Tag: Nick Thomas
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Outline of Book
In which I introduce the main themes of the book: Biodynamics and Rudolf Steiner’s indications for a hidden alchemy in living processes; The taming of the atom – a sub-natural phenomenon; Biological transmutation of chemical elements and the requirement for a new Goethean scientific worldview.
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[Old] Book Two: Goethe, Steiner and the Ancient Greeks – or – Rethinking the Nature of Substance
This book – if I even manage to write it(!) – will be a big philosophical work. I intend it to be based on a number of ideas and indications I discovered in the course of my researches on the original book…
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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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[Old] Foreword: The Story So Far!
The original book concept was big and ambitious. I tried to simplify it. But each of its parts increasingly appeared to form a single coherent whole. So I am now in the challenging process of bringing all of its parts together in such a way that each part illuminates all of the others, enabling their…
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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 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…
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 