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Neo-Tech (aka Neotech) is a philosophy developed by Dr. Frank R. Wallace that claims to eliminate mysticism from the human thought process by means of "fully-integrated honesty." It is held in Neo-Tech that mysticism is the highest enemy of human life, where "mysticism" is defined as "the acceptance of allegations without evidence or proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one's senses and one's reason" and "dishonesty that evolves from using feelings or rationalizations to generate mind-created 'realities'." Mysticism is said by Neo-Tech writers to be a "disease" of the mind, being described as "the dishonesty disease that creates problems where none exist".

The claim that Neo-Tech is "fully-integrated honesty" is being challenged: see Criticisms below.

Note: Neo-Tech literature says that Neo-Tech is a "tool" or a "new technology" rather than a philosophy, however, this article refers to the writings espousing Neo-Tech as philosophy for the sake of convention.

Neo-Tech as Neo-Objectivism

As a self-described "dynamic" form of objectivism, Neo-Tech departs from Randian Objectivism which it refers to as "static", in the following manner:

Branch of Philosophy	Randian Objectivism	Neo-Tech
Metaphysics	Reality	Business
Epistemology	Reason	Neothink
Ethics	Self-interest	Value Production
Politics	Capitalism	Free Competition

It is held that:

Business is how people most effectively use and manipulate Reality (all that exists). "Business is the highest evolution of consciousness, responsibility, and morality. No other living organism is even remotely able to function on a business level. The essences of business are honesty, effort, responsibility, integration, abstraction, conceptualization, objectivity, long-range planning, discipline, thought, control. Business creates essentially every major human value, ranging from the development of consciousness, language, mathematics, the arts, up to the electronic and biogenic revolutions" (Neo-Tech Discovery).
Neothink is mysticism-free integration of knowledge. It is using Reason and information to arrive at bits of knowledge, then integrating those bits of knowledge into new knowledge. This process continues as those bits of new knowledge are then integrated with other bits of new knowledge thereby creating additional knowledge, and so on, ad infinitum. It is essential that mysticism is not involved in the process. Neothink allows the widest possible integration of knowledge to be performed.
Value Production is Self-interest put into action through Business dynamics --the creation of valuable goods and services resulting in personal wealth.
Free Competition is the dynamic of acting within a capitalist or free-market framework. Eliminating one's personal mysticism and using Neothink helps one to maximize his capacity to outcompete others (especially effective in outcompeting those whose mentalities are ridden with mysticism).

Neo-Tech and Biological Immortality

Neo-Tech also shares some similarities with Extropianism, notably in regard to advocating technological progress toward achieving human biological immortality, as a non-spiritual route to the quest for eternal youth or immortality. However, Neo-Tech claims that this should be pursued strictly as a commercial enterprise, as it is its opinion that the competitive marketplace, rather than taxpayer-funded research, is the most effective and speediest route to technological advancement. It is held that with the elimination of mysticism from the human thought process (which Neo-tech holds is the cause of beliefs in gods and supernatural afterlives), market forces will drive humanity in a more urgent manner to eliminate ageing and other diseases (ageing is increasingly being viewed as a "disease" by biogerontologists).

Neo-Tech sees mysticism as putting a drag on technological progress toward biological immortality, and blames government agencies that regulate medical technologies, such as the United States Food and Drug Administration, as significantly slowing progress toward this end; it is maintained by Neo-Tech that the existence of the FDA is the result of acceptance of "external authority" that occurs as a result of mystical thinking, as opposed to a voluntary inspection system which would embrace individual autonomy.

It is believed, in Neo-Tech, that to experience and continue experiencing "profound happiness" is the ultimate purpose of living. And, that since life and health are essential to pursue happiness, given that the present state of technology promises certain death and degradation of health, the pursuit of "commercially biological immortality" should be the prime and most urgent technological goal of a rational civilization. Moreover, it is postulated that this technology to eliminate and reverse ageing is achievable in the lifetime of many of us --the sooner that mystical beliefs erode, the greater the probability of that happening through the dynamics of Business: "And now, from business comes Neotech, the cure for mysticism and the key to commercial biological immortality" (Neo-Tech Discovery).

Neo-Tech and the Bicameral Mind Theory

Neo-Tech is notably influenced by the theories of the late psychology professor from Princeton University, Julian Jaynes, as expounded in his controversial book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Neo-Tech accepts Jaynes' proposition that human mind has evolved from what was once a mere reactive mode, devoid of consciousness, abstract thought, and introspection, where external authority was accepted unquestioningly, to a proactive, conscious-thinking, and autonomous mode.

Neo-Tech expands upon this and says that the next major evolution in the process of thought is the elimination of all mysticism in thinking, which it holds naturally results in the rejection of all external authority, both epistemological and coercive, in favor of a physically free and autonomous individual whose own conscious thinking, exercising "fully-integrated honesty," is the ultimate validator of knowledge (and therefore justifier of belief). This mysticism-free way of thinking, which is believed by Neo-Tech adherents to be the next evolution of the mind subsequent to the advent of consciousness, is referred to as the "Neothink mind." The Neothink mind is the mind using Neo-Tech (Neo-Tech is defined literally as "fully integrated honesty").

It is said that vestiges of the "bicameral mind" remain in modern humans that make them susceptible to defaulting to unquestioning-acceptance of external guidance. [1] Whereas Jaynes hypothesizes that consciousness may have emerged out of competitive pressures, Neo-Tech literature likewise states that Neothink is a superior way of using the mind that allows individuals to outcompete others who still employ mysticism-laden thinking and that, hence, the need to compete will behoove one to "go Neo-Tech." So, it is said that those individuals and civilizations that cling to mystical thinking will remain uncompetitive, self-destructive, and ultimately be left behind to perish.

Neo-Tech as Fully Integrated Honesty

Neo-Tech writings maintain that "honesty" is a preferable term over "truth" as it is held that the latter term is subject to various philosophical interpretations, vagueness, and manipulation. In 1992, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in United States of America v Wallace Ward, ruled that replacing the word "truth" with "fully-integrated honesty" in the "honesty oath," used prior to testifying in court trials, is legally permissible. "The Neo-Tech oath" reads as follows: "Do you affirm to speak with fully integrated Honesty, only with fully integrated Honesty and nothing but fully integrated Honesty?"

The Zon Conjecture

A "Zon," in Neo-Tech, is a "metaphorically-postulated" person who operates from a Neo-Tech/Neothink perspective. It is speculated by Neo-Tech writers that a neothinking Zon may have created this universe for profitable business purposes. Neo-Tech writings explicitly say that this is an "unproven speculation" (and therefore, by Neo-Tech's definition, a form of "mysticism").

Miscellaneous facts

In The Neo-Tech Discovery, the following notice is printed: "The Neo-Tech Discovery will not be sold to professional value destroyers at any price. Those blackballed include all politicians and business quislings, most lawyers and news-media reporters, many bureaucrats, clergymen, and university professors."

The Neo-Tech website states that "Zonpower lets you become GOD even without a computer." (upper case is in the original)

DC Comics did a four-issue series based on Neo-Tech, featuring Batman, called "Anarky," by Alan Grant (author of Batman comics, who happens to be an adherent of Neo-Tech philosophy) (Interview with Alan Grant).

Neo-Tech philosophy was originally developed by Dr. Frank R. Wallace, a former senior research scientist for E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. According to Wallace, his original inspiration for Neo-Tech came as a result of his study of the cognitive aspects of the game of poker.

"Frank R. Wallace" is the pen-name of Wallace Ward. Wallace H. Ward (a son of Wallace Ward) also writes under a pen-name: Mark Hamilton. Some observers find this use of pseudonyms and alleged use of others to be at odds with Neo-Tech's self-description of "fully integrated honesty".

The article, "Consciousness: The End of False Authority[2] by Dr. Frank R. Wallace won the first place National Writer's Club Award as best nonfiction article of 1980.

Ray Kotobuki, the author of Neo-Tech: The Philosophical Zero [3] is actually philosopher Yasuhiko Kimura, writing under a pen-name.

The word "Neo-Tech" was trademarked by Integrated Management Associates on December 27, 2005.

Books

Integrated Management Associates is the main publisher of books and articles authored by those who support the philosophy, including the owners and some employees of the company. Other proponents of this philosophy have also furnished books and materials through other publishers (Some affiliated with Neo-Tech Publishing and some not). The Neo-Tech philosophy existed, and was called "Neo-Tech," several years before the original promulgator, I&O Publishing, was renamed to Neo-Tech Publishing to match the namesake of the philosophy.

Frank R. Wallace, The Neo-Tech Discovery, Neo-tech Publishing (Originally published in 1975 by I&O Publishing and is the largest commercial success. Translated versions have been printed in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish.)
Charles Beeler, Wolf Kahn, Strange City: The Future of Neo-Tech, Xlibris (Note: Xlibris is a print on demand self-publishing house.)
Mark Hamilton, Neo-Tech Business Control, Neo-Tech Publishing
Eric Savage, Neo-Tech Instructions, Black & White Pub Co. (1985)
Eric Savage, How to Build a Global Business Empire
Mark Hamilton, Profound Honesty: Outcompete God and Government, Neo-Tech Publishing
Brett Peters, Neo-Tech Protection Kit, Neo-Tech Publishing
Mark Hamilton, Will America Go Neo-Tech?, Integrated Management Associates (1995)
Mark Hamilton, God-Man: Our Final Evolution, Integrated Management Associates (1998)

External links

Official Neo-Tech material

The official Neo-Tech web site. French (Francais) Spanish (Espanol)
Selected Portions from the Neo-Tech Discovery
God-Man: Our Final Evolution by Mark Hamilton
Index of various essays on Neo-Tech. (includes Foreign Language Translations of the Neo-Tech Discovery)
Businessmen versus Neocheaters by Carl Watner

Unofficial material related to Neo-Tech

Mind-Matrix - Supplying integrated research based on the authors use of Neo-Think by Nathan Shaw
Integrated Thinking by Andrew Lee
Local Group - Essays and books based on Neo-Tech (not affiliated with Neo-Tech Publishing)
Neo-Tech Specifics (Denounced by official Neo-Tech website as a "Costly Fraud Trap")
Usenet newsgroup called alt.neo-tech
Neo-Board Neo-Tech Party Discussion Board
Brett Peters Blog Former Neo-Tech Publishing Employee talks about his Neo-Tech experience and insights
Forever Green by Holly Holliday - An integrated fairy tale adventure story written from a Neo-Tech perspective by a Neo-Techian author

Criticisms

Mysticism: Good or Evil?
Informal criticism of Neo-Tech's essay "Life without effort" by the Church of the SubGenius.
Another informal criticism of Neo-Tech, in the form of MSTing.
A spoof of Neo-Tech.
- Including a section on a fictitious political party called The True Capitalism Party. Also in Chinese (中文).
Ex-Cult Resource Center: Neo-Tech
A "Neo-Tech FAQ" - a Usenet questions and answers list by a person calling himself "The King of all Heretics". Contains meta-information, rumours about the people behind the Neo-Tech books, and some quotes from the books.
Gettingit.com: Cults Of Rationality calls Neo-Tech a "Scientology-like Internet cult"
Neo-Tech Rulz ^H^H^H^H Spams Cyberspace -- Usenet post claiming that advocates of Neo-Tech are spamming numerous Usenet groups with Neo-Tech material

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 '''Neo-Tech''' (aka ''Neotech'') is a philosophy developed by [[Dr. Frank R. Wallace]] that claims to eliminate [[mysticism]] from the human thought process by means of "fully-integrated honesty." It is held in Neo-Tech that mysticism is the highest enemy of human life, where "mysticism" is defined as "the acceptance of allegations without evidence or proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one's senses and one's reason" and "dishonesty that evolves from using feelings or rationalizations to generate mind-created 'realities'." Mysticism is said by Neo-Tech writers to be a "disease" of the mind, being described as "the dishonesty disease that creates problems where none exist".
+The claim that Neo-Tech is "fully-integrated honesty" is being challenged: see [[#Criticisms|Criticisms]] below.
 ''Note'': Neo-Tech literature says that Neo-Tech is a "tool" or a "new technology" rather than a philosophy, however, this article refers to the ''writings'' espousing Neo-Tech as philosophy for the sake of convention.
 ==Neo-Tech as Neo-Objectivism==
-Neo-Tech can be classified as a brand of [[Neo-Objectivism]]. As a self-described "dynamic" form of objectivism, it departs from [[Ayn Rand|Randian]] [[Objectivist philosophy|Objectivism]] which it refers to as "static", in the following manner:
+As a self-described "dynamic" form of objectivism, Neo-Tech departs from [[Ayn Rand|Randian]] [[Objectivist philosophy|Objectivism]] which it refers to as "static", in the following manner:
  {| class="wikitable"
 !Branch of Philosophy
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 *'''Value Production''' is '''[[Self-interest]]''' put into action through '''Business''' dynamics --the creation of valuable goods and services resulting in personal wealth.
 *'''Free Competition''' is the dynamic of acting within a [[capitalism|capitalist]] or [[free-market]] framework. Eliminating one's personal mysticism and using '''Neothink''' helps one to maximize his capacity to outcompete others (especially effective in outcompeting those whose mentalities are ridden with mysticism).
-'''Mysticism''' is defined in the same way it is defined in Objectivism. Ayn Rand defines it as "the acceptance of allegations without evidence or proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one's senses and one's reason. Mysticism is the claim to some non-sensory, non-rational, non-definable, non-identifiable means of knowledge, such as 'instinct,' 'intuition,' 'revelation,' or any form of 'just knowing.'" Dr. Frank Wallace also defines it as "the acceptance of allegations without evidence or proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one's senses and one's reason."
 ==Neo-Tech and Biological Immortality==
-Neo-Tech also shares some similarities with [[Extropianism]], notably in regard to advocating technological progress toward achieving human [[biological immortality]], as a non-spiritual route to the quest for eternal youth or immortality. However, it is made clear in Neo-Tech that this should be pursued strictly as a commercial enterprise, as it is its opinion that the competitive marketplace, rather than taxpayer-funded research, is the most effective and speediest route to technological advancement. It is held that with the elimination of mysticism from the human thought process (which Neo-tech holds is the cause of beliefs in gods and supernatural afterlives), market forces will drive humanity in a more urgent manner to eliminate ageing and other diseases ([[senescence|ageing]] is increasingly being viewed as a "[[disease]]" by [[biogerontology|biogerontologists]]).
+Neo-Tech also shares some similarities with [[Extropianism]], notably in regard to advocating technological progress toward achieving human [[biological immortality]], as a non-spiritual route to the quest for eternal youth or immortality. However, Neo-Tech claims that this should be pursued strictly as a commercial enterprise, as it is its opinion that the competitive marketplace, rather than taxpayer-funded research, is the most effective and speediest route to technological advancement. It is held that with the elimination of mysticism from the human thought process (which Neo-tech holds is the cause of beliefs in gods and supernatural afterlives), market forces will drive humanity in a more urgent manner to eliminate ageing and other diseases ([[senescence|ageing]] is increasingly being viewed as a "[[disease]]" by [[biogerontology|biogerontologists]]).
-That Neo-Tech sees mysticism as putting a drag on technological progress toward biological immortality" is a major reason why mysticism is considered the number one enemy of human life. Government agencies that regulate medical technologies, such as the [[United States Food and Drug Administration]], are also blamed as significantly slowing progress toward this end; it is maintained by Neo-Tech that the existence of the FDA is the result of acceptance of "external authority" that occurs as a result of mystical thinking, as opposed to a voluntary inspection system which would embrace individual autonomy.
+Neo-Tech sees mysticism as putting a drag on technological progress toward biological immortality, and blames government agencies that regulate medical technologies, such as the [[United States Food and Drug Administration]], as significantly slowing progress toward this end; it is maintained by Neo-Tech that the existence of the FDA is the result of acceptance of "external authority" that occurs as a result of mystical thinking, as opposed to a voluntary inspection system which would embrace individual autonomy.
+It is believed, in Neo-Tech, that to experience and continue experiencing
-It is believed, in Neo-Tech, that to experience and continue experiencing "profound [[happiness]]" is the ultimate purpose of living. And, that since life and health are essential to pursue happiness, given that the present state of technology promises certain death and degradation of health, the pursuit of "commercially biological immortality" should be the prime and most urgent technological goal of a rational civilization. Moreover, it is postulated that this technology to eliminate and reverse ageing is achievable in the lifetime of many of us --the sooner that mystical beliefs erode, the greater the probability of that happening through the dynamics of '''Business''': "And now, from business comes Neotech, the cure for mysticism and the key to commercial biological immortality" (''Neo-Tech Discovery'').
+"profound [[happiness]]" is the ultimate purpose of living. And, that since
+life and health are essential to pursue happiness, given that the present
+state of technology promises certain death and degradation of health, the
+pursuit of "commercially biological immortality" should be the prime and
+most urgent technological goal of a rational civilization. Moreover, it is
+postulated that this technology to eliminate and reverse ageing is
+achievable in the lifetime of many of us --the sooner that mystical beliefs
+erode, the greater the probability of that happening through the dynamics of
+'''Business''': "And now, from business comes Neotech, the cure for
+mysticism and the key to commercial biological immortality" (''Neo-Tech
+Discovery'').
 ==Neo-Tech and the Bicameral Mind Theory==
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 It is said that vestiges of the "[[bicameral mind]]" remain in modern humans that make them susceptible to defaulting to unquestioning-acceptance of external guidance. [http://www.neo-tech.com/neotech/protection2/p503-512.html] Whereas Jaynes hypothesizes that consciousness may have emerged out of competitive pressures, Neo-Tech literature likewise states that Neothink is a superior way of using the mind that allows individuals to outcompete others who still employ mysticism-laden thinking and that, hence, the need to compete will behoove one to "go Neo-Tech." So, it is said that those individuals and civilizations that cling to mystical thinking will remain uncompetitive, self-destructive, and ultimately be left behind to perish.
-The competition-initiated collapse of mysticism will also spell the end of the livelihoods of those who, by playing on the remnants of the "bicameral mind" with its tendency to seek external authority, manipulate mysticism in individuals for personal gain (known as "Neocheaters") as these duped individuals come to realize that there are no valid external authorities and never have been. Neo-Tech writings state that the only valid authority comes not from figures such as clergymen, cult-leaders, politicians, academics, philosophers, or Neo-Tech writers, but solely from one's own conscious thinking.
 == Neo-Tech as Fully Integrated Honesty ==
-"Neo-Tech" as a concept is defined literally in various Neo-Tech manuscripts as a "tool" called "fully integrated honesty." Neo-Tech writings maintain that "[[honesty]]" is a preferable term over "[[truth]]" as it is held that the latter term is subject to various philosophical interpretations, vagueness, and manipulation. In 1992, the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]], in ''United States of America v Wallace Ward'', ruled that replacing the word "truth" with "fully-integrated honesty" in the "honesty oath," used prior to testifying in court trials, is legally permissible. "The Neo-Tech oath" reads as follows: "''Do you affirm to speak with fully integrated Honesty, only with fully integrated Honesty and nothing but fully integrated Honesty?''"
+Neo-Tech writings maintain that "[[honesty]]" is a preferable term over "[[truth]]" as it is held that the latter term is subject to various philosophical interpretations, vagueness, and manipulation. In 1992, the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]], in ''United States of America v Wallace Ward'', ruled that replacing the word "truth" with "fully-integrated honesty" in the "honesty oath," used prior to testifying in court trials, is legally permissible. "The Neo-Tech oath" reads as follows: "''Do you affirm to speak with fully integrated Honesty, only with fully integrated Honesty and nothing but fully integrated Honesty?''"
 ==The Zon Conjecture==
-A "Zon," in Neo-Tech, is a "metaphorically-postulated" person who operates from a Neo-Tech/Neothink perspective. It typically refers to one who has accumulated sufficient knowledge about the universe, by using Neothink, that he has the capability to perform large-scale manipulations of matter and energy. Such an individual has become a "god," so to speak. It can include persons of the human or some other hypothetical variety that may be found anywhere in the cosmos or [[multiverse]]. It is speculated by Neo-Tech writers that a neothinking Zon may have created this universe for profitable business purposes. Neo-Tech writings explicitly say that this is an "unproven speculation" (and therefore, by Neo-Tech's definition, a form of "mysticism"). However, some individuals are apparently conducting scientific research to find evidence to prove the "Zon conjecture."
+A "Zon," in Neo-Tech, is a "metaphorically-postulated" person who operates from a Neo-Tech/Neothink perspective.  It is speculated by Neo-Tech writers that a neothinking Zon may have created this universe for profitable business purposes. Neo-Tech writings explicitly say that this is an "unproven speculation" (and therefore, by Neo-Tech's definition, a form of "mysticism").
 == Miscellaneous facts ==
+In ''The Neo-Tech Discovery,'' the following notice is printed: "The Neo-Tech Discovery will not be sold to professional value destroyers at any price. Those blackballed include all politicians and business quislings, most lawyers and news-media reporters, many bureaucrats, clergymen, and university professors."
-Most writings concerning Neo-Tech are presented in the format of an instruction of how one may succeed in his business, and personal life, by using Neo-Tech.
-In what is considered the definining Neo-Tech book, ''The Neo-Tech Discovery,'' the following notice is printed: "The Neo-Tech Discovery will not be sold to professional value destroyers at any price. Those blackballed include all politicians and business quislings, most lawyers and news-media reporters, many bureaucrats, clergymen, and university professors."
 The Neo-Tech website states that "Zonpower lets you become GOD even without a computer." (upper case is in the original)
-Interestingly, DC Comics did a four-issue series based on Neo-Tech, featuring [[Batman]], called "[[Anarky]]," by [[Alan Grant]] (author of Batman comics, who happens to be an adherent of Neo-Tech philosophy) [http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.libertarian/msg/e03a0721f0189d1c (''Interview with Alan Grant'')].
+DC Comics did a four-issue series based on Neo-Tech, featuring [[Batman]], called "[[Anarky]]," by [[Alan Grant]] (author of Batman comics, who happens to be an adherent of Neo-Tech philosophy) [http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.libertarian/msg/e03a0721f0189d1c (''Interview with Alan Grant'')].
-The entire books of John and Revelations from the [[Holy Bible]] have been transposed to fit the philosophy of Neo-Tech under the title "The Bible Decoded" by "The Zon Association."
 Neo-Tech philosophy was originally developed by [[Dr. Frank R. Wallace]], a former senior research scientist for [[dupont|E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co]]. According to Wallace, his original inspiration for Neo-Tech came as a result of his study of the cognitive aspects of the game of [[poker]].
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 * [http://www.localgroup.net Local Group - Essays and books based on Neo-Tech (not affiliated with Neo-Tech Publishing)]
 * [http://www.neotech-specifics.com Neo-Tech Specifics] (Denounced by official Neo-Tech website as a "Costly Fraud Trap")
-* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Neo-Talk/ Neo-Talk Neo-Tech Discussion Forum]
 * [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.neo-tech Usenet newsgroup called alt.neo-tech]
 * [http://www.tyro.com/neo-board/ Neo-Board] Neo-Tech Party Discussion Board
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