The Origins of Everything: Some True Stories for Eli

By Louis Carini

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 24, 2009
• ISBN: 9781462810864

Louis Carini

Louis Carini received his Ph.D. in what Heinz Werner called “Experimental Genetic Psychology” in 1955 from Clark University. His “The theory of phenomenal psychology” was published in 2005, after many rejections by American Psychological Association Journals, as Chapter 15 in the book Heinz Werner and Developmental Science. Some of the titles of his unpublished book manuscripts are: A Tale of Two Centuries; Personeity; God, Chance and Science; Why We Act as We Do; The Phenomenal Theory of Psychology; The Age of Consciousness; The Cultural Ground of Ethics and Morals; Feeling; The Role of Consciousness in the Work Lives of Artists.

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Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Chapter XII

Chapter XIII

Chapter XIV

References

Preface

This little book is written for my Grandson, Eli Carini. It is meant to be his when he is able to read it. I think that he will find it interesting, because he too is engaged with the question of origins. Besides that he is a deep thinker. So all of the origins that I can think of, and that I know at least a little something about, are engaged in this little book. I have written the book so that he can think about and draw his own conclusions about all of these fascinating origins.

Love,

Grandpa Lou

Introduction

Humanity originated approximately 165,000 years ago in east north central Africa. From the first we existed within what can best be called mythological experience. By mythological experience I mean the prescientific and untestable stories that we have told ourselves about our and all of the other origins of things. We have not, indeed, departed from mythological experience even today, though there are some approaches that go beyond it currently. It was not until almost 5000 years after writing was invented that we began to loosen the reins of myth—though there were finally some clear movements beyond myth by the Greeks 2500 years ago. That actual and most effective removal from myth happened via a scientific account of the motions of things in the universe in the seventeenth century. It was through that scientific theory that we did fully begin that process of demythologizing those special events in the late seventeenth century. I call those special events, because they referred only to the motions of things—their speed and direction. Nothing else. And they did not apply to the motions of any of the creatures on earth, not even the movements of the one-celled Amoeba. But considering their restricted nature, they have had amazing effect through the technology that arose from their theoretical formulations.

There were, though as I said, some slight intimations along those lines among the Greeks of the Classic Period. All that long time, however, we have lived almost completely within the mythological beliefs that our mysterious existence had understandably, I think, engendered in us. Those people in those first civilizations where writing was invented, despite originating writing, still lived entirely within mythological circumstances. And since that time we have continued to live largely within those mythological confines despite the small respite given to us and our thought by that science of the seventeenth century.

The first of these mythological confines are those that the various religions have purveyed. Since that beginning it is physical science which has been the only source that interrupted the mythological explanations of things—though it did so only for those relatively restricted events defined by physicists. But outside of those events that physical science has explained we have largely remained within the realm of myth. Indeed, it is the metaphysical myth purveyed by Charles Darwin that we originated out of a Survival of the Fittest (Darwin, 1958, p. 74) in a Struggle for Existence (1958, p. 74) euphemistically known as natural selection that still holds sway even among many evolutionary scientists. They still, in 2009, overlook the facts of our actual origin for Darwin’s 1859 mythological account. And Darwin’s was not even an account of our origin, but only of our survival. The fact is that all creatures begin as babies, and babies do not struggle to get out of the wombs of their mothers. They have to be pushed out through their mothers’ laborious endeavors. Darwin clearly overlooked that fact. And he was also apparently not aware that babies are the least likely to be the Fittest for Survival in any Struggle for Existence. I seek to set forth what we can now know about ourselves and our actual origins, among other originating events. I do this from a scientific, thus a non-mythological point of view.

I begin by examining what science tells us about the origins of our universe. And I follow then with what science indicates about the origin of our earth, the origins, or at least the evolution, of animals, the origins of Homo sapiens, of language, of agriculture, of civilizations, of the pre-modern civilized cultures, of modern science, and then the origins of modern cultures in the last few centuries. I continue with the origins of a modern scientific psychology The Theory of Phenomenal Psychology (2005), with the possibilities inherent in our natures now established by the science of psychology for a post-modern culture defined by it. And then I end with the origins of Homo sapiens sapiens. I end each of these chapters with some question about the role of God in all this, for our conception of God provided by, for example, our King James Bible, it seems to me, hardly fits the complexity of what the sciences have now wrought.

After that end I go on with the possibility for improved human relations arising from our individual personeities allied with that new science, but in a far distant future.

I write this, and actually all of what I have written below, for my Grandson, Eli, and for other future readers mainly, for I do not expect to be listened to very often by the current generations of persons. But there is always hope that the next generation, and those that follow, can break through the power of myth. And then also learn how to end the violence and bloodshed that have marked, at least, all of our human history.

So, Eli, here are some true stories for you—when you are ready to read them.

Chapter I

The Origin of the Universe

Our universe, according to the scientific story, originated from a Big Bang of enormous proportions. In a book entitled The First Three Minutes the Nobel Laureate, Stephen Weinberg writes about the standard model theory of the origin of our universe (1991):

This account of the early universe has one consequence that can be immediately tested against observation: the material left over from the first three minutes, out of which the stars must originally have been formed, consisted of 22-28 percent helium, with almost all the rest hydrogen… . This result was a stunning success for the standard model, for there were already at this time independent estimates that the sun and the other stars do start their lives as mostly hydrogen, with about 20-30 percent helium (p. 403)!

Weinberg’s is, of course, an astrophysicist’s theory of the origin of our universe. But as a theory it does have reasonable backing as the empirical relations between helium and hydrogen indicate. I accept it as a current theory of the origin of our universe. As such it provides us with what clearly is scientific knowledge.

However, it is also the case that our universe began as incredibly condensed matter. Apparently it was so condensed that it had no recourse but to expand. And expand it did with that astrophysicist theoretical Big Bang explosion. And this is the ancient universe that we now know is much, much more ancient than the Christian Bible indicated. According to the current habit of science we think of the components that are hypothesized as purely physically defined. What cannot be so defined by their instruments is ignored. They do not know that some quality, still currently unmeasureable by their instruments, may not only now be there, but may have been there at the origin of the universe. They merely assume that that what their instruments measure is all that was there. I reject their assumption. I leave open the possibility that something unmeasureable was present then—and now. And that that component is actually another unmeasured component of our so-called physical world. I suggest that the components of our evolution are also not yet settled. And I also explore that possibility in this book.

Furthermore, this universe is now known to contain its own Black Holes in which matter is also proposed as being incredibly densely compacted as was the case before our Big Bang beginning. Are they, perhaps, as dense as what predated the now well-known Big Bang that those scientists tell us originated our universe? Would we necessarily know it if one of these Black Holes eventuated in its own new Big Bang beginning? And then a new universe would actually have originated just under our very noses—without our even knowing it. We would have no means necessarily of knowing that such an event had taken place. Or if we do have the means of knowing such, no one appears to be looking for them. How many universes may there be anyway? Our time here, even taken as a whole, is very short—a mere snapshot—in the whole scheme of things. We simply cannot know—at least, certainly, not so long as we do not entertain the idea—that the current black holes may harbor their own potential Big Bangs. And that other Big Bangs have been going off on their own all along.

And if it were the case that there has been more than one Big Bang, how long might that process have been going on? That speculative idea could also mean that our immense universe may