There are a great many things in the world around us: mountains and rivers, plants and trees, birds and animals, sun and moon, sky and stars, and countless more. We humans are aware of all this, and sometimes we think and reflect on them. Such awareness and reflection, as far as we can tell, is…
I lost a friend a few months ago. I miss him, but he is gone, though he lives on in my memory. My friend didn’t die, but our connection did—and it happened over the subject of death. He used to drop by unannounced late in the evening. I welcomed him in, and welcomed also his…
©2007 Andrew Ilachinski My imaging philosophy is very simple. I strive to record the subtle, interconnected web of energy that makes up what we call the world. For me, beauty, which permeates everything around us, appears in its most sublime state when form, color, pattern and texture are all in harmony. In the same way…
Introduction Transfer of ideas, concepts and paradigms and their application in different disciplines has been a normal and usually fruitful process, especially in the period of separation and individuation of philosophy and theology and later science. Basically, all these disciplines reflect heavily on human nature and depend on the same cognitive capacities. However, in order…
This paper concerns some specific aspects of the combined research promoted by the Iberia-Network of LSI. A general scheme of the combined research was already presented in Metanexus Conference, June 2006: “Human Evolution – Script for Research Project to be carried out by the LSI and the Iberia-Network in Spain.” This is a restricted research…
Could there be a universe in which gravity is a bit stronger, or the electron a bit heavier?