Gary C. Gibson - Essays

 Was it Kierkegaard who hated the use of the word 'absolute'? That word is derived from absolve that means to free from blame. Most ...

Will is contingent upon consciousness. If one has consciousness one may choose to act or not. Some say conscious decisions to act are not ma...

 Humans May Have Evolved From Rats Named Purgatoriuos 65 Million Years BC I had a concentration in history in college and learned a lot from...

Metaphysics is an activity. It can use many kinds of tools. It is bigger and smaller, simultaneously, than a bread box while being for-itsel...

To be or not to be; that is an example of a binary absolute.In logic and programming there are disjuncts. A logic gate tests for a condition...

Marxism is a practical idea for organizing revolutionaries that are from underdeveloped countries with concentrated wealth. The masses are l...

Gambling seems to be taking over sports. Betting on events on-line at a profusion of new sites is all over the internet People need on-line ...

 Frankl was profoundly influenced by his time in. Nazi concentration camp. He developed theories about recovery and finding meaning afterwar...

 Capitalism is probably more natural than socialism although economically challenged people are probably happy enough if either works reason...

 Dr. Degrasse Tyson was credited with saying that God can’t be omnipotent and let evil exist at the same time. There are numerous theologica...

 People have researched the origin of particular religions for more than 2000 years. That sort of scholarship isn’t anything new. It is wron...

 The hypothetical unified field includes space-time. It may all be one kind of thing at T=0. Energy is defined as the ability to do work rat...

 The realm of forms was an idea held by some philosophers of The Academy yet not ordinary people. I don’t believe Socrates believed in a tra...

 History is written by any interested party these days. Actually there always were people unaffiliated with winners that wrote history. Proc...

 It was Russell that got Cambridge to award a doctorate to Wittgenstein for the Tractatus; sort of the Finnegan’s Wake of epistemology. Russ...

 The present administration has a cognitively challenged, declining war monger escalating toward nuclear war over a nation he would not shar...

 Shannon entropy entales the conservation of information in some respects; that is, it is comparable to entropy and thermodynamics. Informat...

  I was disappointed to find that adding together two equal infinite sets that are oppositely signed; for instance the real  between -1 and ...

 Many post modernist behaviorists claim that free will doesn’t exist. They propose that subconscious conditioning from nature innately decid...

 Time exists with space, aka space-time. Space-time is temporal and probably won’t exist forever. Then no time exists nor does anything… exc...