- #36
onycho
Response in 2 Parts.
***How certain are you that you and your solid body are now communicating with me through the world-wide-web? How certain are you that in your past you communicated with me and that I am now communicating with you in your future?
----Contextually certain.
>>>>The knowledge of certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold knowledge. The only certainty is uncertainty.
Is our time relative to us here and now or are we experiencing time from a quantum perspective? I feel that if we sometimes look outside of our catch 22 box, we can see a completely different reality now redefined by many of our theoretical physicist friends. There seems to be no dichotomy when we see our existence in world of quantum mechanics
=Quantum understanding must still be filtered through the biological calculus.
But is quantum understanding valid in world where cognition by sub-atomic particles that have INTELECT and WISDOM? The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most of civilization.
=There is no outside. It is infinite. The only limit is the horizon line of how far light can travel. All region are exchanging energy with where ever they can.
>>>If you feel that the universe has no outside border and infinite then why would light photons be limited by an artificial horizon? When in fact these particle/waves travel at the speed of frozen time and can only be stopped when absorbed by matter? Why do regions in an infinity need to exchange energy when energy is not affected by gravitational fields or matter but a universe with an even allotment of this entity? In my humble opinion energy is nothing more than an infinite form of WISDOM itself?
The Big Bang presumes nothing about winding down or being in equilibrium or continually expanding as expressed by conflicting cosmologist opinions.
=It only presumes a beginning. Where was that energy borrowed from?
>>>>That is the $64,000 BB question? Again in my opinion, energy is a form WISDOM from a Prime Source and was not borrowed from anywhere. This point is the only exception to the premise that ‘matter cannot arise from nothing.’
=My getting out of bed this morning was affected by a lot of variables, but, in sum, it was easier to get out than stay in. Logic follows the path of least resistance.
>>>>What or who did you say got out of bed this morning? In sum we all are nothing more than energy/particles that either follow the path of least resistance or follow no real path at all.
=I'm referring to a magnification lense, not a prism.
>>>>Light is an oscillating electromagnetic energy that travels at 3.00 x 108 m/s in a vacuum. The absorption of light involves an encounter or collision between an absorbing molecule and a packet of light called a photon. In order for absorption to occur, the energy of the photon must match the energy of the molecule. If a magnification lens concentrates photon particle/waves then striking the magnification lens particles of the same energy which should actually diminish not concentrate this packet of energy.
=The absolute lacks all distinguishing features. Earlier you asked the question as to how I know I exist, now you state existence as an axiom.
>>>>The question to your knowledge of your own existence and my response was cogent in that to be aware of your existence you have to be able to prove perceived existence as a fact.
****If reality is truly nothing more than an illusion from the perspective of our ingenious construction of subatomic particles, then both our objective and subjective comprehension would neither be unconditional nor absolute.
=Agreed.
>>>>ditto
=Mortality is like being in a well lit room and looking out a dark window. All you see are reflections of what's inside. As the room darknens, you start to see shadows flitting by outside. then when you die, the glass breaks.
>>>>Your definition of mortality is a doozy. I also have a definition of mortality. Before your conception you existed, you exist now and you continue to exist following death. Remember my belief is that instead of life as a short interlude, our essence or free-will exists in a dimension of a timeless singularity with no beginning, no now and no ending. Only a short now in which we perceive realities of our individual place in our frame of time and space.
Free-will is a contradiction of terms. Will implies an extension of purpose, motivation, etc. Free implies lack of connection to prior motivation. "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." KK
****Not so.
=I'm simply pointing out that it's an oxymoron.
>>>>You are entitled to your point on free-will but I call it an insoluble paradox. The so-called laws of nature provide directions, but within that direction there is leeway, meanderings contingent upon the immediate environment, just as a river’s meanderings are contingent on the local terrain. Though occasionally it may leave its path an isolated bow lake, the flow eventually reaches the sea. These excursions in the flow of events might be seen as the vicissitudes inherent in an evolutionary process having within it a general direction. In the human’s vision of reality, these meanderings I call free-will.
Many persons have argued that physical determinism poses a threat to the existence of free will are, I believe, still operating with the remnants of the theory that laws of nature are akin to inviolable prescriptions. They have dropped the Prescriber (i.e. God) out of their view of natural laws, but they still persevere with the view that laws of nature 'act like' prescriptions. ... They take their truth from the way the world is. They don't 'force' the world to be any particular way at all.
=I agree with you. Order is a subjective construct. Without perspective, which is the definition of subjective, there is no standard to determine what is order and what is chaos. The problem is that once you have that standard(will), than you need to stick by it, or lose it. So if you have the freedom to choose any standard, than you have no standard.
>>>>So you say in your last sentence that “any freedom to choose any standard” automatically results in “no standard.” That statement is a true oxymoron. As the freedom to choose is a free-will to follow any meandering path to a final conclusion or standard. In all chaos there is a perceived cosmos, in that chaos is simple order from an unseen hand.
=Motion is relative, not absolute. Since any object is moving against relative context. Just as the Earth falls toward a dropped rock, proportionally, context moves toward the object. So, if you consider an objects motion as a dimension of time, than the context necessarily constitutes an opposing direction of time.
>>>>Motion is relative only to an observer. If a proton moves at the speed of time, is it an absolute relative to a context? If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one or life form to observe the event, did motion occur or did it not?
***How certain are you that you and your solid body are now communicating with me through the world-wide-web? How certain are you that in your past you communicated with me and that I am now communicating with you in your future?
----Contextually certain.
>>>>The knowledge of certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold knowledge. The only certainty is uncertainty.
Is our time relative to us here and now or are we experiencing time from a quantum perspective? I feel that if we sometimes look outside of our catch 22 box, we can see a completely different reality now redefined by many of our theoretical physicist friends. There seems to be no dichotomy when we see our existence in world of quantum mechanics
=Quantum understanding must still be filtered through the biological calculus.
But is quantum understanding valid in world where cognition by sub-atomic particles that have INTELECT and WISDOM? The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most of civilization.
=There is no outside. It is infinite. The only limit is the horizon line of how far light can travel. All region are exchanging energy with where ever they can.
>>>If you feel that the universe has no outside border and infinite then why would light photons be limited by an artificial horizon? When in fact these particle/waves travel at the speed of frozen time and can only be stopped when absorbed by matter? Why do regions in an infinity need to exchange energy when energy is not affected by gravitational fields or matter but a universe with an even allotment of this entity? In my humble opinion energy is nothing more than an infinite form of WISDOM itself?
The Big Bang presumes nothing about winding down or being in equilibrium or continually expanding as expressed by conflicting cosmologist opinions.
=It only presumes a beginning. Where was that energy borrowed from?
>>>>That is the $64,000 BB question? Again in my opinion, energy is a form WISDOM from a Prime Source and was not borrowed from anywhere. This point is the only exception to the premise that ‘matter cannot arise from nothing.’
=My getting out of bed this morning was affected by a lot of variables, but, in sum, it was easier to get out than stay in. Logic follows the path of least resistance.
>>>>What or who did you say got out of bed this morning? In sum we all are nothing more than energy/particles that either follow the path of least resistance or follow no real path at all.
=I'm referring to a magnification lense, not a prism.
>>>>Light is an oscillating electromagnetic energy that travels at 3.00 x 108 m/s in a vacuum. The absorption of light involves an encounter or collision between an absorbing molecule and a packet of light called a photon. In order for absorption to occur, the energy of the photon must match the energy of the molecule. If a magnification lens concentrates photon particle/waves then striking the magnification lens particles of the same energy which should actually diminish not concentrate this packet of energy.
=The absolute lacks all distinguishing features. Earlier you asked the question as to how I know I exist, now you state existence as an axiom.
>>>>The question to your knowledge of your own existence and my response was cogent in that to be aware of your existence you have to be able to prove perceived existence as a fact.
****If reality is truly nothing more than an illusion from the perspective of our ingenious construction of subatomic particles, then both our objective and subjective comprehension would neither be unconditional nor absolute.
=Agreed.
>>>>ditto
=Mortality is like being in a well lit room and looking out a dark window. All you see are reflections of what's inside. As the room darknens, you start to see shadows flitting by outside. then when you die, the glass breaks.
>>>>Your definition of mortality is a doozy. I also have a definition of mortality. Before your conception you existed, you exist now and you continue to exist following death. Remember my belief is that instead of life as a short interlude, our essence or free-will exists in a dimension of a timeless singularity with no beginning, no now and no ending. Only a short now in which we perceive realities of our individual place in our frame of time and space.
Free-will is a contradiction of terms. Will implies an extension of purpose, motivation, etc. Free implies lack of connection to prior motivation. "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." KK
****Not so.
=I'm simply pointing out that it's an oxymoron.
>>>>You are entitled to your point on free-will but I call it an insoluble paradox. The so-called laws of nature provide directions, but within that direction there is leeway, meanderings contingent upon the immediate environment, just as a river’s meanderings are contingent on the local terrain. Though occasionally it may leave its path an isolated bow lake, the flow eventually reaches the sea. These excursions in the flow of events might be seen as the vicissitudes inherent in an evolutionary process having within it a general direction. In the human’s vision of reality, these meanderings I call free-will.
Many persons have argued that physical determinism poses a threat to the existence of free will are, I believe, still operating with the remnants of the theory that laws of nature are akin to inviolable prescriptions. They have dropped the Prescriber (i.e. God) out of their view of natural laws, but they still persevere with the view that laws of nature 'act like' prescriptions. ... They take their truth from the way the world is. They don't 'force' the world to be any particular way at all.
=I agree with you. Order is a subjective construct. Without perspective, which is the definition of subjective, there is no standard to determine what is order and what is chaos. The problem is that once you have that standard(will), than you need to stick by it, or lose it. So if you have the freedom to choose any standard, than you have no standard.
>>>>So you say in your last sentence that “any freedom to choose any standard” automatically results in “no standard.” That statement is a true oxymoron. As the freedom to choose is a free-will to follow any meandering path to a final conclusion or standard. In all chaos there is a perceived cosmos, in that chaos is simple order from an unseen hand.
=Motion is relative, not absolute. Since any object is moving against relative context. Just as the Earth falls toward a dropped rock, proportionally, context moves toward the object. So, if you consider an objects motion as a dimension of time, than the context necessarily constitutes an opposing direction of time.
>>>>Motion is relative only to an observer. If a proton moves at the speed of time, is it an absolute relative to a context? If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one or life form to observe the event, did motion occur or did it not?