Nikolai Eberhardt

Nikolai Eberhardt is a German émigré physicist, author of From the Big Bang to the Human Predicament (1998)^[1] and of The final Paradigm: Tragedy, Religion, Knowledge and Folly in Our Neuro-Mechanical Life (2008).^[2] In the Final Paradigm he explores the value of religion in a purely mechanistic world- and self-view. In the spirit of Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751) he derives understanding of humanity, including culture and religion, not from the evolutionary approach — which he does not oppose, but transcends — but from considering humans as self reproducing, intelligent bio-mechanical robots, or biobots.

Eberhardt, born 1930 in Estonia, has German, Swedish and Russian ancestry. He studied philosophy in Graz, Austria and physics in Munich, gaining a Physics Diploma in 1957, and a Doctor of Science degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1962 from the Institute of Technology in Munich. He served as Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University (Emeritus from 1995).^[3] Intermittently he also served as Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology and Society program. Besides numerous publications, he has multiple patents to his credit in the areas of color-television tubes, microwave devices, robotics and instrumentation.^[4] He was Digest Editor of the 1976 IEEE International Microwave Symposium.^[5]

References

1. ^ From the Big Bang to the Human Predicament (1998) http://www.amazon.com/Nikolai-Eberhardt/e/B001K8OHIC />
2. ^ The final Paradigm: Tragedy, Religion, Knowledge and Folly in Our Neuro-Mechanical Life (2008) http://www.amazon.com/Nikolai-Eberhardt/e/B001K8OHIC
3. ^ Lehigh University Faculty Profile http://www.eecs.lehigh.edu/people/bio/eberhardt.html
4. ^ Partial Patent List http://v3.espacenet.com/searchResults?locale=en_EP&query=%28txt+%3D+Eberhardt%2C%29+and+%28ia+%3D+Nikolai%29&compact=false&DB=EPODOC&submitted=true
5. ^ Digest Editor of the 1976 IEEE International Microwave Symposium http://openlibrary.org/b/OL14179130M/1976_IEEE_MTT-S_International_Microwave_Symposium_digest_of_technical_papers

External links

• Lehigh University Faculty Profile
• ZoomInfo Profile
• A link to online purchase of Nikolai's books
• A review of the latest book
• 2009 IPPY Awards
• Partial Patent List
• AES E-Library: A Quasi-Linear Frequency Divider

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