Introduction and Overview In this article I will describe what consciousness is and argue that while we cannot reduce consciousness to matter, we still can study matter using consciousness as the model. In short, we begin by assuming the soul, and then explain matter. Modern science tries to study matter […]
Biology
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Why the Genome Incompletely Describes the Body
Introduction to the Problem Genetic determinism—or the idea that we are fully determined by our genes taken from our parents—is now a thing of the past. Empirical evidence now shows that genes may exist but may not be expressed. The expression is controlled by some ‘epigenetic’ factors (which are also […]
Mathematics
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The Reality of Rational and Irrational Numbers
Introduction to the Problem In an earlier article we talked about the problem of mathematical realism of negative and complex numbers; the issue was that you can construct these numbers logically and conceptually, but you will never find them in the real world. The problem of irrational numbers is the opposite: […]
Mathematics
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Do Negative and Imaginary Numbers Exist?
Philosophical Reality of Numbers Numbers for the greater part of history have been viewed alternately as concepts and as quantities. Now, this raises problems about many types of numbers, which include negative numbers and imaginary numbers, because these cannot be viewed as quantities although there are compelling theories that can […]