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Why is there something
rather
than
nothing?
Is the world an illusion?
What exists beyond
the human
senses?
What happens after
death? Does divine
or supernatural agency exist? Is the future already
decided?
What is the meaning
of
life?
What is right and wrong?
What beings should have what rights? What
should one do?
What is truth? consciousness?
intelligence?
What are the limits
of
intelligence?
Of logic?
Could a machine
think? Does free
will exist?
How did the universe begin? How will it end? What laws
govern it? Why are those laws as they are?
How old is the universe? How big is it? What happened
before
the Big
Bang?
Does the universe have a center? An edge? What is the
universe
expanding
into?
What is life? How
did life
arise?
What
explains its complexity?
How did mind
and
language
arise? How does the brain
work?
Is there life and intelligence beyond earth?
How do politics and economics work? What system
is best?
How and why do men and women behave differently?
How and why have human civilizations developed
differently?
Will humanity suffer cultural
decline? economic
crash? tyranny?
resource
depletion? overpopulation?
runaway
pollution? pandemic?
interplanetary
impact? nuclear
catastrophe? nanotech
plague?
Will humanity experience divine
salvation? loss of faith?
paranormal
abilities? alien
contact? time
travel? warp
travel? machine
or human superintelligence? immortality?
What will happen in the next: hundred
years? thousand years? million years? billion years?
trillion years?
This evolving hypertext
is a
systematic
statement of what humanity does and does
not know, and can and cannot
know, about the answers to these and hundreds
of other such questions. It summarizes what
human
civilization
has learned, identifying for each subdivision of human
knowledge its
fundamental
concepts, principles, mysteries,
and misunderstandings. It asserts a worldview
of scientific positivism
and libertarian
capitalism
that it predicts
will guide
future
human thought and action.
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Brian Holtz has been designing
Internet
software for
Yahoo and Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley
since 1990. He is a
husband, father, and author of ToolTalk and
Open Protocols
(Prentice
Hall, 1994). He holds an M.S. in AI from the U. of
Michigan and a B.S.
in computer science from the U. of S. Miss. Honors
College. Read
more at holtz.org,
or on his Knowing
Humans blog.
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