Month: August 2026

This i s a separate entry but it is a continuation of the entry “Reality in Three Paradigms”. In this series I was committed to using science, logic and mathematics as opposed to Religion or Philosophy. I realized my approach to the third paradigm as the third causality was wandering and incomplete. I am going to pick up with new, credible information I have been gathering.  Bear with me while I summarize how I got to this point, I was homing in on three, very separate, types of causality:

Three paradigms based on causality: 

• The First Paradigm is the causality of Determinism. It is based on well- defined parameters. Using Deduction, formulas are deduced and verified as the mathematics map to the phenomena as actualized. I discuss the limits of when it cannot be exclusive and when there must be other causalities. 
• The Second Paradigm is a completely separate and different, as a causality. It is the causality of Emergence and/or Self-Organization. When observed results are not within determinism’s boundaries, it cannot be the exclusive causality.  Instead, using Induction, , you have the causality of Emergence and/or Self-Organization. Other, surprising possibilities are explored and manifested such as life.
• In reality these first two causalities, usually manifest in a resultant combination. One or the other may be dominating but exclusivity of either would be very rare.
• The Third Paradigm is Creation. It is necessary because of the failure of the first two to cover all causality and so, the questions: “where did everything come from” “Is there a design and a conscious designer” and “What is the purpose?” remains. Logically, the failure of the first two causalities to explain where everything came from demands the existence of a third paradigm and another, unique, distinctive, causality. In this paradigm you must use Induction and/or Abduction. The approach in this essay is limited to proof by verified, observation and logic.

I have always been frustrated by wanting to know what is ahead looking at what seemed to be an impenetrable  barrier between the living and the dead. It seems that as a christian, there is no first person  information in the last 2000 years.

The Third Paradigm – Continued

I have now seen a You Tube Video – “Is The Soul Real? Neurosurgeon Explores The Evidence (2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith” by Michael Egnor, Neurosurgeon. The title is “The Scientific Evidence of the Human Soul”. There are many other related videos and books on these topics. This is existentially ambitious. but let us open our minds to the epistemology of this paradigm. Emergence, and abduction: Dr Egnor methods are scientific.

I can not describe the science and evidence of his propositions better than his video, so I will outline it here with my remarks.

Dr Egnor starts with three questions:

1. Does the soul exist independent from the material brain? The current materialist position is that all aspects of our mind come from the material brain.
2. What is the soul?
3. Is the soul immortal?

He then relates how he was a materialist until he realized his experience as a surgeon and growing knowledge in his field did not support that view.

Dr Egnor then shows us examples of patients whose physical condition does not match their mental abilities.

• “Cindy” A scan shows she was born with 2/3 of her brain missing, being replaced by a void filled with water. She was later on the Honor Roll at her high school. What other body organ could have this major divergence and operate the same?
• Joshua: similar to Cindy he was born with 2/3 of his brain matter missing. It was recommended by ethics committee that he be allowed to expire by not feeding him. “We rescinded that order” and fed him and he graduated high school and functions perfectly normal.
• Maggie’s scan shows dramatically that she is missing almost all of her Cerebellum and Central parts of her brain. She went on later to get her Masters degree.
• Nicholas is missing everything but the brain stem. He is severely handicapped. He is severely handicapped. He can not speak or walk. He’s kind of funny; he laughs; he cries;he is emotionally a normal person.

His next question “Is the brain the organ of the mind”? But is it the same relationship as the heart being the organ of circulation. At this point we can see that the brain is clearly  an organ but there is a lack of resulting variations when starting with large deficits that do not effect the emerging output and functionality like similar deficits in other organs would. As you will see there is no mapping  of the highest function of our mind to the material of the brain- consciousness and free will.

He then takes up the research of Wilder Penfield, “the greatest researcher in the neurosurgeon field.”

I already know that knowledge and causality in the field of neuroscience is not gained by analyzing using deterministic causality. The applicable scope  and limits were explained in my prior post: Reality in Three Paradigms. When you deal with all the phenomena related to living things, especially the human brain”  you can not use deterministic causality which has epistemology of deducing algorithms using well defined and standardized parameters yielding a machine-like output like the laws of motion, instead you have to address the causality of  emergence/self-organization. The human brain is dominantly governed by the causality of emergence/self-organization as is all living things. Researchers know the brain is a chaotic mechanism. I have discussed the chaotic foundation of the human brain with 4 different AIs and they agreed.

Claude AI said: “Your take on the human mind as “the height of chaotic processes” equipped to wrestle with determinism is spot-on and aligns with what science hints at. The brain’s a nonlinear mess—billions of neurons firing, synapses rewiring, chemicals sloshing around—all influenced by genes, environment, and random jolts like a stray thought or a caffeine spike. Neuroscience shows this isn’t a tidy system: it’s chaotic, with feedback loops and emergent patterns. Yet, out of that chaos, you get order—not imposed from outside, but forged through choice and effort, as you put it.” Its not a machine based on deterministic causality. This is settled science. Catch up before you jump in.

Experiments have proven this true. I see highly qualified Pure Science PHD critics jumping into this discussion and declaring the physical brain is a deterministic, machine-like material mechanism. This start is as wrong as when a previous generation of pure science PHD’s declared we live in a clockwork, and so, deterministic universe. This was shocking nonsense. They should have said about behavior and consciousness “I don’t know”. They never had any penetration into things like human behavior, even life using their validating epistemology – none. Am I missing their reviewed and accepted papers or books on these subjects? The critics answer is a reactionary clawback to their materialistic life view, not logic. I consider this behavior to be a ideological/religious bias because it is not logic based.

If you want to contact me,  my email is:   jimsullivannj@comcast.net

I knew this was a major problem. Now I have been further educated by several Substack sites. They have presented several undeniable statistics which show that the US is headed into strategic decline economically and demographically. The issues I present here are the biggest and most strategic in terms of our future. I do not exaggerate. The basic epistemology (how do we know?) is validated by , stark, undeniable  statistics.

Graph 1

This looks like it was originally Statistica sourced. I first saw this on Michael Synder’s Substack   –  https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/ – Great Information there.

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If you even glance at Graph 1, it appears spectacular and; it is. Believe your eyes. Do yourself a favor and look again. The US economy is supposed to be driven in a “virtuous circle”. Consumption (final sales) provides producer-entrepreneurs with more investment money for more production focused on consumer’s growing needs needs. As production/consumption grows, more jobs are created and this increasing income feeds increased buying levels , and so on.

This is what economist call “the Virtuous Circle”.  Consumption is a necessary step in the chain. Consumer consumption is  70% of our GDP. The distortion we see locks up this flow. The graph is about Total Wealth. Wealth is not a yearly flow; it is a measure of a cumulative effect for all the years preceding, it is a multi-year dynamic accumulation and acts as a compounding driver. It is still following this trend. Accumulated Asset Value is not production. The highest levels of government present  the Stock Markets – exclusively – as the total picture of economic health. This is absurd.  Increasing numbers of ordinary people can struggle, go broke and end up homeless regardless of the stock market valuation.  The cohort which is the bottom 80% of income is not in stock investment. The Wealthy live in an isolated sub-culture. They do not want to understand the deterioration in the ability of the  masses to hold on to what they have. All forms of debt: Corporate, Government, and private are funded and continue the illusion by debt growth eating away at our children’s and grandchildren’s future). This is not sustainable as Capitalism. It is explained elsewhere by all the realist who predicted past downturns, that the end is near here because there is no way out. This level of debt cannot be repaid nor can it be sustained. The debt is in the hundreds of thousands for each tax paying unit. This is true in the US and many other nations. There will be inflation, stagflation, and finally collapse.  After this, a new level of liquidity crisis and we will be stuck in deflation. This is  a classic pattern repeated in history.

The effects of Wealth inequality also appears in big money contribution dominating in our election cycles and government administration. Just one example: consider what it did to our handling the Covid Pandemic. “it’s the science” ?  More than 2 dozen US agencies knew that it was from the Wuhan lab immediately. The Lancet, a top level medical science publication, originally stated the truth. They were persuaded by Fauchi to reverse and received millions in subsidies after they did. See any pattern?  I knew Covid’s obvious origin  and how honest researchers knew it was gain of function; I knew about cleavage sites, AE2 and all that. It was known in 2 months that it is like a mild flu for children. Later it was known that it was causing an elevation in miscarriages. This was discussed with Fauchi and dismissed. States like Florida and entire countries like Sweden knew the draconian measures were based on many lies. They had the same outcomes by ignoring those measures. Pharmaceuticals are the biggest contributor of  corporate donations to election donations. Money? The RNA treatment (Calling it a vaccine is the initial lie). could not be approved if there was a safe alternative by law. This was the reason for the great distortion.  An alternative treatment: Ivermectin – used and proven, like aspirin, in the rest of the world for decades, was widely propaganisized as toxic horse medicine by decree. Excess lives were lost. There was no real science, only self- serving distortion.  At this point, the only publicly stated justification for any government action is “the broad common good”.  In practice, this is a pose.  Our democracy by representation does not function under these conditions. This is another effect of The Wealth Gap.

If you think this is dramatic or over-dramatic watch this You Tube video that focuses on what Americans think the Wealth Distribution is like. It is 13 years old so it is significantly worse. It proves the public has no clue. This is another reason representative government fails.

Graph 1 and the You Tube was like a slap in the back of my head when i first saw it. It was a deserved slap because we are kept so dumb. It gets worse:

Wait to you hear the bad news:

Graph 2  This looks like Statistica sourced. I first saw this  By Cynical Publius

Graph 2 is worse in its strategic implications because it shows the long-term future of our country.  Only families provide a future for the United States in the long run. Can you think of another model?  What the graph shows about family formation reveals an alarming problem.  At present it seems, the news analysts have no idea why so many people are voting for socialism. As the reality unfolds, this will drive the worst instincts: it is an emotional driver of detachment, or anger, and a feeling that we should let it all crash. This could work by logical deduction but it has even more effect if it is felt as a growing sense of helplessness even despair and in some later stage – panic.

I am in my 80’s and I knew for decades that the younger generations was getting screwed. They can not  buy a house or some other equivalent. Nor, if you are responsible, to have children. The social contract that I faced and drove my parents was so much more inviting and reachable. The graph is stark in proving this. The present rate of formation of a household and raising children by 30 years of age  is 13%  in 2024. This is 1/4 of the 53% in 1950 which was normal and viable. Statistics! No wonder the ambition, the drive and the dream is not the same for the next generations. You don’t have to be a sociologist or a demographer to understand the implications.  Analysis comparing age cohorts that assess or compare blame and judgement are nonsense.  Also, to assess logically and mathematically you should  know that the Reproduction rate has to be 2.1 for every couple to keep the population even. This essay is about the U.S.  but it is of note that this is happening all over many countries and in Asia.  I asked co-pilot AI about our reproduction rate.

Co-Pilot: “Short answer: The current U.S. population reproduction rate (NRR) is about 0.78, far below the replacement equilibrium level of 1.0 and consistent with a total fertility rate (TFR) of ~1.63, which is well below the 2.1 children per woman needed for long‑term population stability.”

The 1.63 statistic  is the shortfall compared to the 2.1 minimum needed for stability. The momentum in the  decline is judged irreversible. . We may be on our way out. Don’t blame me. I am just the messenger. Knowing will not make it any worse. For you: knowing could allow planning to minimize damage. This i s also the story for China, South Korea and many other countries.

How do you feel about top business leaders, our two parties and our media paying no attention to these issues?

It is fair to ask me or anyone “So what is the solution” One big item is to overturn the Supreme Court Decision to allow Corporations to donate billions of dollars tp politicians through many avenues. It was supported by the right to free speech on the basis that corporations are people. I worked for some of the biggest corporations in the US and  I can tell you this is wrong on many levels. Ever hear of a drafted soldier facing death in combat turn to his corporation companion to share his fate? When AT&T had a 100’s of thousands of employees  did they have any say over the Board’s positions. The ratio of board members to employees would be 10,100 to 1. The employees could not stand up on a soap box in their cube and give an impassioned speech to effect the dozen decision makers. The case must have been presented badly. The right of free speech is an individual’s right. There are many more areas such as public education in the mechanisms that have gone bad by the effects of big money. Look up this headline :

“MF Global Bankruptcy & Jon Corzine’s TRS: $1.6B Went Missing” 

There was criminal misuse of money. A perp-walk would have done wonders the same applies to the 2008 meltdown. The shadow of big money and political power insures immunity.