You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. The Neo-Organicist Turn: Explanatory Inversion and Creative Control 1. Since 1900, the predominant worldview has been the mechanistic worldview, centered on the root metaphor of the machine (for example, a steam engine or a digital computer) which … [continue reading]
Author Archives: Robert Hanna
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #29–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview IV: Solving The Free Will Problem.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #28–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview III: Dynamic Systems Theory and The Dynamic World Picture.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
Turing, Strong AI, and The Fantasy of Transhumanist Spiritualism.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Turing, Strong AI, and The Fantasy of Transhumanist Spiritualism In 1933, under the heading of “[The] Nature of Spirit,” Alan Turing wrote: [A]s regards the actual connection between spirit and body I consider that the body by … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #27–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview II: Solving The Mind-Body Problem.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #26–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview I: The Neo-Organicist Worldview.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay, HERE. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 1. Panpsychism is the two-part metaphysical thesis which says (Pi) that mental properties are at least as basic in the natural world in its total spatiotemporal extent and all … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #25–Seven Arguments Against The Mechanistic Worldview.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
Gun Crazy: A Moral Argument For Gun Abolitionism.
The imagistic companion piece for this essay, “Guns Я Us: A Thought-Shaper,” is HERE. And you can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Gun Crazy: A Moral Argument For Gun Abolitionism I. Introduction As the latest horrific mass shooting in the USA—this one at an … [continue reading]
“Rational Anthropology”: What’s in a Name? –Imagine a New Kind of Philosophy.
’Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would … [continue reading]