Author: Verdie Dreyer

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Published: 2015-07-03

Total Pages: 830

ISBN-13: 9780620664448

A book of three parts - distinctively Book 1, Book 2, and Book 3. The focus of Book 1 (name: On Conception and Dream as Will to Compatibility): psychology, cognition, feeling, and dreams. Develops a model of cognition wherein specific mechanisms are proposed to operationally characterize the original transformational processing of perceptual stimuli/patterns to conceptual representations (and thought), and thence showing how these cognitive mechanisms are involved in the production of a feeling dimension central to the human mind (and all mind types capable of mirror self-recognition), but not yet theoretically distinguished in contemporary psychology from an affectively broad dimension like emotion. The cognitive model is then used to develop a dream theory (includes a critical investigation of certain Freudian and Jungian ideas on the workings of dreams); subsequently, as part of an autobiographical case study, a series of the author's dreams are analyzed to example different kinds of dreams, to reveal the subtending meaning of the dreams, and demonstrate their therapeutic significance. The dream investigation additionally serves to provide evidence for the newly proposed feeling dimension. The focus of Book 2 (name: On Logic and Evolution as Will to Compatibility): philosophy of physics, logic, and evolution. Identifies an implicit assumption made in the sciences, coined the premise of locality; the problematic of the assumption is discussed, and its logic is falsified. An alternative assumption, the premise of non-locality, is proposed; the latter knowledge assumption being argued and laid down in line with quantum mechanical findings (accepting Karl Popper's objectivist-type interpretation), specifically the experimentally verified phenomenon of non-locality. The author demonstrates how the problematic improbabilities of neo-Darwinism follow from the locality premise assumption, and investigates the possible falsification of this evolution theory. Thereafter a more encompassing theory of evolution is developed in accordance with conceptual systems of formal and informal logic distinctively inferred from the semantic-conceptual structure of the non-locality premise. Numerous lines of experimental and empirical evidence for the new evolution theory are presented, certain evolutionary phenomena beyond the explanatory scope of neo-Darwinian theory are rendered explicable, and the old theory's terminal fate of improbability is avoided. Book 3 (name: On Philosophy as Will to Compatibility) is a longish essay narrating the author's battle against certain corrupted elements reigning inside the university of his doctoral study. This battle representing a symbolic microcosm for the macrocosm of his battle against the paradigm of postmodernism. As such the author daringly identifies with a mythical personage of knight errantry: like Don Quixote fought against windmills and believed himself to be fighting giants, so the author fought against the university and believed himself to be fighting postmodernism. Thus the theories put forward in Book 1 and Book 2, respectively, are brought to practical and moralistic expression in the archetypal story of the battle. The philosopher and friend, Friedrich Nietzsche, figures prominently in the role of antagonist.