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A fundamental question at artificial intelligence (AI) informatics scientists: Are information and artificial and biological intelligence non-causal, not based on energy? I am now finalizing a...
08 December 2022 4,961 48 View
We see many theories in physics, mathematics, etc. becoming extremely axiomatic and rigorous. But are comparisons between mathematics, physics, and philosophy? Can the primitive notions...
29 October 2022 2,730 100 View
We know that time is not an existent entity. It is a measuremental concept behind all experiences of existent physical processes. But measurement is always by conventional scales. Can we then...
22 October 2022 5,190 97 View
22 October 2022 8,190 97 View
I have been attempting in a book project to re-interpret the notions of CAUSALITY, DETERMINISM, CHAOS, FREEDOM, etc. purely physically. Still I find a way to place the concept of freedom within...
19 October 2022 1,126 64 View
I do not find many astrophysicists and cosmologists engaging themselves with the question of the probable origin or origins of the cosmos. Even when a work is purportedly to be on this theme, the...
14 October 2022 354 93 View
Today physics (and other sciences too) has become so drunk that they produce extremely confusing terms. One such system is that of Matter-Energy as existents and Mass-Energy are not existents but...
14 October 2022 5,681 43 View
Why are numbers and shapes so exact? ‘One’, ‘two’, ‘point’, ‘line’, etc. are all exact. But irrational numbers are not so. The operations on these notions are also intended to be exact. If notions...
01 January 1970 1,315 63 View
Some seem to believe that the supposed existence of an ether can save much in physics and cosmology. If ether is of infinite activity, it cannot interact with anything in the world, and hence also...
01 January 1970 8,670 99 View
If induction and deduction are mutually connected, what is the framework upon which they may be connected? Will such a framework of connecting induction and deduction be a mere perspective or...
01 January 1970 6,092 52 View
By reason of the application of the Lorentz Factor [(1 - (v squared / c squared)) raised to the power of 1/2] in the denominator of equations, luminal and other comparable energy propagations take...
01 January 1970 8,994 69 View
Observe how even today linguistic empiricism via direct denotative reference and sense, via linguistic-analytic philosophies, reigns supreme in philosophy. It is superfluous here to cite how...
01 January 1970 7,121 95 View
HOW TO GROUND SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY TOGETHER AXIOMATICALLY? Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. We see many theories in physics, mathematics, etc. becoming extremely axiomatic and rigorous....
01 January 1970 7,940 50 View
MATHEMATICS VS. CAUSALITY: A SYSTEMIC RECONCILIATION Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. [email protected] 1. Preface on the Use of Complex Language 2. Prelude on the Pre-Scientific Principle...
01 January 1970 9,951 100 View
THE FATE OF “SOURCE-INDEPENDENCE” IN ELECTROMAGNETISM, GRAVITATION, AND MONOPOLES Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. With the introductory claim that I make here suggestions that seem...
01 January 1970 9,853 44 View
ELECTROMAGNETIC QUANTA HAVE EXTENSION AND CHANGE WITHIN. DO THEY ALSO GRAVITATE? AND DO THE GRAVITONS GRAVITATE OR REPEL? Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. MODES OF EXISTENCE OF...
01 January 1970 5,515 100 View
THE PHYSICAL-ONTOLOGICAL FALLACIES OF SPACE, TIME, AND SPACETIME IN PHYSICS Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. Basis of Axiomatizing Science and Philosophy The problem of axiomatizing...
01 January 1970 6,229 58 View
CHALLENGING THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE SPEED OF LIGHT AS A CONSTANT Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. We know that neither time nor space is an existent entity like physical existents. It is a...
01 January 1970 4,670 53 View
Linguistic analytic philosophy seems to be the philosophy of the day -- represented more than 60% or 70% of academic philosophers in some or other manner. What Frege, Wittgenstein, etc. have said...
01 January 1970 10,003 73 View
Can reason and rational questions be carried beyond Physics and Cosmology, where reason and rational questions are perhaps based on and by generalization of existing results in Physics and Cosmology?
01 January 1970 3,853 75 View
I do not have doubts about the usefulness of Chat GPT. What are the advantages and disadvantages of it from a general (common usage) and an academic (teaching and research) viewpoints?
01 January 1970 5,326 62 View
Quantum physics is a highly muddled system of systems. Nevertheless, is it possible to enumerate the major flaws and minor ones in quantum physics, with sufficient justification? It would be good...
01 January 1970 2,630 97 View
ESSENTIAL REASON IN PHYSICISTS’ USE OF LOGIC: IN OTHER SCIENCES TOO! Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. The Logic of PhysicsPhysics students begin with meso-world experiments and theories....
01 January 1970 164 65 View
I hear and read much about physical causality, causal necessity, and modal necessity. Many take them for different or slightly different. I opine that causality and necessity, at the core, are...
01 January 1970 6,929 75 View
I hear from many that philosophy is some kind of metaphysical talk where the 'meta-' of metaphysics is something beyond this world. I hear scientists, e.g., the great Stephen Hawking, belittling...
01 January 1970 4,689 100 View
Reification of Concepts in Quantum Physics: The best of physicists and philosophers of physics even today do not seem to be decided on any concrete but all-encompassing solution by reason of the...
01 January 1970 9,470 97 View
In relativity (GTR, STR) we hear of masslessness. What is the meaning of it with respect to really (not merely measurementally) existent particles / waves? I am of the opinion that, while...
01 January 1970 7,007 100 View
Many papers and books have been written about the EPR problem. Does the EPR problem have a final solution?
01 January 1970 7,573 71 View
SPACETIME CURVATURE, GRAVITATIONAL WAVES, GRAVITONS, AND ANTI-GRAVITONS: Do They All Exist? Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. There may be physicists and philosophers of physics who do not...
01 January 1970 6,535 81 View
Studying the various philosophers, even the contemporary thinkers, is a matter of study and analysis. Whatever our stage of development is, such study and analysis can only be educating ourselves...
01 January 1970 3,891 100 View
Existents in Extension and Change are physical, not virtual. Their conglomerations may be taken as virtual in the sense that such a conglomeration may be in a position to function as a...
01 January 1970 2,654 81 View
CRITERIA TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN VIRTUALS AND EXISTENTS IN SCIENCE Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph. D., Dr. phil. Existents are in Extension (each having a finite number of finite-content parts) and in...
01 January 1970 8,081 82 View
Could anyone define and explain the concept 'virtual' in Quantum Physics, Cosmology, Metaphysics, and Artificial Intelligence? Or, do such definitions exist?
01 January 1970 7,122 79 View
SOURCE OF MAJOR FLAWS IN COSMOLOGICAL THEORIES: MATHEMATICS-TO-PHYSICS APPLICATION DISCREPENCY Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. The big bang theory has many limitations. These are, (1) the...
01 January 1970 8,401 100 View
EPISTEMOLOGY OF EVER PUSHING THE DEFINITIONS OF SYSTEMIC CATEGORIES AND AXIOMS Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. We discuss here the continuous and never-ending dimensionality of truth in...
01 January 1970 257 60 View
ESSENTIAL LOGIC, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND ONTOLOGY BEHIND PHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND SCIENCES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. The Logic behind Physics Physics students begin with...
01 January 1970 2,060 39 View
COMPLEXITY IN SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, AND CONSCIOUSNESS: DIFFERENCES AND IMPORTANCE Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. Introduction With an introductory apology for repeating a few definitions...
01 January 1970 5,438 73 View
Experimentally, observationally, and observational-theoretically, some of the generalizations of any physical ontology of cosmology may, strictly speaking, be non-verifiable and...
01 January 1970 5,532 87 View
THE ANOMALY IN MATHEMATICAL / THEORETICAL PHYSICS Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. The Background: The ultimate physical and cosmological significance of the Categories of Extension (“being...
01 January 1970 2,710 44 View
In the minds of scientists and educated people alike there are questions on the origin, evolution, and structure of the cosmos. But a cosmologists are not able to give a direct answer because this...
01 January 1970 7,447 99 View
WHAT IS INFORMATION? WHAT IS ITS CAUSAL (OR NON-CAUSAL?) CORE? A Discussion. Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D. (Quantum Causality), Dr. phil. (Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology) Questions...
01 January 1970 4,330 30 View
Publication of academic research products, if the material does not directly contain a detailed survey of the status quo, is seldom accepted for publication. The criterion is always based on...
01 January 1970 5,248 58 View
1. Grounded Physical-Ontological Categories behind Physics Grounding can be of various levels and grades. I speak of grounding all sorts of concepts, procedure principles, procedure methods, and...
01 January 1970 999 45 View
DOES CONSCIOUSNESS EXIST, OR IS IT LIKE INFORMATION? A Very Short Text for Discussion Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph. D. (Quantum Causality), Dr. phil. (Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology) Non-causally...
01 January 1970 7,320 56 View
WHAT IS THE MYSTERIOUS STUFF OF INFORMATION? Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. Here I give a short description of a forthcoming book, titled: Cosmic Causality Code and Artificial Intelligence:...
01 January 1970 1,263 99 View
Mathematical Generalities: ‘Number’ may be termed as a general term, but real numbers, a sub-set of numbers, is sub-general. Clearly, it is a quality: “having one member, having two members,...
01 January 1970 6,647 64 View
Leonard Hall added a reply (20 April 2023, in my discussion: “Can any experimental or theoretical proof be for ‘the’ existence of ether?) (With Leonard Hall's written permission in RG.) Howdy...
01 January 1970 7,034 65 View
THE EPISTEMOLOGY PRESUPPOSED BY PHYSICS AND OTHER SCIENCES Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. ((This is the second part of the series in THE LOGIC, EPISTEMOLOGY, AND ONTOLOGY OF PHYSICS AND...
01 January 1970 3,753 87 View
GRAVITATIONAL COALESCENCE PARADOX (GCP): INTRODUCTION TO GRAVITATIONAL COALESCENCE COSMOLOGY (GCC) Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. Pre-scientific Law of Causality: A Short...
01 January 1970 3,415 100 View
INFINITE-ETERNAL MULTIVERSE Raphael Neelamkavil Ph. D. (Causality in Quantum Physics), Dr. phil. (Causality in Cosmology) [email protected] We cannot see, or predict the existence or not of limits...
01 January 1970 8,031 56 View
I doubt if the principles of logic can be applied universally except when the ontologies of the fields of discussion of the objects under logical treatment are clarified. In commonsense logic...
01 January 1970 425 93 View
MINIMAL METAPHYSICAL PHYSICALISM vs. PANPSYCHISMS AND MONISMS: Beyond Mind-Body Dualism Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph. D., Dr. phil. Any one kind of smallest substance cannot be fixed upon by any...
01 January 1970 6,590 68 View
UNTENABLE REIFICATION OF CONCEPTS IN PHYSICS: With Examples Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D. (Quantum Causality), Dr. phil. (Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology) This document consists of some...
01 January 1970 9,386 31 View
The recent (1) “observation” by LIGO of a neutron star merger and (2) what is considered as different from it, namely, the arrival of the visible light from the merger at our location, used to be...
01 January 1970 3,523 100 View
I think there is a big confusion between qualities / universals and physical properties. We speak of properties of things in physics, chemistry, biology, etc. In my opinion, properties are sets of...
01 January 1970 2,104 81 View
A GAME-CHANGER CAUSALITY FOR PHYSICS Beyond the Two Millennia Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph. D., Dr. phil. IS CAUSALITY A SCIENTIFIC OR PRE-SCIENTIFIC LAW? §§-- Without beings in existence (To Be),...
01 January 1970 1,155 52 View
I believe that it is common knowledge that mathematics and its applications cannot directly prove Causality. What are the bases of the problem of incompatibility of physical causality with...
01 January 1970 9,961 72 View
LINGUISTIC HERESY OF DENOTATIVE ABSOLUTISM: PHYSICAL OR BIOLOGICAL “SELF-INTERACTION”, “SELF-ORGANIZATION”, “SELF-REFERENCE”, "INTENTIONALITY", “EMERGENCE” Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph. D. (Quantum...
01 January 1970 4,866 52 View
PLANCK ERA / QUANTUM ERA and “DISAPPEARANCE” OF PHYSICAL CAUSALITY: FALLACIES FROM “OMNIPOTENCE” OF MATHEMATICS Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D. (Quantum Causality), Dr. phil. (Gravitational Coalescence...
01 January 1970 9,925 34 View
NON-FOUNDATIONS OF ‘WAVICLES’ IN EINSTEIN-PODOLSKY-ROSEN PARADOX: Bases for Quantum Physics to Evolve (Maybe a physical-ontological Breakthrough in EPR) Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1....
01 January 1970 2,919 46 View
THE ONTOLOGY BEHIND PHYSICS: CRITIQUE OF TRADITIONAL CATEGORIES Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. Traditional Physical Categories There have arisen various schools of theories, mainly from...
01 January 1970 1,655 49 View
In my opinion, more than 70% of strong academic departments of philosophy have concentration on linguistic-analytic philosophy in some or another way. We cannot say that this school is perfect....
01 January 1970 5,389 100 View
SYMMETRY: A SUBSET OF UNIVERSAL CAUSALITY What is the Difference between Cause and Reason? Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking of Choice 2. Defining...
01 January 1970 8,836 96 View
When the search is for the foundations of any science, it is in fact for the invariant aspects of all the realities of that science, and not merely for the invariant aspects of some parts of the...
01 January 1970 3,974 62 View
For millennia the questions of CAUSALITY and FREEDOM have been conceived as opposites in both sciences and philosophies. If they can be unified (possibly, freedom brought under the other's...
01 January 1970 6,252 69 View
PHYSICAL AND EXACT SCIENCES AND AXIOMATIC PHILOSOPHY: INTODUCING GROUNDING Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. WHY SHOULD PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY BE GROUNDED? I get surprised each time when...
01 January 1970 3,280 53 View
WHY EXACTLY WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY: Phenomenal Ontological Commitment (POC) as the Solution Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D. (Quantum Causality), Dr. phil. (Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology) The...
01 January 1970 8,898 17 View
A TRANS-PRAGMATIC TRUTH PARADIGM FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY Raphael Neelamkavil. Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. OBLIGATION TO PRAGMATISM AS A NEGATIVE TRIGGER My concept of universally real...
01 January 1970 6,569 54 View
First of all, the so-called algorithms in BI are algorithms in imitation of the AI algorithms. They belong properly to human consciousness, which is a complex of millions of mainly brain-based...
01 January 1970 7,322 40 View
CAUSAL HORIZONAL RESEARCH: A METHODOLOGY IN PHYSICS Raphael Neelamkavil Ph. D. (Causality in Quantum Physics), Dr. phil. (Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology) Causal Horizonal Research is a method...
01 January 1970 752 54 View
In case (1) the cosmos consists of finite-content universes or sub-universes, or (2) it contains an infinite number of finite-content universes --- what would be the most general physical scenario...
01 January 1970 9,045 89 View
PHYSICAL-PROCESSUAL REPRESENTATION OF IRRATIONAL NUMBERS Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. Irrational numbers are those numbers which have no direct or quasi-indirect representation by...
01 January 1970 3,915 48 View
SCIENTIFIC METAPHYSICAL CATEGORIES BEYOND HEIDEGGER ENHANCING PHYSICS Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph. D., Dr. phil. 1. Introduction beyond Heidegger I begin my cosmologically metaphysical critique of the...
01 January 1970 8,865 62 View
I explain here the connection between the pre-scientific Law of Universal Causality and all sorts of statistical explanations in physical sciences. The way it takes may look strange, but it will...
01 January 1970 5,106 62 View
Statistical Causality: In my opinion, the scientific, analytic-philosophical and scientific-philosophical concepts of causation and “causal explanation” (20thcentury) follow one type of admixture...
01 January 1970 8,191 82 View
Naturally, denotation in language is based on connotation in minds and this in turn is based on ontological universals in nature (in natural kinds), which (ontological universals) are vaguely...
01 January 1970 8,421 22 View
EINSTEIN-PODOLSKY-ROSEN PARADOX AND NON-LOCALITY. IS EINSTEIN A MONIST? Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. 1. Theoretical Foreword Indicating the Basic Presuppositions I begin here with an...
01 January 1970 2,389 69 View
Some counterfactual or partially counterfactual sort of modal statements, if they imply possible worlds, imply also some really (probabilistically with high truth value) possible worlds, and some...
01 January 1970 1,276 63 View
THE WHAT, HOW, AND THUSNESS OF REALITY Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph. D., Dr. phil. 1. A CAVEAT WITH EXAMPLES OF ABNORMALITIES IN SCIENTISTS AND THINKERS Merely because I am trained and publish in...
01 January 1970 1,085 72 View
DEFINING THE ONTOLOGY BEHIND PHYSICS (5 Paragraphs, meant for the theoretical approach in physics) Raphael Neelamkavil, Ph.D., Dr. phil. In the definition of the ontology of physics (generally as...
01 January 1970 1,865 36 View
Meanings of ‘Matter’ and ‘Energy’ Contrasted: By ‘matter’ I mean whatever exists as the venue of finite activities of existents and itself finitely active in all parts. Matter is whatever is...
01 January 1970 184 86 View
Anything exists non-vacuously as in Extension (having parts, each of which again is extended) and in Change (extended existents impacting some other extended existents). Anything without these two...
01 January 1970 3,090 76 View
We hear a lot about the comparability between biological "algorithms" and digital algorithms. But: what are the distinctions between biological "algorithms" and digital algorithms? Are there also...
01 January 1970 8,551 54 View
If the quanta spoken of in the physical sciences are physically existent, they cannot be mere vacua acting on other vacua. Merely saying that they are statistically full of vacua-type quanta does...
01 January 1970 7,599 41 View
Why do astrophysical and cosmological theories accept the merely mathematically thinkable ISOTROPY (the principle that all directions in the cosmos are alike, and hence no direction is preferred...
01 January 1970 3,829 34 View
The Anthropic Notion of Existence and “Being-Becoming” in Heidegger: Heidegger’s continuous engagement with ‘nothingness’ in his works has not been about the non-existence of anything specific or...
01 January 1970 4,841 51 View
Mathematically, it is posited that the cosmic or local black hole singularity must someday become of infinite density and zero size. But this is unimaginable. If an infinite-density stuff should...
01 January 1970 6,715 85 View
Which are the relatively more successful refutations so far of the foundations of quantum physics? How do they compare with Relativity when it comes to efforts to build up a GUT on bases that may...
01 January 1970 3,534 99 View
LINGUISTIC IMPLICATIONS OF EXISTENT PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN PHYSICAL THEORY Raphael Neelamkavil Ph.D. (Quantum Causality), Dr. phil. (Gravitational Coalescence Cosmology) Minimal Linguistic...
01 January 1970 5,409 14 View
I have defined matter and energy as follows (elsewhere), but is it possible to define them independent of each other? Meanings of ‘Matter’ and ‘Energy’ Contrasted: By ‘matter’ I mean whatever...
01 January 1970 9,538 72 View
01 January 1970 9,574 61 View
How shall the regions and limits of application of the Laws of Identity, Non-contradiction, and Excluded Middle be fixed? Scientific, philosophical, social, and aesthetic advancements have...
01 January 1970 2,438 52 View
Insistence on mathematical continuity in nature is a mere idealization. It expects nature to obey our idealization. This is what happens in all physical and cosmological (and of course other)...
01 January 1970 2,325 78 View
DOES THE WORLD HAVE A CLEARLY HOLISTIC FUTURE IN SCIENCE, SOCIETY, POLITICS AND PHILOSOPHY? The world is used to thinking in terms of emotions and thoughts. But the stark difference between acts...
01 January 1970 4,056 63 View
If anything is physically existent, it can well be considered (1) as matter and energy, because these two are inter-convertible, and (2) as either matter or energy, since these are the two most...
01 January 1970 3,002 63 View
