Philosophy of Technology

Homeorhetic philosophy at the edge of chaos by Reilly Jones

Several essays centered on how the world will cope with humanity's natural drive towards cultural and physical speciation.

Homeorhetic philosophy - a philosophy steering a course between idealism and materialism: the Tao, the Logos, the living arrow of creation. A conceptual flux between chaos and order approaching the source of coherency, the transcendent realm. The self-organizing honing in on a moving point of purposeful disequilibrium in a dynamic pattern of increasing complexity.

In Isaiah Berlin’s words: “An unstable equilibrium in need of constant attention and repair.... an open future.” Berlin adds, “The glory and dignity of man consist in the fact that it is he who chooses, and is not chosen for, that he can be his own master.”

2003 December - Proposal to Attract and Retain World-Class Intellect Policy Paper for the Oregon Business Plan's Leadership Summit 2003: Shaping Oregon's Economic Future

 Conceptual Timelines (Works of Importance)

Conceptual Timeline: Part I - Born 9th cent. BC through 1860 AD

Conceptual Timeline: Part II - Born after 1860 AD plus Addendum

2003 August - Purpose of Education Preparing the Individual for Future Conditions of Extreme Novelty

2003 July - Transtech Proposal to Oregon Knowledge-based Economic Development and Educational Model

 

 Articles published in Extropy Journal

1996 2nd Half - A Critique of Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”

1995 June 18th - A History of Extropic Thought: Parallel Conceptual Development of Technicism and Humanism

1995 2nd/3rd Qtr. - Consciousness: Spontaneous Order and Selectional Systems - Part II

1995 1st Qtr. - Consciousness: Spontaneous Order and Selectional Systems - Part I 

1994 3rd Qtr. - Review of Origins of Order by Stuart Kauffman (1993)

 Internet Discussions

Ethics of Human Speciation: Sapience, Intolerance and Volitional Freedom

Cyber-Chartres: Learning the Design Processes Which Cross the Line between Profane and Sacred Spaces

Ominous Crimson Glow: New Science (1744) by Giambattista Vico & The Crooked Timber of Humanity (1990) by Isaiah Berlin

Two American Traditions: Decline of the West (1918-1922) by Oswald Spengler & Dominations and Powers (1951) by George Santayana

Recycled Nihilism and Determinism: The Life of Greece (1939) by Will Durant & The Killing of History (1997) by Keith Windschuttle

Unity and the Death Wish: The Tragic Sense of Life (1913) by Miguel de Unamuno & Way to Wisdom (1951) by Karl Jaspers

Science and Rationality: The Philosophy of Biology (1993) by Elliott Sober & The Nature of Rationality (1993) by Robert Nozick

Defining Human: Evangelium Vitae (1995) by Pope John Paul II

Conversation with a Physicist: The Revolt of the Masses (1930) by José Ortega y Gasset

Epistemology: Three Aspects of Reality, Conceptual Attractors, Search for Ground & Hermeneutics

 Notes on Books

The Transparent Society (1999) by David Brin

The Fourth Turning (1997) by William Strauss and Neil Howe

Out of Control (1994) by Kevin Kelly