Introduction:
What I am trying to enhance is our understanding of the positivistic nature of human existence. This is because I have been disappointed in my readings so far because none of the writings I have looked at have answered any of the fundamental questions I've been asking myself. We've done wonders in the areas of the psychology and even more in delineating the physiology of the human brain, but even though I draw heavily on them in my thinking, these are not my area of special interest. None of the writings I've glanced at from Ryle to Sagan, has seen Mind as anything more than an extension of Mankind. On the contrary, I believe that man’s mind has developed in obedience to existent, eternal laws of nature not yet clearly delineated by scientists because of cultural inhibitions. It is my earnest belief that this is the direction in which this magazine should proceed, and that it should wave a banner in the direction of this line of enquiry. Even if mind did not exist as a process in nature, scientists would have to create it as a construct by which they could explain and summarize the thrust of mankind’s biological, anthropological and historical activities. My hypothesis however is that it does exist as a natural force which can be explained by comparatively simple laws which way precede the emergence of any biologic entity in this universe ... space, time, mind, the universe itself are all human artifacts, which we share more or less with our biological relatives; reflections of deoxyribonucleic acid in the singularity that is our universe. (Copyright Sept. 28th, 2006)
|