Brian considers himself to be a 'natural metaphysician' with the innate predilection to seek answers to deep questions. He earned his BA in Philosophy from UC Santa Barbara in 1986, having focused on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. He pursued graduate studies at San Diego State University in the 90's with a concentration in the philosophy of technology, but he found himself instead taking an alternate professional path in IT/IS. He returned to academia in 2019 and completed his Masters in Philosophy at SDSU in 2023, focusing on the fundamental ontology of identity, personal identity, and the grounding of consciousness. His thesis on 'The Identity of Possibility and the Realization of Persons' broke ground on what he has termed 'Modal Monism', a fundamental ontology that argues Possibility simpliciter to be the radically neutral foundation of existence.
Upon completing his exploits in the business world, Brian had been a service professional since the age of eleven in a wide range of service positions including paperboy, nurseryman, landscaper, delicatessen manager, ski technician, commercial copy manager, retail salesperson, athletic club manager, IS systems trainer, web designer, technological learning environment designer, software consultant, and VP of IT/IS for a multi-million dollar cultural attraction retail management company.
Brian invested a decade of his time supporting retail technologies for some of the most prestigious not-for-profit organizations in North America: The American Museum of Natural History; The Shedd Aquarium; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; Museum of Science, Boston; The Philadelphia Zoo; The Royal Ontario Museum; and The National Aquarium in Baltimore, to name just a few. He also installed and supported the digital video asset management system for NASA Johnson Space Center's Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.
"Throughout my professional life, I have had the opportunity to serve others in many different capacities. Driven by my growing social conscience, I combined those decades of diverse practical experience with my academic and avocational studies in philosophy to write a series of blogs in service of us all. I returned to academic life to consummate my authentic aspirations in Philosophy and to realize the potential of nascent ideas that had been percolating in my mind for years. One of these ideas purports to resolve the hard problem of consciousness and offers radical and ultimate grounding for foundational concepts of identity, morality, and existence itself. Beyond Infinite existence and the Totality of the world dwells the responsive sensibility of Possibility."
