I greatly appreciate the many emails I get asking me for answers to great philosophical and scientific questions and I try to reply with as brief and concise an answer as I can think of. But I don't expect to be around much longer (I'm now 81 years old) and my hope is to provide my best answers on web pages and in books that will survive me.

I have now designed and built a webcasting studio that I can operate single-handedly to deliver lectures over the web to budding philosophers and scientists worldwide. I participated in the very first podcasts (audio added to blogs at Harvard University in 2003) and believe that video webcasting is the teaching tool of choice in the future, viewable today by more than half of the world population on inexpensive smartphones.

I hope to have participating guests, both in person in my iTV-Studio and via Skype. If you would like to appear, send a description of your proposed contribution to me, bobdoyle@informationphilosopher.com.

If you like the way information supports the controversial ideas of an immaterial mind that can move the material body, an objective cosmic good (and its opposite entropy the source of evil), a model for human freedom and creativity, and in general a strong attack on the scientistic arguments for eliminative materialism and reductionism, I would be happy if you just start by calling yourself an information philosopher and telling others how we might now understand some problems that are currently "beyond logic and language."

Web searches for these thinkers and problems often returns results on the first search page from Wikipedia, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, as well as Information Philosopher. My correspondents tell me that they frequently navigate the hyperlinks between these three main resources.

That is terrific, but we could strengthen those I-Phi search results further by adding incoming links, from your own websites if you have them, or by adding links on Wikipedia.

You could add Wikipedia links to any of the thousands of pages on InformationPhilosopher.com and/or Metaphysicist.com.

You could start by searching Wikipedia for any thinker's name or any great problem name. Wikipedia may already have a link added, for example, "William James on Information Philosopher" or "Mind-Body Problem on the Metaphysicist." If Wikipedia has no link, I suggest you read our page and verify that you think a Wikipedia link is worth adding. If not, send me your suggested improvements so we can get the I-Phi page to meet your standards as an information philosopher.

If you are happy with our current I-Phi or Metaphysicist entry, press Edit in the External Links section at the bottom of the Wikipedia page and add a link to the specific I-Phi page. For example, http://informationphilosopher.com/problems/mind_body/, which you can always copy from the location bar in your browser.

At the bottom of a Wikipedia page there is an editable section called External Links.

Here are the links at the bottom of the Wikipedia page for William James. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James

Links to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Information Philosopher are highlighted.

If you click on the [edit] link for the External Links section, you will find the code for those two links.

To add similar links to another Wikipedia page, start by searching Wikipedia for the name of another scientist or philosopher. You can just enter the name in your location bar and the Wikipedia page should show up.

Scroll down to the page bottom and lick on the [edit] link for the External Links section, copy the above two lines and paste them in at the bottom of the External links code.

Change the bolded part of the link and the full name to the new scientist or philosopher.

Save your changes. Then click on the new Wikipedia links to test that they go to the right places.

If there is a problem with a link, you should go to the Stanford Encyclopedia and Information Philosopher pages and copy the full links from the location bar.

Paste them in and then test again.

Thanks,

Bob