The twelve HTM files upon which this site is primarily grounded have been organized into three groups as under

            1.The first set of four spell out the awfulness of our present predicament and how we need to engineer a productive breakout.

            2. The Second Set of Six present the substance of my own solution -as presented in detail in a companion website The New Monadology.

            3. The Final two pages summarize this systems philosophy from a somewhat different viewpoint, concluding with a reminder of the extraordinary magic of the Present Moment.

Introduction	Cult of Science	Approach	Procedures

 

          The Introductory page makes suggestions about how this website should be approached It emphasizes the complete break with the present Weltbild that is required -at all of the levels of ontology, metaphysics and Formal scaffolding (in terms of a Meta Logic/Metamathematics).  Many of the currently proffered paradoxes and contradictions turn out to be fallacious, while one of its covertly accepted truisms -the 'naive realist' theory of perception is in fact false and as such is the greatest of veridical paradoxes -those which are indubitably true despite their massive counter-intuitiveness.  Finally, it turns out that the greatest of the unsolved problems within the realm of manifest existence  is source of the mental direction that has somehow made its entrance  and has come to play such a major role in guiding organic evolution..  

Ontology	Formal Scaffold	Evolution	Eschatology	Personhood	The God Question

           Of the set of six pages that directly address my own proposed resolution -The New Monadology-  the first pair deal with the closely related issues of Ontology and the scaffolding of Metamathematics within which the required Systems philosophy must be conceived and assembled. Ontology starts the nameless Source of the Ungrund and encompasses a divergence series of unfoldings that become increasingly  Logical/Metamathematical in character.  The ontology I'm proposing is, I believe novel;  it is an asymmetric form of Neutral Monism that contemplates a minimum back away form classical monism.  I  have found that it brings resolution to a great many questions -particularly those relating to the nature of personhood and its relationship to the Holism of the vexed 'God Question'.   Conceiving the nature of the holistically-grounded' (or better, holistically-ceilinged) metamathematics so sorely needed proved to be the greatest challenge I was to encounter.  In some ways, it is what Reality is all about.  in saying this I am but echoing the sentiments of Leibniz and other masters of the classical era -but with the difference that the formalism I have in mind is greatly broadened to include all of those categories that lie beyond the pale of conventional mathematics.

 

          The second pair of pages deal with the processing of the Larger Reality.  This starts upstream of actual cosmic existence, in which the source of the Ungrund brings things into sufficient definition to make possible the initial singularity of the big bang'.  Evolution, initially cosmic shall become increasingly organic -far beyond our present station- in which life shall become increasingly dominant.  Ultimately it shall converge to a unity Being -Omega- charged with the task of executing an eschatological consummation leading to an eternal life for all. 

 

          The last two pages of the set of six address he complementary aspects of the psyche;  the personhood that we know and its relationship to the Holism addressed by the 'God Question'.  It is here that my proposed ontology plays a key role.  One of the services provided by metamathematics is that of enabling us to formulate these questions correctly, thus paving the way to exploring meaningful answers.  mainstream Intelligentsia lacks the resources to pose these questions at all -consequently the answers that they have provided are not even wrong.  Among other things, I claim that it totally disposes of the theodicy dilemma in providing justification for the horrendous suffering which organic existence makes possible.

 

Wrap-up	The Prospect Before Us

 

          The Wrap-up and 'Prospect' pages review the major landmarks of the whole enterprise.  If one of these is to be singled out as the key concept that opened the door upon all else, it is that of its basic ontology as expressed by the logical asymmetry  " < = " .  This brand of neutral monism was to render sterling service in putting together the scaffolding of metamathematics, while providing the means of resolving the central issue of the 'God' question -i.e. that of the relationship between the individualistic and the holistic aspect of personhood.  I was glad to accept the Ungrund -more or less as reformulated by Tillich, though with some minor needed adaptations.  I am heavily indebted to Nicholas Berdyaev on so many fronts -none more important than his proffered relationship between positive and negative value -of good versus evil and Nonbeing versus its Positive counterpart.

 

         As to the final prospect that it places before us I can only say that I find it to be totally positive and affirmative  It offers eternal life for all -and most importantly upon terms that are truly to be wished.  'Personhood' as expressed in creative open-ended self expression is what my vision of reality is all about.  The prospect that opens up immediately ahead has of it the nature of a breathtaking open-ended adventure.  We -together with all intelligent monads who shall ever come to be- are charged with the mission of master-minding evolution and the eschatology that is to follow;  it is our responsibility and ours alone.  Thankfully, a full justification is affirmed for the horrendous suffering of every kind that existence makes possible. 

 

         Finally is the magic of the present moment that the whole enterprise brings us to.  Starting with the Big Bang' that launched the cosmos some 15 billion years ago we have witnessed an accelerating series of singularities -one closing upon the other.  First the start of life, then the Cambrian explosion, followed by cephalocaudates, mammals, primates, pongoids and finally Homo sapiens no more than 100 million years or so ago.   civilization can be numbered in the thousands of years while the means of a disciplined reasoning about our nature and the world around us had to await the maturation of natural language and the coming of the age of Pericles a couple of millennia ago.  What has followed has been a rich harvest of discoveries of every kind -bringing us up to the present moment. bring us up to the present moment.  And finally, this moment -for me- is the bringing into being of this 'new paradigm' which tells me something that I didn't know before -why I am here and what the larger reality is all about.  ;  a concentric series of sing about the uniqueness of the present moment in which we find ourselves.  Homo sapiens/anthropological convergence to a language and central nervous system supportive of a language able to address philosophical enquiry and finally to the present moment at which we finally know who we are and why we are here.  It this has only just occurred;  suddenly we have become obstetricians who are witnesses and participants at the moment of birth -always the moment to be wished for

         

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         The following four documents very supportive of the matters at hand have been brought in for immediate viewing;  the first three are in the form of PDF documents while the fourth may be viewed as an extended Web page:

 

Naive Realism	Mind/Brain	Metamathematics	Positivism

          The first has to do with the relationship between the inner image of the immediate world we enjoy -at all moments of simple perception and the actions upon our own bodies -and the captive world immediately beyond.  The epistemology of Naive Realism claims that the inner image that we know actually reaches out tom directly know and (within limits) grasp and operate upon what's 'out there'  This is the overwhelming judgment of commonsense, yet it is quite certainly false.  Neuroscience has long since put paid to such notions yet we continue to be confronted by this greatest of veridical paradoxes -i.e. those things seemingly false are in fact true.  The document at the other end of the above link anchor goes to great pains -in terms of dozens of images 

 

          The general issues addressed by the link coupled to the second of the above icons can hardly to tackled until this false doctrine is dispatched  --at the 'gut' level;  i.e.  an acceptance that the inner microcosmic image that we directly know is entirely mental residing in some sense either within or offset from the brain upon which it is grounded.  It opens the door upon a large an entirely novel form of introspection, opening the Existentialist door upon an alternative avenue of approach to the Larger reality as addressed by Systems Philosophy.  It also reverses the relation back from the advantage enjoyed by the brain stratum back to mind -where it legitimately belongs.

 

         The task of addressing the nature of the larger Reality is partly -and I'm tempted to say principally- a problem in mathematics.  Such a position is very much taken by the likes of Leibniz and Descartes within the classical era of philosophical speculation.  However, the metamathematics I have in mind is of an entirely different and broader order;  at the time of writing it exists at little more than the level of hints.  It is in this region of 'Metamathematics' -as I gave dubbed it- that my major contributions are to be found. This document supplements the scantly account given within the present website

 

         Finally the long document addressed by the Positivist icon above offers a detailed critical review of where mainstream intelligentsia stands today

       

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