|
Author
|
Topic: Is Christopher Michael Langan "Published" ???
|
nonmember
Member
Member # 1763
|
posted 02. October 2005 18:17
I not too sure that this doesn't "belong" in the Members Forum
Digital FORM(-AT)
...Has Christopher Michael Langan written or Self-Published a e-book ? ***************************
I 'm making a distinction between an article, booket and newsletter (e.g. Ubiquity and Noesis-Ein) in a Digital FORM
Related to e-mail or messaging::
The overall aim of any discussion is do what you can to move the discussion forward. So, I would apprecite your help and insight into Christopher Michael Langan's CTMU as a sometimes colaberator .. there are areas where it [CTMU]seems to bleed into Metaphysics (is that at all purposeful)?
::
From 6 minutes OnLine UltraHIQ journals, Ubiquity and Noesis-E
Sourc/Target Url ::www.iscid.org/boards/ubb-forum
[ 03. October 2005, 23:08: Message edited by: nonmember ]
IP: Logged
|
|
Genie
Member
Member # 266
|
posted 02. December 2005 14:53
Chris Langan has been published as a columnist in several newspapers and magazines. He did publish an ebook in 2002, a diverse collection of essays entitled "The Art of Knowing". In addition, he published an essay - "Cheating the Millennium", Chapter 13 - in the book "Uncommon Dissent" edited by William Dembski. This references his CTMU paper published in ISCID. He is currently working on several technical papers explaining the theory's impact on physical and biological causality (since his CTMU work receives no outside financial support, its development proceeds as he finds the time for it).
The CTMU does employ metaphysical concepts where required. In the tradition of the most powerful scientific theories, its ontology is both physically relevant and physically invariant, i.e. abstract. As some philosophers of science understand, the distinction between physics and metaphysics is largely relative and historical; because new theories often require the introduction of previously unknown abstract metavariables, the metaphysics of today can become the physics of tomorrow.
Since the designer, whatever it may be, cannot be limited to known physical mechanisms, and since ID theory purports to detect its expressions in physical reality, the physics-metaphysics distinction is in principle straddled by ID theory. However, the CTMU is "larger" and potentially much more powerful, being structured in such a way as to mechanistically accommodate both design detection and a guided form of evolution. Hence, the associated concept of "Teleologic Evolution", which is the CTMU synthesis of these viewpoints.
I hope this helps answer your question(s).
IP: Logged
|
|
|
Printer-friendly view of this topic