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EDITING EXPLANATION This exact, same chapter has been added, as of 09/17/2020, to all three books (Rational-Ethical Living and the Emergence of 'Homo Rationalis’..., The Mind-Body Problem and Free Will Vs. Determinism..., and Humanianity, The Religion for Humanity...). It is to help the reader understand the evolution and nature of the books. The completion of the writing of these books, in almost their entirety, occurred many years ago (2006, 2012, and 2013), but as time has gone on, there have been (usually very minor) modifications due to found imperfections, as well as an occasional new chapter. In order to enable the reader’s more complete perspective and confidence, any such changes are being shown as such, with two exceptions. The two exceptions are being made to avoid making reading unnecessarily complicated and cumbersome. The first exception has to do with the titles of the books. All three titles have been changed to make them more identifiable and findable (e.g., in searches), because originally they all began the same. These changes have been as follows: Book1 Book2 Book3 Note also that in the third book (Humanianity, The Religion for Humanity...), “Religion” was replaced with “Religious Movement” in the subtitle. Although originally Humanianity was referred to as “a new religion,” it became apparent that it is very important to recognize that the term, “Humanianity,” is referring to a movement within Religion, and our species in general, rather than simply a new religion to compete with, and try to replace, other religions. This is made clear in the text of the book. The second exception has to do with reference to the location of the books on a website. The original website was homorationalis.com. However, with the passage of time, this website became subsumed as a component of a much larger website, humanianity.com, it becoming the PHILOSOPHY section. Instead of making many editorial notes, one each time homorationalis.com was mentioned, homorationalis.com has simply been replaced with “the PHILOSOPHY section of humanianity.com,” or equivalent language. With regard to editorial notes, all of them have the same format, namely [Edit (date): Comment.], e.g., [Edit 09/16/2020: Some explanation or clarification of something.]. Imperfections of spelling and punctuation, not involving any change of concept, have been corrected without any indication of such change. It is quite possible that an occasional new chapter will be added to one of these books, especially the third (Humanianity, The Religion for Humanity...), and at the beginning of such a chapter there will be an orienting clarification that it is a later, added chapter. Hopefully, this basic understanding of the evolution of these three books will aid the reader in evaluating the concepts being offered and will give some picture of the evolution of these concepts over time. I wish to take this opportunity to acknowledge a heretofore unacknowledged significant individual, Terry Walsworth, an IT specialist with a strong interest in the Humanianity project. He started me off many years ago on learning coding, and just recently gave me new inspiration to working on these books and their presence on the website. He has also suggested publishing them, and I currently predict that I will indeed make that effort after making sure that the books are ready for that (this chapter being one such task). Without his recent effort, I am not sure I would have proceeded. |