RE: Square-circles Vs. God
March 17, 2015 at 10:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2015 at 10:57 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
(March 17, 2015 at 9:47 pm)Nestor Wrote: It's hard to fathom why "god" should be bound to the laws of logic just as it is to conceive that the Universe truly operates on principles that our brains in one insignificant corner of an ordinary galaxy evolved to mimic. After all, logic is only an operating system of sorts by which the content of our senses becomes eligible for intelligibility after bring disseminated into names and definitions. There's probably a lot of phenomena that remains hidden in the translating process that begins when an object becomes an image in the senses and is then apprehended in dialectic. What could be more counter to logic than the notion that space-time began from a Singularity with a burst of perpetually revolving forces that take shapes which then contemplate their existence?
Very good. That reminds me of "The Most Astounding Fact" by my boy Neil. For the longest time, I've felt that our nature to identify patterns is what makes us inherently vulnerable to prescribing purpose in otherwise purposeless things. If a spec of dust gained consciousness within the bagless tank of my vacuum, it's wildest postulations could not begin to capture the reality that lies beyond it's realm. It would be bound by it's nature, and forever trapped in an inanimate tank for as long as my actions did not result in its freedom. Even if that spec were capable of concluding that I determined it's purpose, the answer it arrived at could only explain why I saw fit to place it in the tank. It would remain clueless about why it exists at all. And before it could even hope to know the answer to that question; that spec of dust would need to know that it is but a long since dead cell that was once apart of me. And if so inclined, that cell might wonder about my purpose and my origins. For all our efforts, we find ourselves asking the same questions that the cell might ask, and we are unable to find any prescribed answer. We are to the universe as the cell is to us. I don't think there is any answers regarding cosmic purpose, and I've decided that it doesn't matter. The purpose to our existence is revealed to us individually through our experience of existence. Searching for anything else is akin to contemplating the purpose of dust that can be sucked into a vacuum.
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