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Nathan Coppedge books on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

The Most Recent Releases Sept - Oct 2015

The Structure of Philosophical Revolutions: https://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-structure-of-philosophical.html

The Golden Notebook: https://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-golden-notebook-improvement-on.html

Metaphysical A.I.: https://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2015/10/recent-release-metaphysical-ai.html

QUOTES Early October 2015

"Value is what lies beyond the wall of abstraction! What lies beyond value is entities. What lies beyond entities are methods. What lies beyond methods are systems. Logic is the common language of systems. When these systems are not high-minded, they lose their purpose. Just as value is a development of abstraction, so entities, methods, and systems are developments of those things."
---Nathan Coppedge


"Substantial feelings contribute to substantial reality." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Ultimate variation begins with the motive for change." ---Nathan Coppedge


"On the one hand, God is a human vanity. On the other hand, greater things than God may exist. This is the basis of what may be may be called 'Romantic' religion, but which I call 'Irrationalistic' without any intended criticism. Irrational religion is truly the ladder to the transcendental, if it is the only way to have religion, that is, divinity, without yet being divine. And besides, it is this sort of irrationality which characterizes the wisdom of any religion. It is also a humble religion, in that it has no pretensions, as Nietzsche would say..." ---Nathan Coppedge


"The universe can be counted in wormholes. Right now, as we understand it, a universe IS a wormhole. Although, science does not yet admit it, time is a property of nothing other than wormholes. The drive of the universe is to eke after hidden complexity." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Arguments for authenticity arise out of the psychological imperative, which is more simply an artificial desire for personality." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Someone with a brain in their leg might be smarter on average than someone who did not have a brain in their leg. And A.I. depends on this kind of argument for its intelligence. Otherwise, it becomes more-than-human." ---Nathan Coppedge


"Justice involves good treatment and avoiding poor taste. But, it can be a strategy to have poor taste... Only by ‘groking' this kind of fairness does justice emerge from the equilibrium of seemingly contrasting values…" ---Nathan Coppedge

"Justice involves good treatment and avoiding poor taste. But, it can be a strategy to have poor taste..." ---Nathan Coppedge


"I may regret to say this, but [good] mathematics is meta-metaphysics, ideally, and in the ideal sense of the world. Historically, it has often failed in this objectivity. It is learning the symptoms of bad math which feed logic, but only at the point when metaphysics has been pre-determined. Thus, in this sense, math appears to lean on the significance of the world for the totalism of its idea... Only by embracing higher significance do we find the truth found in this higher mathematics. Yet, metaphysical ingenuity requries a critique of mathematics... In this way, metaphysics hints at mathematics, while mathematics seems to express the limits of metaphysical difficulty..." --- Nathan Coppedge

"What is commonly meant by meaning defers to ultimate meaning, unless the ultimate meaning fails. Therefore, one should not defer to common meaning, unless the commonplace is itself ultimate. Therefore, there is a choice between two logics: failure and the ultimate. But what is meant by the ultimate is not just any ultimate. It begins with the good of the individual, and is elaborated through reference to systems, modes, and values." ---Nathan Coppedge


"But what is the solution to the paradox of disconnected matter? Connected anti-matter! So the universe appears to balance itself, according to this view..." ---Nathan Coppedge (Quora.com)

More quotes at: http://www.poemhunter.com/nathan-coppedge/quotations/

HOW TO BE A RENAISSANCE MAN: CAREER ADVICE

Artist. Inventor. Poet. Philosopher. Someone has to be very lucky to realize all these things. But one way to look at it is that some of it consists of fluff. Who is really going to make money except the inventor? Then, we can ask, is there something wrong with being an inventor? What I have heard is that good inventions happen by accident. Things like toilet plungers and toilets were highly useful, but it was a kind of miracle that they didn’t exist yet. And, basically, it’s possible that someone would steal the invention before a profit was made. John Crapper didn’t exist in ancient Crete, which also had flush toilets. No one in ancient Crete made money selling toilets, I suspect. It was probably state-owned, or was a side job set up for those who already worked hard doing other things. So, even inventing isn’t a miracle unless it’s a miracle.

Now, we can look at this again. Is there some value that can be had in the ‘cheap stuff’?

At first, we might look at poetry, and say, well here is someone with a little education to give them an edge, and they’ve developed a product that might sell----although it’s uncertain how much they might sell. But it turns out they need to be extremely good, and at the same time there’s not a huge market for poetry. So, succeeding in turning poetry into a job is almost unheard-of. Now we turn to art, and here is something that’s easier to market. But you have to be a kind of genius, and also have some practical skill---two things that are sometimes difficult to combine in large quantities. You want to be original, and you also want your art to sell. That’s a tougher bargain than you might think. It takes a kind of total dedication, or there’s no hope of competing with the rest of the market. Now, finally we come to that term ‘competition’! Poets and inventors have competition too, but they rarely think about it until it’s too late. You have to be a kind of psychic. With art its much more clear, it’s about comparing products.

Now, consider a philosopher. He’s got something, right? He probably has more education than the average poet. There’s an opportunity for intellectualism, which is like creativity. He can ‘know the market’ by finding a niche, which just involves ‘doing something new’! What’s wrong with being a philosopher? It turns out, philosophers rarely have a market, and when they do, it is often a small one. A philosopher is like a poet who is even more obscure, but much more sophisticated. He has to create his own market: although a general market might exist, his specific market might not exist. If he can sell his sophistication, then he might acquire a job as a professional academic, and he might sell books. If he’s quasi-famous already, he might sell books without being an academic. But he has to watch his expenses. He doesn’t have money to burn. But, is being a philosopher really the best kind of academic, or the best kind of author? I think it isn’t, in some important ways.

Consider the math genius. He’s a real professor. People have respect for him. Mathematicians are not called ‘quacks’ or ‘arm-chair philosophers’ or ‘navel-gazers’!

So, there is an opportunity: either (1) take some risk, and market yourself beyond the scope of mere philosophy, and risk making very little money, or (2) do something highly professional and sought after, without losing your sanity.

Typically, what is involved is not only having a product which speaks for itself, but also having some innovative marketing strategy, and an ability to connect with the market. This often involves establishing some kind of professional connection which goes beyond the minimum obligation. For example, you may be involved in professional music groups, join a discussion for philosophers, read poetry at poetry gatherings, or make inventions as part of a pre-established job description. Suddenly, inventing seems like the hard part, whereas these other categories have it easy.

Which (1 or 2) is riskier, and can be avoided? This determines the sort of reward you can achieve being a Renaissance man. Or, if you thrive on risk, you can create a persona centered on selling your image as ‘cutting-edge’. However, to some extent, you can do this even without creating risks. It may even help to take a conservative position in order to master many categories at once. This allows you to balance one thing against another, and ‘not keep all your eggs in one basket’. Instead of being an anomaly, you’re a strategist.

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THE MINI-OPUS: MY BIGGEST INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERIES

The area spanned by these contents is broad. It follows a pattern of delineation, from concepts of macro-reality, to concepts of meta-critique, to concepts of critique, and finally, concepts of conflict-resolution. It is possible that this writing is one of my most signfiicant works, apart from the technical adumbration of the contents of art, philosophy, etc. as disciplines. This is a discipline-shattering work that appropriately focuses on philosophy. If Nietzsche philosophized with a hammer, I am the madman who looked at the pieces.

Semantic problems are full of solutions. Either something is suited to semantics and is not semantical, or it is semantic, and is solved by not being semantical. In either case, a solution presents itself!

What is not formal is not final. But this does not pose any psychological difficulty. We are not encumbered by problems simply because we are given intellectual freedom. In this sense of semantics, problems are trivial.

Barriers might exist that are part of the navigation of a problem. Posing the theory of a problem provides a means of navigation. In this sense, problems are solutions.

Paradox and absoluteness are not opposites, but they define the gamut between extremes. Extremism is not a broken concept. Extremity or exponency is a great way of expanding the value of an idea, usually with paradox, absoluteness, completeness, or exceptionalism.

Mathematics is not a first-go. It's a crutch. Mathematics relies on many assumptions or 'narrow-nesses of vision' which a philosopher would not stomach. In the best sense of mathematics, it is only a tool. But, as a tool, there are things which it cannot say, particularly if what math IS does not express qualities. Based on this, I conclude that math is merely a formalism, and as a formalism, it may be abandoned if it is not a suitable metaphor.

We are free to abandon any formalism that is not a suitable metaphor. For formalism which is not a metaphor does not have utilitarian relevance. But we are still free to find irrational metaphors, and through that method, many formalisms may be adequate. One conclusion may be that most formalisms are irrational.

Symbolism concerns at least four things: (1) The mode of the ideal self, (2) The completeness of the world, (3) Significant relationships, (4) The map of reality, functional or otherwise.

Materialism IS the dialectic. For most purposes, spiritualism is BEYOND dialectic.

Extreme ideas, not just extremism, defines the potential of significant materials.

Paradoxes are not problems, or not exactly. They are not literally 'problems'. And so, they might be solutions.

Functionality is the metaphor for every type of solution. Anything that serves to answer something involves some type of functionality. And discovering what type of functionality that is can produce new theories.

Any given high-minded theory, such as a functional summation, is beyond most things. Predicting that a pattern becomes a theory before it becomes something beyond a theory can help to develop the future relevance of an idea.

If it is not some specific claim instead, then relevance is by and large what an identity or relationship refers to, before any genuine rational theory can be developed about it.

The ideal sense of reason circumvents the assumption of un-reason and irrationality. This is how symbols are developed.

Irrationality is not just a mathematical concept. It is a formal one. Irrationality poses the strongest potential of granting coherency to the general concept of 'reason'.

---Nathan Coppedge, July 4th, 2015.

Improved Author Rank

I'm in the top 100,000 authors again on Amazon.

Unless I sell books tomorrow, it will gone by tomorrow.

Today I sold two. But one was an e-book.

I was experiencing dry spells for several weeks.

At least I sold one Perpetual Motion Machine Designs & Theory in a bookstore (actually, it may have been a non-Amazon website). Three others were online.

Kindle edition of the PMM D&T has a bestseller rank for now:

• • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #184,790 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
    • #95 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > Reference > Patents & Inventions
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