pman35,
This is fantastic. What a lot of work!
Now is this supposed to replace or suplement the Archives I, II & III that are listed on the forum page, here?
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My point from yesterday is that atoms gain their objectivity only in a contextual/relational manner.
Keeping in mind that context necessarily has a strongly subjective component, by just that amount are atoms non-objective.
Does this mean that Earth atoms are more real than Moon atoms, for instance? I would have to say, yes, even though this difference would not be objectifiable. Moon atoms obtain their reality indirectly, by propinquity. Theirs is a borrowed existence.
In a relational world, all existence is borrowed. How do we know that the world is relational? Well, if it weren't, then how could we know it to exist?
The mere possibility of UT's is perhaps the strongest argument for the SWH/BPWH. But how then do we explain the unreasonable effectiveness of astronomy (UEA)? Mainly by appealing to the UEM (mathematics).
Practically speaking, the Earth could have done fine, with just the Sun. So why the rest of it? Or is it how?
Is nuclear fusion in the Sun any less real than nuclear fusion on the Earth? Well, it is rather more generic, I would say.
Consider pond scum on the planet of a distant star. We might even be able to pick up the oxygen spectrum in a telescope. Where is the non-objectivity?
Here's the deal...... The pond scum does not know where it is. Do we? Are we not also lost in space and time? Blind leading the blind?
Well, of course, the materialists assure us that we are lost souls! How can I disprove them? Only by inference. There is no smoking ontology gun. Even God could not disprove materialism, when you come right down to it. The proof of contextuality lies, necessarily, in the circumstantials, of which there are an infinity.
Well, ok, the closest thing to a smoking gun might be a UT. Given any UT, ET's are rendered redundant. W/o ET's the rest of the universe is relationally redundant.
Redundancy has everything to do with intentionality. If intentionality is real then relationality is real. If intentionality is false, then materialism is true.
Many folks, over many centuries have attempted to straddle the line between materialism and immaterialism. But it all comes down to the logical point that a world cannot be partly relational. It would be like being half-pregnant. If vitalism gets its foot in the ontological door, it will take over the whole neighborhood. Like pond scum? Well, that is not entirely unanalogous.
If you and I can harbor even a single intention, then case closed. Mind over matter. Deep down, the materialists understand this fact of life better than do we, and that explains their posture of bitter-endedness. They can afford to take no prisoners.
Over all the protestations of science, I know that I exist, now, and in some non-trivial manner. If anyone knows that much, then they also know that science is overdue for its Waterloo, its MoAPS.
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Now, it's only a question of timing.......
When is the best possible time for Disclosure/Revelation/MoAPS?
Right, now, the only thing between us and the 4M/K/SoT/X2 is fracking. But what about Thorium? Will Th232 not allow us to muddle through for another thousand years?
That is possible. But there would be a great deal more suffering in the process of making that transition, without divine intervention. This mere fact suggests to me a strong case for the minimalist intervention suggested by the BPWH.
But this scenario is predicated on the eventual rapture event, which is, quite admittedly, non-minimal!
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According to Wiki, I have misused intentionality, by taking it to refer to intentions. But, in philosophical parlance, intentionality is the 'peculiar property of minds to be about something'. I do prefer this wider scope of the term, as in..... I'm thinking about you.
Even the strong AI folks may concede that no physical state can refer to another physcial state. It may do so only only via some mental state. If I recognize a picture of grandma, I am the agent. But suppose I program my computer to recognize such photos, as is commonly done, nowadays..... How need that differ from my state of recognition? There is no direct proof that it does. But I submit that the circumstantial evidence ought to be overwhelming.
Machine recognition is a step-by-step process. There is no 'aha' step. There is no gestalt, there, just a bunch of logical either/or steps. Each step could be perfectly performed by a zombie. The only question would be why anyone would suppose otherwise, other than as a point of professional pride.
Professional pride is a powerful force. Just ask any scientist. The MoAPS will simply be the overcoming of that force. It will be a quantum leap.
Only an existential crisis will offer sufficient motivation, but at what point does a problem become a crisis? When does denial stop? Can we recognize a problem without recognizing a solution? It is much more difficult, in this latter situation.
But, wait, I did make an earlier statement relating redundancy to intentionality. I had something in mind that is now gone.......
Hmmm........ This might have to with whether intentions can be cloned, or whether persons can be cloned. Suppose we attach no-cloning to the II? There can only be one creator and one creation. No?
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The above point may go back to the pond scum.......
Cyanobacteria are, indeed, lost in space and time, and there is no self-imposed differentiation. There can only exist one such, and, yet, all life is derived therefrom, so there can only be one such origin. But the same could be said of planets, and there does seem to be a plurality thereof.
But here is the point...... the plurality of anything is only an artifact of mind, which, in my quasi-scientific scenario, can have only have a singular origin, biologically/ontologically.
We could apply the same logic to Adam&Eve. No? Or to the birth of intentionality. Do dogs have intentions? Possibly not, not w/o a robust self-reference.
I'm looking at creation ex potentia. There can only be one potential intention, which is ramified through creation, but only via agency. There cannot be intentional compartments within a regime of pure potency.
Hey, I admit that this line of thought is more than a bit abstruse, and the logic of it is fuzzy at best, but this is what we get when intentionality gets its foot in the door of ontology. Sorry 'bout that!
This then is the question I pose to philosophers...... does ontology make a lick of sense w/o epistemology? How could we suppose them to be independent fields, w/o begging the question of materialism?
Does not the observer problem of qm point to the same issue? Where does the ontological buck stop, if not with Wigner's friend? I just need to make plausible the logical necessity of qm, but isn't that virtually a given?
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Once epitemology gets its foot in the door, the sky will fall.
The ET story makes sense only from a Darwinian perspective. If there is the slightest bit ot teleology, it makes no sense. I spent five years trying to make sense of convergent evolution. It doesn't compute. Can I prove this?
Well, if the tail wags the dog, there can only be one dog. If there are two dogs, they cannot both chase the same tail. That would a most awkward redundancy. Intentionality cannot be compartmented. It cannot be circumscribed, without rendering it a mere artifice. Intentionality is necessarily transcendental. If I can think about one thing, I can think about everything. Nothing can exist that is not a microcosm. There must then be a cosmic self. Such a self, however, must be an end in itself. There can be none other. Whatever it might create must be self-complete, complementing its creator, in that fashion.
Hey, this is only a restatement of the ontological argument of self-sufficiency. It is the only logical resolution of the observer problem...... the buck stops nowhere short of eternity.
Does omnipotence follow from omniscience? Well, in an immaterial world, to be conceived is to be. The totality must be harmonious. It cannot contain self-contradictions. Everything in its place. All being must exemplify eternity, including, especially, mortal beings, exemplifying the circle of life.
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