What Has Ultimate Relevance? - Second Edition
The role of a philosopher is to build the largest, most comprehensive and cohesive model of reality—with the fewest possible exceptions. This is the one discipline where size matters most. However, the higher and more meticulous one's model becomes, the more disquieting it is likely to appear to some of its more insular contemporaries. Intellectual depth, by its very nature, tends to deviate from the relative shallowness and backward conventionalisms of its times. This occupational hazard must be discerned and embraced by any serious thinker today.
It was from this premise that I undertook to write the second edition of my book titled, What Has Ultimate Relevance?
My treatise takes the reader on a journey towards
certitude, but due to specific provision requirements, several detours became
inescapable. The main diversion was finding a practical solution to the problem
of terrorism and megalomania. After all, survival is a
prerequisite to the success of any wider mission.
Simply put, how will we keep the ever-advancing
technologies of tomorrow from falling into the wrong hands? Can we acquire an
effective preemptive strike capability on all forms of negative creativity or
is the mind a hopelessly unpredictable city of refuge? Unfortunately, many futurists have overlooked these ever-intensifying dilemmas. (See
Free Crown Point page.)
My approach challenges many of the conformist views, which have
dominated this discussion, including those from academia. I offer an
alternative solution to
relinquishment and doing nothing.
My journey also provides new insights into the existence of a
transcendent intelligence or God—including mindset, motives and
methodologies. This involves expanding our imagination into what is possible and perhaps plausible.
Bottom line, every day our technology expands in scope and stature, while we
remain the same size. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before we reach a
"critical mass" of vulnerability. Clearly, something must be done soon and who better to package an off-the-shelf solution than a philosopher.
For me, this work was more a consequence of personal conviction and common
courtesy, than mere speculative discourse. I feel humanity should receive full disclosure on these issues of utmost importance.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
My Journey
Caveat
- Fundamental Premise
- Certitude
Cold Model
Other Issues
Provisions
- Terrorism and Megalomania
First Encounter Strike Susceptibility (FESS)
Space Colonization
Self-Replicating Robots
Free Crown Point (FCP)
Overall Practicality
- The Solution Provision
Anonymity Biosphere (AB)
Hurdle and Ascension
- The Soft Evidence
Extrapolating the Future
Entrance Requirements for the Upper Tier (UT)
Universal Love
Safety Net
Minimum Criteria
AB Delineation Philosophy
- God
The Top Twenty-Six Parallels
Coincidence or Design?
Skeptics Analogy
Omniscience
The Simplest Model
Heaven or God’s UT
Catch-22 Benefit
- The Fiddler
LAT Values
Fossils—Real or Staged?
The HRO Scenario
- Stray Science
Annihilation of Matter
Reclaim Our Seat
- Conclusion
Knowledge Spectrum
AUD Christianity
Personal Note
Questions and Answers
Glossary
About the Author
Questions and Answers Section
- Is the head of a pin flat?
- Doesn’t Planck’s length define the smallest possible volume of empty space?
- Is light a particle or a wave?
- What is the answer to Zeno’s paradox of motion?
- Are time and space mutually exclusive?
- Was there a big bang event?
- Does chaos exist in the universe?
- Does non-intelligence exist in the universe?
- What is freewill?
- Does our existence irrefutably confirm the veracity of intelligent design theory?
- Isn’t it true that the ancient philosophers have become obsolete. So, why should I study philosophy?
- What is the most essential task?
- Since we have already discovered the MAD doctrine, haven’t we therefore reached the Free Crown Point (FCP)?
- Isn’t the use of an Anonymity Biosphere (AB) an invasion of privacy on the evaluees?
- Aren’t the evaluees entitled to the best Upper Tier (UT) technology?
- Won’t there always be an element of uncertainty in any UT selection process?
- Will the evaluees inside the AB’s receive any religious materials?
- Will there be sex in our UT?
- How can an evaluee keep the commandments of spurning evil, while loving their neighbor as themselves, if their neighbor happens to be evil?
- Can angelic love be taught to the AB evaluees, making them all selectees?
- What is the fate of the evaluees who are not selected for the UT?
- Why have you focused more on Christianity to the exclusion of other religious faiths?
- Why did Jesus show partiality to children?
- If God is not omniscient, then how can he guarantee us eternal life?
- What is the answer to the biblical freewill / predestination riddle?
- How does God derive his sex standards?
- Why should anyone bother to fix the world if it is only God’s AB designed exclusively for testing evaluees?
- Why should anyone bother to evangelize the world if no "true positives" can ever be lost?
- Why would God allow anyone to suffer for eternity in the lake of fire?
- What are the strongest verses in the New Testament that parallel with the AB delineation script?
- What is God’s invitation?