Author Archives: Joseph E Postma

Leibniz & the Human Mind

Posted on 2015/10/26 by Joseph E Postma

An excellent webcast from the LaRouche group posted last week.  An absolute must-see! They comment on Gödel and Hilbert and make some excellent points regarding the logical positivist approach.  Still though, they were wrong to conclude that Gödel’s work meant that “there … Continue reading →

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“Pythagoras was at it Already”

Posted on 2015/10/14 by Joseph E Postma

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Anon: “From your latest”: “Do you want to take down scientific materialism, the scientific anti-philosophical paradigm?  Do you want philosophy to use mathematics and physics better than science can, and to make philosophy once more reign supreme in intellectualism and … Continue reading →

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New Paper on the Radiative Greenhouse Effect

Posted on 2015/10/13 by Joseph E Postma

The new paper is published on arXiv and the link page can be found here.  PDF here: A Note on Fourier and the Greenhouse Effect The False Basis of Climate Alarm “In any collection of data, the figure most obviously … Continue reading →

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The Thermodynamic Mind

Posted on 2015/09/23 by Joseph E Postma

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If you haven’t already read the last post, you should read it before reading this one. The New Science “It’s essential for the New Science to put agency, subjectivity, teleology, free will and mind into its equations – everything formally … Continue reading →

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Photonic Mental Agency

Posted on 2015/07/19 by Joseph E Postma

Übermensch or Last-Man? Before anything else, any Hyperhuman would reject Climate Alarm and Malthusian Environmentalism because of what it says about humanity. As Jason Ross put it in this week’s science discussion at LPAC: “It’s child abuse. You take a … Continue reading →

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Ontological Mathematics, Boundary Conditions, Physics, & Empiricism

Posted on 2015/06/08 by Joseph E Postma

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Ontology In the last post we discussed how although certain mathematical operations can be performed, it does not mean that they are actually representative of reality, i.e., that they’re “ontological”.  If you perform a mathematical operation which has no actual … Continue reading →

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Energy Flux Density Exposes Climate Pseudoscience

Posted on 2015/06/07 by Joseph E Postma

I hope to make it more clear here the relevance of the climate alarm pseudoscience radiative greenhouse fraud in the light of the physical concept of energy flux density. Recall this diagram of the mechanism of the radiative greenhouse effect, … Continue reading →

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Anti-Development is Murder

Posted on 2015/06/05 by Joseph E Postma

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“Air Conditioners Cause Heat Waves”, IPCC Says Carl Brehmer – June 2015 Those who follow the news will have noticed that the wires are abuzz with stories about how many people have died in India over the past couple of … Continue reading →

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The Sophistry of Backradiation

Posted on 2015/05/26 by Joseph E Postma

Another Tale of Two Versions Sophistry finds its greatest expression and success in deceit when it can switch reference frames, goal posts, and contexts without switching the language.  We’ve seen this already in the two versions of “the greenhouse effect”, … Continue reading →

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The Ground is not the Surface

Posted on 2015/05/19 by Joseph E Postma

Think like a Photon This is a comment upgrade to a post.  Recall the earlier post about thinking like a photon, rather than thinking like a human, if you want to understand why light exhibits the behaviour that it does. … Continue reading →

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