THE
MACROGENOME PROJECT™
The Macrogenome
Project is Macroknow's intellectual analogue of the Genome Project. It is to
the thinking
soul what the Genome Project is to living
matter. The project's domains include philosophy, political economy,
and law. It also includes religion and theology --
Mosaic-Solomonic, Hindu-Vedic, Taoistic, Buddhist, Confucian,
Christian, Gnostic, and Islamic.
The
inspiration for the Macrogenome Project is Leibniz's
deep
insight into the nature of the soul as genetic seed
and law.
PROJECT
GOALS
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To
map the entire intellectual genetic structure
of the dominant philosophies and worldviews
that shape our world.
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To
identify, scrutinize, and compare the ideas, concepts,
notions, and thought species and subspecies that make
up the dominant philosophies that underlie current
policies and legislation. To identify common
substructures.
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To
discover, characterize, and categorize the codes, structures,
lineages, and variants of the thought species; and to
correlate these with origins, intents, and effects.
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To
locate, characterize, and catalogue defects in logic and
intellection; and to correlate, cross-link, and cross-reference the
defects with associated political disorder, social diseases, and
economic conflicts and destruction.
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To
build taxonomic, structure, and modeling databases for grounding
philosophies. And to develop analytical tools and
expert systems to model, simulate, and predict the
outcomes of policies from their genomic structure and
associated probabilistic confidences.
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To
issue timely political, economic, and financial alerts
and advisories to political, business, and community
leaders.
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To promote
the worldviews that benefit humankind, especially philosophies that promote and secure authentic freedom and
wealth for all.
The
Macrogenome Project is an ongoing Macroknow project. The project will
generate several open Internet resources.
General findings and conclusions will be available to people with
access to the Internet free of charge. For a sample Macroknow Education Resource, see http://www.macroknow.com/books.
Sophisticated
intellection
technologies, databases, and expert systems will be
commercialized. For Macroknow Services, see
http://www.macroknow.com/services.htm.
For Macroknow
Publications, see
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LEIBNIZ
ON THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
The
inspiration for the Macrogenome Project is Leibniz's
deep insight into the nature of the soul as genetic seed
and law.
"A body is an
aggregation of substances . . . Each of these substances contains in its nature the law
of the continuous progression of its own workings
and all that has happened to it and all that
will happen to it."1a*
"Today . . . when it
has been learned through careful investigations made in
plant, insect, and animal life, that the organic bodies
of nature are never the product of chaos or
putrefaction, but always come from seeds in
which there was without doubt some preformation,
it has been decided that not only is the organic body
already present before conception, but also that a soul,
in a word, the animal itself, is also in this body . . .
"1b*
" . . .
[E]verything
which is to happen to anyone is already virtually
included in his nature or concept, as all the
properties are contained in the definition of a circle .
. . "1c*
" . . .
[T]he soul
already includes the
idea which is comprised in any
particular thought."1d
" . . . [T]he
individual concept of each person includes once for all everything
which can ever happen to him . . . "1e*
* Emphasis added. Italics
in the original.
1
Discourse
on Metaphysics. Correspondence with Arnauld. Monadology.
Introduction by Paul Janet. Translated by George
Montgomery. Lasalle, IL: Open Court Publishing Company,
1902, 1995.
a
Correspondence
Relating to the Metaphysics,
XXVI
Leibniz to Arnauld, Venice, March 23, 1690, at
244.
b
The
Monadology, at 268.
c
Discourse
on Metaphysics, XIII, at 20.
d
Discourse
on Metaphysics, XXIX, at 48.
e
Correspondence
Relating to the Metaphysics, I Leibniz to Count Ernst
von Hessen-Rheinfels, 1/11 Feb., 1686, at 69. |
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