Metaphysics and Science
List of Articles
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Wolfgang Smith: Cosmology in the Face of Gnosis
Our world cannot be known else than through an anthropic realism, which denounces the contradiction of contemporary Weltanschauung. The enigma of “seeing the world” thus denounces the so-called Enlightenment as an obscurantism and the renewed cosmologia perennis appears to be in line with the Indian tribhuvana doctrine.
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Wolfgang Smith on Science and Epistemic Closure of the Concept
Wolfgang Smith’s paper exposes Jean Borella’s philosophical doctrine of “epistemic closure”, followed by a developed application to modern science, then to the related scientistic contradiction, and finally to contemporary quantum physics.
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Unmasking “AI”
A—perhaps non-accidental—failure to distinguish linguistically between reason (dianoia, ratio) and intelligence (noûs, intellectus) has given rise to the term “artificial intelligence” which consequently engenders misunderstanding if not indeed fear. In keeping with the original meaning of the words in question, the term “artificial intelligence” should de jure be denominated “artificial reason,” a correction which might help to resolve a great deal of confusion and perhaps even forestall disaster.