[Note: this letter was attached to the first experimental copies of the Q-C Test, July 1997.]
ARE YOU CONVENTIONAL OR QUANTAVOLUTIONARY IN YOUR SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK??
TEST YOURSELF HERE!!!
Dear Student of Cosmic Affairs:
It appears that the time may be right for a test to distinguish
more or less conventional and evolutionary scientists and
scholars from what, for lack of better, can be called
quantavolutionary scientists and scholars.
I have accordingly devised a test in two parts of 15 items each,
to determine the relative position of a person in regard to these
two paradigms. Your apparent interest in 'C'& 'Q' sugests that
your self-analysis would be most helpful in observing trends in
science.
I would be much obliged if you would take a few minutes to
circle the 30 items of the C-Q Test and remand it to me by e-mail,
or otherwise. Although it would be wonderful to obtain a
number of individualized replies to publish on
http://www.grazian-archive.com
I shall withhold your identity if you say so, and merely
incorporate the results in the statistical analysis.
In either event, I would welcome your comments. I shall be
improving the test and perhaps merging the two parts with
several additional "placebo" items before being done with it.
Ought I to proceed with a public discussion of the test and its
cumulative findings?
Sincerely,
Alfred de Grazia
Mail: Aldegrazia@ aol. com
P. O. BOX 1213,
Princeton, NJ 08542,
USA
To gauge agreement of individuals with the Paradigm of
Conventional Science
Based on Fifteeen Primary Propositions of
Conventional Science respecting natural and human history,
and the degree of adherence of an individual to them.
There follow fifteen statements of major theses,
principles, or propositions of Conventional Science, each one of
which is preceded by a short name. Please react to each
principle by scoring it from one (1) for firm disagreement to (5)
for firm agreement. Draw a circle around the number or check
your answer. Use number three (3) when you are without any
belief or knowledge or commitment one way or another
regarding the statement.
Thus, for instance, a score of 15 for the test means that you
disagree totally with the principles of Conventional Science. A
score of 75 means that you are in full agreement with the
principles of the version of Conventional Science expressed
here. Actually, you would most likely be termed fully
Conventional only if you agreed with all fifteen of the
propositions.
There is no time limit for completing the test, of course. Please
answer every statement. When finished, add up and insert your
total score where indicated.
1. Gradualism.
The world has changed almost entirely by small-scale, incremental
transactions of small or large scope from earliest to present times.
2. Independent Effects.
Changes in one field of scientific observation normally are weakly
discernible in other areas and transfer into them slowly.
3. Terrestrial Isolation.
From earliest times, Earth has developed its physical and vital forms
from internal sources of materials and energy.
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4. Gravitational Accumulations.
The solar system originated in gravitational condensations from a
gigantic dust cloud surrounding a young Sun.
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5. Elaborative Polymorphism.
Great variations of all inorganic and organic forms occurred by lawful,
regular processes of nature.
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6. Lunar Capture.
The Moon formed during the condensation
of gases and dust that originated the solar system and came
within the gravitational grasp of the Earth.
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7. Perennial Geological Flux.
In due course, the Earth's
surface has been
altered by the gradual limited and calculable play of natural
forces: waters, winds, pressures, and heat.
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8. Uniformitarianism.
Inorganic and organic nature have
transmuted, with minor exceptions, at low, uniform rates for all
of Earth history.
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9. Evolution.
The present species of life have unexceptionally
developed from ever earlier forms that themselves originated by
environmental adaptation in isolation and occasional successive
chemical mutations.
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10. Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
In the course of evolution, natural
selection, working at every vital level, eventuated in a being of
high intelligence, capable of deliberate, rational decisions.
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11. Increasing Consciousness and Self-awareness.
Gradually humans developed a sense of history that let them order their
lives presently and for their future, and learned to exercise
advanced faculties for pleasure.
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12. Cultural and Institutional Invention.
Bit by bit, cultural traits were evolved in all of the
various aspects of life, and could be placed ever higher
upon a ladder of complexity and utility.
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13. Religious Sophistication.
From primitive fear and ignorance, gods were imagined,
and afforded sacrifices, but eventually higher religions,
with a benign, single god and simple rites, prevailed.
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14. Macrochronism.
The evolution of the solar system, Earth,
and life forms, took up about five billion years, of which the
last several million were required to produce human beings
with their advanced societies.
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15. Cross-validation of Time and Events.
Dozens of distinct measures and correlations have
mutually supported macrochronism and, with evolution theory,
have proven the singular correctness of the
historical path of science.
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TOTAL SCORE =
AVERAGE SCORE =TOTAL/ 15=
There follow fifteen statements of major theses,
principles, or propositions of Quantavolution, each one of
which is preceded by a short name. Please react to each
principle by scoring it from one (1) for firm disagreement to (5)
for firm agreement. Draw a circle around the number or check
your answer. Use number three (3) when you are without any
belief or knowledge or commitment one way or another
regarding the statement.
Thus, for instance, a score of 15 for the test means that you
disagree totally with the principles of Quantavolution. A score
of 75 means that you are in full agreement with the principles
of the version of Quantavolution expressed here. Actually, you
would most likely be termed a quantavolutionary even if you
agreed with one or two of the propositions.
There is no time limit for completing the test, of course. Please
answer every statement. When finished, add up and insert your
total score where indicated.
1. Quantavolution.
The world has changed mostly by large-scale
and abrupt jumps or saltations or quantavolutions from
earliest to present times.
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2. Holospherics.
Every quantavolution was holospheric such
that, what became in late times human morals and science, were
affected in their every branch by its remnant evidence and its
contemporary effects.
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3. Exoterrestrial Genesis.
The ultimate source of quantavolutions has been exoterrestrial.
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4. Solaria Binaria.
The solar system originated and developed
to this day as an often violent process of transactions between
the Sun and a solar-exploded body.
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5. Poly-episodic Catastrophes.
Quantavolutions (usually referred to pejoratively as catastrophes)
have been experienced on sundry occasions and have been unequal in intensity.
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6. Lunar Explosions with Global Fracture.
The explosion of Moon from Earth, and the global fracture accompanying it,
produced the present basic volume and morphology of Earth.
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8.Exponential Apocalypses.
Every quantavolution has taken the form of an exponential catastrophic
curve with a sharp ascent and a negatively exponential descent,
tailing off toward uniform change.
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9. Species Mass Changes and Extinction.
Extant species have simultaneously on occcasion been drastically
reduced in numbers and type or extinguished while new species were
being generated and old ones modified by holistic mutated gene leadership.
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10. Schizoid Humanization.
During a quantavolution, Homo Sapiens originated in a sudden gestalt as a
schizoid species controlling multiple selves, and preferably to be called
Homo Sapiens Schizotypicalis.
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11. Mass Amnesia and Sublimation.
Primeval Homo Sapiens experienced a traumatic suppression of memory and
acquired a sublimatory psychological complex.
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12. Cultural Hologenesis.
Homo Sapiens promptly developed a poly-faceted language and full-function culture.
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13. Divine Succession.
Originally gods were idealized by the
human mind, and their basic traits and functions proceeded
through all successive major gods and families of gods.
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14. Microchronism.
Quantavolutions, since the solar nova
that instituted the solar system, occupied brief periods of time,
while intervals between them were also brief, measureable in
thousands up to a million years.
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15. Consonant Paradigmatics.
Despite a much greater stress upon electromagnetic forces
in all natural and vital events, the experiences
(including experiments) and logic employed in
constructing and proving the quantavolution paradigm are
homologous with those of the conventional paradigm of
scientific method.
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