Law of Identity and Mathematics of Change

  The law of identity is one of the most basic laws in mathematics. The law of identity states that a thing is itself: A=A. While this is true absolutely of things that don't change, the living things (and many non-living things) are constantly changing; and, as...

Mathematics of Change and Time

Someone has written on a public forum that the law of identity does not always hold, as things change. Thus, a seed becomes a plant; a child becomes an adult; and further on down the line. There is a very great importance to this line of thinking. A belief that something is...

the nature of reality

This essay will be broken down into a sequence of statements and their opposites, implications, and related tests. All relevant concepts will be considered. We exist: no one can ever actually prove this; in science, it's usually easier to disprove something; we can provide...

Attitudes of Hell

Hell is this: an inversion of truth - an inversion of value - a swamp, an inverted palace, with toads at the top. Consier hell to be mathematical opposite of heaven. All that is true is held to be lie, all that is lie is held to be truth. The good is seen as evil, the...

Agent and VR Specifications

Agent absolute minimum requirements:has a unique identificationmobilityability to perceive local environmentability to manipulate local environment limited by physical lawsability to communicate with nearby agents via textrule-base list, ability to access list and add...

GP and Simulating Conscious Agents

About two years ago, i proposed using genetic programming to breed conscious agents in a virtual reality. GP is a paradigm recently championed by John Koza, http://www.genetic-programming.com/ , which has some very powerful applications. An agent,...

"Conventional wisdom", science, and conmen

My writing on a number of issues, such as challenging the conventional explanation of the fall of the Roman Empire, has been described as presumptious. The response is that, when conventional explanations are false, challenging them and replacing them is a service done to...

Death is an illusion; in our hearts is the only true reality.

Don't be afraid of disease.Don't be afraid of the unknown.Don't be afraid of your enemy.Don't be afraid of death.Don't be afraid of anything.The true enemy feeds off your fears.Much of our technology is poised to avert physical death.But what about spiritual death? We don't...

Sites to address arguments of global warming deniers

http://www.skepticalscience.com http://www.grist.org/article/series/skeptics/ http://my.nowpublic.com/environment/how-talk-global-warming-denier

can we know Truth?

As readers might be familiar, when I capitalize, I indicate the archetype of something. So understand as typed in the title of this essay, Truth has a special meaning - an ultimate truth above and beyond all truths. If you are Christian or Muslim, I suppose you'd call it...