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My motivation for this website

As far as the political and economic articles on this website go, the motivation is simple: I feel like I have to say something. If we continue living the way we do, and the system remains as it is, we are heading off a cliff. 

For the philosophical and all other articles the motivation is just as simple: I am constantly on the lookout for likeminded people and the website is a tool to find those and get in touch with them. 

I apologize for mixing English with German so much. I consider myself a bilingual person, and I have spent a good part of my life in English-speaking countries. 

my pseudonym is “Amalius”

• My own research project called “askabl” – a completely analytic model of natural language and thought. As far as I know, there is no analytical project out there dealing with natural language processing. My studies in philosophy of language and many other fields enabled me to come up with a model of language and thought that is completely analytical, i.e. there is a whole theory of mind/thought structuring and enabling the algorithms. The potential is huge: not only could it serve as a general theory of mind, but also as a basis to teach a computer any and all mental faculties a human being has. Side note: I do have help from two friends, but I am for the largest part alone in trying to make it real, i.e. code the entire thing. While I have finished the essence of it, it is not done 100% yet, as there is just a truckload of coding work to do. I have already exceeded 300 thousand lines of code, using C++, Ruby, Python and SQL. While I do employ a few neural networks, the core intelligence is analytic – i.e. can be modified, is transparent, can be tweaked, sophisticated, and even transferred to other domains than natural langauge.  
• PhD in philosophy: my dissertation is about the claim, that there is an antinomy – i.e. a contradiction, but a logically and systemically necessary one, hence a true contradiction – at the heart of Plato’s and Hegel’s dialectics. Also, it includes an attempt to integrate the essence of Plato’s and Hegel’s dialectics into the framework of a modern paraconsistent/transconsistent logic calculus. 
• Double course of studies philosophy and physics at Regensburg University, Germany. 
• Areas of knowledge/special interest philosophy: philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, ethics (especially regarding artificial intelligence), ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristoteles), Hegel, Dialectics in general, philosophy of science (especially physics), logic (especially modal and paraconsistent/transconsistent logic), set theory. 
• Areas of knowledge/special interest in physics: quantum mechanics, quantum field theory (especially quantum electrodynamics), computational physics, optimization methods, quantum computing. 
• Areas of knowledge/special interest otherwise: political/social philosophy, theory of evolution, artificial intelligence, neural networks, neuroscience, hierarchic pattern recognition techniques like HHMMs (hierarchical hidden Markov models), NLP (natural language processing). a lot of training and expertise in coding, mainly in C++, Ruby, Python and database design.

Excerpt of my publications: (see publications-page)

• “Dialektik des Anfangs. Parakonsistenz bei Platon und Hegel”
• “Platon, Parmenides, erster Teil: die Frage nach der Relation zwischen Ideen und Einzeldingen”
• “Platon, Hegel, und der Anfang des Denkens”
• “Bertrand Russell: Individuen, Tatsachen, Relationen”
• Das C++ Kompendium