Hi All,
Karene and I are back at work. Karene (my partner and sexuality editor at open site) has created 300 pages at our spaceandmotion website that cover the main subjects relating to evolutionary philosophy of human sexuality (taking into account what people actually search on the internet, which is rather interesting!).
She needs another several months to write up content - and once she does this she will add relevant material into Open Site.
Anyway, just a short note to say that we are back at work, and will continue to contribute some time / content to Open Site.
All the best,
Geoff (Feb, 2007)
PS - Our website is now getting around 100,000 page views a day (it has doubled in past three months), and is ranked as the top philosophy website on the internet (by Alexa). It has been a lot of work, so it is nice to see some positive results!
Philosophy Site Stats, About Us (Karene Howie, Geoff Haselhurst)
PPS - Karene and I will be working at open site sexuality pages next week (after promising this for over a year!). Karene has researched and collected an awesome amount of information (basically a lot of the latest research based on the evolutionary philosophy of sex). It is remarkable - so we are really looking forward to getting it into open site.
Geoff (May 17th. 2007)
Hi everyone,
We have been waiting to hear from the main editors at Open-Site to see what the future here is (seems very quiet at the moment!). Karene and I would both like to help improve the philosophy of sex pages but don't want to do to much until we get some feedback on the future of Open-Site. And our own philosophy website (details below) is now getting around 35,000 page views a day so we are finding it tough to get enough spare time to do much else (but we like Open-Site and feel some responsibility to help). Anyway, will update details here when we get more information.
All the best,
Geoff Haselhurst, May 2006
PS - We are away from June to September, 2006.
 (Erwin Schrodinger) The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Particles are just schaumkommen (appearances).
The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.
November 22nd, 2005
As always work takes longer than I realise, so there is still lots to do in philosophy and physics sections. I have set aside the next 6 months to re-write my main physics and philosophy pages - so hopefully by mid 2006 both these categories will at least have no empty pages (and should have a lot of good quality knowledge!).
I am also working with my partner Karene on the sexuality section and together we hope to greatly improve this area of Open Site. (Draft pages are currently being written, should be adding content to Open-Site by late 2005 / early 2006.
All the best,
Geoff Haselhurst
February 24th, 2005 (Updated April 7th)
Well Karene and I are about to start work (finally) on the philosophy and physics categories in Open Site. What a challenge!!
I have been delayed due to a very surprising (and pleasing) increase in visitors to our website. We now rank in top 20 for major search terms in both Quantum Theory / Wave Mechanics and Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity (so thanks to quite a few people who obviously like the articles and have linked to them) and we are now ranking in top 50 for many of the main search terms in Physics, Philosophy and Metaphysics (the website is pretty big and has several hundred pages on these subjects).
However, since the website is now getting close to 20,000 page views a day it has been necessary for Karene and I to try and improve some pages (we still have a heck of a lot of work to do - another few years really before it is OK). So this is why I have not started work here earlier (and have been feeling a bit stressed about it as I really like Open-Site and want to help). But over the next 2 months (to end of June 2005) we are working part time on Open Site - hopefully we will get quite a lot done. And I must admit that I am looking forward to the challenge of writing up some good encyclopedia articles on my two favourite subjects - Philosophy and Physics!
My partner Karene is also going to apply to the Sexuality section and we are going to add some pages on Human Sexuality: Evolutionary Philosophy of Love and Sex, including some interesting articles on the Indian sexual philosophy of the Kama Sutra: The Art of Love
Finally (and the other reason why I have been very busy), is that we have just started a Forum so people can discuss ideas from the website. For those interested please see;
http://www.physics-philosophy-metaphysics.com/forum/index.php
All the best,
Geoff Haselhurst, April 7th, 2005
December 20th, 2004
Note to Open Site Editors.
I am back from holidays and catching up on work, but it has taken much longer than I thought to finish other things. I will be aiming to fill all empty cats in Physics, Philosophy and Sexuality over January / February, 2005 (though it will take several years to complete these subjects to a suitable encyclopedia standard). Hope this helps, keep up the good work everyone.
Have a nice Christmas!
Geoff Haselhurst, December 20th 2004
June 7th 2004
Today I am celebrating, as I have just finished adding content to the last of my pages in Modern Physics (so no more empty cats! - and it also marks 1000 edits at open-site). Having read quite a lot of the internal email here (and met some very nice people), I realise that there are a number of people working very hard to fill empty categories that resulted from the rapid expansion of the open-site encyclopedia. So I hope my small amount of work gives them a bit of heart! My next area that I am keen to work on is in the Society and Science Categories, so tomorrow I will apply for some more cats to edit in and see how I go. A reasonable amount of work has already been done and you can see it in my Bookmarks.
I would also like to acknowledge the help of my partner Karene Howie who has become a fine female philosopher. I find her to be a rare women with excellent knowledge of ancient Indian and Greek philosophy, as well as contemporary / western philosophy and physics.
 Biography Karene Howie
 April, 2004. Hello. Let me first say how impressed I am with the Open-Site Encyclopedia. I have now spent most of the past week exploring (and experimenting) and while the Encyclopedia is obviously still in its youth, and requires substantial content, the software, structure and potential to grow on the internet are excellent.
About myself and my reason for being here. I am a 44 year old Natural Philosopher. Over the past ten years I have read quite a lot of philosophy, physics and metaphysics, from the ancient Greeks and Indians to modern western philosophy and physics. This explains my interest in this Encyclopedia as I would greatly enjoy improving the content in the philosophy, physics and metaphysics categories.
My favourite philosophers?
There are many! But in particular Buddha, Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, Lorentz, Einstein, Schrodinger, Wolff.
I write mainly on the Metaphysics of Space and Motion and the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM). (But I have more than enough knowledge of philosophy and physics to be able to provide an objective overview of the various ideas / theories, why they are useful, and the problems they face.)
For further details see my website home page and biography.
Biography of Philosopher Geoff Haselhurst
For those interested, Karene and I are building a large philosophy website which is the source (and inspiration) for most of the Philosophy images and quotes we use at Open-Site.
Below are some of our favourite philosophers / quotes and links to relevant pages of our website. We believe that Philosophy (which is ultimately about Wisdom from Truth and Reality) is important to our world. We hope that people find the physics and philosophy both interesting and useful to their lives! Cheers, Karene and Geoff.
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 (Plato, Republic, 380BC ) 'And those whose hearts are fixed on REALITY itself deserve the title of Philosophers.'
'The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers are kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.' |
 (Aristotle, Metaphysics, 340BC ) 'Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. And here we will have the science to study that which is just as that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which, just as a thing that is, it has. ... The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. And to seek for this is to seek for the second kind of principle, that from which comes the beginning of the change.' Aristotle on Metaphysics / Physics |
 (Gottfried Leibniz, 1670) 'Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. ... I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. ... I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ... A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.' Gottfried Leibniz: Philosophy Metaphysics of Monads / Monadology |
 (David Hume, 1737) 'And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of PHILOSOPHY, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society, and bestow a similar correctness on every art and calling.'
'When we look about us towards external objects, and consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover any power or necessary connexion; any quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other. There is required a medium, which may enable the mind to draw such an inference, if indeed it be drawn by reasoning and argument. What that medium is, I must confess, passes my comprehension; and it is incumbent on those to produce it, who assert that it really exists, and is the origin of all our conclusions concerning matter of fact.' |
 (Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781) 'If we take away the subject (Humans), or even only the subjective constitution of our senses in general, then not only the nature and relations of objects in space and time, but even space and time themselves disappear; and that these, as appearances, cannot exist in themselves, but only in us. What may be the nature of objects considered as things in themselves and without reference to the receptivity of our sensibility is quite unknown to us.'
Philosophy Metaphysics of Immanuel Kant - Correcting errors of Critical Idealism |
 (Bradley, 1846-1924) 'We may agree, perhaps, to understand by METAPHYSICS, an attempt to know reality as against mere appearance, or the study of first principles or ultimate truths, or again the effort to comprehend the Universe, not simply piecemeal or by fragments, but somehow as a whole.' |
 (Albert Einstein, 1954) 'The development during the present century is characterized by two theoretical systems essentially independent of each other: the Theory of Relativity and the Quantum Theory. The two systems do not directly contradict each other; but they seem little adapted to fusion into one unified theory. For the time being we have to admit that we do not possess any general theoretical basis for physics which can be regarded as its logical foundation.'
Physics: Albert Einstein: Simplifying Einstein's Theory of Special & General Relativity
Quantum Physics: Quantum Theory / Wave Mechanics
'If, then, it is true that the axiomatic basis of theoretical PHYSICS cannot be extracted from experience but must be freely invented, can we ever hope to find the right way? I answer without hesitation that there is, in my opinion, a right way, and that we are capable of finding it. I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.' (Albert Einstein, 1954)
'The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.' (Albert Einstein, 1918) Physics: Cosmology / Universe - Physics: Problems of the Big Bang Theory
 (Francisco de Goya) 'Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.'
'When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.' (Henri Matisse)
PHILOSOPHY OF ART: Free Fine Art Gallery of Famous Renaissance & Impressionist Artists Quotes Pictures Portraits |
 (Michel de Montaigne) 'Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.' Philosophy of Education / Educational Philosophy |
 (Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan) 'During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. .... To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.' Philosophy of Politics & Government - Political Science and Globalisation |
 (Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948) 'Truth alone is eternal, everything else is momentary. It is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth. ... All life (and truth) comes from the one universal source, call it Allah, God or Parmeshwara.'
'True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge, which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which binds his life to that infinity and guides his actions .. and leads to the practical rules of the law: do to others as you would have them do unto you.' (Leo Tolstoy, Confessions) Theology: World Religions: God |
 The word pantheism derives from the Greek words pan (all) and theos (God). Thus pantheism means 'All is God'. In essence, pantheism holds that there is no divinity other than the universe and nature. Pantheism is a religious belief that reveres and cares for nature, a religion that joyously accepts this life as our only life, and this earth as our only paradise, if we look after it. Pantheism revels in the beauty of nature and the night sky, and is full of wonder at their mystery and power. Pantheism believes that all things are linked in profound unity ... All things interconnected and interdependent. In life and in death we humans are an inseparable part of this unity, and in realising this we can find our joy and our peace. (Harrison, Pantheism, 1999)
Metaphysics of Pantheism: Famous Pantheist Quotes on Unity of Reality |
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PS - My partner Karene and I have a web page that has many small (80*80, 2Kbyte) pictures of most of the famous philosophers, physicists, and metaphysicists from the past 2,500 years. I think web pages look better with nice images, so please feel free to use any.
Pictures of Famous Philosophers, Physicists, Metaphysicists
And to keep me from going completely crazy (and to have food and shelter) my partner Karene has been building a very interesting Philosophy Shop (see below). I have done my bit and added some philosophy physics and metaphysics pictures and quotes onto some calendars, posters and t-shirts. Its quite fun and we just bought some samples and they look great.
Philosophy Shop Subjects: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Chinese & Indian Metaphysics, Western Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophers, Physics (Newton's Mechanics, Einstein's Relativity, Quantum Theory, Cosmology), Albert Einstein, Science, Famous Scientists & Mathematicians, God Religion & Morality, Politics, Political Satire, Utopia, Education, Evolution, Sex, Love, Beauty, Nature & Ecology, Motivational, Inspirational, Wisdom, Metaphysical Poets & Poems, Literature, Famous Books & Authors, Classical Music & Composers, Vintage Erotic Art (Naked Woman / Nudes), Renaissance & Impressionist Fine Art Prints & Paintings (Portraits, Photos, Landscapes), Feminists / Feminism, Famous Women in Art & Science,
Humor / Stupid Funny Stuff.
'The Gift of Truth Excels all Other Gifts.' (Buddha)
Latest News September 2008: The Philosophy Shop is one of the most popular shops at Cafepress
 Hello Everyone. After 12 months work the Philosophy Gift Shop is largely completed. We now have a lovely gallery of portraits (photos & paintings) and famous artworks with profound quotes from many of the greatest minds of human history. We hope it shows our genuine love of philosophy and scientific / artistic creativity. The Philosophy Shop has been one of the top ten shops at Cafepress for the past 4 months (out of about 3 million shops) so it seems that many of you do appreciate such esoteric things (which is very nice)!
We have bought large posters, framed prints, calendars, journals, mousepads, tshirts / clothing, baseball caps & buttons from the Philosophy Shop and they are quality products. But most importantly, we find the daily experience of seeing these portraits and words of wisdom a cheerful reminder of the more noble and beautiful aspects of our human nature & creativity. So we think these products are a bit different and special, that intelligence has a unique charm and beauty which is priceless. And you will certainly stand out from the crowd & get some interesting comments wearing our philosophy shirts, clothes, badges & hats!
That's it for now. Cheers, Karene Jade Howie
PS - The Philosophy Art Science Gift Shop Site Map has complete list of all products. |
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