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Guide to Repent and Receive Jesus Christ (in several languages)
Get PDFThis Guide to Repent and Receive Jesus Christ is dedicated to new believers in Christianity, in order that they can follow some steps in ordered manner, and by doing so feel completely guided in their pursuit of happiness. The seven steps to receive Jesus Christ:
R - Recognize that you are sinners
E - writE your sins and mistake in a paper
P - Pray in order you will be forgiven, and receive Jesus Christ
E - be Ensured that Jesus come to your heart
N - Never stop to learn and read the Bible
T - Talk to other concerning what Jesus has done to your life
T - Teach other to use and follow the same step
Grand design, intelligent designer, or simply God: Stephen Hawking and his hoax story
Get PDFThis short article comments Stephen Hawking's proposition in his new book The Grand Design
The Synthesis of the Theory of Evolution and Theology in Teilhard de Chardin`s work „The Phenomenon of Man” (in Latvian)
Get PDFPierre Teilhard de Chardin(1881 - 1955) is one of the most known men in the dialogue between natural scientists supporting the theory of evolution and theologians. Being at the same time heated geologist, paleontologist, and keen Jesuit priest, he has gained attention with his synthesis of Christian theology and the theory of evolution, which in spite of criticism from representatives of both disciplines, to some part of peolple nowadays, just like briefly after it`s revealing to society, serves as one of the symbols for unity of science and theology.
In this paper, basing on book by Teilhard de Chardin „The Phenomenon of Man”, I will try to set forth the main ideas of his frame of reference
68th annual scientific conference of the University of Latvia. Faculty of Theology. "Science and Religion Dialogue” interdisciplinary group meeting.
Get PDFLU 68. zinātniskā konference. Teoloģijas fakultātes sekcija „Zinātnes un Reliģijas dialogs”.
„Zinātnes un reliģijas dialoga” interdisciplinārās grupas sēde
2010. gada 12. februārī, Latvijas universitāte, Raiņa bulv. 19, Mazā zāle
(video skatīties: http://www.lu.lv/par/mediji/video/konferences/2010/religijaunzinatne/12022010/)
Vadītājs Dainis Zeps
1. Normunds Titāns, „Zemes dzīvības rašanās teorijas(ekstraterestriālā kontaminācija versus spontānai ģenerācijai no ‘organiskās zupas’) un to antropoloģiski teoloģiskās implikācijas”
2. Iļja Feščenko: „Ārpusvisuma saprāta hipotēze” (Extraterrestrial intelligence hypothesis), scireprints.lu.lv/93/
3. Dainis Zeps, „Evolūcija un kreatīvā kārtība: Dāvida Boma multi-laiks”, scireprints.lu.lv/100/
4. Mārtiņš Kasaross, „Evolūcijas teorijas un teoloģijas sintēze Teijāra de Šardēna darbā Cilvēka fenomens”, scireprints.lu.lv/75/
5. Kaspars Mičulis, „Pašorganizācija, semantika un antropais princips to vienojošā kontekstā”, scireprints.lu.lv/76/
6. Aigars Atvars, „Filozofijas izmantošana zinātniskā un reliģiskā pasaules uzskata apvienošanai”, scireprints.lu.lv/102/
7. Dzintars Bušs, „Kristietības principu realizācija: modernās zinātnes un sabiedrības rašanās priekšnoteikums”, scireprints.lu.lv/78/
8. Roberts Paeglis, „Zinātnes sasniegumu pieminēšana Bībelē”, scireprints.lu.lv/74/
9. Florian Gahbauer: „Krusta zinātne – kāpēc zinātnei ir jāsaprot krusta noslēpums, lai veidotu veiksmīgu dialogu ar kristiešiem”, scireprints.lu.lv/79
Towards a General Definition of Modeling
Get PDFWhat is a model? Surprisingly, in philosophical texts, this question is asked (sometimes), but almost never – answered. Instead of a general answer, usually, some classification of models is considered. The broadest possible definition of modeling could sound as follows: a model is anything that is (or could be) used, for some purpose, in place of something else. If the purpose is “answering questions”, then one has a cognitive model. Could such a broad definition be useful? Isn't it empty? Can one derive useful consequences from it? I'm trying to show that there is a lot of them
The Formalist Picture of Cognition. Towards a Total Demystification.
Get PDFThis paper represents a philosophical experiment inspired by the formalist philosophy of mathematics.
In the formalist picture of cognition, the principal act of knowledge generation is represented as tentative postulation – as introduction of a new knowledge construct followed by exploration of the consequences that can be derived from it. Depending on the result, the new construct may be accepted as normative, rejected, modified etc. Languages and means of reasoning are generated and selected in a similar process.
In the formalist picture, all kinds of “truth” are detected intra-theoretically. Some knowledge construct may be considered as “true”, if it is accepted in a particular normative knowledge system. Some knowledge construct may be considered as persistently true, if it remains invariant during the evolution of some knowledge system for a sufficiently long time. And, if you wish, you may consider some knowledge construct as absolutely true, if you do not intend abandoning it in your knowledge system.
And finally, in the formalist picture, all kinds of ontologies generated by humans can be demystified by reconstructing them within the basic solipsist ontology simply as hypothetical branches of it
The Principle of Existence II: Genesis of Self-Referential Matrix Law, & the Ontology & Mathematics of Ether
Get PDFIn the beginning there was prespacetime (GOD) by itself e0 =1 materially empty and spiritually restless. And it began to imagine through primordial self-referential spin such that it created the self-referential Matrix Law, the external object to be observed and internal object as observed, separated them into external world and internal world, caused them to interact through said Matrix Law and thus gave birth to the Universe which it has since passionately loved, sustained and made to evolve. In short, this work is the continuation of our hypothesis of scientific genesis, sustenance & evolution of the Universe and all creations within (the principle of existence)
Evolution in Many-Sheeted Space-time
Get PDFThe topics of the article has been restricted to those, which seem to represent the most well-established ideas about evolution in many-sheeted space-time.
a) Basic facts about and TGD based model for pre-biotic evolution are discussed.
b) A model for the ATP-ADP process based on DNA as topological quantum computer vision, the identification of universal metabolic energy quanta in terms of zero point kinetic energies, and the notion of remote metabolism is discussed.
c) A model for the evolution of the recent genetic code (3-codons) as a fusion of codes for which codons are nucleotides (1-codons) and di-nucleotides (2-codons) is discussed. The symmetries of the genetic code, the observation that tRNA can be seen as a fusion of two hairpin like DNA molecules, and the finding that the first nucleotides of 3-codon code for the reaction path leading from a precursors of the aminoacid to aminoacids for hydrophobic/hydrohilic dichotomy, serve as motivations of the model. 1- and 2-codes corresponding to the two forms of RNA (the exotic 2´-5' RNA and the usual 3'-5' RNA) would have prevailed in RNA world. Aminoacids would have served as catalysts for the copying of RNA on one hand, and RNA molecules would have catalyzed the formation of aminoacids from their precursors on one hand, meaning the presence of a positive feedback loop. In the transition to DNA-aminoacid era RNA began to be translated to aminoacid sequences.
d) Cambrian explosion represents a rather mysterious period in biology: new highly developed phylas emerged out of nowhere. A second strange finding is that continents would fit together to form single super-continent covering entire Earth's surface at time of Cambrian explosion if the radius of Earth would have been one half of its recent value. This finding has inspired Expanding Earth theories but it has not been possible to identify the mechanism causing the expansion. The success of the standard tectonic plate theory requires that possible expansion must have occurred in relatively short geological time scale. The hierarchy of Planck constants implies that cosmic expansion has occurred in quantum leaps increasing the value of hbar and thus of quantum scales by factors which tend to be powers of 2. Cosmic expansion would have occurred as jerks even in the case of planets. In the proposed model Cambrian explosion would have accompanied the expansion of the Earth's radius by a factor of 2: during this period an outburst of highly developed life forms from underground seas to the surface of Earth would have taken place
This Time – What a Strange Turn of Events!
Get PDFIn relativity time is bound to space by the symmetries of spacetime. In the general theory the symmetry is covariance under diffeomorphisms but in string theory this extends to the full permutation group acting on spacetime events. This huge symmetry has profound implications for the nature of time, causality and the way we see our place in the universe
Our Ability to Research Comes Before Understanding of What We Research
Get PDFImpact of quantum mechanics on physical science epistemology and science at all is considered.
We consider methodolically idea that science doesn’t research its assumed objects but the ability to research, thus making itself not distinguishable from the cognitive science in the most general sense. Next idea is that what we discover firstly are the methods and the technologies understanding about which may come (if at all) much much later after we have learned to use these technologies in our life up to incredible level.
Instrumentality rather than objectivity should be researched in science. In this sense quantum mechanical impact on sciences should be assessed. Using this approach, quantum consciousness should be quested for