Up to 2 citations now!

Although at least one of these citations might be slightly dubious, at least they are enough to count on Google Scholar! One of them meets the H-Index criteria! Not bad for an undergrad, in my opinion!

Nathan Coppedge Google Scholar

And up to 100 Followers on Academia.edu!  http://www.southernct.academia.edu/NathanCoppedge

Link to Quotes from Late November 2016

http://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2016/11/quotes-late-november-2016.html?m=1

Ways of growing tiny brains

Once at a lab I thought I heard someone saying I had the tiniest, most complicated brain she had ever seen. And she may have said my forehead was just for show. Ever since then I have been paranoid about my brain, and have attempted to make it larger through personal effort. Perhaps this guide will help others who are concerned about their intelligence.

1. Invisible brains. Theories about what's missing.

2. Network theory. "The universe is your brain." Imagination.

3. Ooze. Having sensation.

4. Denying a malignancy. Being sophisticated.

Before this my brain's personality was "death" but afterwards I can feel like it's helpful.

Quotes Early November 2016

"The existential sublime is precisely that domain which exists now, and is the lingering ritualization of the complex and perfect." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Information does not exist without relevance, but that is an objective structure." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Relativism can always be relativized again." ---Nathan Coppedge


"The brain is one form of metaphysical realization. And a brain may be nothing other than a form of metaphysics qualified by thought. And telepathy is no more than a communication property of this object." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Telepathy may be classified as a metaphysical variable, a form of communication between thoughts. An often imperfect relation between multiple intentionalities that is responsible for much learned behavior, and is often precipitated by outward signs. " ---Nathan Coppedge


"In the third dimension, we all live inside a variable. Thus, metaphysical dimensions are a measure of universal coherence." ---Nathan Coppedge

"What I call normal I.Q. is a measure of how bad people are." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Relevance to relevance is what defines objectivity. Therefore, truth is higher than information." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Arcadia may be the greatest idea if it is thought of by a philosopher in a padded cell!" ---Nathan Coppedge


"Everything is infinite through perception. Just my intuition of the moment, based on the theory of infinite depth." ---Nathan Coppedge


MORE QUOTES BY NATHAN COPPEDGE:

http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Nathan Coppedge

100 Copies of my top six books sold this year!

The Golden Notebook

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100 Mind-Seals

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Modal Dimensionism

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Systems Theory

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Link to Quotes from Late October 2016

http://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2016/10/quotes-late-october-2016.html

Recent News

Currently #1 Writer in Philosophy College Major on Quora: https://www.quora.com/topic/Philosophy-college-major/writers?__snid3__=432006445&__nsrc__=10&__filter__=all

14 Books in the Top Million Titles on Amazon! (It fluctuates).

Averaging a-sale-a-day for the past Month! http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

50K Views this month on Quora! http://www.quora.com/nathancoppedge

12K Views to date on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/Coppedgean

And back up to 220 Followers on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nathancoppedge

Quotes Late October 2016

"When we are fully fulfilled, we will become fulfilling truths. It's a broken thought because it is so far away..." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Perhaps isometrically 3-d is flat, and 2-d is hyperbolic."---Nathan Coppedge


"Religion has emotional benefits when it is handled properly, but it never is." ---Nathan Coppedge


"My sense is philosophers are happier than average, because wisdom is something they want and it is part of the good life. Thus, they feel justified about seeking happiness, and thus they are more likely to attain it." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Nothing has infinite applications if there are infinite objects, the only problem being there are not infinite objects if there is also nothing. Hierarchies thus concern finitude or the absence of nothing." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Feelings are just the applications of consciousness to information… Fueled by the exclusion principle of eons of time… Perhaps." ---Nathan Coppedge


"We now consume aesthetics rather than the unknown." ---Nathan Coppedge, wisdom of the new ancients

"What does Nietzsche mean by saying: ' For the health of a single individual, a people, and a nation the un-historical and the historical are equally essential?' What is meant is that both phenomena and objectivity are idealizations of the world. So, Nietzsche is being anthropological. He is equating the reality of the world with two overlapping idealizations." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Some truths are made to be realized, and others are made to be designed." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Humans desire good outcomes, but they are either selfish or ignorant when it comes to solving problems." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Is there really free will? We are enslaved to our desires, otherwise no." ---Nathan Coppedge or else Sappho


"Do we choose what's best? Perhaps we do, if we prefer how far we go toward that end." ---Nathan Coppedge


"With conventional rationality, we don't know if it knows everything!" ---Nathan Coppedge


"The only way to be 100% original is to lack rational ideas. But the only way to be 100% rational is to lack original ideas." ---Nathan Coppedge or else Lewis Carroll or else Zeno of Elea or Protagoras



"In a sense, when looking at a black cat, religion looks for the implications of fear, science looks for the implications of excitement, and philosophy looks for the implications of bad luck." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Solutions cannot be solutions while solutions are problems and still be meaningful, hence these are the two worlds and the alternative is contradiction. The solution to paradoxes translates between the two worlds without coherent contradiction. But it is still fair to dismiss this strategy as a formalism. I deem that to be counter-productive." ---Nathan Coppedge


"I have found the more I think about my situation, the more manageable it is, regardless of how much money I actually earn." ---Nathan Coppedge

"Existence karma: if you suffer, you’re allowed to be superior. If you’re exceptional, the world improves." --- Nathan Coppedge


"Isometric consciousness is the view that the stars, for whatever reason, are small in significance. Everyone is safe with isometric consciousness so long as they do not commit to disaster. Isometric consciousness explains the transcendental axis. It is as committed to evolution as it is to rational privilege." ---Nathan Coppedge


More quotes: http://www.poemhunter.com/quotations/famous.asp?people=Nathan%20Coppedge

I passed the 500 books sold mark!

Over the period of 4 years or so that I have been published...

Almost 600 now...

View my author page: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Link to Quotes from Early October 2016

http://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2016/10/quotes-early-october-2016.html?m=0

TIERS OF REALITY 1 - 4: NEW ADDITIONS TO OBJECTIVE SYSTEMS

The only paper for which the motto is: "Coherence first and coherence second". Designed to be compatible with "Demonstrations of Degree Absolutism: Zero and Four Quarters Ontologies".

Tier 1: Systems

Sample method. Provide the best example of everything. Alternate: provide the best example of 'everything'. Successful if sufficient.

Provide a hiearchical list of examples. Problem: infinite, unbounded. List must be exclusive in length.

Provide laws of nature. Problem: either deterministic or 'open'. Laws seem to determine truths, which then determine laws, creating a cycle of indeterminacy.

Coherent system. One option: be exponentially efficient, as with categorical deduction.

Tier 2: Logics and Languages

Paradoxes (primary). Sometimes said to be unsolvable. Solution is the paroxysm.

Causality. This then that. The appearance of certainty, or the only certainty? Defined as 'a kind of meaning'.

Interpretations. 'Objectifying water is an important part of the water cycle.' --> new water cycle

Definitions. Semantic truth. Is there a semantic metaphysics? What about a metaphysical semantics?

Tier 3: Evidence and Variables

Gestalt. Nature is yellow. Simplistic in appearance. May be extremely true if nominally true. For example, nature is proof. Psychology is weather.

Psychic evidence. The best method says... X, Y, Z. So that's what it says.

Conjection. Noesos <--> Noises = Leaves and hairs and ...

Correspondence. Acceptability. Tradition. Association.

Tier 4: Identity

Soul substance. Feeling or no? Reason or no? Continuous or no? Justified or no?

Soul proof. Tautological definition or coherent or incoherent argument. Or better, method. Sometimes system, nature, metaphysics, etc.

Soul conditionality. Attribute / disembodied, or purpose / objective, or substance or proof or fiat.

Soul by fiat. The best evidence, such as necessity. No standard, but perfect comprehension.

Too early to call, perhaps...

But I may have a new supporter for my philosophy of physics:

https://www.quora.com/Do-physicists-value-their-philosopher-counterparts/answer/Blake-Andrews-7

My Dad's Magic Powers

1. Grabbing the Bull by the Balls.

I was in my 20's and we were on vacation near Indiana. And we had stopped the rental car for some reason.

My Dad and stepmother had walked away from the car for a long while. I stepped out of the car, and looked and saw a bull over the other side of the fence.

I was daring enough to sit on the fence there anyway, although I kept cautiously looking to see if the bull was making any movements.

Then I noticed some country folk over to my right, also near the fence.

One of them gave me an insulting look.

"Think you're a hotshot? Try grabbing a bull by the balls!"

So, I said, sure!

I poked the bull's balls, and when it started to turn, I quickly jumped over the fence.

(Which was a low fence, and I now noticed, not very sturdy.)

The people had cleared out, but I shouted after them that "I bet you wouldn't have the guts to pull the bull's balls either."

I was just rounding the other side of the car, when I heard a dull cracking noise.

The bull had broken the fence!

I was terrified, but I got into the car.

Just then my Dad and stepmother got back. I didn't see what happened, but my Dad said, stay in the car.

Then we drove to the rental agency.

He said, 'Lynn is in the hospital.'

Then he asked the guy at the counter "Can we collect on insurance on this one."

And then he said, like he wouldn't usually say because he is an atheist and says he doesn't even believe in Calculus although he teaches college:

"I think it was an act of God."

Then the guy at the counter said, "No, we collect all the insurance."

Then my Dad gave a soul-rending look, and the next thing I knew I was awake in bed, and only about 10 years old.

My Dad was reading a story.

So, what is the lesson, he said?

"I don't know" I said.

"The lesson," he said, "is that you're glad to be alive."

Then he shut the book, and I never learned which book it was.

I decided at that moment I could invent perpetual motion, because I was the one who had grabbed a bull by the balls and time-travelled to prove it.

2. The Ship of Terror

I was in my twenties.

We were at a carnival, and for some reason my younger brother the genius was not there. As we passed a ship-of-terror ride, I became more and more obsessed with the idea that I wanted to go on that ride.

"Well, okay" my Dad finally said. "But you'll regret it!"

So, we got on the ride. The ship was not moving. Dad handed over the tickets, which suddenly seemed like leases on life.

Then the ship began to swing, first slowly, then far more quickly.

"I think I need to get off!" I said.

"Then there's only one option, take off your seatbelt!" he said.

But then I realized I hadn't put my seatbelt on to begin with.

I clinged to my Dad as I began to fall through mid-air.

After what seemed like seconds, I landed on my shoulder kind of hard. I (or my father) had 'timed' it perfectly! I had not broken my neck.

I kept low for as long as I could, glad to be alive, although not even sure I really WAS alive.

Then the ship seemed to disappear.

I got up, and walked over to the edge of the carnival-style fence partitions, like you see around celebrities.

There was my Dad.

"Whew! I'm glad to see you alive!", he said. The wind was knocked out of him.

It was just like a scene from a video game in which the hero emerges from total danger.

I told myself I had only escaped alive because I fell off.

The strange thing to me was that my Dad survived.


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Link to Quotes Late July 2016

Quotes by Nathan Coppedge:
http://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2016/07/quotes-late-july-2016.html

Link to Quotes from Early June 2016

http://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2016/06/quotes-early-june-2016.html

Currently up to the top 15,923 authors

Good status on Amazon for now. http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

What do you know that other people don't know?

Via Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-know-that-most-people-dont/answer/Nathan-Coppedge

Perhaps most of my insights that really seemed like insights relate to exceptions in reality.

In the wisdom department, I know that it is usually the very beginning of a thought process that can lead someone down the wrong path. A lot of people don’t seem to question their assumptions, or feel satisfied accepting some degree of imperfection in their past. Even though perfectionism runs the risk of stress and madness, its one of the best ways to pursue the best life.

Once we accept perfectionism, many choices are more arbitrary than we think. The stress we bear from day to day is sometimes an arbitrary choice based on what we merely ASSUME is appropriate. We can feel better by training ourselves to be patient, and make slow turns towards a healthier mentality. For example, it is possible to become vegetarian, to avoid depression, or to be more intellectual. However, these options imply changing more than one thing about one’s life simultaneously.

At the root of it, what inspires us is the least flexible thing. If we can change what inspires us, we have the ability to change everything about ourselves.

Collectively, these ‘secrets’ are very powerful for creating change in one’s life.

NATHAN COPPEDGE MEETS "THE CLEVEREST MAN" [short story from real life]

We were on the beach at Westville, where my step-mother's mother used to live.
While we were navigating the rocks, a vision appeared on the horizon.
A vision of a man walking, and laughing.
"I bet you don't know what my secret is?" He said.
What it appeared to be was a fly-wheel, with a listening box underneath.
The flywheel appeared to be in motion!
I analyzed it. Then I listed to it.
"It's a fabled perpetual motion machine!" I said.
"That's right!" he said. "But you still don't know my secret!" he said.
So I busted it on the sidewalk!
Inside, I found:
A plastic disk designed to look like a flywheel in motion!
And, a miniature conch shell, designed to create the sound of the flywheel!
"Now, you pay me for that!" he said.
I instinctively leapt away.

Over 50,000 views to this Blog to date!

In some ways this blog is the beginning of my theoretical popularity.

Quora has more views now, but not by a long margin, and has only been around since August.

More sites to come, I hope!

And, it should be remembered that I published 44 books in 2014, and another 29 in 2015.

Look up my Author Page. Good stuff may be found there!

Someone made a stylish graphic out of one of my quotes

Not a bad quote, I guess:

http://businessinrhyme.com/2016/01/02/daily-verse-with-purpose-nathan-coppedge/