Solving Utopian Problems

When the Solution Being Pursued is the Problem, a specific kind of change becomes necessary, second order change. Link to Downloadable PDF on Second Order Change

Utopian Solutions

“If men define situations as real,they are real in their consequences.” William Issac Thomas,quoted by Sylvia Sussman in Views Magazine, summer 1965 Is Limitation Philosophy a Utopian Solution? Reading a chapter from CHANGE: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution by Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland and Richard Fisch I have been examining how Limitation Philosophy… Continue reading Utopian Solutions

General Semantics

Foundational to Limitation Philosophy, General Semantics enables its informal logic to function and informs its epistemology. Links to a Hard to Find Essay by Arthur Korzybski The Role of Language in the Perceptual ProcessesBy Arthur KorzybskiKorzybski Final Essay Part One The Role of Language in the Perceptual ProcessesBy Arthur KorzybskiKorzybski Final Essay Part Two An… Continue reading General Semantics

Spinoza and Non-Anthropomorphism

Was Spinoza’s Philosophy of Deity Completely Non-Personal or only Non-Humanlike? (With Deistic Personality being unlike human personality except in the Intellect, Emotion, and Will in a synergistic functional unity of being whose physical aspect is the material universe.) I found this video very interesting. I may be mistaken but it seems to imply a non-humanlike… Continue reading Spinoza and Non-Anthropomorphism

Embodiment and Emergence

The Question Specifically, I am reading the “Intro to Limitless.” I feel that is a pretty crucial chapter to understand. For instance, “….a Limitless Personality must have an infinite body to be real…” The Answer That is one of the most important parts of my philosophy. Trying to understand this is no easy task. All… Continue reading Embodiment and Emergence

Particle Level Emergence

In Limitation Philosophy a theory of Plenary Emergent Wholeness is set forth as the infinite, eternal and plenary cause behind all the various forms of temporal causation in the physical universe. The following excerpts describe elemental function emerging from atomic structure and movement. This particle level emergence is the source of all emergence, so causation… Continue reading Particle Level Emergence

James Clerk Maxwell

Writer ATOMS article in 1875 Encyclopedia Britannica Of primary importance to my discoveries are Britannica’s exhaustive section on Chemistry and its article on the science of Atomic Processes by James Clerk Maxwell. The combination of your book and these articles enlightened me about the universal process that is the eternal cause of all things. In… Continue reading James Clerk Maxwell

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About Anaxagoras Pen

The Narrator of All Three Books The narrator of my novel, The Logic of Limitless, is the pre-socratic* philosopher Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and I chose to make the letter writer of Thank You, Mr. Darwin named after him by his eccentric father. *Pre-socratic is a misnomer as Anaxagoras and Socrates were both alive during the… Continue reading About Anaxagoras Pen