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The New Monadology
It is the secularism of the present paradigm that lies behind the more serious of its depredations -both in relation to the self image of the culture at large and of the orientation of the of the way in which science looks ahead towards its future. It simply means that the larger reality begins and ends in the world of existence -the physical cosmos and all those monads and organisms that shall ever be brought into existence; this is how its ontology is celebrated -though given the implied destitution, 'nontology' might be a more appropriate. term. All falls within the domain of Natural Law, limiting Reality to matters of form and substance -chiefly the former. The second term of their paradigm -that of ‘physicalism’-. demands that the whole of Nature be grounded upon the core discipline of physics. Chemistry is but electromagnetic physics (courtesy of Wolfgang Pauli’s ‘exclusion principle’); the whole of biology, in turn is nothing more than physics viewed through inverted opera glasses –top-down, as it were. The entire 3-4 billion years of evolving phylogeny is once more ‘nothing but’ physics viewed through a time machine –a remarkable instrument passing under the name of Neo-Darwinism. Finally, the remarkable performance manifest by brains -quintessentially those that we possess- are but the manifestations of a very complex and intricate machine -a recursive anastomotic network of tens of billions of neural elements. First and most important is to be quite clear that nothing less than a most drastic shift in outlook and viewpoint will suffice; a massive reconstruction involving ontology, metaphysics and formulizations -as a broadening of the scope and compass of the lex naturalis -as currently recognized. No amount of extrapolation from, or fine tuning of, any current or past philosophical system will suffice; nor will the goal be reached by any mere eclectic convergence. In a word, the present paradigm is bankrupt, and as ever, those intellectuals who best prosper and productively contribute to the status quo are precisely those least able, and above, all least willing to conceive of a completely new order of things, and to shoulder the burden needed bring this about.
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