INTRODUCTION I believe it is possible that we may be at the same stage in discovering new laws of nature at the human level as the medievals were 600–700 years ago in their movement toward the discovery of the laws of nature at the simplest level, the laws of motion in mechanics. The early history…
Technology is transforming human life at a faster pace than ever before. The convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, information and communication technology, and applied cognate science poses a new situation in which the human has become a design project. The new technologies allow for new kinds of cognitive tools that combine artificial intelligence with interface…
I. KEY MOMENTS IN ASTRONOMY Astronomy is one of the most ancient domains of human knowledge. From ancient times, people have gazed at the sky, and have tried to identify planets and stars on the sky canopy and to understand the laws according to which they evolve. Monuments and inscriptions from Maya civilization, dating from…
We have been studying spiritual healers for five years. We have interviewed healers from a wide spectrum. This includes healers who are Aboriginal, Shaman, Protestant, Catholic, Pentacostal, Catholic priest Exorcist, Voodoo, Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese medicine, Reiki, Wicca, Family Physician, Energy healers and an intuitive veterinarian. Included are five Catholic priests and Catholic Bishop. We believe…
Much of the attention garnered by transhumanism revolves around its most expansive hopes for the technological enhancement of human life, and no such hope is loftier than immortality.
In the sensible efforts which are being made to develop the contemporaneous methodology of the natural sciences, the following principle can be perceived as the direction for activities in this domain: through logic to physics and to biology.
Introduction In Act III of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the prince, somewhat presumptuously, instructs a troupe of traveling players in the art of acting. The purpose of that art, Hamlet says, “both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, a ‘twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her feature, scorn her own…
The last three centuries have witnessed the great rise of the empirical sciences, such as physics and biology. Indeed, who can deny the extraordinary achievements of science? The technology that we rely on everyday and the life-saving medical procedures that were unavailable to previous times are all the fruit of scientific research. It is so…
“Teleology is a lady without whom no biologist can live. Yet he is ashamed to show himself with her in public.” E. von Bruecke, cited in W. Cannon (1968, p. 108). Introduction What is the place of humans in the cosmos? How we frame the question already reflects our ideas about the answer. To create…
One philosophical approach to tell the “whole story of the whole cosmos for the whole person” requires finding an epistemology that is able to locate humanity within the world as a seamless transition between cognition, existence, and the outer world. In this paper I will present the Renaissance Platonic approach as suggesting this kind of…