I am an Austrian intellectual and a member of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry. I have university degrees in medicine, medical informatics and computational intelligence. Together with Dr. Uwe Rohr I investigated why soy isoflavones have such a positive effect in the treatment of infectious diseases, severe mental illness and cancer.
From 1996 to 2014 I edited the Hugi Magazine, an electronic magazine about computer art. In 2015 I founded the website 21st Century Headlines, a news portal about science and technology. Recently I started the blog Indie Game Dev Scene, which deals with computer games created by hobbyists.
I am mostly interested in formal logics and theoretical computer science. I also love developing new algorithms and optimizing them. In addition, I enjoy reading and pondering over metaphysics and epistemology.
My most fundamental assumption is that not one of us is really able to state, with certainty, that he or she knows something. We can only assume that we know something, as it is always possible that our memory is flawed or that, for other reasons, what we believe to know is not true.
My next assumption is that there are two separate worlds that we live in: (1) the physical world and (2) the world of imagination, thoughts, ideas, fantasy, and dreams. While the physical world is governed by certain natural laws, these restrictions do not apply to the world of imagination. Everything that exists in the physical world can be imagined, but we can also imagine things that do not and will never come into existence in the physical world. That is why I consider the world of imagination the primary world, which makes me an idealist.
The distinction between living and nonliving things, in my mind, is that living things have consciousness, which links the two worlds together. Living things both exist in the physical world and have access to the world of imagination and can think of dreams and ideas.
I think that it can be argued that gods exist simply because they are imaginable. So, at the least, they exist in the world of imagination even if they may or may not exist in the physical world. In my own private religion, I consider life and death to be two antagonistic godly forces. I worship life and believe that I am able to live forever by being a loyal follower of the god of life. That also implies that time is linear, not cyclic. There was a start when everything began, and perhaps there is no end for this world to come to.
These are my views. I created my private religion when I was a child at elementary school age.
Strategy Games
Puzzle Games
Action Games
Old Adventure Games
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For any questions feel free to contact me at cdvolko (at) gmail (dot) com. I also have a GitHub account, and my scientific publications can be found at ResearchGate. Moreover, I have a YouTube channel.
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