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10.05.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 7:26 pm by nemo
After the discussion of religion (previous post today), it is appropriate to consider how the evolution of religion is treated in light of the discovery of the eonic effect: we find that the ‘eonic evolution’ (as defined in the text of World History And The Eonic Effect) of religion is clearly tied up with the eonic sequence so-called. This creates the need to distinguish several varieties of religion, or several perspectives to look at the question.
In any case, we can see that religion is something much different from what biologists would like to reduce it to. It is bound up in some of its manifestations with a ‘macroevolutionary’ process.
Below is a short selection on this from WHEE, which might not quite make sense out of context, but it should give some idea.
The Eonic Evolution Of Religion
In the wake of the modern transition, right on schedule, we find a resurgence of religious traditionalism, indeed, fundamentalism, endangering the fragile achievement of secularism, Read the rest of this entry »
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10.02.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 8:44 pm by nemo
The previous post tonight raised the question of how science should handle the idea of freedom. One of the most interesting and enigmatic aspects of the study of the eonic effect is the way in which the ideas of freedom and causality are analyzed in tandem to produce a unified model of their action. And one of the most spectacular aspects of this is the so-called ‘discrete freedom sequence’ which relates directly to the emergence of democracy across world history, an emergence with a subtle discoverable pattern, whose implications for modern political ideology are profound.
Here is a short selection from World History And The Eonic Effect:
…Thus history and evolution are like two overlapping processes, the one the chronicle of man’s emergent free activity, the other the greater process of an evolutionary driver behind this emergence. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 5:40 pm by nemo
Readers of this blog have noted the many selections from World History And The Eonic Effect, linked to Amazon.com. One of the liabilities of the book information page is a review, several years old, which Amazon wouldn’t take down (they used to take down obvious one-star pseudo-reviews, but stopped), accusing the author (nemo) of all sorts of postmodern sins. Few reviews could have been more unfair, and done more destruction of the book’s reputation (the reviewer was a talk.origins groupie, after I made the mistake of engaging in an evolution debate there). There are actually a lot of things to discuss here, and WHEE is a tricky book to assess. But here, three years later is a correction:
From John Landon’s Amazon blog
Read the rest of this entry »
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10.01.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 6:02 pm by nemo
From World History And The Eonic Effect
Enigma Of The Axial Age
…the presentation of the eonic effect takes the overall pattern, the transition sequence, as a starting point. That’s the simplest approach in the long run, and the data generates this gestalt upon examination of world history. But that increases the level of complexity, invokes issues of historical dynamics, then of ideology and modernism. But it is an historical given that this data was perceived at first in its second step, the so-called Axial Age. Read the rest of this entry »
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09.27.08
Posted in Science & Religion, The Axial Age, Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 6:20 pm by nemo
The current debate over teaching the controversy is the object, no doubt, of unreasonable obstruction from the Darwin establishment, who, however, are understandably afraid the resulting ‘controversy’ being taught will be one-sided, or directed solely at making Darwinism look weak while the ID gambit lurks in the background. But I think dialecticians, in the science tribe, should devise a genuine methodology for teaching the controversy. Religionists have gotten away too long with an uncritical stance on, say, the Old Testament, whose enigma is understood neither by scientific humanists nor adherents of Biblical faith.
IN the study of world history the history indicated in the Old Testament shows a structure, in among other things, its correlation (at its core period) with the Axial Age interval. This shows its direct association with the issues of the eonic effect, whose ‘evolutionary model’ puts this history in the rubric of ‘evolution’, as redefined in the method of World History And The Eonic Effect as ‘eonic evolution’.
So ‘teaching the controversy’ should work both ways. Religionists can challenge Darwinism, and scientists can attempt to annex the Old Testament/Axial phase as ‘eonic evolution’ in the general ‘eonic evolution’ of civilization via the drumbeat eonic sequence depicted in the eonic model/eonic effect.
[The argument is cast in the 'stream and sequence' terminology of the text, quid vide, but its basic meaning is that the 'cultural stream' of Canaanite/Israelite history intersects the 'eonic sequence' in the Axial interval.]
Selection from World History And The Eonic Effect
The Old Testament As Eonic Data
One of the most remarkable cases of the eonic effect is reflected in the Old Testament. Historians are beginning to close in on the Old Testament period, to produce an account that finally begins to make sense of the confusing history and scholarship here. Read the rest of this entry »
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09.25.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 10:18 pm by nemo
From John Landon’s Amazon blog: Finding A Science Of History, blog for World History And The Eonic Effect
The anomaly that science in its current form cannot produce a science of history is the key to realizing that something is wrong with the Darwinian account of human evolution.
Solving it requires asking some basic questions about our conceptual usage of the terms ‘evolution’ and ‘history’, and resolving the paradox of causality and freedom. And giving world history a careful look to see if we can detect the that resolution in empirical terms.
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09.24.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 9:32 pm by nemo
World History And The Eonic Effect
Schopenhauer and The Caveman Buddhas
In the evolution of humans the emergence of the Buddha phenomenon remains one of its most enigmatic aspects, as it appears fully blown in the Indic stream (and elsewhere, often in disguise). Quite apart from the sheer inadequacy of Darwinian scientism to even describe this phenomenon, let alone confront its evolutionary emergence. Our model should not presume to simplistic explanations, but a close look shows us a number of clues. Although clearly specialized as an exploration of the limits of philosophy the classical German phase of philosophy in the Enlightenment shows us in the works of Schopenhauer how the connection between the discourse of Reason and the sutras of self-consciousness, as these arise in the phases of Indian Upanishadism, can easily be made.
The resemblance of Kantian critical thinking to the classic vein of discourse on ‘appearances’ (Maya) is brought out clearly by that remarkable successor to Kant, this in parallel to the work of Hegel, despite its seeming publicity several generations downfield. What is remarkable is that Schiopenhauer appears just at the point that reverse diffusion globally injects the stream of Indic religious thought into the dramatics of modernism. And yet, as he insists, his intuitions appear just before the onset of the flood of this diffusion. He even tells us the secret behind this, as he refers to the One Thought behind his opus. Although we cannot easily divine the mysteries of mind in such an Romantic genius, the type par excellence, we can roughly intuit what he is driving at, and we can also see that his realization appears almost at one stroke, virtually reinventing ‘buddhism’ on the spot, and in isolation, and this in the most obvious connection to a general mainline of eonic emergence given powerful expression by a figures such as Rousseau and Kant.
This is a specialized philosophic endeavor, and may not reach quite the same result as the practical efforts of ancient yogis and their meditations and ascetic ractices, but in the end it is all of a piece. It is this field of eonic emergence that gives us the clue then. And as we look backward toward the vistas of deep time and the period of man’s earliest appearances, we can easily suspect, without the details, just how the Buddha phenomenon could arise suddenly in the deep Paleolithic and almost fully formed from the latent potential of human self-consciousness.
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09.23.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 7:26 pm by nemo
From World History And The Eonic Effect
Toward A Secular Postdarwinism
Darwin’s theory of natural selection borders on fraud, and is the original case of the crank theory. To make natural selection do the whole work of the entirety of metaphysics, in the process resolving all of its antinomies, has to be the biggest tomfoolery in the history of ‘science’. This theory is likely to put the whole of secularism at risk. We should move at once to ask, What do we mean by secularism? And we can wonder if Darwin’s theory is appropriate as its defining standard. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Evolution, Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 4:04 pm by nemo
Dave Scot from UD
Your question about historical design and liberalism makes no sense in the english language. The grammar is incorrect. I have no idea what you were trying to ask.
If the author of World History and The Eonic Effect wants us to review his book he can contact us with the request and send a review copy first.
Frist, about review copies. This is a POD book, completely independent from any interest group, propaganda org, or establishment channel. They don’t come with review copies. It plays by different rules. If you want a review copy, buy one at Amazon. You know you wouldn’t review it, so why the dishonest pretense about a review copy?
The real Darwin critics aren’t all that rich. Can’t all those republican millionaires financing the Discovery Institute spare fifteen dollars for a Darwin critique? Hit up Bill Dembski for the money. Moral: you would do everything in your power to suppress a Darwin critique that wasn’t a brand of ID, after the ID group ripped off all the critics of the original scientific Darwin critics.
The burden is on you to assess the information. Amazon
The issue of liberalism and design, contrary to your statement, makes complete sense. Check out the eonic effect. There is a mysterious (natural) design to history, and in that context the issues of the emergence of freedom show a strong correlation.
Again, check out the book.
Meanwhile filling the ID gambit with rightwing poison–well, I’m puzzled. The design argument will never recover.
Note: I actually did send a copy of WHEE to the Discovery Institute. No doubt already in the trash.
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09.21.08
Posted in Critique of Evolutionary Economy, Evolution, Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 5:49 pm by nemo
Note from the previous post the way that evolutionary/Darwinian theory is being discussed, NOT BY EXTERNAL OBSERVERS ABOUT THE PAST, but agents in present ABOUT THE FUTURE application of the theory, a clear violation of theoretical procedure. The ‘observer’ is in reality an economic agent discussing how a presumed claim about the past should influence our decisions about the future. This incoherence in the use of evolutionary theory is discussed in World History And The Eonic Effect, which demands a new kind of theory.
The problem is called the Oedipus Paradox and is discussed here:
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09.17.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 8:23 pm by nemo
From World History And The Eonic Effect
History And Evolution: The Eonic Effect
It is world history itself that shows us the clue to evolution. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 6:03 pm by nemo
Note to a reader of World History And The Eonic Effect
The book first describes a non-random pattern, the eonic effect, or ‘eonic sequence’, then sets up a simple model to reflect the data. The model can be taken simple as a scheme of periodization, without any theory, but shows a remarkable relationship to some basic ideas of Kant. The key to the whole book is his so called very famous third antinomy…
The book at Amazon
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09.16.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 9:30 am by nemo
One of the great riddles of world history and of eonic effect is the appearance of the tragic genre in ancient Greece. Here’s a selection from World History And The Eonic Effect
Art, Evolution and The Tragic Genre
The historian William MacNeill, in Keeping Together in Time, considers the element of dance and song in human evolution. But this process is right under our noses if we carefully do some accounting of relative transforms in our eonic pattern. Read the rest of this entry »
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09.13.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 6:52 pm by nemo
World History hides a very deep enigma, one that standard historical/evolutionary analysis has failed to grapple with.
As we study, using eonic periodization, the emergence of great art across world history, we make some surprising discoveries, and correlations. One of the most interesting aspects of the study of the eonic effect is the way we detect such deeper processes at work in the dynamic of historical evolution. The passage below is slightly out of context, but makes sense nonetheless.
Buy the book for the full analysis! Read the rest of this entry »
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09.12.08
Posted in The Eonic Effect, Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 7:56 pm by nemo
Climbing Mt. Improbable, an intro piece for
World History And The Eonic Effect
When you get tired of the Darwin debate, and realize that neither side (only two sides?) is telling the truth….
The eonic effect dispenses with naturalism/supernaturalism debates, dispenses with reductionism or design figments, and simply detects, and then zooms in on, an evolutionary phenomenon.
The awesome spectacle of real evolution is lost on Darwinists (and ID people also, for that matter)
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09.11.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 8:48 pm by nemo
A selection from World History And The Eonic Effect
Evolution And Ethics
It is altogether apt that the metaphor of a trial should appear in the Darwin debate, Read the rest of this entry »
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09.10.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 6:51 pm by nemo
If the ID argument seems confusing, cf. our frequent distinction here between natural design, and so-called intelligent design
Selection from World History And The Eonic Effect
The argument by design has a long history, and this is not the same as the issue of ‘design’ as such. It is not hard to see that ‘something like design’ is at work in genetic structures. Historical amnesia reigns. We might, for example, review the early debates here, and consider a Kantian perspective or the classic critiques of the argument by design. The Intelligent Design group has not demonstrated the argument by design. These tactics can be very destructive. We cannot examine design under the aegis of particular religious groups with ambitious social strategies. Such questions require strict religious neutrality. But that is unlikely here, making discussion pointless. In any case the design interpretation thrives only because Darwin’s theory is very extreme in its claims for natural selection.
G-design vs. N-design Design arguments tend to confuse two meanings of the term ‘design’. It is incontestable that many biochemical structures show design, in the complexity of their almost programmatic functionality. We might call G-design the action of a known ‘designer’, viz. a supernatural agent (god?), with the term N-design to refer to the bare functional aspect of complex biological structures. We can infer N-design, but this does not resolve the question of its evolution. It is hard to explicate N-design by arguments using natural selection. It does not follow that we can infer G-design.
Natural teleology The design argument is ambiguous and is really a theological version of teleological thinking. In the pursuit of N-design the factor of teleology might arise as a challenge to reductionism, but this teleological aspect can better be seen as a discovery of methodological naturalism.
Does the Old Testament show evidence of design? Proponents of Intelligent Design wish to create a ‘design science’, but adopt a double standard with the Biblical document data. The assumption seems to be that the Biblical text, presumably taken as ‘money in the bank’, prior evidence of G-design, can put a plus in the case for design in early evolution. But the Old Testament can grant no such edge to design preconceptions. Given the Axial correlation of this data, we might consider an argument by N-design (historical directionality). That would require, however, the same argument for the parallel emergence of atheist religions in the Axial interval. Thus, it is hard to maintain an argument for G-design in this classic mass of evidence of the Axial Age or eonic effect. The irony we will see is that the Old Testament is a primitive discovery of (macro) evolution!
This ‘design’ in quotation marks falls between two stools, scientific and religious, and can hardly be taken as a proof of divinity. It is, at least, an aspect of nature, one that monotheistic traditions seem unable to confront. Such thinking is meaningless if we know so little about nature. Only the false claim that Darwin’s theory of natural selection resolved the issue of design could have started such a confused discourse on both sides. Let us set this booby-trapped terminology aside, having acknowledged the cogency of the critique, without succumbing to theological legerdemain.
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09.09.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 8:55 pm by nemo
From World History And The Eonic Effect
The historical emerges from the unknown, the primeval scenes of evolution, and the emergence of the hominid creature with a runaway brain from the Paleolithic, the ‘primordial minus infinity’ from which man arrives to commence the arts of agriculture, and the creation of civilization. This tale must be one of relative beginnings and pass on from the still clouded threshold moment when modern man passed, or by-passed, the Neanderthal in an explosion of cultural and artistic creativity. Read the rest of this entry »
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09.07.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 8:22 pm by nemo
From World History And The Eonic Effect
Historical research has greatly expanded our knowledge of world history, and the result is an unexpected discovery: that of a process of universal history in the action of a mysterious dynamic generating a non-random pattern. We call this the eonic effect. Further, the scale of this process is such that we can only call it ‘evolution’. Thus, for the first time we can detect the unmistakable evidence of non-random evolution, and this in world history itself. This leaves us with the question, What is evolution? And this forces another, long overdue, What is the relationship between history and evolution? This could be recast as the paradoxical question, When did evolution stop and history begin?
A moment’s reflection will tell us that no instantaneous passage between the two is plausible and that our terms have been left ragged. We must, by this logic, be able to detect a Transition between evolution and history. Can we find evidence to match this deduction? Indeed, we can, our non-random pattern, the eonic effect. In fact we can say more: if we apply that same logic to our Transition we should expect it to take the form of a series of transitions in an alternation between evolution and history, as if overlayed, the one emerging from the other. The eonic effect shows just this property of transitions in a series. Have we reached the end of the Great Transition? If not, then our evolution still constitutes our present and future. We should ask who man is, with such wisdom as would constitute achievement of the title, homo sapiens.
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09.06.08
Posted in Booknotes, Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 4:00 pm by nemo
The simple strategy behind World History And The Eonic Effect:
The issue of Darwinism is so overhyped that we forget that it MUST be wrong. Squirm in your seat a minute, MUST BE WRONG.
We know that almost certainly on independent philosophic grounds. This refers, not to the fact of evolution, but to the claims for natural selection.
The reason, or reasons, lie in the nature of reductionism itself. Scientists are really trying to match the success of Newton in biology, and that’s impossible, we feel quite sure, so if scientists make such a claim, even if they disguise it somehow, we know it is wrong, whatever else they say in the way of evidence.
It is like claiming a jet can go into orbit. It can’t. It might come close, but…
Once we sense just how wrong it is, we can go in search of what must exist: the counterexamples.
But these are legion. Take one issue, that of consciousness. Scientists can’t even claim to have explained consciousness, yet they claim that Darwin’s theory explains how it evolved!!
That’s a remarkable blunder for people who preen their feathers, ‘aren’t we smart’. There are dozens of examples like that.
In general we have but to look at man in history. The complexity of man’s cultural life in civilization simply evades any form of reductionist explanation.
But the discovery of the eonic effect does more than this, it discovers the connection of history and evolution, and it does this with a so-called macrohistorical argument: Is there a kind of ‘big history’ or grand historical dynamic? Is seems implausible that there should be.
But how can we tell?
Systematic periodization produces something counter-intuitive, just such a macro structure.
In a nutshell: throw a sine curve at world history and what do we get? Remarkably we discover a non-random pattern.
That’s good luck indeed. We don’t need so much to falsify Darwinism, but we get this additional windfall.
In the process we see that the many things that reductionism has to explain away via simplistic natural selection are in reality connected to an evolutionary driver, one visible over the long range.
It seems strange to bring evolution into history, but done rightly it is an entirely valid approach, as long as we don’t confuse it with Darwinian evolution.
Enjoy your paradigm shift. Watch out for the ID gang as you head for the exit.
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Posted in Booknotes, Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 3:23 pm by nemo
I am going to be publicly listing some of the people/orgs to whom I have sent review copies of World History And The Eonic Effect.
The question of review copies is a frustrating waste, and perhaps a little public embarassement might do the trick before all these organizations throw the books away, or sell them at Amazon (in this case, I have made sure that won’t happen: the review are packaged as unsalable).
This strategy is a reminder, in this case, that there is a strategy of completely ignoring World History And The Eonic Effect. and Darwiniana. I have linked to their blog hundreds of times, with nothing in return. PLEASE NOTE this if you think that ‘teaching the controversy’ is going to allow rival insights into the classroom.
And yet this book every way contains the clue to where both sides in the debate are going wrong. But each side is so stuck in their propaganda routine that the public has been frozen in confusion.
Teaching the controversy is a joke if the only viewpoints allowed are ID and Darwinism.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL THE TRUTH about evolution in public, if those controlling it are essentially politicians with no declared vow to tell only the truth.
Thus we need input from outside the main bastions of deception, in the form of self-published books, the means of last resort.
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09.05.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 10:52 pm by nemo
The study of the eonic effect gives us a self-defense toolkit for seeing through the oversimplifications of Dawinism.
From the conclusion to World History And The Eonic Effect.
Time to get the book!
Beyond Darwinism: A Theoretical Self-defense
Our demonstration of a non-random pattern in world history is complete, and along the way we have stumbled on much more, a system of macro-history that matches a discrete-continous model, a stroke of luck, and reflecting a process operating over tens of millennia, one that we can only call ‘evolution’, by default. The result grants a self-defense against claims of science in the confusions of Darwinism applied to history. Read the rest of this entry »
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09.04.08
Posted in Evolution, History, Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 3:04 pm by nemo
At the Kant’s Challenge blog:
From World History And The Eonic Effect, Kant’s Challenge, and
The Challenge resolved
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09.02.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 8:45 pm by nemo
A selection from World History And The Eonic Effect
A Photo Finish Test
We can restate problem with Darwin’s theory on man as a photo finish argument, falsifying Darwinism. The problem is that ‘history’ and ‘evolution’ overlap, so our account is moving towards a photo finish contradiction. We are beginning to see something totally different from what Darwinists propose. Nor is it likely that earlier human emergence could be something completely different from this. The eonic effect shows us direct examples of the evolution of social units, religions, cultural entities, at a high level, in a non-genetic macroevolution. The core nature of man and his culture springs from the very period Darwinists assume for their account. Are we to suppose without proof this was purely genetic? The brief photo finish of human evolution since the beginning of civilization is thus beginning to suggest a surprising set of facts.
Darwinism fails a reality check, given the eonic effect, and thus flunks a photo finish test. If someone says the racehorse is one color, and the photo finish shows another, the original claim comes under suspicion. If the claim is made that cultural and biological evolution are distinct, we can construct (below) an evolution of freedom argument demanding an overlap of some unified homogenous evolution. Over and over people have suspected something is missing in Darwin’s theory. We sense immediately that we have found it, and in our own history. The search for a ‘something’ that might ‘cause evolution’ against the random suddenly becomes visible in our own history, seen in the very pattern of human activity taken over the long term. We see conclusive evidence of a global aspect to evolution.
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Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 3:48 pm by nemo
Freedom Evolves, from John Landon’s Amazon Blog.
One of the confusions of Dawinism is the invariable use of adaptationism/selectionist explanations for everything they don’t understand, such a ‘free will’, as with Dennett’s book, ‘Freedom Evolves’.
World History And The Eonic Effect provides a critique and much better answer to the question as it generates a framework of theory for the ‘evolution of freedom’.
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09.01.08
Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 8:16 pm by nemo
Another selection from World History And The Eonic Effect
Evolution and Ethics
It is altogether apt that the metaphor of a trial should appear in the Darwin debate, as if an injured party wished to take action in a court of judgment. This theory was and is dangerous, and any evidence of its limits should clearly be labeled on the package. It is ironic therefore that this theory is now increasingly pressed into service to account for ethics. Here is the Achilles heel of scientific thought. We are given to assume that scientific methods can account for all aspects of reality, and that a kind of bootstrap reductionism can start at the most fundamental and proceed to explain the most complex.
Why are we to grant the assumption? Newton did not grant it. Absent a demonstration, this betrays the ambition of science to control, more than to explain. Apparently Laplace whispering in the ear of Napoleon is the beginning of this campaign. The attempts to push Darwin’s theory to the limit to account for the evolution of morality suggest the failure of this assumption. The result is the paradox of value-free science confronted with the domain of values.
This is in fact an old issue, and the secular philosophical verdict of an earlier period is that science is intrinsically limited here, witness the clear distinction in Kant of theoretical and practical reason as a way to mediate causal phenomena and intentional action. The world of Kant reminds us of the immensity of early modern discourse in this area, and what many saw as the decline from this peak in the onset of positivistic sciences. He certainly demonstrated the great complexity of the question and the limits of rational endeavor in this regard. Modern scientific education systematically misleads students here, and we are left with technical experts trained in a scientific religion, and a facile contempt for the Two Cultures dilemma.
Selectionist accounts of ethics violate the first requirement of producing an ethical agent to make ethical choices. We have no clear picture of the evolution of such an agent, leastwise by natural selection. Darwinists seem satisfied to account for ethics on an ad hoc basis, e.g. showing how natural selection could produce altruism. This agent must choose, yet is granted no choice, in what must be, on scientific grounds, the blind mechanization of ethical action. The problem here is that the level of software and hardware is scrambled. The most obvious possibility is that altruism is simply counterevidence to theory…
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Posted in Third Edition, World History and The Eonic Effect at 8:13 pm by nemo
The last few posts have exposed the basic ideology question that haunts the Darwin debate.
But here the perspective on evolution given by the eonic model (of the eonic effect) can actually deal with this issue more successfully because the question of ideology is built into the question of evolution. It seems paradoxical, but it must be so, if we reflect on the way in which natural selection theory impinges on questions of social behavior.
In the eonic effect and its model the theory and the theorist are part of the data of the model! The model includes its own self-generation as an historical object.
World History And The Eonic Effect
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