Metaphysics (With Subject Predicate)

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PART 1: QUOTES

Quote:

"To arrive at the truth once in your life you have to rid yourself of all the

opinions that you have received and reconstruct anew from the foundation,all the systems of your knowledge." -- René Descartes

Quote:

"We are secondhand people. We have lived on what we have been told,

either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by

circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences

and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for

ourselves, nothing original, pristine, clear." -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Quote:

"There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws. There is only the

way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the

appearance." -- Albert Einstein

Quote:

"We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have

existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the

future." -- Max Planck

Quote:

"As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science,

to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms

this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only

by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and

holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume

behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind

is the matrix of all matter." -- Max Planck (founder of Quantum Mechanics)

Quote:"Reality is the tip of an iceberg of irrationality which we clamber onto for a

few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal." --

Terence McKenna

Quote:

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my World." -- Ludwig

Wittgenstein



"The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three-

dimensional and not in space or time. We hypostatize information into

objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the

information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have

lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language, changes inus are changes in the content of the information."

PART 2: SCIENCE IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF THE ANSWER

Science is and always has been a philosophy (see Scientism), infact it was

first called "Natural Philosophy". The problem of science is its need to find

problems to be solved, but in this respect science is chasing it's tail and

wherever it looks it will always find problems. The place it rarely (if ever)

looks at is not out there, but within it's own epistemological and ontological

foundations. Science is stuck within tautology.

This is a Einstein quote:

problems cannot be solved by the same level of consciousness that created

them".

"Randomness" is a label given to something beyond the complexity of

current scientific understanding. "Random" is really pseudo-random, it is a

black box. Within science is the existenece of hidden variables which evade

science, the discovery of a new anomaly will often require theories to be

revised. Chaos theory for example suggests that the universe does not abide

by any strict laws of physics at all, the so-called "laws of physics" operate

within certain boundaries and conditions.

The unfortunate thing is that the realisation of the "unreality of reality" has

not reached the minds of the masses and has generally been parried around

by the sciences. The institutionalization of our collective mindscape has

suffered somewhat of a cognitive dissonace by the implication of quantummechanics.

PART 3: PHYSICS AND DIGITALITY

Digital physics sees everything as information, it provides a different way of

describing what is happening at the quantum level. Seeing as the universe



appears to be composed of elementary particles whose behaviour can be

completely described by the quantum switches they undergo that implies

that the universe as a whole can be described by bits. Every state is

information and every change of state is a change in information. From this it

can be said that the history of the universe is in effect a huge and ongoing

quantum computation, the universe is a quantum computer.

To get an idea of physics as a software program imagine three atoms, two

hydrogen and one oxygen. As the three atoms bind together to form a wa ter

molecule the interaction of the particles calculate the optimal angle and

distance at which to bond to each other. The oxygen atom uses yes/no

decisions to evaluate all possible approaches toward the hydrogen atom. It

them typically selects the optimal 104.45 degrees by moving toward the

other hydrogen at that angle. Every chemical bond is therefore calculated.

Digital Physics tells us that all information is processed at the boundary of

the system. For those who are familiar with the cellular biologist Bruce Lipton

and his work on epigenetics you may see a correlation here. Lipton tells us

that the cell membrane is the "brain" of a cell. As Above, So Below? Could

what we know as our universe really just be the endoplasm of a holographic

amoeba?

Any object we might conceive of is really an abstraction or collection of other

objects, for example a car is made up of parts and those parts are made up

of smaller parts etc. The car as an abstract entity is a storage medium of

information, within its semiotic space the "language" can be thought of as

how the different parts communicate their relativity to each other.

PART 4 : LANGUAGE RULES EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD

The destructive potential of language is contained within the very nature of

representation. Words, particularly nouns, force an infinity of unique objectsand processes into a finite number of categories. Words deny the uniqueness

of each moment and each experience, reducing it to a "this" or a "that". They

grant us the power to manipulate and control (with logic) the things they

refer to.

Language by its very nature reaffirms duality because each word is a signifier

representing a signified. If a signifier exists without pointing to a signified



then it is regarded as meaningless. We tend to think there is a class of things

which are symbols and a class of things which are not but there is not a clear

distinction between a signifer and a signified. A signified may itself be a

signifier pointing to another signified and the physical object to w hich that

idea referes is merely another symbol.

PART 5: PERCEPTION OF REALITY

External "reality" is an illusion, an artifact of our "consciousness". We are in a

very real sense encased within a bubble, a cocoon, our nervous system is a

buffer into the void of ultimate mystery, even science has it's limits in what it

can explain phenomenologically. This is something which a lot of people take

for granted. For all I know, maybe I am the only thing that exists as I have

no way of proving that anything exists outside of my imagination. Ofcourse

"we" are all in this paradoxical situation and "we" will all claim to be equally

"real". Solipsism cannot be proven or disproven.

The "problem" in tackling the nature of reality is that it is not something that

most people spend a great deal of time gnawing away at and most people

seem to lack critical thinking ability. It is far easier to just accept the

consensus definition of reality (a lie told often enough becomes the truth).

Paradoxically however, the more we hope to tie things down once and for all,

to explain things and "factualise" or "solidify" our reality, the more is

shimmers and recasts itself to fit whatever beliefs we project into it and

consequently we end up chasing our tails ad infinitum. Truth is a pathless

path and it cannot be named or handed to you on a plate, it is something

beheld in the moment of epiphany. The knowledge or realization of

something of a higher magnitude is useless unless you are able to actualize it

(to live, breathe and communicate it without it becoming dogmatic). It

comes as a great frustration to be silenced by the ineffability of mystical

experiences.

By the time we are holding the biggest picture idea of reality in our heads,

we are outside the system in the domain of indeterminacy, that is where all

potential expressions of reality reside, because that is where the informationthat could potentially represent all possible realities also resides. Whilst I

may not be able to fully articulate what I mean to myself or through myself

in these ramblings, I know that there are other people out there who can see

a bigger picture, who can join the dots and pass the baton to wherever it

needs to go.

We ultimately come to the realisation that all perceptions and knowledge,



Art imitates life, just as life imitates art. Making art is a process in which the

artist is continually articulating, refining, and creating an ever -evolving form

of symbolic language. In being a conduit for the formation of a new

language, the artist is shedding light on and participating in the creation of

language itself. How language gets created invariably leads us right back to

the psyche, which is simultaneously the subject and the object of the newlanguage.

our brains are all about finding and decoding patterns, we are designed to

think symbolically. Consider then that as children we have been taught what

symbols to use to construct our model of the World. Words are also symbols.

When we think about things we are really thinking about the construction

and interaction of various symbols, it is a code. Perhaps you can begin to

appreciate how powerful language can really be.

CONTINUES

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PART 8: WORDS HAVE THEIR OWN POWER AND INFLUENCE

Words do more damage than things to most people in our culture because they alter

our perception of the thing they are associated with. Distorted words create a

distorted reality.

As further cause for concern, there are studies indicate that the vocabulary of the

typical teenager has dramatically dropped in recent times. It can be speculated that

the influences of television, computer games, and other entertainment media are

largely responsible and have atrophied language skills. An article from the

July/August 2000 edition of Utne Reader tells how the ty pical American teenager of

the 50's had a vocabulary of 25,000 words, the teenager of 10 years ago had a

vocabulary of 10,000 words. A more recent article from the Mail Online claims that

some teenagers have a vocabulary of barely 1,000 words (that's pre -school level!).

A limited vocabulary literally limits the "resolution" of our symbolic thinking

capacity.



Interestingly studies by David Oates almost insists that all speech contains

meaningful reversals, apparently the subconscious can communicate in th is way. A

statement such as "I left work and went to go shopping" might contain a

complimentary reversal message such as "loaf of bread". In first learning how to

speak we generate reversed speech in the right hemisphere. The brain therefore isable and does to process language and speech in both forward and reverse.

Mass media is the most powerful tool used by the ruling class to manipulate the

masses. TV has been shown for example to impact the sensory development of

children, increase agggression and hostility, slow intellectual development and

impair social skills. Furthermore consider that for very young children everything

they see is perceived as real and by the time thet reach their mid -teens they will

have seen an estimated 33,000 murders.

is however not just the content of the media, but the media itself that is being usedto subvert peoples' will. TV for example has a refresh rate which lulls people into

alpha brainwave which is indicative of an unfocused, receptive state. The people who

have given us all these "wonderful" new technologies know how the human mind

works and how to modulate and manipulate us to their whim. Our brains naturally

try to entrain to the predominant background frequency. If we weren't living in such

dense elecrtomagnetic smog, that frequency would be the Schumann resonance,

which can be thought of as the "pacemaker" of the Earth.

Quote:

"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making

people love their servitude, and producing dictator ship without tears, so to speak,producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people

will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it,

because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or

brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this

seems to be the final revolution."

PART 9: LANGUAGE HAS LIMITS TOO

all philosophy must be done using language, and no thoughts can be written down

(or spoken) without unconscious metaphysical assumptions about reality built into

them. As one philosopher put it (Alan Watts), ³Language based on the sentencecomposed of subject, verb, and predicate contains the hidden belief system that

events are started by nouns²by things.´ If we look unassumingly at the natural

world, its interconnected nature is hard to miss. Nowhere in nature do we find the

separate categories of the sentence; all in nature goes together. Our unconscious

assumptions contaminate pure reality, m aking it impossible for the philosopher to

see past the self-invented syntax of his mind. Only poets retain the ability to feel

with their language, creating imagery that displays a truth all at once before the



mind¶s eye. In contrast, for a philosophical treatise to be taken seriously, it must

adhere to the strict rules of logic and exhibit a rational structure. Its truths must

therefore become linear and flat, losing the extra dimensions present in more

musical, directly apprehended presentations. When su ch treatises concern the

nature of reality, and therefore, of Truth, how is it that they deduce that reality itself

is rational? On what is such an assertion based? We must save this question forlater, saying only that it originates from a misunderstandin g of the nature of Truth.

For now we will maintain that it is impossible to make such an assertion, as reality

itself is neither rational nor irrational, but arational. That is, reality itself is

unconcerned with the categories of the human mind, being nei ther ordered nor

chaotic, but both at the same time.

we must define Truth. A range of definitions are possible, but for our purposes,

Truth shall be synonymous with reality as it actually is. Reality as it actually is, in

this case, means reality before words and concepts break it up into more

understandable bits and pieces. Truth then, is not something that can be

communicated or described in its entirety in any way. Descriptions that point theway toward Truth may be called knowledge, but ultimately, th ey are relative. In

other words, knowledge is always provisional: its validity is dependent upon certain

preconditions remaining constant. Its conditional nature is exemplified by the

progress of science, as new paradigms replace the old and our knowledge adapts to

fresh observations.

PART 10: ARE WE REALLY AS PROGRESSED AS WE CLAIM?

The fresh observations made by physicists in the past century of the smallest bits of

matter yet discovered are still struggling to find their proper context in a coherent

universal theory of the physical world. In fact, to call the observed phenomena ³thesmallest bits´ of matter may be misleading, as it would be just as correct to refer to

them as waves, or patterns of probability spread throughout space and time. But the

true physical make-up of the world is not our problem at the moment. Our problem,

and the problem of most of the greatest physicists of the past hundred years,

concerns the impossibility of ever knowing the true physical make -up of the world.

The so-called ³physical´ nature of the world is not a verifiable aspect of reality.

Physicality is merely one of the silently agreed upon assumptions made about the

structure of reality that allows us to communicate meaningfully about it. Meaning, in

this sense, is nothing more than correspondence. Meaning allows one aspect of the

world to correspond to another using various types of representation. Nouns are

used to represent especially pronounced or rigid aspects of our environment, whileverbs are used to represent the more fluid and rhythmic aspects. But at their

constituent level, ³All the words or concepts we use to describe ordinary physical

objects, such as position, velocity, color, size, and so on, become indefinite and

problematic,´ as Physicist Werner Heisenberg has said.

The actual problem was that the physical world, with its supposed separate events



and individual objects, was nothing more than a way of speaking. Author Eddington

put it wonderfully: ³We have found that where science has progressed the fa rthest,

the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into nature. We

have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised

profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have

succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And Lo! it is ourown.´ This suggests that human descriptions of the world, down even to the most

detailed and abstract of mathematical equations, are not aspects of the world itself,

but are superimposed upon it by the linguistically trained mind.

as Schrödinger explains, ³We do not belong to this material world that science

constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.´

perception alone´ is the only real quality that can be assigned to reality, although it

hardly suggests any specific qualities at all. We all intuitively feel this perception at

the deepest level of our experience all the time. It reveals what there is. It is our

current experience, our body¶s tota l sensory awareness of our environment as itexists in its entirety before the names and descriptions we then unknowingly

superimpose upon it become our only way of thinking about it to describe it to

others.

³It would prove nothing if nature had merely been found to act in accordance with

the concepts of applied mathematics; these concepts were specially and deliberately

designed by man to fit the workings of nature.´

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