Publications by RSM
Fusion Illusion
Fusion Illusion Fusion power will not be charging electric vehicles anytime soon RSM 2024-10-14 “There is potential in fusion to revolutionize our world and to change all of the options that are in front of us and provide the world with abundant and clean energy without the harmful emissions of traditional energy sources.” — John Kerry, Dec...
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The Alexander Material
[This is the transcript from ChatGPT with the following request: “Write an approximately 10,000 word essay in the style of Atlantic Magazine summarizing the spiritual or cosmological conception transmitted in the Alexander material through Ramon Stevens.” Note: at the request of ChatGPT, several iterations were required to complete the full ess...
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Initial Thoughts
Initial thoughts “The most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.” — Wolfgang Pauli There is a widespread presumption among Western secular thinkers that science is the only means of establishing truths about the nature of the world. The contents of the cosmos are exclu...
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Fusion Illusion
Fusion Illusion Fusion power is not coming anytime soon RSM 2024-03-12 Intro “For more than a century, scientists and engineers have dreamed of bringing to earth the same kind of clean energy produced in our sun: Fusion!.”11 Opening narrative in “Fusion is Now” video produced by the the U.S. ITER group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nu...
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Physicalism
Physicalism A rarely-challenged belief RSM 2024-03-05 “The most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.” — Wolfgang Pauli Almost a century after the initial discoveries of the quantum nature of matter, and many decades after they were confirmed beyond serious question, m...
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Tertium Quid
Thomas Nagel’s Tertium Quid Mind and Cosmos, Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False RSM 2024-02-07 Thomas Nagel is one of the leading and most articulate critics of the theism and reductionist materialism, the dominant world views as we end the first quaternary of the 21st century. Nagel does not advocate...
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Life-Organizing Principles
Life-organizing principles 2024-01-17 Would that more people followed these seemingly simple principles11 Summarized from the works of Alice Bailey, particularly A Treatise on White Magic. Above all, practice harmlessness Hold no harmful thoughts. Express no harmful words. Maintain positive harmlessness and constant watchfulness. Engage in no har...
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The classical worldview of physics
The Classical Worldview of Physics 2024-01-17 “The most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.” — Wolfgang Pauli What can broadly be termed a “scientific view of the world” began with Greek philosophers some 2,500 years ago in an era when the world was conceived thr...
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Einstein-Bohr debate
Einstein-Bohr 2024-01-17 One of the most fascinating debates in scientific history was the ongoing disagreement between Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr about reality and quantum theory, particularly between “realists” and those who accepted the Copenhagen Interpretation (CI) proposed by Bohr.11 See post on Quantum Realities for a very brief summ...
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Fusion Illusion
Fusion Illusion Fusion power is not coming anytime soon RSM 2024-01-17 Intro “For more than a century, scientists and engineers have dreamed of bringing to earth the same kind of clean energy produced in our sun: Fusion!.”11 Opening narrative in “Fusion is Now” video produced by the the U.S. ITER group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nu...
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