Mark Ray Martin Parrott is an American philosopher, writer, musician, photographer, designer, and programmer, known for his early adoption of independent, small press publishing, and as developer and editor of GetWiki, a Wiki website focusing on Philosophy and other subjects. M.R.M. Parrott's books include the Timeless (M.R.M...

Timeless is a trilogy of action-adventure novels by M.R.M. Parrott, combining science fiction, time travel, intrigue, political theory and history, with stories of love and discovery. Timeless: A Novel Trilogy is available in paperback from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and other retailers via the publisher, [rimric.com...

Dynamism (see Dynamism for encyclopedic information) is a series of treatises in Philosophy and Science by M.R.M. Parrott, addressing subjects in Metaphysics, such as a Theory of Reality, a Theory of Life, Subjectivity, Ethics, and more. Dynamism: A Philosophy and Science Series is available in paperback from Barnes & Noble,...

All Rights Reserved © 1998-99 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Objectivism' first appeared as a series of internet discussion posts on Usenet, in 1998-99, and is a chapter in Synthetic A Priori, by M.R.M. Parrott. Take the Objectivist Challenge! Download and read the linked [mrmparrott.com/-title=0-9662635-6-1...

All Rights Reserved © 1998-1999, 2001-2004 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Time' is a condensed version of the refutation of Time/Spacetime/Space discussed in Dynamism: Volume I: Force, as well as The Pure Critique of Reason, by M.R.M. Parrott. Against Time -We all obviously experience what we feel is Time itself, the...

All Rights Reserved © 2001-2004 M.R.M. Parrott'Against Super Strings' is a condensed version of the refutation of “String Theory” which is a small part of the book, Dynamism: Volume I: Force, by M.R.M. Parrott. Against Super Strings -Strings, Super Strings, Super-Symmetrical Strings, etc, were the result of clever mathematical ideas and equations developed to...

There are key elements of Philosophy, Theology, Teleology and Ontology present throughout The Matrix Series. The overall story involves a critique of a society much like our own which has allowed technological controls to run amok, impinging on freedoms, but...

All Rights Reserved © 2004 & 2007 M.R.M. ParrottThis article is updated from a version which appeared on rimric folio in 2004, and has been protected on GetWiki on behalf of the author, republished here with permission. All rights reserved. “Participating in a Wiki brings many of the same feelings of freedom as having one's own website or participating in a discussion forum, but there...

A Matrix Philosophy All Rights Reserved © 2003, 2008, 2024 M.R.M. ParrottThe text of this article includes versions which appeared on rimric folio in 2003, and from multiple authors in public newsgroups in 1999, and has been protected on GetWiki on behalf of the authors, republished here with permission and/or fair use. All rights...

Timeless is a concept which describes something as being without a beginning or end, or at least seeming that way. It is an eternal or everlasting quality we find in some things. It is the “timeless beauty” of great designs, films, and fashion models. Timeless can refer to being unrestricted to a particular Time, or being independent within Time itself, as in Time Travel. Creative works which have been named...

GetWiki was first developed by M.R.M. Parrott late in 2003 and early in 2004 to “get wiki” content from site to site using XML-based exporting and importing. At the time, MediaWiki appeared to be a more intuitive and user-friendly application than other Wiki-engines, full of features, actively tested and improved by dedicated developers from around the world. However, this...

Wiki (pronounced: “Wickee”, not “Wickah”), was originally “WikiWiki” from the Hawaiian, or “Quick-Quick!”, and is used to identify a specific type of hypertext web page document or collection of documents, such as GetWiki, but it may also refer to the collaborative software used to create a “Wikipage”, such as GetWiki:Overview. How it works is by generating a normal web page in HTML from a normal document-type...

Welcome to GetWiki, a small encyclopedia mainly for Philosophy, and “Meta” topics, from Metaphysics to Metadata, running the easy-to-use GetWiki software. Focused on accurate and verifiable information in Philosophy and intellectual issues, GetWiki is a unique application and platform. The website, first known as “GetMeta”, was launched in April 2004...

GetMeta was the original title of this GetWiki.net wiki, but the wiki was renamed to GetWiki on 11 March, 2007, to take advantage of the more well-known name. The GetMeta name was also the original “meta” topic area, a “metanamespace” in Wiki terms, for GetWiki, and for many years GetMeta was a place for pages and discussion related to the wiki itself. By 2025 and...

Introducing GetWiki 3.0 -For the 20th Anniversary of GetWiki, GetWiki 3.0 is a simplified 2024 version of GetWiki 2.0, focused as a publishing platform rather than a discussion forum or inwardly focused wiki. The new iteration integrates multi-site hosting further into the traditional wiki website, and further...

Introducing GetWiki 2.0 -With the ability to develop GetWiki fully independently of “legacy” concerns, GetWiki 2.0 has brought major improvements and changes to GetWiki 1.0. Beyond the endless bugfixes to the old MediaWiki codebase and Pseudopedian origins, development stabilized for 1.0 and has since moved toward a few major changes, key features and...

Introducing GetWiki 1.0 -Despite the wonderful aspects of what the software could do, MediaWiki 1.1.0 had many nagging problems, along with many hidden defaults which may not serve other sites beyond Pseudopedia's reach. After a series of bugfixes to Mediawiki 1.1.0, it became apparent the Internet-Encyclopedia software had been “forked”, and GetWiki 1.0 was born. Of...

Science (or “Universal Science”) is a traditional branch of Metaphysics, which is a major branch of Philosophy. This fact and truth may seem controversial, it may be anathema to some, but there it is. The entire project and purpose of Science is the forever more fundamental and rigorous pursuit of Theory, Observation, Measurement, and Tabulation of, well, everything...

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The Philosophy of Language is a specialization of Epistemology, which is a major branch of Philosophy. The Philosophy of Language is about understanding how Language relates to the Mind and Society. How the source and structure of Language affects or influences our thinking, and how we use Language to control and interact...

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