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Sunday, April 20th, 2008

For [Sean] Carroll Buy tramadol no prescription, , as for many scientists, unexplained laws are thus are the starting point of scientific reasoning, the levitating superturtle at the bottom that holds up the whole tower, just as God is the levitating superturtle that holds up physical existence in monotheism. After 30 years of listening to sterile bickering in the science/religion debate I am utterly bored with the refrain from each side that, Generic Tramadol, Buy Tablet Tramadol, in effect, "my superturtle is better than your superturtle."

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Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Buy tramadol, For [Daniel] Dennett, religions are efforts at doing something science does better - they are rudimentary or abortive theories, or else nonsense. "The proposition that God exists," he writes severely, "is not even a theory." But religions do not consist of propositions struggling to become theories....  It is only some western Christian traditions, Tramadol 50 Mg Tablets, under the influence of Greek philosophy, which have tried to turn religion into an explanatory theory....From a Darwinian standpoint, Order Tramadol, the crucial role Dawkins gives to education is puzzling. Human biology has not changed greatly over recorded history, and if religion is hardwired in the species, it is difficult to see how a different kind of education could alter this, Ultram Dosage.

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No rx tramadol online, Our present theories are of only limited validity, still tentative and incomplete.  But behind them now and then we catch glimpses of a final theory, one that would be of unlimited validity and entirely satisfying in its completeness and consistency.  We search for universal truths about nature, and, when we find them, we attempt to explain them by showing how they can be deduced from deeper truths.  Think of the space of scientific principles as being filled with arrows, pointing toward each principle and away from the others by which is is explained.  These arrows of explanation have already revealed a remarkable pattern:  they do not form separate disconnected clumps, representing independent sciences, and they do not wander aimlessly -- rather they are all connected, and if followed backward they all seem to flow from a common starting point.  This starting point, to which all explanations may be traced, is what I mean by a final theory.

-- Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg (emphasis mine), in Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature


Michael Behe: Stop Asking Questions
By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning. An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly (that is, by continuously improving the initial function, which continues to work by the same mechanism) by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition nonfunctional. An irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would be a powerful challenge to Darwinian evolution.

-- Michael Behe (of the Discovery Institute), in Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, via


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The philosophy Weinberg is advocating is called reductionism: We understand nature best by breaking it down into its fundamental parts and actions. Biology is chemistry, Ultram Side Effects, chemistry is physics, physics is elementary particle physics, and elementary particle physics is (for the time being) the bottom of the ladder....

In 1993, I wrote: "By the end of the next century we might look back on reductionist theories of physics as hopelessly naive. And if we do, we shall certainly remark upon the hubris of 20th century physicists who thought a final theory was within our grasp."

Well, a little hubris may not be a bad thing for a scientist, no rx tramadol online. Anyone who would attempt to explain the universe must possess some measure of arrogance. The important thing is to not let hubris get out of control. Here's my scientific "religion," which like Weinberg's is a matter of faith: No theory conceived by the human mind will ever be final. The universe is vast, Tramadol Narcotic, marvelous, and deep beyond our wildest imagining -- its horizons will forever recede before our advance. No rx tramadol online, All dreams of finality are futile. Period.


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For me, these three viewpoints represent the three ways modern Westerners react to the fundamental mystery of the universe; for brevity, let's call that mystery a "black box".


  1. Weinberg believes that we will one day open the black box and discover a well-oiled machine that explains everything:  The human search for understanding the mechanisms of the universe will one day have a conclusive end, and this end will be a complete, consistent theory of everything.

  2. Behe believes we never will (and never can) open the black box; there are some mysteries that will remain forever locked away from human understanding; there is a point beyond which we can proceed no further.  This view, apparently, is oblivious to the fact that, unlike literalist dogma, Very Cheap Tramadol Cod, scientific knowledge has always been incomplete and has grown incrementally only by asking questions about stuff we don't already know.  The real goal of the I.D. crowd - in method, if not in rhetoric - is to stop scientific inquiry dead in its tracks.

  3. Raymo believes that we can open the box, and inside we will find, possibly nestled among further machinery, another black box, which contains another black box, and so on like so many nested Russian dolls to infinity.


Weinberg finds himself in the precise position maintained by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead nearly 100 years ago, in their monumental treatise on logic and mathematics, Principia Mathematica (PM).  Russell and Whitehead started with the assumption that all of mathematical truth might be contained within a meticulously constructed formal system starting with a handful of atomic axioms taken to be self-evident.  They believed that one might arrive at a formal system which was both consistent (never proved a falsehood) and complete (able to prove any theory expressed in that formal system in terms of its fundamental axioms).  Famously, Canadian tramadol online without prescription, a young upstart Austrian named Kurt Gödel shattered their dream with his famous "incompleteness theorem", which demonstrated by means of some clever logic that, while PM was indeed consistent, it was not complete: he constructed a true theorem in the system which could not be deduced given the axioms of PM, thereby rendering PM unable to prove the veracity of this statement and incomplete.  He later demonstrated this to hold true from any similar formal system that attempts to build a complete set of true theorems from a limited number of axioms.

Gödel's theorem is now famous, being well-documented in Douglas Hofstadter's highly popular and accessible Gödel, Escher, Ultram Online, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (among other places); however, its implications for the possibility of procedural science to ever have a final theory of everything that is both complete and consistent have apparently been lost on Weinberg.

I'll let Stephen Hawking have the final word on the subject.  Apparently, it really is turtles all the way down.

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Sunday, April 13th, 2008

On the corner of 6th & Pine in downtown Seattle stands an aging Cuban refugee named Pedro (or perhaps Juan On sale tramadol online without prescription, ).  (Follow those links for more detail.  I'll be right here waiting for your return.)  An apparent schizophrenic, Pedro has created his identity around condemning the Seattle Police and "everybody in Seattle" for being "communist" and signing a petition (unanimously signed. by everybody in Seattle!) to evict him from his old home in the Frye Apartments.  He's evidently no longer homeless; he neither asks for nor accepts donations of food or money; and he's not interested in speaking one-on-one to individuals to sell his mission.  He's not looking to make converts.  He's looking to vanquish.

Two or three times a week, my morning bus gets stopped at the stoplight where Pedro stands, 8 to 5 every day, brandishing a wooden sign covered in masking tape and painted with a pseudoreligious rant, in pidgin English:

Pedro with an older version of his sign


Pedro with an older version of his sign


Pedro in front of Barney’s


A more recent picture of Pedro, sign not yet embellished


In his hand, he carries a scepter fashioned of numerous stickers and model paint with a miniature plastic figure of the Archangel Michael.  The photo above is quite old; his current sign contains less Jesus, and more stickers of Michael:


St Michael slays the Dragon


 St Michael slays the Devil (based on Guido Reini)


St Michael is interspersed with images of Superman:


Superman


Clearly, Pedro sees his fight aligned with the Good and Holy fight personified by these two Apollonic gods.  St Michael - a warrior incarnation of Christ - has long personified the triumph of Good over Evil.  And there's clearly nothing morally ambiguous about Superman.  But what about the Dragon. Tramacet, In the Biblical context, Michael's enemy is quite clearly a dragon:
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon;
and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not;
neither was their place found any more in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out,
that old serpent,
called the Devil, and Satan.


-- Revelation 12:7-9

Because the Serpent symbol is possibly one of the most ancient, universal, and complex of symbols in mythology, here (in the context of the second century), it represents the old pagan system.  Michael is the warrior of a new, bright, sky-based religion vanquishing a earth-based one that crawled on its belly in the dirt and in the water.  This is the archetypal triumph of good over evil, Online Propecia Tramadol, the Final Battle.

Michael slays the Dragon (by Albrecht Durer)


Albrecht Dürer: St Michael's Fight Against the Dragon (1498)


In modern-day post-protestant Christian thought (oh how crucial those qualifications are!), the finality of this battle is taken for granted.  Satan is defeated once and for all, and God's people enter heaven to reside there eternally, free from the evil forces of the Dragon, on sale tramadol online without prescription.

Heaven (the Sky-Realm) is the home of clarity and light, Hell (the Earth-Realm) a place of confusion, temptation, suffering and desire.  To defeat the Dragon is to defeat whatever holds us from attaining that realm of light and purity. In another sense, it's the triumph of mind over matter.  It is the central archetypal image of the Western mind, and in the same way that we identify with Superman through his mild-mannered alter-ego, Clark Kent, we would have St Michael as our avatar. Order Soma Tramadol, Though couched in the symbols of Christianity, Pedro doesn't have a coherent Christian message; his use of Michael is to represent himself and his struggle on cosmic terms.  For Pedro, the "communist" Seattle police are the cosmic Dragon, the evil force.  For American Christian fundamentalists, the Dragon is the force of secular humanism.  For eco-conscious liberals, it's the global corporations and the greed and selfish power they represent.  For Richard Dawkins, the Dragon is religion itself.  (Perhaps for me, it's Richard Dawkins?)  In each case, the Dragon represents not merely the Evil, but also the Lower, a force which, at one time, Tramadol Free Express Saver, dominated, but whose vanquishing is the herald of a new era, a greater, brighter time untroubled by the struggles of the past.

Yet Pedro's greater struggle is clearly not with some outside enemy.  The dragon that presents the greater challenge to him - if only he could perceive it - is his own mind.  He has projected his own greatest fears and anxieties (that the Seattle Police have allied with Fidel Castro to evict him, throw him into exile) on an external enemy, but the real enemy and obstacle is within.  Likewise, we tend to see our large, impersonal external foes with the greatest disdain because we're really looking at our own worst nature reflected back at ourselves. Defeating this dragon is only achieved once that internal struggle is accomplished. Tramadol 377, Take it away, Joseph Campbell..

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While New Atheist Ordering tramadol no prescription, views (espoused by Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, et al.) tend to focus on the field of evolutionary biology, the sphere of physicists and mathematicians seems to have a much more nuanced view of the relationship between science and metaphysics. In particular, mathematics stands distinct from science per se in that it does not make specific verifiable claims of empirical fact (much of mathematics does not directly relate to the physical world at all); rather, it provides a formal structure, a framework, by which we can communicate and generalize abstract notions. In some sense, these decontextualized abstract notions themselves can be said to have an existence independent of physical manifestation and our ability to perceive them. These three ideas - abstract (Platonic/mathematical) ideal, imperfect manifestation in physical reality, and the human mind's perception of pattern in the physical world and transference of physical phenomena into abstract ideals - lie at the foundation not only of mathematics, but true religion as well.

In the first chapter of his excellent The Road to Reality, Sir Roger Penrose introduces a diagram illustrating this threefold relationship:

The Penrose Trinity

Plato made it clear that the mathematical propositions -- the things that could be regarded as unassailably true -- referred not to actual physical objects (like the approximate squares, triangles, circles, spheres, Tramadol Line, and cubes that might be constructed from markers in the sand, or from wood or stone) but to certain idealized entities. He envisaged that these ideal entities inhabited a different world, distinct from the physical world, ordering tramadol no prescription. Today, we might refer to this world as the Platonic world of mathematical forms....

This was an extraordinary idea for its time, and it has turned out to be a very powerful one.... It tells us to be careful to distinguish the precise mathematical entities from the approximations that we see around us in the world of physical things. Moreover, it provides us with the blueprint according to which modern science has proceeded ever since. Ordering tramadol no prescription, Scientists will put forward models of the world -- or, rather, of certain aspects of the world -- and these models may be tested against previous observation and against the results of carefully designed experiment....

If the model itself is to be assigned any kind of "existence", then this existence is located within the Platonic world of mathematical forms. Of course, one might take a contrary viewpoint: namely that the model is itself to have existence only within our various minds, rather than to take Plato's world to be in any sense absolute and "real". Yet, there is something important to be gained in regarding mathematical structures as having a reality of their own. For our individual minds are notoriously imprecise, unreliable, Tramadol 120, and inconsistent in their judgments....

Thus, mathematical existence is different not only from physical existence but also from an existence that is assigned by our mental perceptions. Yet there is a deep and mysterious connection with each of those other two forms of existence: the physical and the mental, ordering tramadol no prescription. [In the figure above] I have schematically indicated all of these three forms of existence -- the physical, the mental, and the Platonic mathematical -- as entities belonging to three separate "worlds", drawn schematically as spheres. The mysterious connections between the worlds are also indicated, where in drawing the diagram I have imposed upon the reader some of my beliefs, or prejudices, concerning these mysteries.

It may be noted, with regard to the first of these mysteries -- relating the Platonic mathematical world to the physical world -- that I am allowing that only a small part of the world of mathematics need have relevance to the workings of the physical world.... Likewise, in relation to the second mystery, whereby mentality comes about in association with certain physical structures (most specifically, healthy, Online tramadol without prescription, wakeful human brains), I am not insisting that the majority of physical structures need induce mentality.... Ordering tramadol no prescription, Finally, for the third mystery, I regard it as self-evident that only a small fraction of our mental activity need be concerned with absolute mathematical truth. ... These three facts are represented in the smallness of the base of the connection of each world with the next, the world being taken in a clockwise sense in the diagram. However, it is in the encompassing of each entire world within the scope of its connection with the world preceding it that I am revealing my prejudices....

On this view, everything in the physical universe is indeed governed in completely precise detail by mathematical principles....


In William Blake's Newton, we see this very same threefold mystery: Here, the man emerges from the earth and produces a representation of the geometry (γεωμετρία; geo = earth, metria = measure) of which the earth is made.


Blake’s Newton


Newton (1795) by William Blake


Likewise, we can easily see the Platonic significance of the Christian trinity as well.

Medieval trinity illumination (origin unknown)


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Here, the Holy Trinity of Christianity is presented as a triangle: Father (Pater, which might stand for "earth"), Son (Filius, Smoke Tramadol, "man"), and Holy Spirit (Spiritus Sanctus, "platonic ideal") in an triangular relationship, three equal and essential parts of God. The connections between them ("non est") assert the independence of the parts, while their connections to the center ("est") assert their importance in the integral whole. We might say also that the human conception of mathematical truth is not the truth itself; that manifestation in the physical world is not the Platonic form; and that the physical world consists of much more than human minds. But the relationship remains the same: timeless, illustrated through myriad imperfect forms, this knowledge has been transmitted from ancient (pre-scientific) times to us today, and we continue to find new manifestations of the Trinity. There's a lot more to be said here; this touches upon the significance of mythology, sacred geometry, and mysticism: these have always been vehicles by which humans could codify and transmit eternal truths. We may use science to perceive the details, but we use religious/mythological and mathematical abstraction to incorporate, Paypal tramadol online, generalize, and interpret this knowledge.


In this way, true religious/spiritual knowledge does not properly occupy the space of empirical scientific knowledge, but rather serves as a counterpart to abstract mathematical knowledge, existing the the Platonic (meta) realm, rather than making specific claims of empirical truth in the physical realm.

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Of main interest to me, however, was the image he'd drawn.  Sharpie pen on mat board, with blue ballpoint-pen highlights.


 


A Note Upon the Tissue: A Bird and a Boat


 


"I had a dream about a bird emerging from my head, and a ship sailing into the distance."  And before I could ask him further about the details, my bus arrived.  He introduced himself as Vladimir, and I gave him the $20 he asked for his drawing and left.


The drawing features a young man's face.  On his forehead is a Third Eye, a wound or vaginal opening; a bird's head emerges from the crown of his head, as if taking flight.  The bird's ribbed beak is producing a thunderbolt - or a crack in space - which strikes the top of a lighthouse.  At the foot of the lighthouse, people come and go, entering and leaving.  The lighthouse stands above a sea, upon which sails a large ship withthe caption "The Crystal Ship of the Black Pearl, Mind of the Santa Maria".  The ship's portholes look like keyholes. In the sea below the lighthouse is a woman's face, with a third eye similar to the man's.  The sea merges into the man's shoulders; his goatee flows into a woman's hair and face, which in turn seems to emerge from the smoke from a burning, winged, bleeding Sacred Heart, Ultram And Urine Screens. On the left side of the image is a sphynx-like head with a halo; above the head is a tiny Star of David, and above the star is a hand which seems to be firing a gun (?) toward the moon.


I don't know anything about Vladimir, except that his manner was sensitive and introverted; wearing a ragged black trenchcoat, I couldn't tell what his situation was, Tramadol Search, but he had a wild unkempt goatee and a bruise on his cheek.  So far as I could tell, he was certainly encumbered by neither college art school education nor the attendant inflated ego.  What his drawing lacks in refinement it more than exceeds in raw talent and vision.


Text of the poem after the jump.

The poem reads:


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-Vlad.


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