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Brad McFall
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From: Ithaca,NY, USA
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Message 53 of 305 (356553)
10-14-2006 9:02 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by lfen
05-02-2006 2:32 PM


Re: Reality: What a concept!
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ABE: off topic flash insight: Brad is doing to science what James Joyce did to literature!? Could be? yes, no, maybe?
It could be as I think that I have a better handle on Kant's use of "a priori" than Coleridge did.
but rather I think it is because at times I think I make it(my notion of "horizon") to the6th degree and perhaps I have flashed it to the 7th ut most degree before.
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Brad McFall
Member (Idle past 5023 days)
Posts: 3428
From: Ithaca,NY, USA
Joined: 12-20-2001


Message 55 of 305 (356698)
10-15-2006 3:06 PM
Reply to: Message 54 by RAZD
10-15-2006 11:33 AM


Re: Reality: What a concept!
While I was a student at Cornell I had an intellectual experience where it was as clear to me as it was in taking a test in Chemistry that I was thinking something that others might not even try to think when walking AMONG the different quads/schools. This of course was not "knowledge" but a perception that at least at the level of the average Cornellian (which was a decision, to go to an Ivy School instead of some other "state" school etc that differed from all of my immediate Family) I could "sense" I was "Doing" something different and beyond what was happening around me. All I was actually doing was trying to read and understand ANYTHING that happened to come on my mind in science and thus shifting among the libraries on the Campus which caused me to have to walk among the student and faculty population across the very space that I experienced that I was "beyond."
This average daily expereince that also garnered good grades, went in two directions, so to speak. I tried to get beyond myself but this caused friction and lower grades with faculty despite the fact that I was able to WALK away from the "rule" or "experience" with an idea of the highest caliber that I had only subsequently READ from withing Creationism literature.
These days, I decided to stay in the Cornell vacinity so as to "sense" this former experience and thus if I do then that at least "leads me" to suspect that even with some uncertainity I would still be heading in the same direction of increasing my own apprehension and knowledge. Obviously I can only verify if I know something if I find someone else who understands what I explain.
I have however managed to get enough of my ideation across on EvC that I have been able to start feeling confident enough that the material I have not introduced here are equally likely to become acceptable and expected. This is why I am opening up ALL of my ideas on a web site external to EvC.
The Trainer
Basically if THE FORM is within diagrams which I attempted to have Will Provine accept about the same time I started to write to EvC, can be read as a short hand of what I must visualize for the content to be objective enough for me (in biology). Will however not only did not respond to me (this time, many times later) but also refused to respond to Gladyshev's ideas, plus I have sat in the same place I have listened to Linus Pauling that I listened to the religious aspects of Dirac's beauty so I have no problem with the idea I corrected Von Weiskaer for, in the same building, that actual infinity can be cognized in science. Stuart Kaufmann said if this was what I was I thinking not to stop so thinking. Those are two individuals who lectured in the very environment in ways that I considered to be at or above where I was, way back then.
So the end run is to sense the same "feeling" I had on trying to think about acutal infinity as an organizing theme in biological orders which occurred for me in failing to comprehend how mathematical rings were to be applied. I eventually learned that no one was even trying to apply rings in biology in the same way that their existence was being prooved purely.
So until this experience becomes the common everyday one of the average student at an elite institution I will continue to be able to desire that I can work towards this kind of change that really was simply my own desire to set aside a few hours on Sunday to worship and put of running down the latest thought, I might have had. Posting on Evc is way to test THAT, but that does not validate the knowledge only that the way I came to its threshold is communicable beyond the environemt I first came aboard,about, among, around, at it.
Edited by Brad McFall, : did not link "diagrams" they have appeared on EVC before
Edited by Brad McFall, : aDDED lINk
Edited by Brad McFall, : picture from THE LAME (The Lamp) March 31, 1983 added

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Brad McFall
Member (Idle past 5023 days)
Posts: 3428
From: Ithaca,NY, USA
Joined: 12-20-2001


Message 57 of 305 (356776)
10-15-2006 9:23 PM
Reply to: Message 56 by RAZD
10-15-2006 8:33 PM


Reality:What a concept! with another link
Stephen Jay Gould's large book on the structure of evolutionary theory contains most if not all of the general "ideas" that I use only he combines them and weighs relative importances in ways that I do not.
Beyond that, there are some combinations of ideas that lead in different directions towards "extended" evolutionary theory. It is not clear to me that Creationism WILL move in this direction. I am aware that it could and can but because of the longer historical continuity there, than in secular evolutionary studies, they (and there are fewer creationists than biologists who simply accept evolution as it was taught to them) change the guard on a much slower pace. Perhaps that is how it was that I was able to see something in that work that was not being kept up on the fast paced campus of the elite future except by reflexion and over a beer or two.
Yes that is a planimeter that J Clerk Maxwell had diagramed. His writing about it was quite telling to me about his use of "geometry." This of course was superceed by Einstein etc. I am using it a symbol of the vision I have for THE METHOD OF PANBIOGEOGRAPHY that I will work out further on that site. I can predict that some of Gould's work will not survive a critical examination of this METHOD that has been ornamented with minimal spanning trees so far.
I have tried to hierarchicalize this method in a peculiar way and it was from that experience that I was able to criticize historical biogeography but much of that work still has not been presented by me.
I had been interested in becoming an evolutionist becuase I wanted to study how much information and pratical use could be made of actual locations of organisms on Earth but because of the idea of Standard Evolutionary Theory that includes too simply put chance (random)variation and natural selection there seems to be none, except Croizat, who really expected statistical regularities to emerge from distributional data. Unfortunately my first attempts to communicate with others interested in this idea from New Zealand fell out of favor probably because I have an way to read Croizat that IS NOT against special creation but is against Darwin's idea of biogeography. Gould says he read Panbiogeography but his arguments about Darwin and the Galapagoes shows that he has structured the ideas to defend Darwin AGAINST Croizat. This would be real biology but there is just about as little interest in this as there is in my ideas on creationism. So I am still on the "perimeter" realistically. I have been able to come up with few technical products in the course of reasoning somewhat deductively on distributions from Croizat's work plus my own experience so it might be that I will "make it" by spin offs rather than the ideas themselves.
As for where there is NOT concordance, you could easily take up Randy's thread on biogeography and the flood
Biogeography falsifies the worldwide flood
and notice how I struggled to sustain my own broader position. I suppose I could try to work back to that from the YEC side as I work more actual content onto my website.
It is nice that Microsoft offered that boiler plate beta testing as it enables me to get a report on vistors and page views so that just now I was able to come over here on EVC to see if I could figure out who was looking at the site and I see, it was you.
I have now uploaded my first "paper" (as a POWERPOINT) critical of Gould written in high school, as I did not think back then that science needed "another" 'evolution', given that it ALREADY had one. The link to the 10 page paper is at the bottom of this link titled "Evolution of Evolution."
The Trainer's product page
Edited by Brad McFall, : No reason given.
Edited by Brad McFall, : inside EvC link added
Edited by Brad McFall, : new upload off site

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