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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...he existence of a designer or a design. Complexity does not imply the existence of intelligence and sentient beings. On the contrary, complexity us... ... when not sentient, or intelligent. Must intuition and creativity be predicated on intelligence, consciousness, or sentience? Thus, ultimately, com... ...s is totally inapplicable philosophically and practically. There is a continuum of intelligence quotients (I.Q.s) and, yet, the gifted person is no... ...onscious or mental, some not). These processes are concerned with information: its gathering, its accumulation, classification, inter-relation, ass... ...l pathologies reminiscent of psychotic disorders. The exceptions are (arguably) the disciplines of medicine and biology. A phenomenology of ossified... ...nly the old discipline stands between its adherents and apocalypse. New, emerging disciplines, are presented as heretic, fringe lunacies, inconsis... ...deed, is the main presenting symptom, the distinguishing hallmark, of paralytic old disciplines. They deny reality. They are rendered mere belief-sy... ... amount of new, unsolved, problems. It suggested new methodological procedures for gathering empirical evidence (research strategies). It was based...

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