1410z........
When it comes to atoms and stars, chick is mildly skeptical 🤨.
We are able to make remarkably consistent statements and predictions about both.
Technologies based on atomic physics are the cornerstone of contemporary life.
There is a great deal of overlap between atomic physics and astronomy...... offering much mutual support.
This is all well and good
, but........
Science has virtually nothing to say about us...... aside from the fact that we exist.
Yes, we are the chroniclers of the Cosmos....... but so what...... so nothing, says science.
Something is not quite computing.
Who brought who into existence?
We the World, or the World....us?
And what exactly is the ontological status of an unobserved world?
Who selected whom? Did the world select us, or did we select the world?
The chances of a (multi-cellular) life bearing universe coming into existence at random are about one in 10^500.
The chance of your being killed by lightning
are about one in 10^4.
There are 10^14 grains of sand in Miami Beach
.
If the Earth were composed of sand, it would contain, very roughly, (10^(4+3+3+1))^3 ~= 10^33 grains.
There are about 10^80 atoms in the visible universe.
From the scientific perspective there are 10^500 unobservable universes for every one that is observable.
Yet, as John Wheeler has stated....... there are no unobservable phenomena....... this just according to the Quantum observer problem.
Somebody is pulling somebody’s leg.
1810..........
Someone is cooking the books.
In retrospect, it’s usually not difficult to distinguish dream from reality.
In prospect, it’s a different matter.
I’m just saying that, when it comes to our 10^10 collective conscious and unconsciousnesses, it wouldn’t take a whole lot of synergy to create atom bombs and Mt Everest.
And who is to say that we are not the I Am having a multiple personality illusion.
If I were a gambling person, I would not discount the latter possibility.
I mean, anything is likely to be much more probable than one in 10^500.
Most of us are not accustomed to gambling with our ontologies.
But all you have to do is understand that objectivity is only ever a relative fact....... relative to what, is hard to say.
I’m just waiting for the first wing-suiter to take the leap off of Everest. That may help to put things in a little better perspective for us.
Solving the Riemann problem would be a much greater feat than climbing Everest. Where is the objectivity there?
Who is to say how many more surprises science and technology have in store for us?
If we can fly a wing suit off of Everest, might our next challenge not be Monad-nock or bust?
All in a days work.
With the global increase in psychedelic tripping, I suspect that we are already well on the way to the summit........ just ask Chivo.
It could be that Chivo has already made it to the summit. BFD
, he would be the first to say.
Well, how about...... one small step for a person?
It is very hard to imagine that psychedelics will not play an essential role in the opening of the portals.
Or that the opening of the portals will not be the closing chapter of our Metanarrative....... of our Errand into the Wilderness.
Who are we...... from whence do we come, and whither do we go?
Just maybe, we’re about to find out.
Whatever we find out, I guarantee that it will be a package
deal..... that it will all then make sense.
I guarantee that life is not just going to make a little bit of sense.
It’s gonna be an all or nothing deal.
2000........
So how would mental synergy work?
The more apt question is...... how does it appear to not be working?
However, it is easy to suppose that each of our egos are perfectly private..... even hermetically sealed.
It is very seldom that any of us experience a clear case of mental telepathy.
Were it any different, our mental radio
would be noisy indeed...... we would inhabit a world of boom boxes.
However, it is very natural for us to suppose that our sensory qualia are widely shared...... although they may be entirely subjective. We have no scientific proof to the contrary.
The fact that we are social animals, and able to communicate our thoughts, often with reasonable success, indicates a common ground for our minds.
Isn’t the objectivity of the world our principal common ground?
Qualitative is often contrasted with quantitative...... the one subjective and the other objective.
Science doesn’t deal with color, but with wavelengths of light.
2230............
As an immaterialist, I don’t believe in material objects...... be they atoms or stars.
What about numbers?
Are they Platonic objects? Many mathematicians hold this view.
Surprisingly little has been written on the phenomenology of mathematics.
However, one topic stands out....... what is it that constitutes a mathematical proof?
I don’t think that any mathematician has claimed that the criteria of what constitutes a proof can be objectified.
There has always been a strongly consensual aspect of mathematical proof.
But, still, aren’t there mathematical objects?
Well, ok, take infinity........ is it an object or not?
It is a conceptual tool that is useful in many mathematical endeavors.
Amongst constructivists, its use is suspect, if not illegitimate.
One of the most important results in mathematics concerns its incompleteness.
The incompleteness theorem depends essentially on the meaning of a constructed verbal statement.
Husserl generalized this to the notion of mathematical intuition, taking us beyond any purely logical form of reasoning.
Think of Ramanujan.
(cont........)
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