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Andrius Kulikauskas

See also my presentations in Lithuanian.

Overview of My Research

I seek to know everything and to apply that knowledge usefully.

The Truth: From Relative to Absolute is an illustrated guide to my program of documenting our personal perspectives, our relative truths, and then abstracting from them an unconditional perspective, the absolute truth. I suggest the following six steps:

• Ask people, What is your deepest value in life, which includes all of your other values? and What is a question that you don't know the answer to, but wish to answer? I learned to do this as organizer of Minciu Sodas, 1998-2010, my online laboratory for serving and organizing independent thinkers. See: The Orchard of Thoughts...
• In focusing on our values and questions, recognize that our minds rely on a very limited set of cognitive frameworks, for example, divisions of everything into two perspectives (such as "free will" and "fate" in matters of existence), three perspectives ("taking a stand", "following through", "reflecting" in matters of participation) or four perspectives ("whether", "what", "how", "why" in matters of knowledge). Make an atlas of cognitive frameworks. See: Time and Space... and Consciousness...
• Working together as investigators, in all manner of disciplines, collect and systematize the Ways of Figuring Things Out... These systems reflect the human capacity for a Grammar of Games... In particular, I am studying the ways of figuring things out in Mathematics...
• Having thus fostered a shared culture of inquiry, and accumulated evidence for a metaphysics of cognitive frameworks, we can consider our personal experience from engaging an an absolute point of view, or simply, God's point of view. How does it grow warmer?
• We can then meaningfully express our personal findings about God and life, such as "God does not have to be good", "Life does not have to be fair." I have been investigating responsibility for the Holocaust in Lithuania...
• Finally, we can imagine God's point of view. I imagine God's Dance... whereby God investigates, Is God necessary?

My writings

Overview

• The Truth: From Relative to Absolute An illustrated e-book summary from 2014, written before these presentations.

Theology

• Imagining God's State of Mind As a Question: Is God Necessary?
• God's Question: Is God Necessary?
• God's Dance
• Abstract: Jesus as a Philosopher Drawing Pictures in the Sand
• Abstract: Grace and Justice: The Deliberate Ambiguity of Whether We Live in a System Which is Open or Closed
• Abstract: God's Question: Is God Necessary?

Metaphysics

• Time and Space as Representations of Decision-Making
• Consciousness as the Social Awareness Schema of a Disembodying Mind
• Visualization as Restructuring and thus a Source of Logical Paradox
• Six Investigations for Clarifying Alexander's Properties of Life (pages 334-364)
• A Structural Semiotic Study of How We Use Variables in Math and Logic
• The Yoneda Embedding Expresses Whether, What, How, Why
• Mathematical Evidence for a Cognitive Framework of Four Levels of Knowledge
• Abstract: The Yoneda Embedding Expresses Whether, What, How, Why
• Abstract: How Peacemakers in Kenya Saved Lives with Metaphysics
• Abstract: Evolutionary Pressures Toward Abstract Representation
• Abstract: The Disembodying Mind Oscillates Between Stepping Out and Stepping In
• Organizing Thoughts into Sequences, Hierarchies and Networks
• The Algebra of Copyright
• Abstract: Divisions of Everything: Defining the Most Basic Definitions
• Abstract: Defining Fundamentals by Exploring and Leveraging the Limits of the Imagination
• Abstract: Levels of Knowledge: Whether, What, How and Why
• Abstract: Imagining Everything
• Video: I Wish to Know

Physics

• Combinatorial Interpretations Which Distinguish Observer and Observed

Epistemology

• A Cognitive Framework for Innovation Based on Gamestorming
• Discovery in Mathematics: A System of Deep Structure
• Proposal to the Templeton Foundation
• Abstract: The Vilna Gaon's Reclusivity as the Magnificence of Lithuanian Civilization
• Abstract: Identifying and Classifying Cognitively Natural Mathematical Constructs
• Abstract: The Math In Our Minds By Which We Do Math With Symbols

Logic

• Abstract: Divisions of Everything: Cognitive Frameworks Which Ground Contradiction and Noncontradiction
• Abstract: Relating Metaphysics, Logic, Math and Physics with a Taxonomy of Duality
• Abstract: Truth as the Admission of Self-Contradiction
• Abstract: Inferring What We Don't Know: A Taxonomy of Paradox

Ethics

• A Peacemaker's Way: Wake Up, Love Your Enemy, Befriend Evil
• How Do Things Come to Matter? Evolution of Self-Identity in the Intercultural Debate on Whether to Restore Vilnius's Oldest Jewish Cemetery.
• Moral Imagination: What Do We Wish to See?
• Article: How Could Scalar Consequentialism Ever Lose at Chess?
• Abstract: Moral Strategies for Moral Quagmires
• Abstract: Understanding Freedom Within a Hierarchy of Needs

Holocaust Studies

• Determining Personal Responsibility for a Social Calamity: The Origins of the Holocaust in Lithuania
• How Did Lithuanians Wrong Litvaks?
• Grant Gochin's Query Regarding Jonas Noreika's Criminal Gang
• Keynote Address at Vilnius Holocaust Day Memorial: The Vilnius Jewish Cemetery as a Harmony of Values, Peaceful Resolution, Spiritual Reservoir, Mountain of Activity, and Heavenly Gate
• Article: The World Celebrates Professor Greimas With No Regard for His Victims
• Documents Which Argue for Ethnic Cleansing (by Kazys Škirpa, Stasys Raštikis, Stasys Lozoraitis and Petras Klimas in 1940-1941 and by Birutė Teresė Burauskaitė in 2015)
• Abstract: Choosing What We See: Cropping Hitler Out of Lithuania's 1941 Uprising

History

• Abstract: A Baltic Concord (ABC) for Legend Makers with Special Regard for Relationships in Time and Space

Emotion

• A Geometry of Moods: Evoked by Wujue Poems of the Tang Dynasty
• Expecting What We Don't Wish: The Source of Anger, Hate, Relief and Depression.
• A Research Program for a Taxonomy of Moods
• Abstract: A Phenomenological Account of the Dialogue Between an Emotional, Fast Thinking 'System 1' and a Rational, Slow Thinking 'System 2'
• Abstract: Geometry for the Poetry of Moods

Aesthetics

• A Cognitive Framework for the Quality Without a Name, Patterns and Pattern Languages, and the Properties of Life
• Abstract: Art: 12 Reasons Why

Narrative

• A Theory of Narrative Structure Based on a Study of Lithuanian Folk Tales

Music

• Musical Activity as the Basis for the Evolution of Joint Intentionality and Nonlinear Grammar
• Leonard Bernstein's "Unanswered Question" Inspires Questions About the Origin of Games, Music, Language and Humanity

Language

• Games as the Foundation for Universal Grammar
• Poster: A Universal Grammar of Games as the Basis for Language and Human Culture
• Abstract: Coordinating Activities with a Grammar of Self-Transformations
• Abstract: Pragmatic Constraints for the Foundations of Language
• Abstract: A Theory of Narrative: How Do Things Happen? Shifts in Tones of Voice.

Brain sciences

• Poster: What Minds Require of Brains: A Phenomenological Consideration of the Evolution of the Central Nervous System Towards Abstraction
• Poster: Expressing the Organizer of an Organism's Behavior: An Epistemological Overview of Neuroscience

Economics

• Environment as Spiritual Capital. An Argument for Restoring Vilnius's Oldest Jewish Cemetery
• An Economy for Giving Everything Away

A Culture of Independent Thinkers

• The Orchard of Thoughts: An Alternative Culture of Growing in Not Knowing
• Daoism for a Lifetime or a Day?
• Proposal: A Theological, Philosophical, Psychological and Sociological Model of Unlimited Personal Growth
• We Learn to Stick Our Necks Out
• Social Hacking: The Need for an Ethics
• Social Infrastructure for Virtual Flash Mobs
• Abstract: What Is Your Deepest Value? And Your Investigatory Question?

Mathematics

• Proposal: A Research Program for the Big Picture in Mathematics
• Abstract: Cognitive Investigation of the Mathematics Which Links Multiple Dimensions
• Letter of Intent: Summer School on the Foundations of Geometry in Historical Perspective
• Abstract: A Search for Cognitive Foundations for the Four Classical Lie Groups and Algebras
• Symmetric Functions of the Eigenvalues of a Matrix