The Evolution of Perception and the Cosmology of Substance: A Simpler Theory of Everything

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 100 pages
• Published by: iUniverse, Inc. June 24, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0595320740
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0595320745
• Book Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Weighs: 5.6 ounces

Product Description
Long ago, before he had the complicated metaphysical theories that he has today, man had his experience to explain. Over time, he invented theoretical entities to explain his experience. He invented gods, the logos, forms, matter, monads, noumenon, minds, spirit, the ether, spacetime, superstrings, dimensions, etc. Gradually these invented things became the things which required explaining. Great arguments were generated to explain them, to prove the existence of the entities he had invented to explain experience. Gradually man began to question experience itself, since it no longer seemed compatible with his theories. Experience, that event which had once been beyond dispute and the starting point of man's inquiry, was now the theoretical entity, and his invented entities, such as matter and energy, for which he had no direct evidence, were reality. The world was finally totally upside down.

Chris Ott considers our current philosophical problems to be the tragic result of psychological fallacies as old as Plato. He offers a new explanation for the universe that relies simply on an evolution of perception. His theory succeeds at accounting for the physical as well as the psychological--including mathematics, natural law, concrete objects, language, thought, and culture. A spellbinding journey to the roots of our assumptions.

Reader Reviews
I read "The Evolution of Perception" and was very impressed with Mr. Ott's insights, and further impressed with the way these concepts were presented in a way that would be understandable to anyone with an open mind. This is an opportunity to learn about a revolution in thinking that is beginning to take root in our culture. Ott explains in simple language and illustrations how the tenets of Newtonian materialist science have begun to show their age. Newer thinking founded on an observer based world view demonstrably provides us with a picture of a universe with "fewer moving parts" while allowing us an explanation for evolution as a dimensional expression of the mind itself. The book puts in words what none so far could ever do. It's not for everyone, but for some, it could be the one that knocks you in the head and changes forever how you interpret perception and the world around you.