Claus D. Volko

• Austrian Software Engineer, born in 1983 (biography).
• This website serves as a repository of writings and computer programs created by the author.

Personality

• I am basically a text worker: I read, write and edit articles as well as code.
• I am a very creative person with a lot of fantasy and ideas.
• Both extra- and introverted intuition are highly developed in me.
• I am extremely open to experience and have a vivid imagination.
• When I was a child, adults used to call me "clever".

Interests

• Computers:
  I started teaching myself to program when I was eight years old. The book "Gödel, Escher, Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter ignited my interest in theoretical computer science, which was one of the subjects I specialized in as a university student. In addition I mainly studied formal logics and algorithms. As a professional software engineer I am primarily a C# expert, but I am also knowledgable about C++ and a variety of other programming languages. In my spare time I developed several computer games.


• Philosophy:
  My father taught me the philosophy of Sir Karl Popper. I am not only a recipient of Popper's philosophy but I have also come up with my own ideas, mostly related to metaphysics and epistemology. Also, I am interested in the "Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe" by Christopher Langan and in the personality theory of Carl Gustav Jung.


• Science:
  My main interest with science lies with chemistry, especially biochemistry, which was my favourite subject at medical school, but I also like to learn about physics. I have contributed a couple of papers about the relationship between hormones, immunity and stress to medical science, together with my late friend and mentor Dr. Uwe Rohr, and coined the term "symbiont conversion". In 2015 I founded the website 21st Century Headlines where I post news items about various branches of science on a regular basis.


• Psychometrics:
  I have always been very good at doing brain teasers and solving logical puzzles. According to two different intelligence tests I have an IQ of 172 (rarity: 1 in 1.2 million). My personal attitude to intelligence is that I consider creativity more valuable. For me intelligence is only a tool helping me in creative endeavours.

Memberships

• International Society for Philosophical Enquiry
• U.S. Transhumanist Party
• Syncritic Institute

Writings

Books

• The Real Adok's Way to QBASIC (Textbook, 1996)
• Physik verstehen - Zusammenhänge erkennen statt auswendig lernen (Textbook, 2001)
• Gentechnologie für Mediziner (Textbook, 2002)
• Enzyklopädie der Diskmags (Encyclopedia, 2012)
• Selective Graph Coloring Problem (Master's Thesis, 2013)
• Die Geschichte des Aronass (Fantasy Novel, 2022)

Research Papers

• Symbiont Conversion Theory (2018)
• Model approach for stress induced steroidal hormone cascade changes in severe mental diseases (2016)
• The evolution of genomic stability to a mechanism in reproduction and psychiatry (2016)
• Can Plants' Ability for DNA Repair and Stress Defense be Used against Tumor Cells? (2015)

Essays about Metaphysics and Epistemology

• My Metaphysics (2023)
• The Synthesis of Metaphysics and Jungian Personality Theory (2018)
• Kausalzyklen - Kann die Welt so erklärt werden? (2017)
• The Universe as Automaton (2013)
• Can the State of the Universe be Stored in a Computer? (2017)
• Zur Person Karl Poppers und zu seiner Philosophie (2018)

Essays about Psychology

• Logic, Reasoning and Intellect (2013)
• Volko Personality Patterns (2018)
• Meine Erfahrungen mit hoher Intelligenz (2023)

Essays about Life Sciences

• Die gesellschaftlichen Folgen der Pille. Werden Großmütter die besseren Mütter? (2015)
• Paradigmenwechsel in der Krebstherapie (2014)
• Grundlagen der Medizin (2013)
• Interessante Threads aus dem Medizinerforum (2011)
• Die Entdeckung der RNA-Interferenz (2007)
• Warum man im Schweizerhaus vor dem Bier eine Stelze serviert bekommt (2003)
• Machen Computerspiele dumm? (2002)
• Computermodellierung biologischer Systeme (2002)

Essays about Computer Science

• Computerprogrammierung für Anfänger (2023)
• Eine Einführung in die Logik (2013)
• Überlegungen zum P-NP-Problem (2014)
• Das Erfüllbarkeitsproblem der Aussagenlogik (2014)
• Zum Beweis der Nichtexistenz (2014)
• Second-Order P-NP Problem (2017)
• Mathematical Analysis of the 2048 Game (2014)
• Formal Languages (2013)
• Gödels Unvollständigkeitssätze einfach erklärt (2014)
• Logiktrainer mit Computern lösen (2013)
• Zahlenreihen mit Computern lösen (2013)
• Robust Discrete Optimization (2012)
• Mesh Voxelizer in C# (2023)
  
• Volko Hull - An Alternative to Convex Hull (2024)
  

Short Stories

• Kurzgeschichten (2017)
• The Developer (2019)
• Amarys' Journey (2019)
  
• Day of Wrath (2019)
• The boy who communicated with his father via letters (2023)
  

Computer Games

Strategy Games

• Mega Force (2016)
• Mega Force 2 (2019)
• Immunity Force (2023)

Puzzle Games

• Adok's Magic Cube (2009)
• Adok's Number Maze (2010)
• Adok's Saturn Puzzle (2011)
• Hello, Mr Turing (2012)
• Cirix (2012)
• Cirix 2 (2024)

Action Games

• Ballonschlacht (2012)
• Evolution (2012)
• Evolution 2: Circle Battler (2021)

Old Adventure Games

• Tyrwago in Astrein World (1994)
• Die Reise zum Mond (1995)

Computer Art

• Indian Summer (2009)
• Ruky hore (2019)

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