User:Dr. Günter Bechly

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=== Other interests ===
 
=== Other interests ===
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Philosophical implications and interpretations of modern physics (cosmology, relativity, quantum mechanics, TOE, multiverse); philosophy of space and time (incl. problems of temporal identity and change, persistence, and causality vs determinism); philosophy of biology; philosophy of mind (consciousness/qualia, intentionality, rationality, self, and free will); metaethics; philosophy of science; metaphysics (incl. problems of the principle of sufficient reason, mereology, universals and individuation, substance and resemblance, ontology, etc.); atheology and counter-apologetics (esp. critical evaluation of natural theology); philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche; process philosophy of Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead; pantheism, panpsychism, holism, and neutral monism; supplementary theories of evolution (symbiogenesis, hybridogenesis, self-organisation, quantum evolution); paleoanthropology; European prehistory and ancient history (incl. pagan culture and mythology); nature and nature conservation; fishing and hunting; traveling; digital photography and digital image processing; Apple Mac OSX und iOS, Web 2.0 (e.g. Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr), and open source/open content/open access/open science movements; science fiction and fantasy movies.
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Philosophical implications and interpretations of modern physics, incl. philosophy of space and time; philosophy of biology; philosophy of mind (incl. the problem free will); metaethics; metaphysics; philosophy of science; philosophy of religion (esp. natural theology); process philosophy of Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead; objective idealism, panentheism, panpsychism, and holism; supplementary theories of evolution; paleoanthropology, prehistory, and ancient history; nature and nature conservation; fishing and hunting; traveling; digital photography and digital image processing; Apple Mac OSX und iOS, Web 2.0 (e.g. Wikipedia, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr), and open source/open content/open access/open science movements; science fiction and fantasy movies.
 

 

 

 

 
=== World view ===
 
=== World view ===
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I am a nature-loving scientist and fervent adherent of the individualist, noble, aristocratic, elitarian, and life-affirming philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. I especially endorse his process "metaphysics", with its scientific naturalism, pantheism, panexperiential holism, neutral monism, process-relational perspectivism, panpsychist hylozoism and neovitalism, and evolutionary event ontology of pure flux of becoming without being in a Chaosmos of forces ("Will to Power"), in which negentropy (order) is the Good. I consider this as inspiring anti-materialistic but naturalistic alternative to the nihilistic world view of eliminative materialism, physicalist functionalism, mechanistic determinism, and reductionist scientism. I also sympathize with a secular pantheistic neopaganism, based on ancient Graeco-Roman culture and mythology, but of course I reject all kinds of personal theism, revealed religion (esp. Christianity, Judaism and Islam), and supernaturalism. Even though I am a non-theist and naturalist, I reject the so-called New Atheism (incl. Internet Infidels, Brights, and Skeptics) as philosophically shallow and dogmatic pop-culture movement, and reject Secular Humanism as a deeply incoherent world view, which tries to preserve Christian ethics in a godless universe.

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I am a nature-loving scientist, libertarian minarchist, and fervent adherent of process philosophy (sensu Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead). This implies my strong endorsement of scientific naturalism, panentheism, panexperiential holism (objective idealism) with internalist pluralism, process-relational perspectivism, neutral monism, panpsychist hylozoism and neovitalism, moral realism and immanent teleology, and evolutionary event ontology of pure flux of becoming. I consider this as inspiring and re-enchanted, anti-materialistic but naturalistic alternative to the nihilistic world views of atheism, eliminative materialism, physicalist functionalism, mechanistic determinism, and reductionist scientism. I reject supernaturalism and revealed/scriptural religion, as well as the so-called New Atheism and Secular Humanism, as fallacious, incoherent, and dogmatic belief systems.

 
You can find a more detailed description of my worldview at:

 
You can find a more detailed description of my worldview at:

 
https://www.facebook.com/notes/günter-bechly/about-me-and-my-worldview/416228198414697
 
https://www.facebook.com/notes/günter-bechly/about-me-and-my-worldview/416228198414697
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* providing (via [[:en:Wikimedia Commons|Wikimedia Commons]]) missing images for various articles, mainly in the fields of paleontology, fossil insects (paleoentomology), and dragonfly research (odonatology)
 
* providing (via [[:en:Wikimedia Commons|Wikimedia Commons]]) missing images for various articles, mainly in the fields of paleontology, fossil insects (paleoentomology), and dragonfly research (odonatology)
 
* Libertarianism
 
* Libertarianism
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* Process philosophy, panpsychism, pantheism, and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
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* Process philosophy (esp. Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead), objective idealism, panentheism, panpsychism, (neutral) monism, holism, and natural theology
 
I also contribute to the [[:en:Wikispecies|Wikispecies]] project, esp. to the taxonomy and systematics of fossil and recent Odonata.
 
I also contribute to the [[:en:Wikispecies|Wikispecies]] project, esp. to the taxonomy and systematics of fossil and recent Odonata.
 

 

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