Monday, November 19, 2007
This time it was time
Aristotle, the last great thinker of antiquity. Perhaps the last great thinker. He proposed, through his cosmological model, that beyond our, corruptible, consistently changing universe resided a an entity that was unchanging. An aether of existential, incorruptible material that made possible the existence of our Universe. It, in it's essence, is the provider of the chaotic material exchange which we perceive and inhabit, by being a stable, unaltered form. In other words, Aristotle is asserting that, in likewise fashion of a substance not being capable of existing in a singular form, the Universe in general, at least that portion in which we perceive, must have another portion that is inherantly it's opposite, giving it function by relationship. As does anything in existence need its counterpart to give it purpose (or in humanity's case, purpose through perception), so does existence itself need nonexistence to perpetuate. He called this being, or more conceptually, outer layer of the cosmic schema, the Unmoved Mover. This is interesting because, not only is this theory distinctly separated from the 'God Theory' -fucking richard dawkins, neo-darwinist pig scoundrel-, but it is also highly anticipatory to the much later discovery of anti-matter particles. So to review, Antiquity was a time of philosophy. This is before Jesus Christ. And before technology, and before true empirical science. Aristotle in fact, was the pioneer of empirical science and therefore, after him there was only a diffusion of great thought. So, in computing all of this we find that science is moving closer and closer to realizing, through the empirical process, that the world is built up around the philosophy that is presented to us through its mysticism.. That all of the components of the Great Conversation are all leading up to one point. Religion, Philosophy, Art, Science, any human pursuit that involves extracting empirical data from perceived reality, you will find, is all extracting the same reality and is therefore, at it's most basic form, only re-describing the same thing in different ways. Go Godzillaas!
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INFINITY! Yay.
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