"The Consilience of Inductions takes place when an Induction, obtained from one class of facts, coincides with an Induction, obtained from another different class. This Consilience is a test of the truth of the Theory in which it occurs." from The Philosophy of Inductive Sciences, 1840, by William Whewell.
The Consilience Chronicles
June 5, 1998...Benediction
June 21, 1998...Death
June 22, 1998...Creating God...
July 18, 1998....A Major Prediction
July 19, 1998...It's allright, Ma, the children are only crying...
July 19, 1998...Tears of Rage...
July 19, 1998...You don't need a psychic to see the truth...
July 19, 1998...Fire from the sky...
July 22, 1998...if...
July 28, 1998...It's not what you think...it's what you do.
August 2, 1998...Consciousness Revisited
August 2, 1998...No Borders...
August 6, 1998...Hard Rain From Tokyo...
August 10, 1998...Magna Carta for an Information Age...
August 11, 1998...Guidance for the Next Millennium...
August 11, 1998...A Business Manifesto...
August 16, 1998...6000 Years of Solitude...
August 17, 1998...Ho, all ye who thirst and are heavy laden...
August 27, 1998...Keep the Faith...
August 28, 1998...The Failure of Americanism, or The Bigger They are, the Harder They Fall...
August 28, 1998...Integral Aperspectival Cognition, or Vision Logic...
September 3, 1998...Titanic...
September 5, 1998...By the Waters of Babylon...
September 11, 1998...When Prophecy Fails...
September 20, 1998...Before the Flood, and After the Apocalypse: A Postmodern Tale
September 20, 1998...The Technology of Being Human...This Buddha Speaks Digital...Dark Eyes
October 3, 1998....Religion For the Future: Are We Better Off Without It?
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves...
This ends Part I of the Consilience Chronicles. We immediately begin Part II of the Chronicles, with a new style and a dramatic departure from Part I. Stay tuned often as the Consilience Chronicles Part II goes into high gear!
Consilience Chronicles Part II
Now these are the key links to study in the long evolution and development of a global spiritual ethic, and what people in this day and age are doing about it. For instance, Teilhard de Chardin was a Catholic priest and archaeologist who formulated the idea of a
"Noosphere", or the whole planet earth as one giant thinking, evolving organism, long before Margulis postulated the Gaia Hypothesis. The other philosophers, scientists, and thinkers on this page were also fruitful in the ongoing discussions amongst humans leading to our current fragile, yet spiritually robust understanding of our place in the scheme of things.
Bringing it All Back Home... Professor Frank J. Tipler's own Omega Point Web Site
Teilhard de Chardin
Arnold Toynbee
Frank J. Tipler and the Physics of Immortality
Frank J. Tipler and the Omega Point
Umberto Eco and Semiotics
Principia Cybernetica
Consilience, Definition by Thagard
Consilience by Edward O. Wilson
World Wide Brain research by Dr. Ben Goertzel
Intelligenesis, Ben Goertzel's company's home page
Online Message Forum
And, for only the heartiest of wired souls, two truly eclectic sites...
Control and Chaos
A truly wonderful philosophical poem from kyber kinetics