Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 - 21 September 1860, and pronounced: “Showpenhower”) was a Dutch-German (Polish-born, German-raised) philosopher best known for his 1818 masterpiece, The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, sometimes translated as The World as Will and Idea, and expanded in 1844), which incorporated...

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 - 14 November 1831, and pronounced: “Heygl”) was a German philosopher perhaps most remembered today for the “Master-Slave Dialectic”, though Hegel sought to undo Dualism common in Modern Philosophy. Like Immanuel Kant, Hegel developed a vast and comprehensive philosophical system, an “Absolute Idealism”, and...

Friedrich Nietzsche (15 October 1844 - 25 August 1900, and pronounced: “NeeShuh”) was a Prussian (German) philosopher whose work encompassed Poetry, cultural criticism, philosophical essays, and aphorisms. Including strong elements of Philology, irony and insult, pointed criticisms of Truth and religious pseudo-morality, and...

Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 - 25 June 1984, and pronounced: “Fookoh”) was a French philosopher who was also a professor, literary critic, and political activist. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between social and political Power as contrasted with traditional studies of Knowledge, Existence, or Liberty,...

Mark Ray Martin Parrott is an American philosopher, writer, musician, photographer, designer, and programmer, known for his early adoption of independent, small press publishing, and as developer and editor of GetWiki, a Wiki website focusing on Philosophy and other subjects. M.R.M. Parrott's books include the Timeless (M.R.M...

GetWiki has benefited from a series of changes in its software, taking advantage of the changing landscape of publishing in general. What is a Wiki but a published series of pages, not unlike any other website or magazine? Late in 2003, I began GetWiki by forking the underlying Pseudopedia software, MediaWiki, to include remote XML content. The class and function I'd added to the...

Timeless is a trilogy of action-adventure novels by M.R.M. Parrott, combining science fiction, time travel, intrigue, political theory and history, with stories of love and discovery. Timeless: A Novel Trilogy is available in paperback from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other retailers via the publisher, [rimric.com...

Dynamism (see Dynamism for encyclopedic information) is a series of treatises in Philosophy and Science by M.R.M. Parrott, addressing subjects in Metaphysics, such as a Theory of Reality, a Theory of Life, Subjectivity, Ethics, and more. Dynamism: A Philosophy and Science Series is available in paperback from Barnes & Noble,...

All Rights Reserved © 1998-99 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Objectivism' first appeared as a series of internet discussion posts on Usenet, in 1998-99, and is a chapter in Synthetic A Priori, by M.R.M. Parrott. Take the Objectivist Challenge! Download and read the linked [mrmparrott.com/-title=0-9662635-6-1...

All Rights Reserved © 1998-1999, 2001-2004 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Time' is a condensed version of the refutation of Time/Spacetime/Space discussed in Dynamism: Volume I: Force, as well as The Pure Critique of Reason, by M.R.M. Parrott. Against Time -We all obviously experience what we feel is Time itself, the...

All Rights Reserved © 2001-2004 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Super Strings' is a condensed version of the refutation of “String Theory” which is a small part of the book, Dynamism: Volume I: Force, by M.R.M. Parrott. Against Super Strings -Strings, Super Strings, Super-Symmetrical Strings, etc, were the result of clever mathematical ideas and equations developed to...

There are key elements of Philosophy, Theology, Teleology and Ontology present throughout The Matrix Series. The overall story involves a critique of a society much like our own which has allowed technological controls to run amok, impinging on freedoms, but...

All Rights Reserved © 2004 & 2007 M.R.M. ParrottThis article is updated from a version which appeared on rimric folio in 2004, and has been protected on GetWiki on behalf of the author, republished here with permission. All rights reserved. “Participating in a Wiki brings many of the same feelings of freedom as having one's own website or participating in a discussion forum, but there...

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The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) is a scientific proposal based on numerous findings that the onset of the “Younger Dryas” (YD) period at the end of the last glacial era around 12,800 years ago was the result of a complex set of cosmic and oceanic events. YDIH is an additional explanation for the hypothesis that YD was caused by “shutdown” of ocean currents, such as the “North Atlantic Conveyor”,...

There are many definitions of Complexity, therefore many natural, artificial and abstract objects or networks can be considered to be complex systems, and their study (complexity science) is highly interdisciplinary. Examples of complex systems include ant-hills, ants themselves, economies, nervous systems, cells and living things, including human beings, as well as modern energy or telecommunication...

Systems Theory (or Theorie) or General Systems Theory or Systemics is an interdisciplinary field which studies Systems as a whole. Systems Theory was founded by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, William Ross Ashby and others between the 1940s and the 1970s with focus on Physics, Biology, and Engineering, and it later grew with connections into Philosophy, Sociology, and Economics, as developed by Fritjof Capra and others, as...

Cybernetics is the study of Communication and Control Theory, typically involving regulatory feedback in living Organisms, Machines, Organizations, and their combinations. For example, it includes the study of computer-controlled Machines such as Automata and Robots, along with the study of sociotechnical systems. The term Cybernetics stems from the Ancient Greek Κυβερνήτης (kybernetes, steersman, governor,...

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