Month: April 2023

The American poet Jonathan Williams surely sowed high mischief, not to mention irony, when he gave the following title to one of his volumes of verse: No-No Nse-Nse. Rearranged, these words reveal: No Nonsense. I discovered this only recently and, to my surprise, found that JW coined the word “Meta-Fours” early in the 1990s. I… Continue reading No-No Nse-Nse

In process philosophy’s social conception of reality, even atoms are social beings. Consider the simplest case: the hydrogen atom with its one proton and electron. Did you ever stop and wonder what holds such an atom together—that is, what holds the electron and proton together, and at the same time apart, in dynamic and elegant… Continue reading Sublimity of Structure: The Hydrogen Atom

This question presents an ambiguity that reveals at least two questions, at one and the same time. The least interesting has to do with Nietzsche’s assertion that “God is dead,”1 a bold claim that summarily denies God any future—period! Far more interesting are the entwined questions of whether God is, in an important sense, temporal… Continue reading Does God Have a Future?

Einstein once remarked, famously, that God does not play dice with the universe. He said this in reaction to Quantum theory which, based fundamentally on probability, robustly affirms that God does play dice with the universe and, to mix metaphors, that there might even be a Joker in nature’s deck of cards. Is the universe… Continue reading A Joker in Nature’s Deck of Cards?

“No thinker thinks twice.”Alfred North Whitehead Here’s the quote in context: The ancient doctrine that “no one crosses the same river twice” is extended. No thinker thinks twice; and, to put the matter more generally, no subject experiences twice. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 29. If you’re still wondering about this, hold that… Continue reading Stop and Wonder