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Extralogical Complexity Part 1: The Nonlinearity of Nature

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    For an environment to evolve into something like Nature,   Nature  can’t be what people think.     As discussed in other posts, vertebrate cognition’s need to make comprehensible and motivating models of reality leads to a host of fallacies and illusions about Nature, the World, and human beings ( see summary intro ). Linear change—constant, predictable change characterized by bell curves and straight lines--is too weak to account for the self-organizing, adaptive powers of Nature. Nor can change occur to accommodate neat, satisfying explanations, where initiating events always lead to proportional outcomes (at least outside of people’s cognitively biased minds). This treatise shows the true dynamics of change, which gives rise to the characteristic phenomena of Complex systems theory presented in the upcoming part two.     You’ve heard “the balance of Nature,” “balance in the Force,” and the like. This is almost exactly what Nature isn’t...
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Notes for Talk on Life Learning and Pragmatism in Advisory Relationships

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The following are the notes for the talk I gave on July 1, 2025 based on the article Unidentified Misconceptions on Advisement  Intro:   Tonight’s theme is managing life learning and immediate pragmatism in advisory relationships. It’s loosely based on the article  Unidentified Misconceptions on Advisement . It’s three parts include: part one, a reintroduction to pragmatic unwrongness and suspending judgment and their place in advisory relationships; two, contrasting judgment and life-learning in advisory relationships; and in part three, I’ll get to some misconceptions.      ( Everyone’s the best and worst source of knowledge of themselves, and everyone knows at least something you don’t; mutual participation is necessary for learning and execution of advice ).  Everyone needs advisement. Everyone is both the best and worst source of knowledge of themselves--the best because they have the most information; the worst, because they’re the most bia...
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Intro to Extralogical Deism

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  It may seem strange that someone would create a philosophy that emphasizes avoiding wrong beliefs over finding correct ones ( extralogical reasoning , ER, calls this  pragmatic unwrongness ). It might seem stranger that he would then base a religion on that philosophy. Most people associate religions exclusively with ontologies (studies of being) and ethics (philosophies of action), and not at all wit h epistemologies (philosophies of knowing). Nearly all religions and other “universal” philosophies invalidate themselves from the first by failing to construct an epistemology that undergirds the others in respective order, as universal philosophies should (this, of course, does not mean all ELEMENTS of them are invalid). Religion’s lack of epistemology is clearly due to its absence everywhere else.   Extralogical reasoning reengineers your thinking for  Pragmatic unwrongness . This distinguishes it from “super-logical reasoning,” reasoning that emphasizes correctne...
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