H Chris Ransford

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | KIT · Institute of Physical Chemistry

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/in-search-of-ultimate-reality/9783838213293 . Is there such a thing as a fundamental reality, something which was around before our universe came into existence and which will still remain when all matter, time, and space itself ultimately disappear? Something fundamental which, in turn, can make space and time and ma...

Giant strides are currently being made in understanding the mechanics of embodied consciousness: published studies by neurologists shed unprecedented light on how the brain organizes itself in order to optimize its function in its material environment. At the same time, a view that the Universe is ultimately purely mathematical is gaining ground in...

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/you-are-fundamental/9783838217031 Most studies of consciousness proceed from a standpoint where external reality already pre-exists. As such, these studies would be inherently unable to recognize it if consciousness in fact arose at the same level where reality itself takes its source—at the level where, technically,...

If some intelligence underlies the universe, as is suggested by a host of modern-day considerations, then why does not that intelligence intervene to allay the oft-horrible destinies that are the lot of so many sentient beings?

Nov 2022 Twice-yearly Conference on Bridging Science and Spirituality

In our age of reason and science, despite the success of technology and medicine in improving the lives of billions, and the presence in the public eye of vocal advocates of rational thought, the influence of sundry religions keeps becoming stronger—to the extent that, in the early years of the twenty-first century, organized religion largely sets...

This is a Paper given at the Atheism Revisited. International conference, Warsaw, 25-26 October 2017 (Prof. Szymon Wrobel.) In keeping with the theme of 'revisiting', this paper is very different from the usual papers at either Atheists' or for that matter, Theists's conferences. It advocates a new approach to break the still ongoing deadlocks that...

Drawing on the science and mathematics of infinity, H. Chris Ransford analyzes the traditional concept of godhood and reaches surprising conclusions. He addresses humankind's abiding core debate on the meaning of spirituality and God. Using mathematics, he explores key questions within this debate: for instance, why does evil exist if there is a Go...

“God and the Mathematics of Infinity” starts from two observations, and a resulting question. The first observation is that we are still, in the 21st century, nowhere near consensus in the key questions of theology, and second, that mathematics, the most powerful and productive tool ever to have enabled progress, has never been applied to questions...

Reflecting on the position each of these domains, Philosophy and Theology, had in the past, we have considered that we need to reconnect from the last step. The Romanian Orthodox university theology long felt the need for extensive and in-depth dialogue with university philosophy. Friendships close and full of usefulness between theologians and phi...

Scientists who approach questions related to faith and Godhood from their supposedly wholly objective angles routinely reach totally different conclusions. Therefore, a new approach using the most objective tool possible, that of pure mathematics, is attempted. The validity of using some mathematics in this context is briefly examined. Mathematical...

The book's starting point consists in asking this question (which has not been addressed elsewhere): if you spin about your body axis, then under relativistic simultaneity the right side of your brain is simultaneous with some far away event A (happening on, say, Andromeda), at the same time when the left side of your brain is simultaneous with som...

This is a re-post of a brief overview of the main themes of my book on Time : https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/460116

A scientific whodunit in French, published in 2005, based on a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote Note - You may download this text freely, and also freely distribute it privately and free of charge to others, with the same condition of being free of charge incumbent and binding upon all and any subsequent text recipients. Any individual or organization int...