Society and Reality

The result of evolution is always fitness. Organisms are fit with their environment, and that environment include the level of reality in which they exist, in this case biology. Organisms must be able to exchange energy with their environment and avoid destruction. However, an organism does not need to be aware of higher or lower […]

I am sitting by the window of the Holiday Inn Express in Shanghai watching snow fall; my Colorado home us under my feet on the other side of the earth. The snow is much worse in the center of China, and it is clear that Shanghai is not used to snow and it is somewhat […]

Is not idolatry like standing between two parallel mirrors? Once you get past one image, another lies behind it ad infinitum. And are not abstract idols the most attractive precisely because they make little reflection and lead us to believe they are real?

What happens if we become too real?
A thought experiment:
Suppose we take real and actual as in Critical Realism, where real are laws and powers, and actual is the exercise of them. Let’s also assume that the real emerges from the actual. Furthermore, I propose that emergence happens in time and is not instantaneous. I would […]