APPENDIX Z54: neo-Survival-of-the-Fittest orQ4P Extraordinariation
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APPENDIX Z54:
neo-Survival-of-the-Fittest
or
Q4P
∞
/Extraordinariation?
Approximately 67 million
years ago, a sleek, red-crowned
years ago, a sleek, red-crowned
ying dinosaur existed,
with a wingspan of ~35 feet, and a
with a wingspan of ~35 feet, and a
ying range of possibly ~9 days at-a-clip at 15,000
feet at
feet at
80 mph for 10,000+ miles.
Here are Wikipedia excerpts –
Quetzalcoatlus
Quetzalcoatlus (/ketsəlkou’ætləs/) was a pterodactyloid
pterosaur known from the Late Cretaceous of North
America (Maastrichtian stage,
about 68–65.5 million years
about 68–65.5 million years
ago), and one of the largest known ying animals of all
time….
More recent estimates based on greater
knowledge of
knowledge of
azhdarchid proportions
place its wingspan at
10–11 meters
place its wingspan at
10–11 meters
(33–36 ft)….
The nature of ight in Quetzalcoatlus and
other giant
other giant
azhdarchids was poorly
understood until serious
understood until serious
biomechanical studies were
conducted in the 21st
century….
conducted in the 21st
century….
After factoring wingspan,
body weight, and aerodynamics,
body weight, and aerodynamics,
a sophisticated computer
program led the two researchers
program led the two researchers
to conclude that Q. northropi was capable of ight “up to 80
miles an hour for 7 to 10 days at altitudes of
15,000 feet”.
15,000 feet”.
Mike Habib further
suggested a maximum ight range of
suggested a maximum ight range of
8,000 to 12,000 miles
for Q. northropi….
for Q. northropi….
[Note that the entire circumference
of the Earth is 25,000 miles.]
of the Earth is 25,000 miles.]
*
Quetzalcoatlus belongs to
the order Pterosauria which were ying
the order Pterosauria which were ying
reptiles. They existed
[144.5 million years] from
the late Triassic to the
[144.5 million years] from
the late Triassic to the
end of the Cretaceous Period (210 to 65.5 million years ago).
Scientic classication
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Pterosauria
Suborder: Pterodactyloidea
Family: Azhdarchidae
Genus: Quetzalcoatlus
Species: Q. northropi
Quetzalcoatlus flying
181 APPENDIX
35’
THE TRANSCENDENT DYNAMIC
Quetzalcoatlus on land, feeding
*Wikipedia Online, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus (accessed November 4, 2012)
APPENDIX Z53: A Compelling Case
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THE TRANSCENDENT DYNAMIC
APPENDIX Z53:
A Compelling Case
One cannot expect to
clinically prove a dynamic
Framing
clinically prove a dynamic
Framing
Belief* of the Cosmic
Order – of the overarching/innite
Order – of the overarching/innite
magnitude of Quest for
Potential
Potential
∞
.
But ideally one could
provide a rather
compelling
provide a rather
compelling
circumstantial/supporting/empirical case.
Perhaps we have done
so.
so.
Supreme Court Justice
Louis Brandeis said that
ideally
Louis Brandeis said that
ideally
when solid circumstantial evidence is presented in court, it
would be like a spider’s web – so strong that nothing could
hope to escape.
According to my consulting
litigators, in an
According to my consulting
litigators, in an
ideal legal cobweb, all
the inferences and
implications are
the inferences and
implications are
internally consistent –
like the fabric of the
web.
like the fabric of the
web.
Ideally, a powerful case would clearly trump competing
scenarios.
Perhaps we have done
so here.
so here.
There is no (repeat: no) contradictory evidence to Summa’s
hypothesis. Not one iota
of contradictory information. After
of contradictory information. After
5,000+ years of
accumulated data and wisdom – across a
accumulated data and wisdom – across a
myriad of elds.
Over a 40+ year period – I have quite-carefully
reviewed
reviewed
eld-after-eld – to reality-check Summa. Does
Summa
Summa
– overlaid over the
particular eld – enhance the eld – or
particular eld – enhance the eld – or
contradict the eld?
In each and every case, overlaying Summa either has a
neutral effect or, more often, enhances the
eld. Often,
eld. Often,
Summa radically enhances
the eld. There are no
the eld. There are no
exceptions. Meaning, there
are no instances where Summa
are no instances where Summa
detracts from the eld.
Thus, on weighing all
the evidence, the probability that
the evidence, the probability that
Summa is essentially
on-the-mark, is quite high. And the
on-the-mark, is quite high. And the
possibility that it is
totally off-base, is quite
remote.
totally off-base, is quite
remote.
Moreover, there is massive and compelling afrming
evidence – from multiple directions, avenues
and elds – and
and elds – and
from careful, direct and empirical observation
– to buttress
– to buttress
Summa’s hypothesis. One has only to objectively
weigh the
weigh the
hypothesis.
In addition, as
explicated, there is de
facto no competing
explicated, there is de
facto no competing
metaphysics.
So I have presented.
There are no eyewitnesses coming forward
from the
from the
THE TRANSCENDENT DYNAMIC
Creation-point. With regards the Creation point, Summa has
made-a-case for circumstantial
and deductive (and spiritually
and deductive (and spiritually
consonant) evidence.
And contemporaneously,
we are all, indeed, very direct
we are all, indeed, very direct
eyewitnesses. And we can
all carefully evaluate the
all carefully evaluate the
contemporary situation –
across the panoply of
elds – and
across the panoply of
elds – and
in our own lives – through a Summa lens.
Very straightforward: Does it work?
*
see Exhibit Z41 several
exhibits prior
exhibits prior
APPENDIX Z52: Ecology [by Dr. Andrei Alyokhin]*
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APPENDIX Z52:
Ecology
[by Dr. Andrei Alyokhin]*
The very basic laws of ecology describing the growth
and
and
regulation of populations of living organisms appear
to t
to t
the metaphysical model of the cosmic Quest for
Potential
Potential
∞
proposed by David Birnbaum. Obviously, ecology is
only one of many sub disciplines within the rather
broad
broad
science of biology, and
biology is only one of many natural
biology is only one of many natural
sciences (albeit a very important one).
Therefore, this
Therefore, this
observation alone does not serve as an immediate
and
and
decisive proof that the Quest is indeed the major
driving
driving
force behind each and every natural process.
Nevertheless, it is
truly fascinating that an established
truly fascinating that an established
scientic theory based
on experimental evidence and
on experimental evidence and
mathematic models is in
such a strong agreement
with
such a strong agreement
with
a philosophical theory
of Conceptual Theorist Birnbaum,
of Conceptual Theorist Birnbaum,
and developed independently
of any formal natural history
of any formal natural history
research. This is unlikely to happen by
chance alone.
chance alone.
Therefore, it is reasonable to propose the Quest for Potential
∞
as a working hypothesis
for explaining the impetus behind
for explaining the impetus behind
the cosmic dynamic.
Testing this hypothesis would involve a critical review of
other scientic theories
explaining particular phenomena in
explaining particular phenomena in
chemistry, physics,
sociology, etc. for their
agreement with
sociology, etc. for their
agreement with
Birnbaum’s proposed Overarching Theory.
Ultimately, this may yield a unied view of
the Universe,
the Universe,
which would be a major leap in fullling our potentiality
as
as
conscious beings.
–
*Dr. Andrei Alyokhin
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
School of Biology and Ecology
University of Maine
Orono, ME
APPENDIX Z51: Galapagos
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APPENDIX Z51:
Galapagos
I, as well, traveled to
the Galapagos Islands. Not on the
the Galapagos Islands. Not on the
HMS Beagle (c. 1835),
but via HMS Boeing (December
but via HMS Boeing (December
2006), 171 years later.
My reaction – after surveying the incredible giant
Tortoises, the exotic
erce-looking but harmless
erce-looking but harmless
iguana, and the surreal pastel-blue footed
seabirds (the
seabirds (the
‘Blue-footed booby’) – was that Mr. Darwin, for all his
greatness, had missed “the main event.”
One does not need Galapagos to discern the core
themes of Natural Selection. One might very well,
however, employ Galapagos,
to discern Quest for
to discern Quest for
Potential
∞
/Extraordinariation.
Isolated from the South American mainland, (500
miles
miles
west of Ecuador), the sundry Galapagos species had
their own survival/extraordinariation evolutionary
calculus.
calculus.
The threats were quite
different and the resources/
different and the resources/
environment were quite
different. In sum total, it was a
different. In sum total, it was a
unique, stand-alone environment within-which to
evolve.
evolve.
Differently. With a little Extraordinariaton thrown-in.
APPENDIX Z50: “Backward Causation”
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APPENDIX Z50:
“Backward Causation”
( meaning, the FUTURE impacting the PAST )
[ support for the “bootstrap” component of Summa’s metaphysics ]
“Quantum Mechanics Could Permit
a Subtle Form of Teleology”
“Crazy though the idea
may seem at rst, there is in fact
may seem at rst, there is in fact
no fundamental impediment to a mechanism that allows
later events to inuence
earlier events. In fact, there are
earlier events. In fact, there are
some famous theories of
physics that explicitly involve
physics that explicitly involve
backward causation – future events having causative
power over past events.
Wheeler proposed one such
Wheeler proposed one such
theory with his then
student Richard Feynman in the mid-
student Richard Feynman in the mid-
1940s. In the Wheeler-Feynman
theory of electrodynamics,
theory of electrodynamics,
electromagnetic interactions
can travel both forward and
can travel both forward and
backward in time.
There is no experimental evidence in
There is no experimental evidence in
favor of the theory, I hasten to add. Something similar
was proposed for
gravitation by Hoyle and Narlikat, and
gravitation by Hoyle and Narlikat, and
for quantum cosmology by
Gell-Mann and Hartle and by
Gell-Mann and Hartle and by
Hawking. Again, observation and experiment are silent on
these ideas, but the
theories are certainly not ‘antiscientic,’
theories are certainly not ‘antiscientic,’
and variants of them
are still being investigated today.”*…
are still being investigated today.”*…
* Cosmologist Paul Davies, The Goldilocks Enigma. United Kingdom: Little, First
Mariner Books edition. 2008. pp. 242-243
APPENDIX Z49: The Consciousness Continuum
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APPENDIX Z49:
The Consciousness Continuum
Where does it begin? Where
is it at?
is it at?
What is it? Why is it? “Who” is it?
Across how many dimensions of time and space does
it
it
span?
To what extent is it
shared? partitioned-off?
shared? partitioned-off?
To what extent is it
stored eternally? In-time and out-of-
stored eternally? In-time and out-of-
time?
If we are separate from
the Divine, to what extent does
the Divine, to what extent does
the Divine read our individual consciousnesses?
If we are, a’ la Summa, extensions of the Divine,
where
where
does my consciousness end – and yours start?
If there is a Godhead, was there indeed a contraction of
Divine consciousness – a Hester Panim
– spanning the
– spanning the
Holocaust time frame, among other time frames?
Is ascending consciousness a gateway to Summa’s fuller
Extraordinariation?
To what extent, is an
emerging consciousness a goal of
emerging consciousness a goal of
Creation?
But, did it not require an
extraordinary consciousness to
extraordinary consciousness to
effect Creation in the
rst place?
rst place?
Did the Cosmic Consciousness indeed anticipate and
foresee the plethora of (neo-innite) potentials
down-the-
down-the-
road, as per Summa, and then ‘bootstrap-leverage’
those
those
potentials into the “pull-aspect of Creation.”
Did the Cosmic Consciousness indeed grasp the neo-
innite potential inherent in “splitting 0”, as per
Summa,
Summa,
and then have the savvy to do just that in the
“push-
“push-
aspect of Creation”?
Does the Cosmic Consciousness – to this very day –
optimize evolution and in-parallel attempt to “balance-out”
the forces of Nature?
My “TAKE”
I believe that we (humans+) are the ‘forward wave’ of
consciousness.
And, I believe that our cumulative consciousness –
integrated with the entire extended Divine
consciousness
consciousness
– will plot the next level of Extraordinariation
and
and
Consciousness.
APPENDIX Z48: “The Same Recipe”
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APPENDIX Z48:
“The Same Recipe”
***
on-point: Q4P / Cosmic Traction
“A universe hospitable to life—what we might call
a
a
biophilic universe—has to be very special in many
ways.
ways.
The prerequisites for any
life—long-live stable stars, a
life—long-live stable stars, a
periodic table of atoms with complex chemistry, and so
on—are sensitive to physical laws and could not
have
have
emerged from a Big Bang with a recipe that was even
slightly different. Many
recipes would lead to stillborn
recipes would lead to stillborn
universes with no atoms, no chemistry, and no planets; or
to universes too short lived or too empty to allow
anything
anything
to evolve beyond sterile uniformity. This distinctive and
special-seeming recipe seems to me a fundamental
mystery that should not be brushed aside merely as
a
a
brute fact.’” (p. xvi)
on-point: Q4P / Extraordinariation
“Likewise, we should surely probe deeper, and ask why
a unique recipe for the physical world should
permit
permit
consequences as interesting as those we see around
us.”…(p. 163)
*** Cosmologist Martin Rees, Our Cosmic Habitat. New Jersey: Princeton University
Press. 2001. pp xvi, 163
APPENDIX Z47: “…beyond science…”
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APPENDIX Z47:
“…beyond science…”
“The preeminent mystery is why anything exists at
all.
all.
What breathes life into the equations of physics,
and
and
actualized them in a real cosmos? Such questions
lie
lie
beyond science, however: they are the province of
philosophers and theologians”***….
from the author –
Martin Rees is Royal Society Research Professor at
Cambridge University,
Astronomer Royal of Great Britain
Astronomer Royal of Great Britain
and conceptual theorist. He was the recipient of the
2001
2001
Peter Gruber Foundation Cosmology Prize.
*** Cosmologist Martin Rees, Our Cosmic Habitat. New Jersey: Princeton University
Press. 2001. p. xi
APPENDIX Z46: Take #3: Physics & Metaphysics
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APPENDIX Z46:
Take #3: Physics &
Metaphysics
Metaphysics
In secular society, and
even in religious society, our
even in religious society, our
natural inclination is to keep a close eye on
Physics for
Physics for
its most up-to-date “wisdom” re: Cosmology (the
origin
origin
and dynamics of the cosmos). After all, Physics
best
best
understands the equations and their import, does it
not?
not?
The ‘problem’ is, however,
that according to Summa,
that according to Summa,
“Creation” / the “Big Bang” / the Emergence of our
Universe, was an epic attempt to break-free of the sterile
universe of the equations, to “transcend” the
equations.
equations.
The “Cosmological Breakthrough”
was an attempt
was an attempt
to move the cosmic order into Reality – a world of
texture and emotion, of love and sunsets, of
giggles
giggles
and relationships. It was an attempt at maximizing
the
the
Potential/Extraordinariation of the cosmic order.
Thus, classic physics more logically plays the
role of
role of
“Expert Witness” in
verifying the plausibility of a particular
verifying the plausibility of a particular
Metaphysical construct, but does not by any means
hold
hold
the ag of the Must-Go-To
place to nd an explicator for
place to nd an explicator for
the “breakthrough.”
We seek “aesthetic elegance” in hypothesizing “the
key
key
to the cosmic code.” We seek “the common cosmic
denominator. We seek the
“key to the kingdom.” The
“key to the kingdom.” The
“unity key.” We, respectfully, do not seek yet another
complex equation.
APPENDIX Z45: New Interpretations***
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APPENDIX Z45:
New Interpretations
***
“I end with a fascinating comment by the
nineteenth-
nineteenth-
century Jewish mystic Rabbi Zadok haCohen of
Lublin
Lublin
(1823-1900).
‘Every day there are new
interpretations of Torah,
interpretations of Torah,
because every day,
continually, God renews the work
continually, God renews the work
of creation.’ Since the world was created according to
the Torah…presumably, the renewal of the world comes
about through new aspects of Torah. That is why after the
blessing [in the morning prayers] ‘creator of the
heavenly
heavenly
lights’ which speaks about the daily renewal of
creation,
creation,
the sages instituted a second blessing which is a
form
form
of blessing over the Torah…in
which we ask to know the
which we ask to know the
new interpretations of Torah
which come about through
which come about through
the new aspects of creation….’
Rabbi Zadock haCohen, Tzidkat ha-Tzaddik, 92
(c. 1870)
According to Rabbi Zadok, since the God of creation
is the God of revelation, and since the Torah is itself a
commentary on the natural world, every new
scientic
scientic
discovery generates new religious insight. By daily
renewing
renewing
creation, God is daily renewing,
our insight into his creative
our insight into his creative
will.”
*** Jonathan Sacks, The Great Partnership, New York: Random House, Inc. 2011, pp.111-112
