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Why would a
poet write a book about science? Why would I care?
The philosophy of
progressive secularism exists to support people who care about things like
intellectual honesty, about truth and knowing what is true or what of many
alternatives seems most likely to be true, and about the human suffering
caused by purposeful spreading of ideas that are unfounded and unreal.
Scientists won't
answer your questions about the really big issues like where did God come
from?—or if evolution is true, then what happened before the Big Bang? —or
how could material develop in a vast empty space that once must have
contained absolutely nothing?
Scientists have
good reason for being reticent about such things. The philosophy of science
is inherent to an idea called 'falsifiability', which requires that ideas be
testable before
they can be considered scientific. Anything that happened before Planck time
(the instant the Big Bang began) cannot be known with any certainty, and
therefore remains untestable. Untestable ideas cannot be considered
scientific and so, lo and behold, scientists must consider them as simple
speculation.
As far as science
is concerned, physical time did not begin until that initial instant of the
Big Bang because there is nothing testable about it. You and I know better
than that, right? We know that, whether God made the Big Bang or if simple
natural forces gathered up to cause it,
1time
had to have passed for it to happen. So, there still remains a question or
two for us: Who or What made God? —or, what could those natural forces have
been? Most importantly: Why should scientists be afraid to speculate when
their self-professed foes remain overly willing to take advantage of that?
Maybe, it is because unanswerable questions are not of scientific interest?
This little book
serves a big purpose. To deal with such questions as are continually raised
by bombardments of theistical claims , it has become the most concise
introduction to the concepts in Reality 101 and the Complete Universe of
Memes, by including information unveiled after their publishment. Stay up to
date with the book that brings them full circle. Together, the three books
work to complete a unique, self-correcting constructive philosophy to
support an accomplishment-oriented existence, for which all three rely
heavily on scientific concepts still under development. Here's what this
book will show you:
Two forms of
existence get us into arguments because of lack of recognition. The Mad Poet
explains a minor but important difference between reality and
actuality, that can define our understanding of our existences and of
our natural roles.
All that exists in
actuality are the events and processes which humans perceive as being
reality.
The Mad Poet
presents time in two forms: Actual (evolutionary) time, and real (perceived)
time. Perceived time is what some others call 'Physical Time'.
Existence is in
three layers: microverse, macroverse, cosmic (universe), an idea developed
from 10-dimensional mathematical concepts still developing in string theory,
and commonly recognized aside from string theory. The Mad Poet presents a
similar, testable concept in common language we all share.
Genetic
replicators were not the first replicators— Those were the strings from
which the black hole that made the universe was formed.
The black hole was
the second replicator: It formed the universe and a new generation of black
holes.
The four
replicators all share certain characteristics: invisibility,
self-actualization, experimentation, evolution-relevancy, parasitism, and
symbiosis.
Other natural
replicators may exist, but usually die with their hosts.
Understanding
memetics is important to us now, but is only a step in an evolutionary
process.
Evolution is known
to be a blind, natural process. Still, were the crusades, and events derived
from them, an attempt made by evolution to eliminate one of its mistakes?
Religions seem to
serve an evolutionary purpose of spurring mankind into technological
innovation and development.
This 'spurring on'
seems necessary for 'catching up' evolutionary development that has been
interrupted several times in prehistory, as evidence shows us is true. Could
we actually be hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of years behind in our
evolutionary development?
It is through
technological innovation that an artificial fifth replicator gains existence
through what is called 'nanotechnology', in preparation for our future role.
It is through
technological innovation that mankind can spread the human-relevant
replicators throughout near space by acting as their hosts, and eventually
into far space with the aid of the fifth, artificial replicator. Could this
support human existence after the eventual death of the universe? Let's
speculate!
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FOOTNOTES
(1) This
would be best described as "nonphysical time."
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