Ideas on the Forefront of Reality

Some may be disappointed by a list which is potentially out-moded by more modern functions, or which seems too technically-burdened to make a difference for ordinary existence. However, I hold that the following items are not only not outmoded, but metaphorically interesting, and relevant to the future (although that future is assumed to be technological).I am expanding this list gradually to supplement one of my present or future book projects.

           Meta-Function: The ability to select better forms of any given thing, by any given standard.

           Auto-Function: The ability to get minimum holistic function with no more input than basic preferences. Culled from the best information.

           Inherent Realism: The ability to fulfill depth-of-function requests at will.

          Complex Colors / Complex Anything: Being able to know that standards can be applied (or are automatically applied) to make the fullest use of categorical variety.

I found a design

similar to some of my designs. Although I admit, I usually try to find a way around the entropy problem. This device apparently depends on perfect proportions. But at least someone thought of it.

Here is the source link: http://cleantechnica.com/2009/02/09/2-stage-oscillators-and-the-quest-for-free-energy/

Those who haven't seen my Twitter profile might want to visit there...

http://www.twitter.com/nathancoppedge

My profile has been updated recently.

My dad gave my art book

4 stars. See the review HERE.

That's the first review I've had on Amazon since last year. No reviews on Barnes & Noble yet...

The review someone posted at Junglee.com was removed for some reason...

Still waiting for Kirkus to return their review of the Dimensional Psychologist's Toolkit *nervous*. Should be in the next two weeks.

Looking for links to my website and blog...

If anyone happens to have a blog or website, consider linking to Nathan Coppedge's blog and or / website. I think I have interesting content, even just for a happenstantial mood boost or hint at the existence of the commerce of meaning.

Maybe I once said that art is like pornography for virgins. But that doesn't mean that I'm entirely unclean. That quote was a statement about art-as-interface, and the way in which we should integrate between concepts of the interior and contexts of the exterior.

My mood is up slightly, because I have receiced 99 visits to my website today, the first time in a while. I think my search term 'philosopher, artist, inventor, poet' is very effective.

I learned from my barber

that I have psoriasis of the scalp. So the lesson to get from this, is always shampoo your hair, because otherwise you can develop psoriasis, which can spread over the body and possibly cause doctors to want to amputate your legs.

Mine hasn't spread over my body yet. But it makes me wonder what I was wondering when I stopped shampooing my hair. I thought it was worth I.Q. points or something. Now I'm semi-contagious.

The Desire for Fame

A Monster that Must be Slaked!

If you are a reader of Nathan Coppedge book(s)

I suggest you consider posting a book review on Amazon. You don't have to own the book or like the book, as long as you've read the book. I'm at the point where I need some attention for the work, even if it looks like negative press.

Of course, if you're one of those that writes long, complicated reviews and gives 5 stars, so much the better.

All of my books can be found by visiting my author profile HERE.

Recent comment from my stepfather

"Thank you for being patient with me. You know me, I'm not too good with philosophy"

Given the history I have with him, if you understand the context, this is high praise.

We were discussing the use of opposites in my method of categorical deduction.

E-Books Marked Down

I have decided to significantly mark down the prices of all my e-books. The prices are now live at my Author Profile.

They will now all be at the minimal level allowed by my publisher, which is usually $0.99 - $1.99. (The art book, the print form of which is in color, had a minimum price of $2.99 USD)

If it were discovered that I were similar to an inventor of perpetual motion, perhaps these cheap prices would look absurd, or just creme-de-la premium.

I'm trying to take this as a compliment...

Link: "LousyBookCovers.Com"

This is the most comments I've ever received about anything.

So it's good some of it looks positive...

Possible Evidence Against the Recent Invention of Categorical Deduction

Two prior sources may or may not show that categorical deduction is a new method invented by Nathan Coppedge in late 2012. As posted at the dimensionism group on facebook (one recently added from Iris Murdoch) as well as some weak supporting sources from Wikipedia:

"If an affirmation is true, then its denial is false; if the denial is true, then the affirmation is false" [This is mentioned in passing, with little elaboration, in Avi Sion, Future Logic, Chapter 3.4. Axioms of Logic, B. The Law of Contradiction]. 

"It's unconscious or transcendental 'spontaneity' is perhaps to be conceived figuratively upon analogy. We can attempt to give sense to the idea, as we extend and modify the conception of a barrier or network (or set of 'schemata')..." ---Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, p. 309.

"The function f is real-valued if and only if the Fourier transform of f is Hermitian. The function f is Hermitian if and only if the Fourier transform of f is real-valued" ---- Wikipedia, "Hermitian Symmetry".

And some would say the so-called Semiotic Square represents categorical deduction, but actually it does not.

I was later pleasantly surprised to learn Avi Sion is still alive, and is actually a possible fan of my work:

A List of Paradoxes Contained in My Book of Paradoxes

As I say, these are 'compound paradoxes'.

[1] THE PARADOX OF COMPLEXITY AND PERFECTION
[2] THE PARADOX OF SIGN, NUMBER, AND LAW
[3] THE PARADOX OF THE SAINT AND THE MATHEMATICIAN
[4] THE PARADOX OF DETERMINISM, MODE, AND SUBLIME MANIFESTATION
[5] THE PARADOX OF PROBLEM AND GAME
[6] THE PARADOX OF SYNTHETICS, ETHICS, AND MANIFESTATION
[7] THE PARADOX OF PROPORTION AND INHERENCY
[8] THE PARADOX OF OBJECT, SUMMATION, AND CORRESPONDENCE
[9] THE PARADOX OF METHOD AND ANSWER
[10] THE PARADOX OF IDEA, CULTURE, AND PROOF
[11] THE PARADOX OF QUANTITY AND QUALITY
[12] THE PARADOX OF MATTER, FORM, AND PROPERTY
[13] THE PARADOX OF GOVERNMENT AND AGENCY
[14] THE PARADOX OF MAGIC, NECESSITY, AND THE BALDING MAN
[15] THE PARADOX OF MADNESS AND VERACITY
[16] THE PARADOX OF INTELLIGENCE, PROGENESIS, AND CONFUSION
[17] THE PARADOX OF DOUBT AND APPEARANCE
[18] THE PARADOX OF TASK, TRUST, AND FOLLY
[19] THE PARADOX OF REASON AND THE IOTA
[20] THE PARADOX OF SYSTEM AND MENTAL PROBLEM
[21] THE PARADOX OF THE DREAM AND NOTHING
[22] THE PARADOX OF MECHANISM, CAUSATION, AND TRANS-HISTORICISM
[23 ] THE PARADOX OF COMPLEXITY, EXPERIENCE, AND PERFECTION
[24] THE PARADOX OF ESSENCE AND CAUSALITY

Also, the book contains a list of problems, which has previously been published in a free article format. See: https://www.academia.edu/5389319/Problems_in_Nathan_Coppedges_Philosophy

The Book of Paradoxes: Including Problems Encountered in Nathan Coppedge's Philosophy

BOOK DESCRIPTION

This author has authored numerous philosophical books. In this brief treatise, questions of knowledge are broached through the lens of twenty-four compound paradoxes. The fields covered by these writings are broad: theory, metaphysics, ethics, and systemology. Coppedge’s thesis is that all problems reduce to essentialism and causality. Solutions are proposed to a line of paradoxes which lead to the paradox of essence and cause. Finally, a kind of solution to essence and cause is provided. Also included in this book is a valuable list of problems discovered by the author in investigating the realm of philosophy, even beyond paradoxy.

The book may be found on Amazon HERE.

Update: up to 19th from 28th in a search for 'book of paradoxes' on Amazon books.

Also 363 for "paradoxes". Oh well.

The Tao Te Ching: A Translation of Translations

BOOK DESCRIPTION

"Words they say are not Nature / Fragments they say are not a book / These are Eternal natures / In them, symbols are numbered / ... / The mystery is a many-folded path"

                                                                                                            

So begins this edition of the Tao Te Ching.

Nathan Coppedge, previously the author of Masterful Zen and Sufi Koans and a translation of the Mandate of Heaven, here presents his highly original translation of the Tao Te Ching, interpreted with much thought from multiple pre-existing translations. Considerable insight and additional thought has been acquired for this formidable text, one of the greatest of the ancient literary and philosophical classics.

It can be found on Amazon HERE.

(the black cloud represents complexity)