Published in Cosmos & History (2016) Vol 12, No 2, pp 172-183.

Author: Michelle Kathryn McGee

Abstract:

As academics navigate the existential tangle between speculation and experimental fact, the prospect of synergy between complex emergent systems wisdom and useful aspects of physics has never been better.  One way to stimulate a new phase is to look outside of academia. The complementarity and contributions of two underground theories, one cosmological and one metaphysical, are discussed herein, with a focus on conceptual barriers to their comprehensive assessment and adoption.

Keywords:  complexity, theoretical physics, cosmology, metaphysics, falsifiability, causation, language, possibility, teleology

DISCLAIMER: I am not in any way associated with Chris Langan or the CTMU community and find pause with a variety of their associated ethical positions.

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Sections:

• Crisis in Physics
• Emerging Story: an Existential Underground that is Complex
• Metaphysics and Physics Meet in Teleology
• Novel View in Broad Strokes
• Hubris or Syntactic Comprehensivity-Reflexivity?
• Conceptual Barrier: Unfalsifiability
• Conceptual Barriers: Non-Conservation of Energy and Giants
• Conclusion

Excerpts:

Crisis in Physics

People yearn for something more robust and meaningful than physics’ parade of subatomic predicates. Popularisers of science as well as those concerned with uniting knowledge and spiritual traditions have stepped into the substance vacuum.