In an essay I published on 2013/01/13, How Can We Describe a Human Being?, I criticized the psychologist Jerome Kagan for making a mostly valid statement in a slanted way: “Biological sentences cannot replace psychological ones, for the same reason that the language that describes the history of a hurricane will never be replaced with … [Read more…]
[I’ve found over the past two decades that many of my fundamental ideas can be seen in the novels I’ve finished and put on my website thus far. I think I can say that exploration of communities, what they used to be and what they now are, what they can or should be, was a … [Read more…]
I repeat myself to a lesser or greater extent in many of my essays. I don’t do so to annoy or bore readers but rather in an effort to gain a new perspective which might bring new insights, if only a whisper, and might reach new ears and maybe inspire new thinkers. After all, I … [Read more…]
I’m rereading Jerome Kagan’s Galen’s Prophecy about the struggle to make sense of such matters as temperament vs. character and the very nature of temperament. This is part of an effort to gear myself up to write the sections on heart in my upcoming book on human nature (mind and heart and hands). Since our … [Read more…]
There is a good possibility for interesting science in the field of astrophysics and the closely related field of physical cosmology. It seems that something exists that couldn’t possibly exist under current theories: a structure of quasars that extends to distances which seem far greater than possible under current understandings of the expansion of this … [Read more…]
This is a very good discussion of some important aspects of our national political mess in the United States: Liberal Constitutionalism and Us. At the same time, something is missing and that something is a more general understanding of our world, in fact, of Creation as a whole. Until we have that understanding, one which … [Read more…]
Some readers might access this blog in ways that don’t display the main page and might not be aware that I have a variety of books, nonfiction and fiction, available for free download. I’m planning to put this message up every month or sometimes every 2 months or so until I can determine if it’s … [Read more…]
I’ve written of the desirability of using tensor-type thinking in qualitative fields where there is, even in principle, no way of particularizing the tensor equations to equations which could actually be used to calculate numbers. A reminder: by intelligent use of tensors (call it reasoning in more abstract spaces by way of differential geometry if … [Read more…]
Since 2006, I’ve been writing books and essays, nearly all of which are available for free downloading on the Internet. My main theme is simply the need to see our world as being the universe in light of God’s purposes for this concrete realm of Creation, which includes the need to see the entirety of … [Read more…]
William James made a claim which should be very disturbing to those who hold mainstream views of the nature of truth: The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a … [Read more…]