Papers
What is Life? - Part I
Life here means the organizing principles that are creating all forms of life. And all forms of life are organisms and they obey universals.  These principles obey very different kinds of logic than that known in scientific materialism of physics.  To understand life, a new foundation of metaphysics with matching logic is required.
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What is Life? - Part II
...Nature’s way of management or solving problems is to create societies of living entities. Thus in this world of overwhelming variety there are uncountable societies.
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Education and Learning
To relate the latest key research from past decade on "How Living Organisms Function" to traditional US education, and how the nature and value of the Riley School approach to education is closely aligned with latest Living Organism research.
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Life as Field Being - Part I
Recent experiments of the past 20 years in physics and biophysics are producing results that cannot be explained with the traditional worldview of science and philosophy.  A new worldview is required. The old worldview of "matter as a fundamental reality" does not work.
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Life as Field Being - Part II
Inquiry probably begins in art, but for my purpose here I will start with the second step; philosophy. Philosophy is done in natural language that is shared in an observer community.  That which is being searched for is not every-day objects of experience but, what can be discerned as constants of experience, what might be called universals.
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The New Emergent Life-itself Paradigm Requires Understanding of Values
Today there are many experiments in biophysics that defy explanations in terms of what we have known. That is a hopeful sign. The old and dominant worldview of matter, mechanisms, determinism, and reductionism provided no room for values.
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