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A Metaphysics of the Computer

Douglas Joseph Huntington Moore. 1992. A Metaphysics of the Computer: The reality machine and a new science for the holistic age. San Francisco, Calif.: Mellen Research University Press. ISBN 0-7734-2302-8.

The book argues that oral and written traditions each rested on a different way of expressing knowledge, and that computers introduce a new one. It proposes a science of totality, a holistic science, that identifies the fundamental shapes and structures which both reality and our knowledge of it must follow, and it introduces a tool called the Reality Machine. Many of its building blocks come from ancient sacred texts and esoteric sciences, and its examples are drawn from economics, physics, religion and computing.

The First Science and the Generic Code

Douglas J. Huntington Moore. 2012. The First Science and the Generic Code. Parmenidean Press. ISBN 978-0-9873163-0-1.

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Every form of life is coded by the genetic code. Life continually changes and evolves. However, the language of the Code does not change. A billion years ago, the primitive life forms on Earth spoke the same body language as they do today. They used the same Code. Nothing has changed. Is this Code eternal? What are the principles of its design? Of course, some will even ask, who designed it?

In order to respond to these questions, the book takes an unexpected tack. It develops the proposition that “two takes” are necessary in order to understand reality, a left side take, and a right side take. All of present day sciences, including mathematics are based on the left side take on reality. All of the languages of present day science, including conventional mathematics, are “left side” languages. The book develops the foundations for another kind of science, the “right side” science. We call it the First Science. The book argues that the language for this right side unifying science is none other than the Code. It is here that the story becomes quite extravagant. This Code is so generic that it can code literally anything, not just the biological. In this perspective, the life principle permeates just about everything that exists.

The origin of the First Science goes back to Aristotle, and even before. According to Aristotle, the First Science was even supposed to provide knowledge of God. The book explores this ancient territory with modern eyes and ends up revealing a new science and a new kind of geometry. The science is proposed as the unifying science, not only of matter and mathematics, but of consciousness and the generic form of things.

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The book was a milestone, an exploratory book setting the path for the next phase of the project. That phase has since developed into the First Calculus, earlier called the Generic Calculus, which is worked out from the Generic Entity. The papers, supplementary books and verification packages are catalogued in the Corpus Index on Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18058102); the Corpus page describes it.