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Jon Ray Hamann

MY NORMAN (and my discovery of a “Golden Pond”) It was, as I recall now, sometime in 1979 that I and my partner, Leslie D. Edmiston, were introduced by a young colleague of ours to a person he insisted we must meet. “He is a most extraordinary thinker, he asserted, with a vision for explicating the Whole”, an effort akin to my own. OK we replied! “I don’t mean whenever, he retorted – I mean put aside whatever you are attending to and go NOW”. And so we did. At the time we resided in the FINGER Lakes region of Central New York, but we phoned a “Norm Hirst” and arranged to travel to Connecticut to meet. And the rest is the proverbial history of the ongoing creation of a radical future, a Golden Pond of fundamental inquiry into the nature of LIFE ITSELF. One can explore his work directly through Skye’s elegant website (www.autognomics.org) or from links derived therefrom. Hence, without much reference to specific content, I want to leave a snippet of expression about the exceptional nature of one Life Itself -- My Norman. One particular attribute of his character set a tone for his inquiry – specifically he had no shyness when critiquing the authoritative status quo in philosophical-formal-scientific knowledge. With this recognition alone he became for me, My Norman. Generally, his research was directed at setting forth the foundations for a formal system of the natural law of value for Life Itself to be known as AutoGnomics, the theory of self-knowing autonomous systems. To begin, however, he reasoned that the assumptions which have dominated research in understanding Life Itself are fundamentally misleading and inadequate to the task. Since these assumptions were a consequence of an old metaphysics, he argued, this metaphysics must now be replaced by new logico-metaphysical foundations. And to do this he concluded we must at least temporarily reject nearly all of contemporary academic life research as being beside the point. So he began by clearing away the debris in the foundations of human knowledge as a prelude to his construction of a “World View as an AutoGnomic WHOLE”. With this World View in Mind, he not only identified certain critical foundations on which to rest this research and to evolve and apply numerous aspects thereof, but he also began to live as though he were an experiential incarnation of this newly conceived form of Life Itself. This experiment, his gift to humanity, remains a Virtual model for others to adapt for their own. For me, although he has left his carnate self, My Norman continues indefinitely as My Partner in continuing to build a “World as an AutoGnomic WHOLE”. Jon Ray – September 6, 2012
Tuesday October 16, 2012 at 7:48 pm
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