Polylogue with Mythokrates

About the Book

Polylogue with Mythokrates is from an encompassing work, Counterdance of the Cybergods, which is drawn from an even larger concept, GALACTIC EXODUS. After Earth’s demise, terrestrial life of maximum variety (active beings; suspended life; cell-banks; a wide-ranging DNA catalogue), is in transit to other star systems hoping to find terraformable homes among their various satellites. Counterdance presents a momentous episode involving a fleet of twelve world-ships mid-voyage, and includes significant documentation. The largest and most precious of those documents required this separate volume.

Polylogue is a transcript of a meeting between future intellectuals and a legendary philosopher. Their guest of honor is Mythokrates, ‘rekindled’ from sub-sleep—as if a long-frozen Aristotle were thawed to meet 21st century scientists: to encounter atomic physics, information theory, molecular biology, thermodynamics, an expanding universe, and quantum mechanics, among the topics of this discussion]. Mythokrates laughs at modern views and the panelists discover they disagree themselves, shattering one another’s theories and embarrassing each other in public.

Mythokrates listens and probes, learning how to contend with the experienced ‘polyloguers’ and expose their inconsistencies (including ‘accidental’ big-bang types; a Pythagorean-like math-universe; a Buckminster Fuller inspired reality out of pure geometry; an information theory version; even a musical cosmos emerging from the 400 octaves of electro-magnetic wave-lengths). Finally, the ancient-one gathers some coherent shards from the disintegrating modern arguments and pieces together a disturbingly different portrait of the cosmos, requiring a science sea-change. Does it make more sense? Could it be true? The reader is left to decide.

This book presents the complete 'Polylogue with Mythokrates,' of which only a synopsis is found in Chapter Nine of its parent volume: 'Counterdance of the Cybergods'.

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About the Author

Author Biographical Note: Michael Somers was raised in north-central Illinois, trained at the University of Illinois-Chicago, Northern Illinois University, and Northwestern; including a program with acolytes of the great Leo Strauss from the University of Chicago, and lived several years in Chicago before moving to San Francisco. He has done his share of truth-seeking in political philosophy, history, music, science and mathematics, and as a writer [essays available on his website (Motes from the Dust Bin and From the Jewel Box of Mythokrates), plus a ‰*÷language-synchronized‰*ªå¨ translation/screenplay planned for a fully animated version of Wagner‰*ªs Das Rheingold]. He has been an athlete [Big Ten football‰*ÓCoaches Ara Parseghian & Alex Agassi]; a musician [double bass, tuba, vocalist: 5th & 9th Army Bands; US Naval Conservatory, plus performing with diverse organizations: Northwestern University Glee Club; California Bach Society; a tour in Europe with the Napa Valley Chamber Singers; innumerable traditional and modern jazz combos (including his own band); the Solano Winds symphonic band; and the North Bay Philharmonic, as well as many appearances with San Francisco jazz and cabaret musicians, and regularly with internationally renowned pianist/chanteuse, Madi Barrena]; a teacher [political science, US government, history, music, and a course of his own device: ‰*÷Cosmology with out Headaches,‰*ª which grew out of research for GALACTIC EXODUS]; plus a successful career as a public works engineer [California Department of Transportation, Alameda County Public Works, single-project contracts with several cities, and a long stint with Harris and Associates (prominent western-states design, engineering, and construction management firm)].