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The Material-Spiritual Framework: A Philosophy of Spirituality
The Material-Spiritual Framework separates shared empirical reality from personal spiritual meaning, allowing people to respect belief while still testing public claims against the material world.
TST Metaphysics: The Split
The split separates our ideas and the material world. To live in harmony with nature, embrace the idea that our rational ideas must be internally ...
Idea Theory Framework
The Idea Theory Framework within the Idea of Ideas is a promotion ladder for ideas to move from speculation to hypothesis, theory, and law.
Speculation on Quantum Entanglement: A Missing Mass Puzzle
Quantum entanglement is the link between particles in which measuring one relates to the other instantly.
Holistic Paleolithic Framework: A New Look at Prehistory
A new look at dividing up the paleolithic era switches from lower, middle, and upper to Stone, Fire, Cultural, Symbolic, Cognitive, and prehistory ending specifically ...
30 Philosophers: New Looks
The fourscore of touchstones in the book.
EQ: The Story of Ancient Human Brains
Ancient human brains evolved gradually over millions of years, with important bursts of change, producing minds that were often far more capable than traditional stories ...
Hominin Census: A Speculative Journey to 700,000 and 300,000 BCE
Estimates of ancient human populations of a few hundred are misleading. They lean too heavily on surviving DNA lines. DNA traces direct surviving lines, not ...
Mindscape Framework
The Mindscape Framework presents a layered philosophy of the mind: consciousness is the structured experience of reality, heuristics are its evolved shortcuts, and worldview and ...
The Islands-of-Universes Idea
We often talk as if our universe is a self-contained whole, but beyond the limits of observation, we simply do not know what else may ...
Cosmocycles: A Proposed Cosmic Calendar Based on Cyclic Universe Model
If some version of the Big Crunch model ever returns to favor, we can picture one full cosmic cycle, a kind of cosmic year. Cosmocycles ...
The Living Touchstone
As part of critical thinking, the philosophy of journalism can help us enter the age of AI, where truth and untruth live on equal plain. ...
IDEA: National Gun Licensing Program
Proposal: 6 levels of licensing.
TST Framework: A 5-4-3 Structure
A short overview of the 5 Thought Tools, 4 Mind Traps, and 3 Truth Hammers.