Category: Chapter 19: Nick Thomas – Science Based on a Linked Space and Counterspace
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Etheric Formative Forces
Several years ago a friend shared this wonderful artistic overview of Ernst Marti’s etheric research. I wish I knew who drew it – if it is copyright please can someone inform me – I can either remove it or at least attribute it to the person who created it. It seems to be a work…
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[Old] Rethinking Biological Transmutations – My Story so far…
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. I am getting bogged down with my first chapter. It largely covers Ancient Greek philosophical insights into many of the important matters that are to be explored in later chapters of this book. Every single one of these philosophers (at least the most significant figures up to and including Aristotle)…
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[Old] Chapter 15: Nick Thomas – Space and Counterspace [New Ch.19 V0.2]
Nick Thomas, based on indications by Rudolf Steiner, developed a mathematical formulation of his etheric conceptions based on projective geometry. …
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas
This was Nick Thomas’s second book to explore his challenging work to develop a mathematical science based on the spiritual indications of Rudolf Steiner. This book was written as more of an introductory work. It is therefore a little easier to follow. I feel that my task is – somehow – to break it down…
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 6 – Heisenberg & Goethe
By way of further support for the importance of qualia in scientific endeavour, Nick Thomas refers us, in his fourteenth paragraph, to the authority of Werner Heisenberg. …
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 5 – Parallelism
In his sixth to twelfth paragraphs Nick Thomas gives detailed examples based on our experience of colour, compared with a physicist’s handling of colour. I give his examples verbatim…
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 4 – Understanding
Continuing on to Nick Thomas’ fifth paragraph, here he emphasises the importance of an understanding of qualia, a word used to identify each of our experiences of, or in response to the world. The most elementary of these arise from our basic senses. They include sights, sounds, tastes and smells….
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 3 – Contingencies
Let me start with a summary in my own words of Thomas’ previous paragraph. In this he showed that all science is ultimately based on human experience. Let me give an example of my own here…
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 2 – Qualia
In his third paragraph, Nick Thomas tells us that science requires the establishment of objective standards – free from personal opinion. Qualities are difficult to define objectively, so science has confined itself to just two shareable, objective foundations…
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Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 1 – Open Mindedness
Nick Thomas starts with an observation that human beings have striven to understand the wonders of nature by way of three approaches…
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 