The Carrot

      The carrot has been provided largely by the draw of the destitution of the World View within which we are currently being offered my Mainstream intelligentsia.  The 'Great Questions' that have disturbed the sleep of mankind since our emergence into explicit self-consciousness have been largely abandoned.  As George Wald has put it:  " ".....The great questions are those an intelligent child asks, and, getting no answers, stops asking."

      Here is a representative sampling: 

  • 1.Who am I?

  • 2.Why am I Here?

  • 3.What is the Meaning of Life?

  • 4.What is the Meaning of Death?

  • 5.What is the Cosmos for?

  • 6.What is the Aim of Evolution?

  • 7.What is the Nature of Reality?

  • 8.How Are We to Understand Infinity and Eternity?

  • 9.What is Being?

  • 10 Why Should there be Something Rather than Nothing

  • 11 What is the Significance of Horrendous Suffering?

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          Throughout the history of philosophical speculation, various solutions have been proposed;  each of these 'paradigms' held for a while only, eventually being replaced by a proffered alternative.  Finally, the whole enterprise of 'systems philosophy' came to be abandoned, on the grounds that it simply showed no signs of the kind of productive convergence that the scientific/empirical enterprise has come to demonstrate;  their ontology of Positivism was to provide the coup de grace.  However such a dismissal is premature and unwarranted.  I believe I have demonstrated that advances made on all fronts during the present century have changed everything.  One may mention molecular biology, modern neuroscience, modern Physics -but more particularly developments within the disciplines of logic and transfinite mathematics and geometric topology.  It is these that I have pressed into service.