphysical
challenge:
Metaphysical challenge:
Choose from these multiple choice options:
a) Nowhere
b) Up there / Separate from us
c) Here
d) Here, and it encompasses all / We are part of It
– and integral to It.
Summa rejects (a) and (b), agrees with (c) but embraces (d).
The author is dubious that any metaphysics, which embraces (a) or (b) can present a viable integrated, holistic and fully-satisfying option. Summa believes that the metaphysical debate needs to take place within the embrace of (c) or (d).
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Atheism embraces (a)
Note that Aristotelianism (Aristotle was the student of Plato, who in turn was the student of Socrates) and classic mainstream Western (religious) thought classically both embrace (b).
Taoism and much Eastern philosophical/religious thought embrace (c) or (d).
“We are made of light, and we are all part of God’s mind. Most importantly, we are the universe itself having the experience of knowing that.” (Fred Alan Wolf, Time Loops and Space Twists, p. 232)
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APPENDIX Z26:
String Theory and ‘Provability’ ’
String Theory is a contender for the “theory of everything in physics.”
After 40 years of intense effort (and failure) by String Theory advocates to make predictions which can definitively be tested by experiment, String Theory is nevertheless essentially accepted by its many and often quite-eminent scientific community proponents because of it’s elegance,
its conceptual aesthetic appeal, and its relative power vis à vis other contending theories. As well, there is the hope of its advocates that in the future there may be some measurable consequences. On net balance to date, it is a noble effort by many hundreds of scientists to transcend mortal and current scientific limitations.
Thus, in Physics, which demands as an almost inviolable sine qua non (essential condition) testability, provability and ultimately proof, in this instance an untested and unproven theory is nevertheless held in the highest possible (international) esteem.
Note that Metaphysics, which more often than not probes the infinite, the transcendent, and universal cosmic axioms, does not require scientific proof per se. It inviolably requires, however, the absence of contradiction with physics and science, as a whole.
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APPENDIX Z27:
Multiverse Theory
Multiverse is a theory in physics. It is not a classic metaphysics overarching the gamut of fields of knowledge.
So, for instance, as regards the classic question as to where our universe came from, if one proposes as an answer that it is part of – or a “daughter of” – a multiverse cosmic order, one still needs to address where the “mother universe(s)” came from.
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APPENDIX Z28:
Theory of Everything* (in Physics)
“A theory of everything (TOE) or final theory is a putative theory of theoretical physics that fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena, and predicts the outcome of any experiment that could be carried out in principle.
Many candidate theories of everything (in physics) have been proposed by theoretical physicists during the twentieth century, but none have been confirmed experimentally. The primary problem in producing a TOE is that general relativity and quantum mechanics are hard to unify. This is one of the unsolved problems in physics....
While loop quantum gravity [theory] attempts to unify quantum field theory and general relativity/gravitation, string theory and its successor M-theory, remain the only prominent candidates as a theory of everything.”
*Wikipedia Online, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything (accessed April 25, 2012)
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from the author:
Summa, of course, fully embraces physics, and believes that Q4P∞ is by definition fully synchronous with physics.
Metaphysics is about painting a “bold brush stroke” super-macro overarching conceptual Theory of Everything (meaning, a “real deal” Theory of Truly Everything). The correct [overarching] metaphysics theory would embrace within its fold the correct [overarching] physics theory. The author respectfully believes that ultimately physics will be compelled to make its way to Q4P∞ in order to cross the final theoretical bridge in its quest for a Theory of Everything (in Physics), including Big Bang Theory.
Note that as a reference to their work, metaphysicians avoid using that (TOE) terminology or a more precise phrase for metaphysics like “Macro Theory of Everything,” because the terminology projects/resonates as being too presumptuous. But conceptual macro brush strokes is essentially what metaphysics is ultimately all about. Macro Everything. That is what metaphysicians are paid to do.
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APPENDIX Z29:
Occam’s Razor
“Occam’s razor (also written as Ockham’s razor, Latin lex parsimoniae) is the law of parsimony, economy or succinctness. It is a principle urging one to select among competing hypotheses that which makes the fewest assumptions and thereby offers the simplest explanation of the effect.”*
Summa offers a so-to-speak ‘simple’, but purportedly sophisticated and powerful proposition:
Quest for Potential∞ ignited,
drives and indeed, is, the cosmos.
Occam might smile.
*Wikipedia Online, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam’s_razor (accessed April 25, 2012)
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APPENDIX Z30:
Schopenhauer v. Birnbaum
from Wikipedia*
“Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the phenomenal world.
Schopenhauer’s most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, claimed that the world is fundamentally what humans recognize in themselves as their will. His analysis of will led him to the conclusion that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fully satisfied. The corollary of this is an ultimately painful human condition. Consequently, he considered that a lifestyle of negating desires, similar to the ascetic teachings of Vedanta, Buddhism and the Church Fathers of early Christianity, was the only way to attain liberation.
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Schopenhauer’s metaphysical analysis of will, his views on human motivation and desire, and his aphoristic writing style influenced many well-known thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and Jorge Luis Borges….”
from the author –
So Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation posits that the world is fundamentally ‘will’; and ‘pessimist-school’ Schopenhauer comes to the conclusion that negating ‘will’ is the ‘route to liberation.’
Birnbaum’s Summa Metaohysica posits that the world is essentially ‘potential’; and, to continue counterposing Schpenhauer, ‘optimist-school’ Birnbaum comes to the (quick) conclusion that proactive ‘Quest for Potential’ is the true ‘route to liberation.’
*Wikipedia Online, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer (accessed May 21, 2012)
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APPENDIX Z31:
Simple v. Simplistic
Metaphysicians and scientists like their theoriessimple yet sophisticated. Thus, Einstein’s iconic Theory of Relativity, E=MC2 is simple, but highly sophisticated.
Many theories and laws of physics follow this general paradigm: Simple, yet sophisticated.
Now in our little realm of metaphysics, we posit that Q4P∞ is simple, yet sophisticated.
Q4P∞ enthusiasts would argue that (linear) Aristotelianism (i.e. Eternal God deployed primal matter and created the Earth) is simply simplistic*.
“Everything should be made
as simple as possible,
but no simpler”
— Albert Einstein
(c. 1933)
*or in any event, more in the realm of theology
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APPENDIX Z32:
Aesthetic Elegance
After multi-day discussion/debate at Annandale-on-Hudson, Upstate, NY as to the sine qua non (~the necessary aspect) of a powerful metaphysics, the consensus emerged that since metaphysics (by its infinite nature and ambition) does not lend itself to formal scientific proof, its aesthetic elegance indeed emerges as perhaps its key defining aspect.*
Of course, aesthetic elegance, seemingly subjective, in reality embraces many clinical components. Presumably the metaphysics under examination at-a-minimum passes muster vis à vis the litmus test checklist proposed at the
very beginning of the appendix section in Appendix A: Metaphysics Analysis.
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Now, the human psyche is awesomely complex. But it ultimately often seeks to boil-down a litmus test checklist to just one concept. Aesthetic elegance presents itself as a viable candidate in metaphysics.
* Incorporated into qualification for aesthetic elegance would necessarily be the requirement that the metaphysics comports with ‘actual knowledge’ i.e. the hard and soft sciences
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APPENDIX Z33:
The Red Queen Hypothesis
Classic application to evolution:
from Wikipedia*a
“The Red Queen’s Hypothesis, also referred to as Red Queen, Red Queen’s race or Red Queen Effect, is an evolutionary hypothesis. The term is taken from the Red Queen’s race in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass and involves the Red Queen and Alice constantly running, yet remaining in the same place.
“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
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The Red Queen Principle can be stated thus:
In reference to an evolutionary system, continuing adaptation [and successive procreation] is needed in order for a species to maintain its relative fitness amongst the systems being co-evolved with.*b….”
BIRNBAUMIAN application to the cosmic order:
Successive evolutionary and cosmic advance – on myriad levels – is necessary for the cosmos not to devolve into entropy.*c
A parallel to this might be the dynamic of skimming a rock along the surface of a pond. The rock must be projected within a given angle tolerance and within a given speed and acceleration tolerance, in order not to fall into the water.
To “defy gravity,” the skimming rock must advance. Likewise, the cosmic order: To defy entropy, it must advance... playing-out cosmic potential and advancing-towards Extraordinariation.
*a Wikipedia online, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen’s_Hypothesis#cite_note-1 (accessed June 4, 2012)
*b http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/REDQUEEN.html
*c Birnbaumian corollary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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APPENDIX Z34:
Punctuated Equilibrium*
from Wikipedia
“Punctuated equilibrium (also called punctuated equilibria) is a theory in evolutionary biology which proposes that most species will exhibit little net evolutionary change for most of their geological history, remaining in an extended state called stasis. When significant evolutionary change occurs, the theory proposes that it is generally restricted to rare and geologically rapid events....”
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Punctuated equilibrium, consists of morphological stability and rare bursts of evolutionary change
from the author –
Clearly, Punctuated Equilibrium works far better with Q4P∞ in the equation, i.e. with Q4P∞ driving and igniting the leaps-forward. What other hypothesized dynamic is punctuating the equilibrium?
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Indeed, when now lining-up all the areas – even just those alone which have been articulated in Summa – where Q4P∞ provides a significantly more elegant conceptual framework than any sans-Q4P∞ hypotheses, it would seem that a somewhat compelling case has been made. Especially since there is no known competing, compelling alternative.
Respectfully, Summa de facto stands alone. It may turn out to be wrong, but it would currently seem to be the overwhelmingly and distinctively aesthetically elegant metaphysics.
Perhaps mainstream academic scientific and philosophical thought should endeavor to transcend its inertia. Perhaps academia will now undergo its own Punctuated Equilibrium...and go with a winning new paradigm ;) as its working hypothesis, as opposed to its current (somewhat pathetics) modus operandi: of operating without any real conceptual context.
*Wikipedia Online, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium (accessed June 4, 2012)
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APPENDIX Z35:
The Font/Soul of the Cosmos
Ninety five percent of all religious and spiritual belief systems de facto vector towards this issue.
This question/quest for the Font/Soul of the cosmos is the Holy Grail of –
Religious, Spiritual, Philosophical and Metaphysical inquiry
*
Summa attempts/proposes a ‘silver bullet’ – Q4P∞ – to pierce through to the core of the cosmic
origins/essence/engine/drive/purpose.
The Summa hypothesis is no doubt quite-powerful and quite-elegant.
There is no competing compelling metaphysics.
The only question is whether Summa is indeed essentially correct.
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APPENDIX Z36:
Time
To whatever extent, over the next decades and centuries,
physics ascertains potential non-linear dimensions of time, Summa advances.
As readers of Summa know, the thesis hypothesizes that as a key component thereof, the plethora of potentials down-the-road were instrumental in igniting the ‘genesis point.’
So this key component mandates some non-linear dimensions or pathways in time. In other words, some link between the future and the past.
So, for instance,
As holographic theories gain in traction, Summa advances.
If ‘black holes’ turn out to impact time any-which-way, Summa advances.
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If the ‘speed of light’ barrier protects the linearity of time in particular, Summa advances.
If it turns out that time can indeed be compressed or expanded, Summa advances.
If it turns out that, on some level, the future co-exists simultaneously with the present or that the present somehow exists within the future (or vice versa), Summa advances.
The manifold mysteries of time are inextricably linked to the mysteries of creation.
“Time travel and causal loops are not merely the stuff of science fiction. The theory of relativity, which permits time to be warped by motion and gravitation, predicts circumstances in which physical objects, including observers, can loop back into the past. An explicit model of a universe that permits time travel was found by Kurt Gödel in 1948 using Einstein’s general theory of relativity”... (Paul Davies, The Goldilocks Enigma, p. 252)
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APPENDIX Z37:
An Ultra- Dynamic Multi-Dimensional Organic Entity
The cosmos: Interactive, integrated, expanding, evolving, fluid, processing, information-transferring, energy-distributing, life-generating/affirming/sustaining/reproducing, pulsating on more than 100 rhythms, in possible perpetual motion, expanding/morphing/transforming for at least 14 billion years, our cosmos is not as simply “mechanistic” as the common wisdom would have it. One can make a strong case that it is a “living”, “breathing” and “sentient” super-entity/dynamic, as well as a supra-entity/dynamic.
– With a defining name – Q4P∞ (aka the aforementioned biblical Eheyeh Asher Eheyeh) – The Infinite Divine.
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It is possible that various frequencies/components/flavors of human emotion/creativity/artistry/literary prowess/consciousness/spirituality/intellectuality/sensuality add to the extraordinariation of Q4P∞. It is possible that these are
optimal axes for Q4P∞ to project onward for enhanced advancement/expansion/flowering of succeeding generations of these elements.
Of course, if humans radioactivate the planet, that particular thrust might not be helpful to assorted cosmic advance.
from a secular / scientific / mechanistic perspective -
“All interactions between particles in the universe...convey not only energy but also information in other words, particles not only collide, they compute. What is the entire universe computing, ultimately? Its own dynamical evolution... As the computation proceeds, reality unfolds.”
- from the back-cover of Programming the Universe
by Seth Lloyd, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, MIT (now, Oct 2012). Seth Lloyd is, as well, Director, MIT Center for Extreme Quantum Information, Cambridge, Massachusetts