The Grandest Design: A Natural Process Metaphysics: Why M-theory is Wrong - Toward a Theory of EVERYTHING: Languages vs Words, Realities vs Reality ... Non-Symmetry, with Christian Illustrations

(I have realized that my book is wrong again. To account for social memories in the brain I assumed that DNA is where they are stored. If this were true DNA would have to change if you learned something. DNA does not change except due to aging processes and cosmic rays etc. However, I will leave the book available as an example of a good attempt to account for our intellectual lives. It addresses other issues correctly, I believe. I will further think about this and research it in hopes of coming out with another revision, but not anytime soon.) Metaphysics is an understanding or view of what is behind or transcends physical, social,or spiritual realities. It is a speculative philosophy of what is behind any science dealing with these realities. It can be the principles relating these sciences to each other or to unobservable or unmeasurable phenomena beyond what science can know. It can be moral, universal, or natural. In this book, I present a highly speculative, natural, process philosophy metaphysics. There is a need for an up to date metaphysics in our current world because it will help solve the following questions: How are the sciences related to the humanities and arts? Where in the physical world, as scientifically examined by physics, biology and chemistry do ideas reside? How in this residence can they effect with each other so as to change? How are language and knowledge related to each other and to our spiritual lives? What is consciousness? Can science explain it? What is symmetry and nonsymmetry? How can physics say phenomena is symmetric when life itself is non-symmetric? Is not life a phenomenon? Can a metaphysics bringing all these together in a logical outline possibly be constructed? No recognized comprehensive metaphysics friendly to spiritual phenomena has been developed since Alfred North Whitehead. Much has happened in science and in our world since 1927 when he started writing Process and Reality.1 There is a need for a new attempt to be launched. My attempt also involves a process philosophy. I have believed and was taught since I was very young that the highest calling a person can have is to make sense of our world and of one’s life. But am I the one who should publicly do this? How can I be qualified to do something that most intellectuals think is impossible? To answer this, all I can do is state my qualifications. I am a librarian. I have a broad knowledge of many intellectual fields and a more in-depth understanding of a few, which I find interesting. My profession requires my relating ideas and opinions to each other to find information. This is aided by a broad outlook that might be considered metaphysical.Many of the world’s greatest scientists were deeply interested in metaphysics including Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Clark Maxwell, to mention a few. Every person has struggled to understand our world, especially during childhood but we need better than a childhood understanding of what the world is. Unfortunately most people adapt segmented or schizophrenic viewpoints. Many contemporary scientists avoid metaphysics because it involves unscientifically verifiable variables. This book will force scientists to take a leap into the unknown some of which may not be immediately verifiable and some of which may never be scientifically verifiable. But it will give them new viewpoints to physically explore, some of which may eventually be proven to be very heuristically useful. As a sociologist, I have always been interested in Metaphysics and in the philosophy of social theory. Perhaps a librarian is the person who can do what others have not. As a librarian, I have been asked many impossible questions. I would give my patrons the best answers I could. Nevertheless, I never have been asked to answer the question “How can I make sense of everything?” I now ask myself that question. Here are my best answers. Read on along with me, the best is yet to be.