General Science and Philosophy

New Concept of H Removes Paradoxes of Infinity

Authors: William Hesslefors Nairn
Comments: 9 Pages. Email: whnairn@gmail.com (Note by viXra Admin: Please cite and listed scientific references; Please submit article written with AI assistance to ai.viXra.org)

An alternative framework to zero and infinity can be presented through the new concepts of 0^m and H^m. These bold definitions aim to mathematically represent infinitesimal and infinite values, preserving our intuition while reducing manyseemingly unnecessary contradictions encountered across several mathematical domains while dealing with infinity. I define 0^m as some hierarchy of infinitesimally small values, keeping the concept somewhat similar to finite numbers and using approximations (which have proved very useful in other areas of mathematics) as opposed to letting zero continue to represent absolute nothingness(and doing the same for H^m to replace the absurdity of infinity). Some applications include potential improvements to geometric series and supremum definitions, and clarifications to quadratic equation and inverse matrices - etc.Feedback on its implications and my communication are highly welcomed.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

Individuation of Doctoring as the Basic Concept of Public Health and a Medical Science

Authors: Kutlumuratov Atabek Bekchanovich
Comments: 58 Pages. typos corrected & text improved.

The seventh treatise of the cycle "Ontological and epistemological bases of medicine and physiology" (finishing). It is marked that the medical science of the end 19 and the beginnings of 20th centuries began to depart from the concept of the individuation of the doctoring process, which was considered almost officially a basis of a clinical paradigm throughout 23 centuries. To the middle of 20th century this conception has been justified by rapid development of biology and by requirement to use of its achievements in medicine. Nowadays we can observe excessive differentiation of clinical medicine (which is the doctoring science). The individuation principle implicitly underlies any national systems of public health services, and it forms a philosophical basis of a medical science. This principle expresses specificity of physician’s thinking which depends a little from the paradigm declared by representatives of official medicine. This principle lays in basis of the differentiation of public health (as the system of physicians' activities), and in basis of differentiation of medical science (as the clinical disciplines' system). The public health decides problems of society's health for interests of the society by regulation of efforts of doctors in limits of the different profiles. And the public health promotes tendency of any doctor in order to professionally promote interests of health of each patient in each clinical case. Therefore and physician practice of any profile is effective if it supports the doctor's aspiration as much as possible to keep and strengthen health of each patient (if he/she is healthy), and to recover him/her health (if he/she is sick). The medical science is effective so far as it follows this principle within the limits of each of medical disciplines. Thus the doctor reaches best efficiency of doctoring only on the basis of a clinical paradigm, and this efficiency does not depend directly on a biomedical paradigm which is declared by official medicine as basic one in the doctoring science.Keywords: an individuation of doctoring; a clinical paradigm; public health; a medical science; public health services profile; differentiation of medical science.
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Repositioning Mind and Matter in a Simulation Scenario

Authors: Genevieve Gorrell
Comments: 27 Pages.

The hypothesis that we are living in a simulation, whilst difficult to prove, offers some common sense inroads into practical lines of thinking. As long as mental phenomena are sidelined, mainstream understanding of reality is limited. In this paper, three models are presented that reposition mind and matter in a hypothetical structure of our simulation. Computer programming analogies are used to explore different aspects of our existential situation.
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On some Programs in Mathematics and Physics

Authors: Lucian M. Ionescu
Comments: 44 Pages. Presentation at Illinois State University Pure and Applied Mathematics Seminar 2024.

The development of Mathematics was marked by far-reaching new ideas, known as "Programs", and associated to top Mathematicians, e.g. Galois, Klein, Lie, Noether, Hilbert, Grothendieck, Langland and much more. They become "Principles" that changed the landscape of Mathematics and led to breakthroughs in Sciences, notably in Physics, but also in Chemistry and Biology. This presentation highlights the relation between such general principles, ensuing from the actual historical connections between their proponents, with excerpts from stories one needs to know, e.g. Einstein’s talk and Hilbert’s "homework" to his assistant Emmy Noether, or the productive collaboration and friendship between Felix Klein and Sophus Lie. New developments are mentioned: how Theory of Algebraic Periods, in the context of the recent quantization of system of units leads to explain the "unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics": Natural Laws are Period laws.
Category: General Science and Philosophy

Episodes of Scientific Revolutions

Authors: Lucian M. Ionescu
Comments: 18 Pages. Presentation at the 66th Midwest Junto for History of Science 2025.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Khun is a valuable starting point to develop the theory of how Theories appear, evolve and fadeout, in a similar way political trends, or biological species evolve and transform. This presentation touches on this idea and acknowledges that at present there is a triple Scientific Super-Revolution going on: Quantum Computing, AI and Gravity Control Technology (much less known).Perhaps a branch of History focusing on Modeling Scientific Theories, or its analogs, and their dynamics is missing, aside the Historian routine of record keeping and commenting the usually distant past. History Dynamics could contribute to governing institutions improve their complex models to improve their efficiency by predicting and have a more "cybernetic" approach to control and prevent, especially based on the immense AI-capability for data processing and correlating.
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The Trickster and the Tao: Explaining the Perversity of Psi Phenomena via Multiscale Morphic Resonance

Authors: Ben Goertzel
Comments: 46 Pages. (Note by viXra Admin: Please submit article written with AI assistance to ai.viXra.org)

This document presents a speculative but formally structured and carefully argued model for understanding why psi phenomena often exhibit a "decline effect" or even reverse (psi-missing) over repeated trials. The core idea is that psi results from a multiscale Precedence Principle (loosely a form of "morphic resonance"), which operates both locally (in individual experiments and other situations) and globally (across the entire cosmos, and/or large regions thereof). When a local psi pattern initially gains support, its low algorithmic complexity allows it to flourish. As the pattern proliferates and variants increase, its combined complexity eventually mismatches the broader cosmic resonance, causing suppression or inversion of the effect.

We show how this narrative might find a physics underpinning, via aligning it with a previously-presented theory of the physical foundations of psi, the Occamistic Precedence framework in Causal Set Theory, where each new observation is a causal-graph node whose probability is weighted by its historical frequency and algorithmic complexity.

This suggests that the neural underpinnings of psi phenomena can be modeled within a causal-set framework, where each neural "event" corresponds to adding discrete informational elements whose descriptive complexity governs their likelihood. Local neural templates that match low-complexity global patterns enjoy high insertion probability—forming shallow informational wells—while accumulating divergent variants deepen the well, suppressing or inverting further psi-like activity; analogous mechanisms could be engineered in AI via causal-set-inspired memory structures and complexity-based priors.

We also demonstrate a formal correspondence between an agent’s psi capability—its ability to exploit low-complexity psi correlations—and its universal intelligence as defined by Legg-Hutter (Solomonoff/AIXI). Under a wide class of "psi environments," both psi performance and general intelligence hinge on the agent’s capacity for low-complexity hypothesis generation and compression. We further relate Weaver’s notion of open-ended intelligence to psi capacity, showing that agents which continually seek ever simpler, unifying models naturally maintain resonance with broad cosmic patterns, thereby minimizing psi perversities. Finally, we outline empirical validation strategies spanning neuroscience (e.g. EEG/MEG complexity measures, TMS/tACS modulation) and AI prototyping (e.g. digital causal-set memories, neuromorphic implementations).
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I.q. Vs. Wisdom

Authors: Clark M. Thomas
Comments: 4 Pages.

It is a mistake to equate, or even correlate, high IQ testing and real wisdom. Many people have superior intelligence, but few individuals in today’s machine societies have profound wisdom. AI easily can generate confusing perspectives having little or nothing to do with real humanism. There are deep dangers associated with assuming all high-IQ people are ethically wise. Advanced societies are rarely ecologically more wise than the collective wisdom of traditional cultures. It is now easier to do great global harm, than to do great global good.
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Commercialization of Science

Authors: Taha Sochi
Comments: 42 Pages. English and Arabic

In recent decades, science - particularly in Western countries - has been trending toward privatization and commercialization, viewed as a commercial commodity whose primary - or even sole - objective is material gain. Terms such as the "commercialization and monetization of science" are common these days, and some universities and scientific institutions are even urging this trend, with seminars, training courses, and conferences organized to this effect. Although we recognize the benefits of establishing a relationship between science, its institutions and centers, and the world of finance, business, commerce and industry - for example, by bringing investments into the field of advanced scientific research - we believe that the harms of this trend on science and scientists - and indeed humanity in general - are more than its benefits. Turning science into a commodity contributes to the moral, ethical and epistemological degradation of science and its role in human life, and encourages the spread of corruption and illegal practices within academic and research entities such as universities, research centers, specialized scientific journals and the like. In this article, we will briefly review this trend and assess its negative effects and repercussions on the progress of science and knowledge and their role in human life and the evolution of human civilization and its future.
Category: General Science and Philosophy