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Re-defining Aesthetics to Develop
Human Survival Technology Revised 2nd Edition Published by The Science-Art Research Centre of Australia Inc. An Australian Government Approved Research Institute ISBN 0-9577784-9-X June 7th, 2006 PO Box 733 Murwillumbah New South Wales 2484 Australia E-mail address: pope@science-art.com.au
© Professor Robert Pope 2006
This book is copyright. Except as provided by the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, microcopying, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Inquiries regarding any form of reproduction beyond the above permissions should be directed to the publisher Front cover artwork Hypatia and the Rediscovery of Feminine Wisdom By Robert Pope The artist has depicted the gracious Hypatia, one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and a philosopher who taught at the Neoplatonist school of philosophy in Alexandria. Her lectures, critical of teaching superstition as truth, infuriated a Christian mob, who murdered Hypatia in 415. It can be considered that in his Confessions, Saint Augustine incorrectly translated her warning about the ‘evil’ of unformed matter within the atom, as the evil of female sexuality, when he referred to Plotinus’ writings about Plato’s ‘evil’ of unformed matter. AN IMPORTANT ADDENDUM TO THE FIRST EDITION In my book, The True Meaning of the da Vinci Code, I mentioned that Encyclopædia Britannica advises that Saint Augustine was the mind who most completely fused the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy into the religion of the New Testament. The mathematician, Hypatia of Alexandria, as the custodian of the Platonic tradition, warned about the ‘evil’ of unformed matter within the atom, before she was murdered by a Christian mob in 415. In his Confessions, St Augustine appears to translate Plotinus’ mention of this evil as being an evil associated with female sexuality, lending support to those who consider that Hypatia was the first witch murdered by the Christians. Between 1450 and 1750 countless numbers of women and children were executed as witches. The Angel Physics worldview of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who was known as the Dr of Physics, was enforced at universities. The Church burned alive Giordano Bruno, considered to be the father of modern civilization, partly for teaching at Oxford University that the universe was infinite. The now obsolete Universal Heat Death Law that governs the present fixed worldview, also denies the concept of an infinite universe. Bernard Bolzano’s Theory of Knowledge, which corrected Immanuel Kant’s translation about the ancient Greek Science for Ethical Ends, (‘Aesthetics’), was reviewed by Hamburg University’s Professor Wolfgang Künne, as far surpassing anything that the world-literature has to offer in the way of a systematic sketch of logic. Other prominent academics wrote in a similar vein. Bolzano’s work challenges the logic of the fixed worldview and therefore we can consider that our present understanding of ethics is possibly quite illogical. The Editor of the R@D Review, Professor Julian Cribb, of the University of Technology in Sydney, in his Higher Education article published in The Australian newspaper, page 26, on March 8, 2006, considered that the stakeholders behind our industrial expansion are muzzling science to prevent challenges to the fixed worldview. He wrote, “this process of keeping science from the public and the network of threats – overt and implied - that protects it is undermining democracy. A democracy without access to balanced and truthful information on which to base its decisions is little better than a crude Third World dictatorship in which the people are compelled to accept the dictator’s interpretation of the world, however false and fanciful.” On his recent Australian lecture tour Bill Clinton considered that the democracies had no meaningful policies to solve global climate change problems and would soon be obliged to make vast amounts of finance available to the private sector. The Bolzano logic base is absolutely necessary for generating survival solutions to global climate change and the democracies may yet have the chance to honour the ennobling dream of the founding fathers of modern democracy. Re-defining Aesthetics to Develop Human Survival Technology It can be considered that artificial intelligence has been developed from a worldview that has no rigorous understanding of ethics. From its 20th century origins, artificial intelligence can only be defined as something that is accelerating a human extinction process. By re- defining aesthetics now, this extinction can be avoided. In 1986 the professor of philosophy at the Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg, Dr Clark Glymour, was quoted from The Times about an increasing demand for philosophy graduates to play a major role in artificial intelligence. “All along, Dr Glymour said, there have been radical misconceptions about philosophy. Perhaps one reason is that philosophy courses have placed too much emphasis on ethics - and he expects the numbers to move up with the realization that philosophy has arrived at the edge of high technology“(1). This paper argues, that from within the 20th Century worldview, Dr Glymour was quite correct, but that new discoveries suggest the opposite, that philosophy courses designed to develop new technologies, must place an even greater emphasis upon ethics. Evidence will be presented that the 20th Century worldview was based upon a false scientific foundation, which made the linking of ethics to infinity an impossible concept. This error not only forced all life sciences to be about species in a state of extinction, it also prevented the development of a human survival science and technology. The physics law governing the 20th Century worldview, which still influences the prevailing worldview, demands that all ethical considerations can only be about some form of participation involved with the destruction of all life in the universe. The ancient Greek worldview, the origins of our science and technology, would have considered our worldview to be Diabolical. Modern global science and technology would have been seen to belong to a barbaric Dark Age culture, worshiping Diabolos, the destroyer of worlds, a culture devoid of any true ethical understanding. Aristotle considered ethics to be about the human ‘virtues’ such as love, beauty, compassion, justice, and wisdom, which could be used to benefit the individual and society. The Constitution of the United States of America adopted a definition of ethics, in which the guiding principle of conduct should be about the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Immanuel Kant, considered to be one of the world’s greatest philosophers and the foremost thinker of the Age of Enlightenment, associated ethics with the functioning of a universal knowledge. This can be seen from his statement relating to ethics, “Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law” (2). During the mechanistic era, attempts to ennoble humanity contained a serious fundamental flaw, one that completely contradicted an ancient Greek definition of ethics. Once this error is realized, it is not difficult to establish a rigorous research methodology, designed to provide solutions to the global problems that this contradiction brought about. Computer simulations can be now generated to form the basis of an ethical human survival blueprint. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the principles of beauty and artistic taste. It was given definition by German philosophers during the 18th Century to assist in the translation of Kantian philosophy and meant “the science which treats of the conditions of sensuous perception”(3). Kant’s philosophy deals with the ancient Greek worldview, which held that a creative force brought survival wisdom into human consciousness. This transfer of information energy was held to occur through musical harmonics and beautiful thought forms that resonated as part of the functioning of an infinite universe. Immanuel Kant was unable to clearly define the concept of an infinite universe, causing a great deal of philosophical confusion concerning the true nature of ethics. Recent discoveries appear to have helped solve this problem and at the same time, to confirm the practicality of the ancient Greek geometrical definition of ethics, as being infinite. The Greek definition was the precursor to the 1980 discovery of infinite fractal geometrical logic, considered to be the greatest mathematical discovery in human history. The confining of aesthetics to studies of sensuous perception is a contradiction to the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy. Ancient philosophers made it clear that the ethics, later associated with the concept of Aristotle’s 5th element of Quintessence (ether), could not be detected by the senses and in order to be truly identified, needed to be explained with geometrical reasoning, giving substance to Plato’s dictum “all is geometry” (mathematics). Plato actually refers to the use of vision, as leading to an ignorant and limited worldview(4). The 2005 title of Brandon Carey’s paper, Moore’s Revision of Kant - The Connection between Metaphysical and Mathematical Infinity,(5) illustrates that the lost Greek concept of ethics is being re-examined in our times. The 20th Century worldview was governed by what Einstein and his colleagues called the Universal Heat Death Law, referred to by Einstein as “the supreme physics law of the entire universe”. This governing law held that when all heat eventually becomes completely dissipated into cold space, all life in the universe must be destroyed. Sir Arthur Eddington also undermined the value of aesthetics by confining it to a purpose of ultimate destruction. He added to Einstein’s definition of the second law of thermodynamics (the Heat Death Law), calling it “the supreme metaphysical law of the entire universe”(6). It can be considered, that the seeds of future spiritual hopelessness, resulting in counter productive violent global greed and religious hatreds, were sown by such a materialistic worldview classification of ethics. Professor Peter Kafka of the Max Plank Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, refers to “the uselessness of the second law” (Heat Death Law), in which a misunderstanding about ethics in science is accelerating a global destruction crisis(7). His solution, concerning knowledge about “beautiful attractors” appears to echo the thrust of the message contained within this paper. The universal heat death law contradicted the theories of those who used mathematics to argue that human ethics belonged to the workings of an infinite universe. Such a theory became an impossible concept in modern mainstream science, because, if the universe must suffer a heat death, then human evolution could not possibly be linked to infinity. Therefore the concept of aesthetics, within an infinite universe, became an inconceivable nonsense. It was, and still is, treated with scientific derision by scientists who are ignorant of the fact that the 20th Century worldview has collapsed. In 1848 an important mathematical criticism of Kant’s work was published after the death of its author, Bernard Bolzano. Bolzano’s Theory of Science is considered to have been the neglected work of one of the great logicians(8). He used mathematics to solve Kant’s finite-infinity dilemma and concluded that the universe was indeed infinite(9). Bolzano’s conclusion now has such overwhelming evidence supporting it, that, at the cutting edge of science, it is considered that the 20th Century worldview has collapsed. Unless this becomes generally known, then those seeking to implement ethical solutions within the parameters of that worldview can be considered to be wasting time, effort and money. While this appears to be distressing knowledge, it actually provides rigourous scientific substance to the hopes and aspirations of all people of good will. Ethical concepts can now be quickly employed to generate the human survival blueprint. Scientists are now claiming that recent cosmological discoveries are demonstrating that modern science has no real understanding of the energies that drive the universe(10). In 2000, Professor Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University wrote that cosmologists had proposed the existence of a mysterious new substance called Quintessence, named in honour of the ancient Greek fifth element of Quintessence(11). This is the tip of a scientific iceberg that is now debating the proposition that the universe might well be infinite and does not suffer a heat death at all. On the 26th of April, 2002, on Australian National Radio, the Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge university, Professor Neil Turok, stated that the ancient Greeks were probably right in their conclusion that time and the universe were infinite. Therefore, it can now be considered that the ideas expressed by the late Nobel Laureate, Szent-Gyoergyi(12), might be upgraded. During the 1930’s he claimed that the 20th Century worldview had been based upon a false assumption that only one universal energy system existed, a system in a state of universal atomic decay. Now that it is no longer scientifically reasonable to deride the concept of infinite aesthetics as an impossible concept, reason is provided to once again employ it in seeking further practical applications associated with modifications of the Kantian philosophy of science. Hans Christian Ørsted used aesthetics as the basis upon which to write two important prize winning papers in pharmacy and medicine, and then wrote his doctoral dissertation on Immanuel Kant(13). Ørsted then discovered the electro magnetic field, pioneering the path to radio, television and fibre optics technology. If aesthetics, from Bolzano’s viewpoint, had not been classified as inconceivable, Ørsted’s discovery can be considered to have led to the pioneering of far more profound technologies. Considering Ørsted’s successes, it can be considered reasonable to now investigate the relationship between aesthetics taken to infinity, and new technology. The United Nations University Millennium Project, Australasian Node, American Council, investigated the Science-Art Research Centre of Australia’s objective to identify the nature of a human survival technology. After a period of several years, its Chair, Dr Paul Wildman, endorsed this as being of pivotal human survival importance and it was included into a tertiary Futures Studies course endorsed by the United Nations. This paper has been written to present evidence that will hopefully provide a wider constructive philosophical insight into emerging new fundamental physics and a more profound worldview. The importance of this, it will be argued, is that the present misunderstanding of aesthetics has resulted in a fixed behavioural pattern that is accelerating humanity toward extinction. Aesthetics, as a branch of philosophy, upgrades the usefulness of science to better develop vague emotional religious and political concepts. It does this in an attempt to show the reasonableness of the ancient Greek ideal of placing evolving human values at the heart of a sustainable human survival science. Such a science, it was considered, would provide sustainable guidelines for an ennobling form of government. This science was considered vital to balance materialistic science. It was also held necessary to deliver humanity from extinction, that would otherwise be brought about by the emergence of what Plato(14) and Plotinus called, the ‘evil’ of unformed matter from within the physical atom. This ancient warning is relevant to the serious threat that the use of destructive atomic energies, not balanced with creative energies, poses to humanity and our global habitat at the present time. An example of the relationship between physics and religious concepts is Aristotle’s association of the evolutionary forces associated with his fifth element of Quintessence. From the properties of that essence he defined the concept of an immortal soul(15). During the 1st Century BC, the Roman lawyer, Cicero, referred to Epicurus as ‘the Saviour' and those who had taught the Greek human survival science, as Saviours. Cicero recorded that this school of science existed throughout all of Italy and extended to Turkey(16). Saint Thomas Aquinas developed his ‘Angel Physics’’ worldview in which “angels transcend every philosophy”, from a naive interpretation of Aristotle’s essence of Quintessence. Then followed centuries of legalised witch burning horror that enforced a denial that the universe might be infinite. The great scientist Giordano Bruno was imprisoned, tortured and burned alive in 1600, one of his crimes being the teaching of an infinite universe at Oxford University. When Western universities became more moderate, the restraint against science embracing the idea of an infinite universe continued. The now obsolete understanding of the universal heat death law governed scientific development during the modern mechanistic era, it forbade any reasoning about an infinite universe. A transference of the religious concept of physics to a political concept during the 18th Century, can be deduced from the writings of Thomas Jefferson found in the American Congressional Library. Jefferson influenced the framing of the American Constitution and the design of the Great Seal of America. In his letter to Charles Thomson, dated January 9th, 1816 he considered that the greatest of the ancient Greek Saviour scientists was the philosopher Epicurus. In his letter to Edward Dows, dated April 19th, 1803, he maintained that Epicurean atomistic theory had been badly translated into Western science and that it had been epitomised in the actual teachings of Jesus Christ, who would have thus inherited Epicurus’ Saviour title. Influenced greatly by the writings of Sir Francis Bacon, Jefferson set out to base American government upon the published physics of Sir Isaac Newton and geometrical principles, which he believed were sacred. Jefferson was unaware that Newton had also written about a separate secret physics to balance the mechanical description of the universe. Professor John Partick Diggins in his paper, Science and the American Experiment- How Newton’s Laws Shaped the Constitution, quotes Alexander Hamilton, one of the framers of the Constitution of the United States of America. When summarising the thrust of the 85 essays published in New York to solicit public support for adoption of the Constitution, Hamilton defined Liberty as being “ensured, not by civic virtue, but by the design of government itself, which, in turn, rests upon the principles of physics and geometry” Diggins points out that the only physics principles acceptable to the framers of the American Constitution were those actually published by Sir Isaac Newton, while the geometrical principles were those of Euclid(17). Sir Isaac Newton did not publish about his physics principles upholding an infinite universe. Therefore, to truly extol the ennobling ethos of the Great American Dream, the conception of what is today considered to be democracy, must be re-examined and upgraded according to the latest scientific understanding. Firstly, Newton’s recently discovered unpublished physics principles, which were held by him, to be ‘more profound‘, were excluded and might now be considered to be relevant to the better design of government. Secondly, other geometrical discoveries must be included into the design of government in order to fulfil the intent of the designers of modern democracy. This direct link between optimum government and physics principles can be used to generate the nature of future human survival technology. The ancient Greeks conceived that certain geometrical ratios, associated ethics with an infinite evolutionary process. That geometrical concept was the precursor to Benoit Mandelbrot’s discovery in 1980 of fractal geometrical logic. Arthur C. Clarke, in his television documentary titled Fractals: Colours of Infinity, referred to fractals as the greatest mathematical discovery in human history and emphasised that fractal logic does indeed extended to infinity(18). He also stated that this logic would apply regardless of the heat death law, thereby providing further support for the challenge, made in this paper, to the universal application of that law. Newton is well known to have considered that the universe is infinite, and proposed the existence of a balancing energy system that prevented the universe from collapsing in upon itself from gravitational forces(19). The recent discovery of Quintessence energy, is held to explain why the universe will not undergo gravitational collapse because that energy is causing the universe to expand forever. Professor R Gregory of Neuropsychology at the University of Bristol wrote, that in Sir Isaac Newton’s unpublished paper titled The Vegetation of Metals, Newton expressed his conviction that a more profound natural philosophy existed to balance the mechanical description of the universe and that it was based upon the principles of particle movement(20). This is the same concept that was basic to the ancient Greek Atomistic theories of universal ethics, the foundation stone supporting the Platonic tradition of philosophy. At the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste in 1979, I had a discussion with the late Professor Kun Huang, one of China’s most highly distinguished physicists. In 2002, he received the National Supreme Scientific and Technological Award, China's highest award for achievement in the field of science. We were debating the theories of the aforementioned Szent-Gyoergyi, who had proposed a creative physics energy system to balance the destructive universal atomic decay system. Huang had apparently tried in vain to warn Einstein and his colleagues, of the danger presented to civilization should Professor Szent-Gyoergyi’s theories be correct. Huang explained that the geometry upholding the ancient Greek evolutionary theories could be located within the world’s fossil record, in particular, within the fossils of seashells. He suggested that by observing the patterning changes to a seashell species over an evolutionary time period, the nature of the physics life forces that produced them might be deduced. Upon my return to Australia, I founded the Science-Art Research Centre with that specific objective. During the 1980’s Italy’s leading journal, Il Nuovo Cimento, published several of the Science-Art Centre’s life-energy papers written by its mathematician, Chris Illert. In 1990, two of these papers were selected from the 20th Century literature for reprinting in Washington by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc, (IEEE)(21). A few years later The Hadronic Journal in the USA published the mathematics as a special Book Supplement. In 1995 the Institute for Basic Research in Florida published Professor Ruggero Santilli’s collaboration with Chris Illert in their book, Foundations of Theoretical Conchology(22). This internationally acclaimed book demonstrated that the physics principles governing optimum (healthy) biological growth and development through spacetime, depended upon a more general geometrical description of the universe. Aesthetics holds that Democracy should be considered to be a living thing, embracing human virtues as universal principles. The health of that institution is a most important concept and it is embraced by their discovery. From the aforementioned paper by Professor Diggins about science and American Democracy, we learn that President Woodrow Wilson, appalled at the carnage of World War 1, wanted the Constitution to be rewritten. He argued that Democracy was a living thing and, therefore, should not be upheld by mechanical physics principles. He advocated that government be based upon the physics principles upholding Darwinian life science(17). As has been explained, aesthetics associated with infinity is automatically inconsistent with any life science constructed under the governorship of the universal heat death law. Such life sciences can only be about species proceeding entropically towards extinction. The design of government, based upon such life-science physics, would emulate the hierarchical logic of 20th Century physics, found functioning within the periodic table of elements. Such a design was the basis of the government of the Third Reich, in which liberty was not ensured. Therefore, policies about the new development and application of recently discovered energy systems, require an ethical consideration, which can be given practical definition through an upgraded understanding of aesthetics. Without such knowledge, the global violence and entropic destruction associated with fossil fuel and atomic energy control, can only escalate out of control. Illert’s life-energy mathematics utilized harmonic geometrical concepts derived from ethical geometrical work of the Art-masters of the Italian Renaissance. Professor Santilli and Chris Illert’s physics demonstrated that while the 20th Century worldview generated deformed futuristic life-form simulations, their own geometrical description of universal reality allowed for the generation of healthy biological growth and development through spacetime. This example of how the 20th Century worldview is innately cancerous is not to be ignored. The health of Democracy, as a living thing, may be considered to depend upon such rigorous aesthetic knowledge. Santilli’s founding of Hadronic Chemistry has been already assessed by scientists as having established a new more healthy and vigorous living organism of science(23). From an aesthetics point of view of Kant’s writings, two a priori humanitarian concepts can be deduced. (1) Unless the physics laws governing human government are about the health and well being of all people, at the same time, then they are meaningless. (2) Unless the technology sustaining that ennobling government is about the health and well being of all people, at the same time, then it is meaningless. Immanuel Kant would not have written, as Alexander Hamilton did, that Liberty is preserved, not by civic virtue, but by the design of government based upon the principles of physics and geometry. He would have written along the lines that Liberty is ensured by the physics and geometrical principles sustaining ‘healthy’ civic virtue. Newton’s unpublished papers and the existence of fractal geometrical logic, now help to provide a new understanding that is necessary to upgrade the foundations for a sustainable Democracy as well as the search for free energy. A method to observe an aspect of the language that might be relevant to such a technology was given to the Science- Art Centre by the scientist, Dr Matti Pitkanen. It was an upgrading of Tielhard de Chardin’s development of aesthetic technology, in which it was held that the ‘golden gates to the future’ will only open for all together and not any chosen race or privileged few(24). Dr Pitkanen commented on the periodic emission of lethal radiation from the Sun, which is instantly deflected into outer space by the Earth’s force fields. He explained that the circumstances upon which this occurs can satisfy criteria for it to be considered an act of consciousness, expressing a language in which all human life is protected at the same time. This clarification to de Chardin’s truly democratic concept, might well scientifically upgrade the religious anticipation, that a higher consciousness, associated with moral principles, is necessary for a better future. Immanuel Kant associated consciousness with the structure of space and time, as have such scientists as the late microbiologist Darryl Reanney. In 1982 Reanney authored the acclaimed Australian National Television series Genesis, about genes and evolution. His work apparently held consciousness to be a participant in the dynamics of a finite universe(25), unlike the work of the famous 20th Century theoretical physicist, David Bohm, who placed creative consciousness within the language of an infinite universe. Bohm held consciousness to exist in association with such things as wave functions, forms, and fields, giving a sentience-like quality to the electron, as the key to our future. The concept that the universe is holographic is now gaining credence(26) Dr Pitkanen’s ‘practical’ language led to speculation that the Sun-Earth language might be used to extend Bohm’s concept of consciousness. Aesthetics associated with infinity, can be used to construct various models of space time, and if such a practical language is used, then interesting concepts can emerge. The Science-Art Centre’s Mark Robinson, postulated such a model, one that is now attracting some scientific interest. His ideas appear analogous of the ancient Greek concept of the Nous, expounded by the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, about a whirling force that acted upon primordial particles in space to create physical worlds and to evolve intelligence. Robinson postulated an evolving wave function model that utilizes the quintessence energy (ether) to constantly alter the geometrical form of Bohm’s universal space-time hologram. Light speed is no longer considered to be a constant, only appearing as such to the observer. That the speed of light might not be constant has been suggested by such prominent scientists as J. Barrow and J. Webb(27). Robinson holds that the increasing velocity of light and its changing harmonics are responding to quintessence energy, generating instant aesthetic fractal form, illustrating Anaxagoras’ evolutionary ‘Nous’ process. Inanimate molecules, unable to harmonise with that process, become part of a balancing universal entropic process that allows life-supporting molecules to evolve within an evolving creative energy system. In his Optiks Sir Isaac Newton seems to consider it natural that light and matter should interact with each other(28), a concept critical to his concept of a “more profound, philosophy to balance the mechanical description of the universe. Although Kant is considered to have been one of the world’s greatest philosophers of science, scholars have long complained that his work was incomprehensible. The reason for this has been explained in this paper, however, his professorial responsibilities only added to the confusion. Kant was obliged to tie his work into text upholding a belief system that he appears to have been attempting to counter, until finally, he was forbidden by the authorities of his time, to publish further. Leonardo da Vinci had claimed that his Theory of Knowledge would lead to a science for everything. From the Greek ethical viewpoint, Leonardo’s goal was impossible, because he had mistakenly chosen the eye as the key to all knowledge(29). Ethical reasoning, from the Greek sources, used by Leonardo to construct his Theory of Knowledge, specifically warned that the eye was not the source of all knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes and Sir Francis Bacon, the three principal originators of the mechanistic era, all considered that the eye was the source of all knowledge, a concept that became depicted on The Great Seal of America and portrayed on the American one dollar note. That Leonardo’s worldview was totally mechanistic is provided by Sir William Barrett in his, Threshold of the Unseen(30). Barret writes that the ether, or quintessence, is considered to occupy the complete domain of animal and vegetable life but cannot be recognised by the senses. He explains that Leonardo’s conviction that the eye was the key to all knowledge left him with no alternative but to construct his worldview upon a purely mechanistic model. The Science-Art Centre considered that if the eye concept, as the key to Leonardo’s mechanistic worldview, was suitably modified, then it should identify the nature of the human survival technology alluded to in Kantian philosophy. To locate the nature of the necessary modification the Centre investigated the cause of unethical physics worldviews over the centuries. Hypatia was one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and a philosopher who taught at the Neoplatonist school of philosophy in Alexandria. She was the Chief librarian of the Great Library of Alexandria when she was murdered by a Christian mob during a burning of the library’s books. Immanuel Kant agreed with Edward Gibbon, who marked her murder, in his History of the Rise and fall of the Roman Empire, as the beginning of the Dark Ages. Saint Augustine, who fused the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy into the religion of the New Testament during that era(31), incorrectly translated into his Confessions, the ‘evil’ of unformed matter within the atom,. Instead of alluding to some futuristic vision of atomic radiation or the destructive forces of nuclear fission, he associated that evil with female sexuality. This anti-feminine bias grew over the centuries, to become part of a legalised ritualistic torture and burning of countless women and children as witches(32). Saint Thomas Aquinas, in the 14th Century, known historically as ‘The Doctor of Physics’ used Aristotle’s fifth essence of Quintessence as the base for his ‘Angel Physics’ worldview. The infamous decree, Maleus Maleficarum, in 1486 helped to accelerate a nightmare of a systematic persecution of criticism, real or otherwise, by women, against Aquinas’ Angel Physics. It can be seen that when Leonardo da Vinci, Descartes and Sir Francis Bacon’s more moderate mechanistic worldview, replaced that worldview, it none- the-less carried reflections of the ‘sexism’ of the times. Immanuel Kant has been praised for his attempt to establish a universal morality, which, from the ancient Greek perspective, can be considered to be seriously flawed. It appeared possible that Kant’s own attitude to women might be examined in an attempt to locate the key to expanding the technology that Han’s Christian Ørsted once glimpsed in association with aesthetics. The philosopher, Dr Mason Cash, at Dalhousie University in Hallifax, Canada, in his paper titled Distancing Kantian Ethics and Politics from Kant’s Views on Women(33) seems to echo the basis of our Science-Art Centre’s research inspiration. Despite past praise for Kant’s attitude toward feminism, Dr Cash has identified a misogyny, similar to that observed by the Centre, within the writings of Leonardo da Vinci. During my Artist-in-residency at the University of Sydney in 1986, to work alongside a cancer research team on the energies associated with cancer growth, the methodology to modify da Vinci’s Theory of Knowledge became obvious. I replaced the logic that he had used to place the eye as the key to all knowledge with a logic that equally embraced fundamental male and female energy systems. The focussing of life into existence occurs when the male sperm fertilizes the female ovum. By using that mechanism, instead of the eye, I saw that Leonardo’s Theory of Knowledge could be modified to identify the nature of a vast new science and technology. Leonardo da Vinci had referred to such a science as ‘a science for everything’. It was not difficult to use the modification of Leonardo’s work, to identify the nature of the supra-technology associated with a similar male- female modification to Kant’s ideas. The Hollywood Thalian Mental Health Organization launched the Science-Art Research Centre’s book containing our modification to da Vinci’s work in Los Angeles in 1989(34). This book predicted the discovery of a vast new science and technology and in 1992, such a discovery was actually announced. It had been developed from the work of the 1991 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Pierre de Gennes, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991, for his work on the properties of liquid crystals. On the 30th of September 1992, the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s television program, Quantum, announced that de Gennes’ colleagues had discovered a vast new science and technology. The principle discoverer, Professor Barry Ninham, later appointed to the Italian National Chair of Chemistry, wrote that the Centre’s work encompassed “a revolution of thought, as important to science and society as the Copernican and Newtonian revolutions”. The modification to da Vinci’s work demonstrated that the nature of the sought for Kantian human survival technology could be observed via the functioning of the human cell. It was proposed that energy receptors on the surface of the human cell receive evolutionary quintessence (ether) data and transmit it to the evolving DNA. The general concept may be hinted at by the author, Professor Eric Chaisson, who considers that in an “expanding, non equilibrated universe, it is ‘free’ energy that drives order to emerge from chaos”. He considers, within his “theory of everything”, that “We should be able to prove that there is a cosmic evolution that binds the universe together“(35). While it is beyond the scope of this paper to provide details concerning that process, a suggested methodology to generate the human survival blueprint can be more easily alluded to. The previously mentioned Nobel Laureate, Szent-Gyoergyi, postulated that energy from salts in ancient seas caused the human heartbeat rhythm, a process beginning with a simple cell. This concept has been overwhelmingly endorsed in medical literature(36). The Michael Faraday recipient, Professor Ian Stewart, writes of ‘a gait’ mathematics within a cell that can be associated with living creatures. Stewart writes that this gait mathematics is needed to reveal the true role of the genes(37). The former Chief of Brain Biochemistry, Clinical Neuroscience Branch, National Institute of Mental Health in the USA, Dr Candace Pert, discovered a ‘molecule of emotion’ found functioning in a simple cell as well as within the human metabolism. This molecule changes its geometrical form at high speeds to carry out its evolutionary purpose, a process that is relevant to the ancient Greek ethical emotion evolutionary theories. From the ancient Greek theories, ‘evolving ethics’ must reflect the health of an infinite universe, a concept embracing the fabric of their ancient human survival 'Saviour Science'. Dr Pert discovered that the ‘molecule of emotion‘ evolves in direct association with the manufacture of endocrine fluids, needed to maintain the health of the organism. It can be considered that herein may be found the principles endorsing the work of the cosmologist Mario Livio. In his book, Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, The Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos, Livio considers that beauty is a basic part of universal fundamental theories(38). Given enough data linking primitive cells to the human condition, the extrapolation of the human survival blueprint can be envisaged. It can be argued that aesthetics, associated with infinity, will be a crucial factor to be employed in the attainment of that blueprint, which will include an understanding about the use of ‘free energy’. The book, The Beauty of Fractals-Images of Complex Dynamical Systems, by H -O Peitgen and P H Richter, contains a chapter titled Freedom, Science and Aesthetics, by the Solid State Physicist, Gert Eilenberger of Cornell University in New York(39). This chapter would seem to substantiate the association between liberty, science and aesthetics already presented within this paper. Eilenberger modifies a major Kantian concept to describe the bridging of rational scientific thought to emotional aesthetic appeal. His upgrading of quantum mechanics with fractal knowledge aesthetics, would appear to belong to a future human survival science. In the preface to the book, it is considered that the prevailing geometrical logic upholds that, which the artist Friedensreich Hunertwasser calls, “the rotten foundations of our doomed civilization”. Other scientists exist, who claim that fractal logic is the basis for developing a human survival science. In the book, The Ark-Surviving the Flood of Disinformation”(40), fractal geometrical logic is also associated with cellular functioning in an attempt to define a science to avoid extinction. The mathematics of Bolzano’s Theory of Science, published during the 19th Century to solve the Kantian infinity paradox, has now been associated with fractal geometry within a review by Anthony Campbell, of Brian Clegg’s book, Infinity-The quest to think the unthinkable(41) . Practical examples of the benefits of discarding the entropic logic base governing the 20th Century worldview are now emerging. At the Science-Art Centre’s Human Survival Symposium in 2003, Professor Wolfgang Goerigk of the Computer Sciences Department of Keil University was the guest speaker. He explained that German scientists had accidentally discovered, that by assuming that the universe is infinite, solutions to complex engineering problems were generated that were beyond the capacity of the 20th Century worldview’s ability to comprehend(42). The front cover story of the July 2005 Issue of New Scientist carries the title The Age of Unreason- Creationism‘s new front in the battle of ideas. Science is portrayed as losing an educational war against the intrusion of religious fundamentalism, into what it considers to be its domain of expertise(43). By using aesthetics associated with infinity, solutions to this war can be reasoned about. Religious ethical spiritual values can be assessed in terms of a holographic universe, whereas the prevailing science appears to insist upon arguing only from a mechanistic universal viewpoint. In the light of the evidence presented in this paper, both warring factions can be considered to be unwilling to moderately compromise in the name of science. As Professor Wolfgang Goerigk might have suggested, given opportunity to do so, then agreeable solutions can be generated beyond both the warring party’s worldview’s ability to imagine. The Science-Art Research Centre’s successful modification to Leonardo da Vinci’s Theory of Knowledge involved using a concept of balanced male-female universal energy system as the key to identifying the true nature of his ‘Science for Everything’. There are Chinese scientists and senior Chinese art administrators, who see that the Science-Art Research Centre has greatly honoured the Chinese cultural concept of a universal Yin energy system, which balances a universal Yang energy system. They speak of a new sustainable rigorous worldview, shared with Western science, which is for the genuine betterment of all people and global world peace. At a Civic Reception on January 3rd, 1995 The Honourable Max Boyd, Mayor of the Tweed Sire Council officially opened Santilli Hall, named in honour of the founding father of Hadronic Chemistry, Professor Ruggero Santilli. Santilli Hall is situated within the Centre’s ‘Castle on the Hill’ near Mt Warning in the beautiful Tweed Valley of Northern New South Wales. In 2004 the Australian NSW State Government’s Department For The Arts funded the Science- Art Centre’s Science-Art Festival. The Tweed Valley City of the Arts organised for a Chinese Science-Art Delegation from Nanjing University’s Department of Astronautics to attend the Festival. The Head of the delegation was the artist Professor Can Ming. In 2005 Nanjing University published his biography with Santilli Hall featured on the front cover of the book(44). For many years it has been known how to use fractal geometry to obtain new technologies from information overload. When this process is upgraded by an international scientific input, embracing a balancing male-female knowledge, the image of American Democracy will be polished by new aesthetic reasoning, to become the universal ‘beacon of liberty’ that inspired its designers.
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1 Australian The. March 25,1986. Philosophy edges into high-tech, p 29. 2 McCormick, M. 8 Kant‘s Ethics. 3 Pedia, The , Aesthetics in History and Philosophy. Aesthetics given definition by German philosophers during the 18th Century to assist in the translation of Kantian philosophy. 4 Rai, N. 2001. Referring to Plato, “ True knowledge can only be achieved through the inquiry into the forms of these objects that do not fall within our realm of vision”...”He discards the relativeness within our knowledge as an inferior type that is based on incompetence, ignorance and a limited worldview”. 5 Carey, B. March15, 2005. 6 Rifkin, J. 1980, p.6 “The entropy principle will preside as the ruling paradigm over the next period of history. Albert Einstein said that it is the premier law of all science; Sir Arthur Eddington referred to it as the supreme metaphysical law of the entire universe”. 7 Kafka, P. p.54 Essay 5, chapter 4. The Uslessness of the Second Law. 8 Künne W. in: Edward Craig (ed.) 1998, p. 823-827 Re Bernard Bolzano’s Theory of science. ...” in its treatment of the logical 'theory of elements' far surpasses anything that world-literature has to offer in the way of a systematic sketch of logic.” 9 Coffa J. A. 1991 “Kant had not even seen these problems; Bolzano solved them. And his solutions were made possible by, and were the source of, a new approach to the content and character of a priori knowledge”. 10 Nadis, S. 2004. p.006 11 Steinhardt, P. November 2000. 12 Szent-Gyoergyi, A. Spring 1974 p. 12-24. Drive in living matter to perfect itself. 13 2005, Wikipedia "As early as 1797, he (Ørsted) passed the pharmaceutical examination with distinction, and already in 1796 and 1797 succeeded in doing the prize papers (about treatise on amniotic fluid) in both aesthetics and medicine, in each case winning the prize. Two years later he was awarded a doctorate for a dissertation on Kant's philosophy". 14 Archer-Hind, R. D. 1888. p. 92 The Timaeus of Plato “since evil, whatever it may be, is more or less inherent in the nature of matter and can never be totally abolished”. This suggests the existence of the universal atomic decay energy system. As matter was considered to evolve from soul, associated with the ethical values belonging to Quintessence energies, a primitive description of the balancing science needed to avoid extinction is provided. 15 Toulmin. S. E. 1967 in The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. P 214. 16 Kamtekar. R. 25 January, 2002 “Epicurus was seen as a saviour by his followers, which included women and slaves in addition to the free men. He also had amateur followers, people that were not part of the community. Epicurus’ influence spanned as far as Turkey and it took over ‘all of Italy’ (in the exaggerated report of Cicero) in the first century A.D.” 17 Diggins, J. P. 1987, p.31. 18 Clarke, A. C. 2004 19 Turnbull H. W. (ed.) 1961. correspondence 234. “But if the matter was evenly diffused through an infinite space, it would never convene into one mass but some of it convene into one mass and some into another so as to make an infinite number of great masses scattered at great distances from one to another throughout all the infinite space.” Newton. 20 Gregory, R. 1989, p. 473. “...Proclaimed Newton’s conviction that mechanical science had to be completed by a more natural philosophy which probed the active principles behind particles in motion.” 21 Illert, C. 1987. 1989, 1990. 22 Illert, C. and Santilli, R. M. 1995. 23 Johansen, S. E. June 24, 2005 24 de Chardrin, P. T. 1995. “The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human – these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth...” 25 Reanney, D. 1991. p.25 “It means that consciousness is not an observer in the dynamics of the universe; it is an active participant.” 26 Bekenstein, J. D. 2003, Front cover story, Scientific American. Are you a hologram? Quantum physics says that the entire universe might be. 27 Reich E. S. 30 June 2004. Re J. Barrow and J. Webb. “A varying speed of light contradicts Einstein’s theory of relativity, and would undermine much of traditional physics.” 28 Balfour, M. 2002. In his book, Sign of the Serpent – Key to Life Energy, the Centre’s colleague, author Dr Mark Balfour, quotes from Newton’s letters to Richard Bentley (1692-1693) in which Newton describes a living force that pervades gravity. Newton’s Optics (1704) gives an elastic property to a force pervading all bodies in which particles of light constantly exchange with matter and vice versa. 29 Britannica On Line ...”to Leonardo, sight was man's highest sense organ because sight alone conveyed the facts of experience immediately, correctly, and with certainty. Hence, every phenomenon perceived became an object of knowledge. Saper vedere ("knowing how to see") became the great theme of his studies of man's works and nature's creations.” 30 Barrett W. F. 1917, p. 274 Re the ether, “...superseding the ordinary laws which regulate the movements of inanimate matter...” 31 Encyclopædia Britannica, 1974, p. 364 Re Saint Augustine “His mind was the crucible in which the religion of the New Testament was most completely fused with the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy...” 32 Wikipedia “Hypatia may have been the first famous "witch" punished under Christian authority, as was noted by many church-critical authors; however, while some of the Christian invective used to justify or excuse her murder betrays a vulgar reliance on fear of black magic, the essence of Christian objections to her influence will have lain in the turbulent confluence of Christian and Platonic assertions about the nature of God and the afterlife, which achieved its most famous expression fifteen years later in Augustine's The City of God.” 33 Cash. M., 2002. Re title Distancing Kantian Ethics and Politics from Kant's Views on Women 34 Pope, R. & Todonai, R. 1989. p. 110.† 35 Chaisson. E. J., 2006. p. 36 “We should be able to prove that there is a cosmic evolution that binds the universe together.” 36 Fleckenstein. A. 1984. Foreword “’Ions were the powerful tools of life as it developed in the oceans.’ This fundamental proposition as to the basis of animal and human life was made by Albert Szent-Gyeőrgi about thirty years ago in respect to the essential role of ions in the functioning of cardiac and skeletal muscle...now, three decades later, there is overwhelming experimental evidence to support this far sighted proposition.” 37 Stewart, I. 1995, In 1995 the Royal Society awarded him the Michael Faraday Medal for the year's most significant contribution to the public understanding of science. 38 Livio. M. July 2001. The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos [E-Book and paperback] 39 Peitgen, H –O. & Richter, P. H. 1986. p.175 Gert Eilenberger, author of chapter titled Freedom, Science and Aesthetics, upgrades quantum mechanics. 40 Hall. T. D. 1997 41 Campbell. A. “Bernard Bolzano, a mathematician whose important contribution to the subject was published posthumously in 1848, believed in a "real" infinity.” Bernard Bolzano’s mathematics associated with fractals. 42 Goerigk. W. 2003. Re German scientisits accidentally discovering that solutions to complex engineering problems could be generated by assuming the univese to be infinite. 43 Krauss. L. 9 July, 2005. p. 12 Lawrence Krauss, the Director of the Centre for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at the Cape Western Reserve University, asks the question “so having lost the PR battle how can scientists hope to win the war over educating young people? Scientists must learn that fighting lobbyists is not the same as debating scientific ideas in journals.” 44 Can Ming. L. 2005. Professor Liu Can Ming’s autobiography published in China contains some twenty plates portraying his teaching at the Science-Art Research Centre of Australia during 2004.
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