PRIME REVISITED

PRIME REVISITED
(Science Lends a Helping Hand)

My book, EVERY MAN AND WOMAN AN ISLAND, The Individual Human Being As Prime In The Universe, published 2004 is an all-embracing philosophy of human existence. It is complete, and I do not intend to rewrite or revise it in any fundamental way. However, any philosophy worth a dime has a first principle upon which all the rest is founded, and I have one: PRIME (In the book is also referred to as “Womb To Tomb”). It is Chapter Two in the book. Though it requires no changes, the past five years of “feedback” have demonstrated a need for additional “clarity.”

Reader response has proven that of all the subjects covered in the book, it remains confusing to (not me or those who do get it) far too many readers. If the under pinning of the book is wobbly, the entire book is at “risk.” Consequently, I’m mandated to write a review of PRIME. Extra attention is especially given to new views of science.

Due to shared philosophic positions with PRIME renewed mention is given to Cartesian views, Solipsism, as well as the recent development of BIOCENTRISM. This is not to critique the differences among them, but to illustrate their similarities. Fundamentally I find them eerily alike with differences not much more than mincing words.

Even more striking, all of them stand true when subjected to the same infallible proof used to give truth to PRIME. Cartesianism and Solipsism are historically old. PRIME and BIOCENTRISM are relatively new. Biocentrism is not only new, but is uniquely supported by much of mainstream science and logic. (For example, Quantum Physics and the work of Robert Lanza and Bob Berman; Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner.)

While I have several disagreements with the writer-novelist Ayn Rand, the quote below is not one of them. With it I couldn’t agree more,

"If life can have a ‘theme song’—and I believe every worthwhile one has
--mine is—an obsession or a mania—expressed in one word:
Individualism. "

In fact my philosophy PRIME agrees more with that quote than does her philosophy OBJECTIVISM. So here is my “dictionary” definition of PRIME that I accept as a denotative definition—a great place to begin,

"PRIME; First in time. First in existence. First in quality. First in rank, degree,
influence, importance, and value. The basis of reality. The beginning of anything. "

Borrowing from scripture, “There shall be no gods before me.”

Metaphysics is defined in the original Greek as “that which comes after physics.” Today it is used for almost anything someone thinks he/she knows or believes about the universe. It is such a mess today that “metaphysically” knowing something includes politics, education, business, the common cold, ad nauseum. Of course most of it is nonsense. Factually metaphysics is “existence” and “consciousness of mortality.” Theories founded on the world of “matter” fail to explain anything about “life”, and even less about “consciousness”, even the best of physicists are impotent. At best they can only explain the science of Einstein and Newton. Only the biological sciences continue to add to human knowledge about life and consciousness, with the possible exception of Quantum Physics.

I believe that PRIME offers the best explanation (provable) of consciousness. This includes the fact that individual human beings are each of them is a one of a kind event—that includes life and consciousness in finality. In any meaningful way Metaphysics is no more than the fact of self-awareness and time for A individual human being.

Such lunacy as “God Made It” is the madness that even science uses, too often, when it can’t, at the time “explain” something. The failure spews from the fact that modern science fails when it attempts to explain how consciousness “came” from matter! Time, Matter, and Mortality are extant only in relation to A individual human being, or as Ayn Rand once remarked, “When I die the world will simply cease to exist.”

I have an argument to make, and it’s a new one. I shall explore this argument and a few others similar to mine. But, I want one perspective made very clear: From PRIME’S position, a true metaphysics must subsume science, the scientific method, and formal logic. It must make an observation about events and phenomena about the known world. It must formulate a statement about those events. It must form a proof about the empirical facts of cause and effect. It must form a hypothesis and then validate it against both experiment and formal logic. If such examination supports the statement, one can then conclude a theory, perhaps a law, from such verification.

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