This paper introduces the cultural r/k theory an evolutionary theory that explains why different cultures evolve in different directions. The cultural r/k theory links differences in artistic style with war and peace, geography, political system and religion. This theory is useful for explaining cultural differences, for classifying artefacts and for predicting sampling bias in the archaeologic...

With the famous ‘Three Worlds’ of Karl Popper as template, the paper rigorously introduces the concept of software to define the counterpart of the physical subworld. Digesting the scientific-technical view of biology and neurology on a high level, results in an updated ‘Three Worlds’ scheme consistent with an information technical view. Chance and mathematics complete the world model. Some sim...

Science, common sense and most religions assume that nature is governed by blind mechanistic laws. The machine has no experience nor choice. This creates the hard problem and leads to problematic options of eliminative materialism, emergence, or epiphenomenalism. A different view of natural laws gives a fundamental role to observer-agents as natural systems with elements of experience and self ...

Although a great deal has been learned about the perceived attributes of God, systematic research on the cognitive structure of deity representations is lacking. Because extant research focuses almost exclusively on the Christian God, the present studies investigate the representation of deities in a polytheistic religion, Hinduism. Prototype theory informs four studies on how conceptualization...

Scientific creation battles the worldview of naturalism at the level of scientific fact and theory, but crucial battlegrounds are also found in the foundational concepts that shape the method and direction of science. One of these is summarized by the term “naturalism.” This debate is hindered by equivocal terminology, presuppositional inconsistency, and the use of secular premises by some Chri...