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1. Introduction In this contribution, the authors do not intend to give a positive or negative answer to the question of whether or not there is a hierarchical consciousness, but they want to suggest a methodology that can help in the process of assessing it. The methodology they suggest is the systems methodology, which is…
Metanexus: Views 2001.11.14 1657 words Martinez Hewlett, in his guise as a recovering reductionist, is the autho=rof today’s column. It, too, is a response to the column by Phil Clayton onthe philosophy of Michael Polanyi which appeared this past Friday(2001.11.09) on Metanexus. For more information about the chemist turnedphilosopher, Michael Polanyi, as well as a…
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Some of the latest movies on war exhibit this dehumanizing process. In them violence has no face, suffering has no purpose and ethical considerations have no place. Homer’s Iliad they are not. Efficiency and effectiveness is the name of the game in those movies; nothing less than a prescription for insanity. In his book Orthodoxy,…
From the Metanexus lecture series “By Nature Creators: Coming to Terms with Human Nature” I. Creating Meaning in a World of Surplus Ideas If this were a sermon, its text would be a passage from Paul Ricoeur’s book, Interpretation Theory: “Because our experience of the world provokes more ideas than we have words to express…
Metaviews 051. 2000.05.19. Approximately 2172 words. Below is a book review of “The Alphabet versus the Goddess” by Leonard Shlain. The review is written by Alfred Kracher, a geologistat Iowa State University. The book deals with the invention ofwriting and its effect on religious culture. Kracher’s review iscritical but open-ended, noting that “surely the invention…