'Everything will eventually return to normal'

Will Theory of Everything save earth?

The story is a mix of futurology, science fiction, new technical ideas, science, science ideas of author [1, 2, 3, 4], and philosophy. The style is similar as in the paper of Makela [5]. On an example of crisis of overpopulated human species in future, it is described how to develop a theory of everything, how to give more sense to amateur science, and how reactions of professional science rega...

What Will Be Eventually True of Polynomial Hybrid Automata?

Hybrid automata have been introduced in both control engineering and computer science as a formal model for the dynamics of hybrid discrete-continuous systems. While computability issues concerning safety properties have been extensively studied, liveness properties have remained largely uninvestigated. In this article, we investigate de-cidability of state recurrence and of progress properties...

Why SARS will not return: a polemic.

Why the Gene Will Not Return*

I argue that four of the fundamental claims of those calling themselves ‘genic pluralists’—Philip Kitcher, Kim Sterelny, and Ken Waters—are defective. First, they claim that once genic selectionism is recognized, the units of selection problems will be dissolved. Second, Sterelny and Kitcher claim that there are no targets of selection (interactors). Third, Sterelny, Kitcher, and Waters claim t...

A Complete Theory of Everything (will be subjective)

The progression of theories suggested for our world, from egoto geoto helio-centric models to universe and multiverse theories and beyond, shows one tendency: The size of the described worlds increases, with humans being expelled from their center to ever more remote and random locations. If pushed too far, a potential theory of everything (ToE) is actually more a theory of nothing (ToN). Indee...