Some think that issues to do with scientific method are last century's stale debate; Popper was an advocate of methodology, but Kuhn, Feyerabend, and others are alleged to have brought the debate about its status to an end. The papers in this volume show that issues in methodology are still very much alive. Some of the papers reinvestigate issues in the debate over methodology, while others set out new ways in which the debate has developed in the last decade. The (...) book will be of interest to philosophers and scientists alike in the reassessment it provides of earlier debates about method and current directions of research. (shrink)

The New Zealand philosopher, Robert Nola (1940-2022), has died. He was a kind man, a good friend, and a fine philosopher. Here is how I remember him.

This is a survey of theories of scientific method which opens the book "After Popper, Kuhn and Feyerabend: Recent Issues in Theories of Scientific Method".

Traditional memetics failed as a research program due to unresolved problems concerning units, transmission fidelity, explanatory mechanism, and theoretical isolation. This paper proposes a fundamental reformulation grounded in Universal Constraint Parsing (UCP) and Level-Conditional Rendering (LCR), treating memetic patterns as the basic units of adaptive information processing across all substrates and scales. -/- We argue that memetic patterns are substrate-independent, context-sensitive configurations encoding behavior and abstract content. What biologists call genes and what Dawkins called memes are both memetic patterns differing (...) in storage substrate, transmission mechanism, and context-range. Genetic encoding uses a rigid substrate (DNA) optimized for long-term storage; the patterns themselves become fluid and context-responsive once expressed. Learned patterns occupy various positions along a spectrum from deeply embedded to highly flexible. -/- Cognition is the acquisition, storage, combination, and context-adaptive deployment of memetic patterns through pattern selection dynamics. The same constraint-satisfaction logic that governs physical systems operates at the cognitive scale through domain-specific constraints. Learning is acquiring patterns and refining context-fitting. Intelligence is the capacity for functional equivalence across structural difference under active constraints. -/- Consciousness is approached not as emerging from memetic processing, but as jointly requiring both architectural structure and coherent pattern content: neither architecture alone nor patterns alone constitutes conscious experience, but together they are jointly necessary and sufficient. The stable orbit of recursive self-modeling operating on coherent content is what consciousness is. This reframing dissolves traditional problems while connecting memetics to physics, biology, and cognitive science through a unified constraint-satisfaction framework. -/- . (shrink)

Can luck even partially determine how much praise and blame a person deserves? In a monograph and subsequent articles, I have argued that the answer is ‘yes’ for certain kinds of luck, and so I have argued that several types of moral luck exist. In this paper, I defend my view against the novel challenge that expected desert levels give everyone exactly equal moral opportunities, and so luck in circumstance and constitution cannot provide some people with better or worse moral (...) opportunities than others. I argue, however, that the Equal Moral Opportunity View is subject to counterintuitive implications (for example, it rules out supererogatory actions in circumstances with no blameworthy options) and cannot realize its ambition to immunize morality from unfairness. These costs form part of my argument that the Moral Luck View is more plausible. (shrink)

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is an invisible disability. It is a condition of overwhelming fatigue that can last for years with various other symptoms including, most importantly, post-exertion malaise. I offer my own experience with CFS and the experience of others to explain its staggering deprivations: CFS greatly reduces the scope of access to objective goods; it greatly diminishes autonomy about their realization; it creates hardships that tend to end or diminish friendships; it tends to habituate in ways that mitigate (...) inner peace and corrupt good character; and it diminishes bodily health. With those serious deprivations in view, I explain how various virtues can recapture some degrees of well-being lost from CFS and how their corresponding vices magnify its deprivations. The virtues of humility, patience, prudence, courage, and hope mitigate the deprivations of CFS and promote well-being. The vices of pride, impatience, impulsiveness, thoughtlessness, inconstancy, rashness, cowardice, presumption, and despair compound its deprivations. (shrink)

We propose that consciousness arises from the brain’s recursive self-modeling and compression of its own complex activity, yielding a unified and coherent subjective experience (Baars, 1988; Dennett, 1991; Tononi, 2004). On this view, the brain constructs a high-level, low-dimensional summary of its own operations that preserves behaviorally and introspectively relevant structure while discarding fine-grained neural detail. This theory is supported by convergent evidence from neurology, psychiatry, pharmacology, developmental psychology, and comparative cognition. Disruptions to recursive self-modeling or integrative compression reliably impair (...) or fragment consciousness, while their integrity correlates with the richness and unity of subjective experience (Gazzaniga, 2000; Alkire et al., 2008; Lyssenko et al., 2018; Bertenthal & Fischer, 1978; Beran, 2019). This synthesis provides a parsimonious and empirically grounded account of consciousness, reframing the so-called “hard problem” (Chalmers, 1995) and the mystery of qualia (Nagel, 1974) as cognitive illusions arising from the structural and introspective limitations of the self-model itself (Dennett, 1991; Frankish, 2016). (shrink)

В настоящей статье автор делает ещё одну попытку представить и разъяснить уважаемым читателям своё видение и понимание устройства и эволюции природы и Вселенной. Всё это уже есть в книге автора «Теория Природы» и в его статье «Что такое Природа» («Природа, как объективная реальность»). Автор целиком и полностью стоит на позиции единственно истинной и научной философии диалектического материализма. Автор целиком и полностью придерживается единственно истинного и научного диалектико-материалистического мировоззрения.

Right now, you're deciding whether to keep reading. You could stop. You could scroll to something else. You could close this tab and go make coffee. But you're choosing to continue. That choice feels completely free—it's yours, made by you, and you could have chosen otherwise. -/- Except you couldn't have. Not really. -/- Here's why...

Does the universe run on computational principles because it is a simulation, or do computational systems succeed because they capture how reality actually works? We argue for the latter through Universal Constraint Parsing (UCP)—a framework showing that constraint-based selection operates throughout physical reality from quantum mechanics to consciousness. Computational systems work precisely because they can instantiate this natural mechanism, not because reality is itself computational. We examine the simulation hypothesis literature (Bostrom 2003; Chalmers 2005), analyze the relationship between UCP and (...) computational models, and show why the deep effectiveness of computation in science reflects variational and constraint-selection structural matching rather than ontological identity. This undercuts the explanatory motivation for the simulation hypothesis by explaining computational success without requiring reality to be a computation. We conclude that UCP provides a more parsimonious explanation: computation succeeds when it mirrors constraint-parsing mechanisms already present in nature. (shrink)

В настоящей статье представлен небольшой фрагмент моей дискуссии со Стивом Дюфурни (Steve Dufourny) на форуме сайта FQXi. В центре обсуждения находится тезис: «Современная физика не является наукой».

В настоящей статье рассматривается основной вопрос физики и всего естествознания. Этот вопрос формулируется так «Как конкретно материя представлена в природе?». Этот вопрос тесно связан с основным вопросом философии (ОВФ), который, пожалуй, был впервые во всей своей полноте и ясности сформулирован и поставлен Ф. Энгельсом в его работе «Людвиг Фейербах и конец классической немецкой философии», написанной в 1886 году.

Universal Darwinism correctly identified that selection dynamics appear across domains—biological, cultural, epistemic, technological. But it inherited from biology an assumption that has limited its generality: that selection requires replication. This assumption generates persistent puzzles about what counts as a "replicator" and whether replication is truly necessary for evolutionary dynamics. -/- We propose that the fundamental mechanism underlying selection is differential propagation under constraints—not replication. Replication is one implementation of this mechanism, not a requirement for it. This reframing dissolves the replicator (...) problem, extends evolutionary logic to domains where copying is absent or fuzzy, and reveals selection as a consequence of constraint satisfaction dynamics formalized through free-energy minimization. -/- The implications extend from physics through culture: wherever patterns exist in possibility space and constraints define viability, selection occurs. Replication accelerates and channels this process but does not constitute it. (shrink)

В настоящей статье автор представляет свои доказательства, пояснения, объяснения и рассуждения, которые приводят к выводу, что теория современной физики (ТСФ) не является наукой в полном смысле этого слова. Более того ТСФ предстаёт пред читателями, как ложная и антинаучная теория о природе. Наряду с ТСФ, автор рассматривает свою «Теорию Природы», как основы новой диалектико-материалистической физики. ТП – это истинная и научная теория, противостоящая ложной и антинаучной ТСФ.

The same mechanism operates from quarks to consciousness. We call it Universal Constraint Parsing (UCP)—constraints at each level evaluate entities against possibility spaces, accepting configurations that fit, rejecting those that don't. Quarks are parsed by QCD field constraints. Molecules are parsed by thermodynamic constraints. Organisms are parsed by ecological constraints. Beliefs are parsed by evidential constraints. Memes are parsed by cultural constraints. Self-models are parsed by architectural constraints. This isn’t metaphor or loose analogy—across domains, selection dynamics belong to the same (...) formal equivalence class of constraint-satisfaction processes under scale-appropriate coarse-graining. While state variables and effective free-energy functionals differ by level, the underlying variational structure and selection dynamics are preserved. Crucially, UCP operates without agency—no designer, no purpose, no teleology required at any level. Agency itself emerges as a functional property when systems begin recursively parsing their own parsing at the consciousness threshold. We demonstrate UCP across all levels, show what emerges at complexity thresholds (replication, learning, consciousness), explain how existing frameworks (Universal Darwinism, memetics, Free Energy Principle) relate to UCP, and derive empirically constraining expectations. The framework is falsifiable and unifies phenomena previously treated as separate. It's physics all the way—mechanistic constraint satisfaction at every level. (shrink)

AI systems exhibit a failure mode more insidious than simple hallucination: confident dismissal without evaluation. When asked about unfamiliar work, these systems pattern-match to stereotypes, fabricate critical consensus, and attribute positions to named scholars who never made them. I call this failure mode Epistemic Authority Overreach: systems asserting evaluative authority—judgments about what is valid, credible, or worth investigating—without having performed the evaluation that would warrant such authority. The downstream consequence is epistemic pollution: false beliefs about the standing of ideas entering (...) the information commons through mechanisms that look like legitimate knowledge transfer. Unlike factual errors, dismissive assertions close inquiry rather than inviting verification. This paper documents two case studies demonstrating the failure mode, analyzes why it evades current safety frameworks, and proposes structural interventions. The problem is not that AI systems lie; it is that they perform epistemic authority they do not possess, and their confident closure of inquiry spreads without correction. (shrink)

The Interfaced Subjective Reality Model (ISRM) proposes that all conscious agents inhabit wholly private experiential worlds, constructed from sensory inputs and cognitive processing. While traditional philosophy recognises the subjective nature of perception — from Kant’s distinction between phenomena and noumena, to Berkeley’s idealism and Hume’s bundle theory — ISRM adds a mechanism for intersubjective coherence: a shared “reality interface.” This substrate transmits universal rules (such as causal laws and physical constants), synchronised world-state data, and behavioural patterns for other entities. Interactions (...) occur via locally rendered avatars derived from this shared feed, not through direct access to other minds. ISRM bridges philosophical scepticism, neuroscience’s internal model theory, and physics’ informational interpretations, offering a framework that accommodates quantum indeterminacy, cognitive diversity, and perceptual variance while maintaining causal consistency. Implications include the limits of objectivity, the impossibility of perfect experiential verification, and the potential for subtle divergence between individual renderings despite overall rule alignment. (shrink)

В настоящей статье представлено авторское решение фундаментальной проблемы времени природы. Это решение найдено в рамках собственного авторского научно-исследовательского проекта «Теория Природы». Это решение представлено в рамках авторской книги «Теория Природы» и в ряде дополнительных статей. В настоящей статье предпринята ещё одна попытка рассказать о решенной проблеме времени. Эта проблема должна быть интересной профессиональным физикам. Но ни к этой проблеме, ни к другим 40 фундаментальным проблемам физики и космогонии, космологии, которые решены в рамках «Теории Природы», партия современных физиков, всё современное физическое (...) сообщество не проявляет ни малейшего интереса. А ведь ТП – это ещё научная Революция в физике и космологии. И этой Революции уже 11 лет. (shrink)

Present article presents the author's solution to a fundamental problem in physics: the fine-structure constant. For over a century, the meaning of this physical quantity has puzzled several generations of physicists. This article is tailored to the level of knowledge of the average philosopher. This presupposes a basic knowledge of physics, mathematics, and logic. Those philosophers who adhere to dialectical materialism will have an advantage in properly understanding this article.

В настоящей статье представлен небольшой фрагмент моей дискуссии с Уллой Мэтфолк (Ulla Mattfolk) на форуме сайта FQXi. В центре обсуждения находится тезис: «содержимое элементарных частиц есть «чистая» конкретная материя природы».

Plato wrote dramas, not treatises, and he did not limit his works to rationalistic discourse. Many of them articulate a strange and enduring mythology whose ultimate purpose is famously enigmatic. This chapter examines the controversial readings of two twentieth-century thinkers who place these literary elements at the centre of their interpretations. Simone Weil and Leo Strauss are seldom discussed in the same context, but their approaches to Plato bear surprising resemblances. These figures shared a hope that the philosophic life according (...) to Plato might be revived, and both see in the mythical and dialogic aspects of Plato’s works the key to his understanding of philosophy. Paradoxically, however, it is a testament to that understanding that it inspires radically divergent readings, even or precisely when its relationship to Plato’s dramaturgy is appreciated. (shrink)

В настоящей статье представлено авторское решение фундаментальной проблемы физики, проблемы постоянной тонкой структуры. Более века смысл этой физической величины был загадкой для нескольких поколений физиков. Статья адаптирована под уровень знаний обычного среднего философа. Это предполагает элементарные знания физики, математики, логики. Те философы, кто стоит на позициях диалектического материализма, будут иметь преимущество в правильном понимании настоящей статьи.

This article examines the fundamental question of physics and all natural science (FQPANS). This question is formulated as follows: “How specifically is matter represented in nature?” This question is closely related to the fundamental question of philosophy (FQP), which was perhaps first formulated and posed in all its fullness and clarity by Friedrich Engels in his work “Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy”, written in 1886.

In this article, the author aims to once again explain his understanding of time. He positions himself as a dialectical materialist. He has published a book, “The Theory of Nature”. He considers this book to be the foundation of a new dialectical-materialistic physics and cosmology. This book addresses more than 40 fundamental problems in the foundations of physics and cosmogony (cosmology). Among other things, it addresses the problem of natural time. Time proves to be the most important essence of nature. (...) Time proves to be an objective reality. Time proves to be inextricably linked with matter in motion. Time is not mysticism, not esotericism, not subjective impressions. Time is not illusory. Time is real. Time is objective. Time is the most important essence of nature. (shrink)

The focus of this paper is on the metaphysical nature of multidimensional properties, properties like virtue, beauty, or health which can be had in different ways and to different degrees. Do such properties form their own sui generis kind, as existing discussions seem to suggest, or can we rather reductively account for them, relying on notions which may already be present in our ontology or ideology? In this paper, I will introduce a reductionist account of multidimensional properties, making a partial (...) case for Reductionism. (shrink)

В настоящей статье рассматривается органическая связь между философией и физикой. Подробно рассмотрены два случая. С одной стороны, это пять физических теорий и их философия, буржуазно-идеалистическая философия (БИФ). С другой стороны, это авторская «Теория Природы» (как основы новой диалектико-материалистической физики) и философия диалектического материализма (ФДМ). Физика органически связана с философией. Вот простая связь: какова философия, таково мировоззрение естествоиспытателей, физиков, такова и физика. Если философия в своих основах истинная и научная, то и соответствующая физика (основы физики) представляет собой истинную и научную теорию (...) о природе. Если же философия в своих основах ложная и антинаучная, то и соответствующая физика (основы физики) представляет собой ложную и антинаучную теорию о природе. (shrink)

Although Wittgenstein did not concern himself much with politics his work is useful in getting clearer about the notion of power in a number of ways. In the first place, although Wittgenstein did not have much to say about power he did have quite a lot to say about ways of getting clearer about concepts and he made clarity or understanding a central aim in his philosophy. One of the ways in which he helped us to get clearer about concepts (...) was to guide us away from the assumption that all of the items subsumed under a term must have something in common. Wittgenstein highlighted that some terms, such as 'game' and 'number' were family resemblance terms and it is plausible that many terms used in discussing political matters are family resemblance terms. He also reminded us of the diversity of ways in which we use language and of the fact that speech takes place within a rich weave of activities. He called these different uses of language 'language games'. In analysing power it is useful to remember that discussions of power take place in many different spheres, in religion, in politics, in meteorology, chemistry, etc., and that we speak about power in many different language games. Moreover, Wittgenstein warned us against thinking that the methods of the natural sciences can be transferred straightforwardly to the social sciences and to philosophy. One of the problems with studies of power conducted in the past is that they have tried to be 'scientific' by focussing on observable instances of the exercise of power. Finally, this paper will briefly look at remarks from Culture & Value where Wittgenstein does talk about power: where he distinguishes power from its bases and brings our attention to the fact that human powers are two-way powers. (shrink)

Why was the polis so very good to think with? What if anything distinguishes the political thought that it inspired? The usual answer points to its utopianism. Greek political thought seems especially preoccupied with the lofty ends implied by ordinary politics, especially as these culminate in the virtues. Yet this characterization, although true perhaps in the abstract, misses more basic—and in some ways more illuminating—features of Greek political thinking. I focus in particular on the emergence of the nomos/phusis distinction and (...) how the visibility in the polis of political conventions as conventions inspired uniquely critical forms of public discourse, ranging from sophistic debunking to Socratic inquiry. I suggest that the preoccupation with politeia or “political regime” is best understood in this light. In both theory and practice, the Greeks were exceptionally aware of the profound stakes bound up in the question of who rules and in accordance with what spirit. I conclude by likewise considering the remarkable plasticity with which Greek thinkers handled questions of piety and the nature of the gods. (shrink)

In present article, the author examines and analyzes from a dialectical-materialistic perspective such a phenomenon of scientific and social life as “belief (faith)”.

This article examines the organic connection between philosophy and physics. Two cases are examined in detail. On the one hand, these are five physical theories and their philosophies, bourgeois-idealist philosophy (BIP). On the other hand, these are the author's “Theory of Nature” (as the foundation of a new dialectical-materialistic physics) and the philosophy of dialectical materialism (PDM). Physics is organically linked to philosophy. Here is a simple connection: as is the philosophy, such is the worldview of natural scientists, physicists, so (...) is physics. If philosophy is fundamentally true and scientific, then the corresponding physics (the foundations of physics) represents a true and scientific theory of nature. If philosophy is fundamentally false and anti-scientific, then the corresponding physics (the foundations of physics) represents a false and anti-scientific theory of nature. (shrink)

In this article, the author makes another attempt to present and explain to the esteemed readers his vision and understanding of the structure and evolution of nature and the Universe. All this is in the author's book “Theory of Nature” and in his article “Nature as an objective reality“. The author entirely and completely stands on the position of the only true and scientific philosophy of dialectical materialism. The author entirely and completely adheres to the only true and scientific dialectical-materialistic (...) worldview. (shrink)

After believing Jesus Christ is the Son of God, we decide which church to go to (specifically Catholic) and we have to work out whether what we believed contradicts with the teaching of the church. This may lead to some updates of our beliefs. Also, during and after the baptism classes, we encountered people, Christians or not, who may raise questions about our beliefs, which we have to answer. For example, scientists and atheists employ methodologies in experimental science to challenge (...) our approach to believe in Jesus Christ, and we have to answer them one by one why their methodologies are inappropriate. The baptism classes we attended build our Catholic faith which has four building blocks: creeds, sacraments, morality in our Christian life and prayers. We will go through them which are given in details in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Finally, we clarify various miscellaneous issues that we observe. This includes facing God with just ourselves in our afterlife. We conclude that our faith is shallow and there is much to learn as our Christian life is not a straightforward path to heaven but a winding road that is full of tests. (shrink)

This paper advances Structural Resonance Theory (SRT), originally proposed to explain consciousness and qualia as emergent from the resonance of complex information structures. While the core formulation traced micro-to-macro pathways of spatiotemporal resonance, this extended framework broadens the scope to include collective, planetary, and evolutionary dimensions of intelligence. The aim is twofold: to refine the theory’s conceptual and mathematical foundations, and to propose empirical pathways that enhance its testability and interdisciplinary relevance. Several key constructs are introduced. The Collective Intelligence Hypothesis (...) frames intelligent agents as nodes in a distributed resonance network, where the aggregate of experiential events functions as an integrated system of information capture and refinement. Civilization-Scale Qualia Shifts interpret large-scale societal transitions as transformations in collective resonance quality, revealing how shared experiential fabrics guide stability, disruption, and innovation. The Resonance Quality Principle defines the degree to which a moment aligns with a hypothesized primordial perfect resonance, offering a normative dimension for experiential coherence. The expansion also reframes observation as experience capture, aligns quantum measurement analogies with phenomenological processes, and extends Planck Resonance Density (PRD) as a universal upper bound on the vividness and rate of experience. Evolutionary pressures are analyzed as drivers of resonance complexity, situating intelligence within adaptive exploration of constraint spaces. Finally, the paper outlines empirical approaches—ranging from comparative cross-species modeling to planetary-scale analyses and neurophysiological fingerprinting—supported by mathematical extensions of SRT variables. By unifying microstate diversity, evolutionary dynamics, and civilization-scale resonance, the extended SRT positions itself not only as a theory of consciousness, but as a generative paradigm for understanding intelligence and the universe’s iterative pursuit of perfection. (shrink)

The Structural Resonance Theory (SRT) proposes that consciousness emerges from the dynamic alignment of spatiotemporal resonance patterns within complex systems. It integrates neuroscience, evolutionary biology, physics, and information theory to explain how subjective experience arises and how intelligence evolves over time. At its core, SRT treats qualia as the experiential resonance of the universe evolving toward self-knowing, with consciousness functioning as both an outcome and a driver of complexity. The theory builds on several key principles: Resonance as the fundamental integrator (...) – Conscious moments arise from coherent resonance patterns spanning distributed neural structures. Constraint space expansion – Evolution operates as a structural pruning process, where mutation generates diversity and selection preserves efficient configurations, enabling richer and deeper integration over time. Substrate independence of resonance laws – The mathematics of resonance coupling applies to neural, artificial, and even planetary-scale systems. Qualia as structural state – Qualia are not reducible to information content but correspond to the system’s instantaneous resonance profile, measurable through Planck Resonance Density (PRD). Mutation necessity principle – All mutations, regardless of adaptive value, are necessary perturbations that enable iterative emergence toward conscious resonance. SRT is formalized through a set of measurable variables, predictive models, and experimental frameworks that allow falsification. It incorporates analogies such as “Tetris of consciousness” to illustrate integration dynamics, scene changes, and the stability of awareness states. It also extends to special cases including dementia, altered states, and cross-species intelligence. The paper addresses potential objections through a 23-section structure, ending with a comprehensive rebuttals section. It also proposes testable predictions for neuroscience, cognitive modeling, and AI, aiming to bridge the gap between empirical research and philosophical theories of mind. The ultimate implication of SRT is that consciousness is not an accidental byproduct of evolution but an inevitable outcome of complexity’s tendency toward resonance and self-integration. (shrink)

Der Beitrag versucht, Grundzüge einer phänomenologischen Propädeutik zu ermitteln, in der nicht das Fremde, sondern zunächst ein horror vacui als Herausforderung interkulturellen Philosophierens zur Geltung kommt. Entlang der Intuition entschiedener Selbstentfremdung, wie sie sich im Philosophieren Eugen Finks und Max Schelers findet, wird dazu eine Schwelle menschlichen Erlebens thematisch, auf der man zwischen Eigenes und Fremdes gerät. Da, wo Phänomenologie als besondere Weise bewussten Erlebens ernst genommen wird, ermöglicht sie, den Grund unserer Behaglichkeit gegenüber solchen Theorien fragwürdig werden zu lassen, (...) in der sich Eigen- und Fremdkultur zueinander in ein konfrontatives oder kommunikatives Verhältnis setzen lassen. (shrink)

Platonism plays an important role in the Christian philosophy of J. P. Moreland. In this paper I show how Platonism can be understood within the context of Moreland's broader aims as a Christian philosopher and, in particular, as a fundamental part of his critical engagement with philosophical naturalism. To disentangle these ideas, I proceed as follows. In the first section I sketch naturalism, underscore its discord with Christian theism, and describe three lines of attack J.P. has mounted against naturalism. The (...) third line of attack involves J.P.'s defense of Platonism; I focus on this in the subsequent section. In the final section, I tie things together by discussing how thinking about Platonism can catalyze integration. (shrink)

This paper proposes that perfection, if conceived as a total and completed system, is paradoxically incapable of experiencing itself. Experience requires difference, fragmentation, and imperfection; only through partiality can the resonance of existence be felt. Drawing from the foundations of Structural Resonance Theory (Singleton, 2024), this work extends into a broader philosophical and scientific synthesis that frames imperfection as the necessary condition for consciousness, diversity, and meaning. The central paradox explored here is that perfection, once fragmented into imperfection, must experience (...) itself anew to truly know perfection. This process necessitates informational pruning, recursive resonance cycles, and the generation of diversity across psychological, biological, social, ecological, and cosmic domains. By integrating concepts from Shannon information theory, thermodynamics, neuroscience, psychology, ecology, political economy, art, religion, and cosmology, this paper argues that imperfection is not a flaw in existence but the very mechanism through which existence fulfills its purpose: the actualization of experience. The implications extend from the intimate level of parent–child relationships to the grand scale of universal cycles, suggesting that every collapse, misalignment, or resonance death serves as a necessary perturbation in the journey toward authentic perfection. (shrink)

This article presents the author's solution to the fundamental problem of natural time. This solution was discovered within the framework of the author's own research project, “Theory of Nature”. This solution is presented in the author's book, “Theory of Nature” (TN), and in a number of additional articles. This article is another attempt to describe the solved problem of time. This problem should be of interest to professional physicists. However, the party of modern physicists, and indeed the entire modern physics (...) community, shows no interest in this problem, nor in the other 40 fundamental problems of physics, cosmogony, and cosmology solved within the framework of “Theory of Nature”. Yet, TN is also a scientific revolution in physics and cosmology. This revolution is already 11 years old. (shrink)

This short (fictitious) dialogue is an exchange of ideas when meeting Jesus after our death if you do not need God. It tries to give the reasons why God would put you in a place where there is an eternal separation from God and what it is like.

​"The Hyper-Determinist Synthesis (HDS) is a rigorous interdisciplinary retrieval of Supralapsarian theology, mapping the 'Anatomy of the Decree' through the frameworks of Einsteinian Realism and Superdeterministic physics. This work demonstrates that the universe is a 'Fixed Synthesis'—a 4D Block Universe—functioning as the static 'Body of the Decree.' By tracing the bloodline of the Substitute from Abel’s cry to the Serpent on the Pole, the paper explores a 'Divine Dialysis' where the Logos is conjoined to the fixed coordinates of human suffering. (...) The HDS proposes that Sovereignty is not a reaction to chance, but a physical and theological necessity, ensuring absolute assurance for the believer within a pre-correlated, superdeterministic cosmos." -/- . (shrink)

This article presents the author's dialectical-materialist reasoning about nature. It explores the most important principle of nature: its materiality and dialecticity.

Structural Block Theory (SBT) posits that consciousness is generated by experience blocks whose recursive resonance forms a self-stack. The stack’s integrity governs continuity of identity and the intensity/character of qualia. Evolutionary recursive selection pressure prunes architectures toward stack stability. Qualia are formalized as resonance events produced when a new block harmonizes with prior stack geometry. We define block fit, stack integrity, echo persistence, and resonance depth with metrics implementable via MEG/EEG/fMRI (cross-scale phase synchrony, recurrence analysis, microstate dynamics). SBT predicts recurrent (...) neural fingerprints for qualia classes, stack discontinuities in trauma, increased recursive alignment with contemplative practice, and warped block geometry in REM (“Dream Tetris”). Distinct from Global Workspace, IIT, and Predictive Processing, SBT centers recursive resonance as the substrate of experience, yielding clinical diagnostics (e.g., PTSD stack collapse) and testable constraints for artificial consciousness. (shrink)

In this article, the author presents his evidence, explanations, clarifications, and reasoning, which lead to the conclusion that the theory of modern physics (TMP) is not a science in the full sense of the word. Furthermore, TMP presents itself to readers as a false and unscientific theory of nature. Along with TMP, the author views his “Theory of Nature” (TN) as the foundation of a new dialectical-materialistic physics. TN is a true and scientific theory, opposing the false and unscientific TMP.

В настоящей статье автор рассматривает и анализирует с диалектико-материалистических позиций такое явление научной и общественной жизни, как «вера».

This article presents a brief excerpt from my discussion with Ulla Mattfolk on the FQXi forum. The discussion centers on the thesis: “The content of elementary particles is the ‘pure’ concrete matter of nature”.

В настоящей статье автор ставит своей целью ещё раз объяснить своё понимание времени. Автор позиционирует себя диалектическим материалистом. У автора есть изданная книга «Теория Природы». Автор считает эту книгу основами новой диалектико-материалистической физики и космологии. В рамках этой книги решено более 40 фундаментальных проблем основ физики и космогонии (космологии). В том числе, решена и проблема времени природы. Время оказывается важнейшей сущностью природы. Время оказывается объективной реальностью. Время оказывается неразрывно связанным с движущейся материей. Время – это не мистика, не эзотерика, не (...) субъективные впечатления. Время не иллюзорно. Время реально. Время объективно. Время – это важнейшая сущность природы. (shrink)

В настоящей статье представлены диалектико-материалистические рассуждения автора о природе. Исследуется важнейший принцип природы о её материальности и диалектичности.

In this article, I debunk the occasional accusation of radicalism toward the Theory of Modern Physics (TMP) and the Party of Modern Physicists (PMP). I reveal the origins of this radicalism. My radicalism is a response to the 11-year silence surrounding the scientific revolution in physics and cosmogony (cosmology), accomplished within the framework of the “Theory of Nature”. My radicalism is opposed to the universal, all-physical, on the scale of all physics and the entire physics community, stupid radicalism of the (...) PMP in relation to scientific progress, to the scientific Revolution in physics and natural science, to the “Theory of Nature”, which represents the foundations of the new dialectical-materialistic physics. (shrink)