Gorgeous
22nd June 2008 - 10:00 PM
Making up our OWN words and phrases is what gets us all into contradictory states in the first place. Society, thus its languages, is another accumulating effect of the motions of Space, and so we must build on what has been established before hand, and also whatever becomes consequently understood as error can be rejected.
We communicate so that we can understand each other and our surroundings more efficiently. We therefore must endeavour to use terms that we all find agreeable.
As far as the understanding of how Reality 'operates' goes, I like the WSM because it has no contradictions with other forms of understanding, but just enhances that which Humans have already worked very hard for, collectively.
Also, virtually all of my posts are my own work, unless stated by the use of the author's name afterwards, so your request has already been met many times over, if only you would actually read some of it instead of just reacting against words you do not personally like.
You may need to re-read this thread several times in order to understand where this is all going. You seem to think it is just a game where people can invent whatever they like and pronounce it 'true'! Science exists to prove this kind of blind 'toying' wrong as much as to prove a theory 'right'.
But it all comes down to our individual understanding, and whether this is actually what we are trying to do, or whether we just like 'toying'.
I agree with the WSM statement that Truth is important to Humanity and our chances of further survival within it, but Humanity itself is only important to Humans; is the root of our 'selfishness'. So it is not just about how 'physical things' come into being. It is also about what they do once they are in existence. This is almost the whole 'gist' of the 'religion vs science' divide; the self-interest vs objective understanding, where people think they have to pick one 'side' or the 'other', but in reality, to know anything of worth, we must simply understand as many aspects as we possibly can, to gain a greater understanding. If we want to know Truth, we must BE Truthful.
Being against something does not allow us to understand it, and opposing 'infinity' is no exception. Understand first, and
then reject, if found to be in error. This is the true scientific method, the language of our age. So, calling something 'crackpot' before understanding it, is a gross misuse of the scientific method. You cannot just say something is 'wrong', but must explain
how it is wrong, then there is understanding, not just blind opposition.
The Shroedinger and de Broglie wave equations are established elements of our collective understanding, so it is appropriate to use these and build upon them, as
Milo Wolff has done.
Recently, I also posted this...
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A lot depends on how much importance we put on 'consciousness', or an aspect of Universal self-awareness, as it actually is. In order for existence to be the way we observe it to be, does it need to be 'self-aware'? ~ Or is this just something that occasionally happens...because it can?
I tend to favour the latter example because of many other factors. For instance, surely no 'part' of existence can have any more importance than another, if we understand that we cannot evolve a supporting organism for the brain/mind without all of the other 'ingredients' that go to make up the whole organism, and so each and every aspect is just as 'important' as the other, being that the whole would not exist without them.
In cosmological terms, 'gas' has at least as much importance as 'consciousness' because without the aspect we call 'gas', the organism that is 'us' would not be able to exist either.
Back to our One 'Infinite thing', which must be 'Space', as this is what we observe everywhere, and it is established that we are talking about 'energy'. All things have 'energetic properties', and what is more this energy is proven to be neither 'created' nor 'destroyed'. As far as 'electrons sensing each other', we can say that this happens in a very rudimentary way, simply by default of certain similar wave-frequencies being 'attracted' to each other, as a form of 'harmonic' motion. If we understand that 'all things are in reality One thing' (infinite), then this explains why there is such a phenomenon as 'harmony' at source. However, this is far from the 'consciousness' that we use to do our understanding with. 'Harmonic wave-frequencies' are acceptable science, and that is our language of choice because it is relevant to the times in which we are conducting our process of investigation... 'now'.
'Now', we have a plausible explanation for the initial intuition of what we superstitiously 'believe' to be an 'omnipotent creator' ~ but it is not some 'separate entity' egotistically masquerading as a male of the Human species, but is Space itself, inherent in all things, and thus 'everywhere, always in the process of creating new forms of itself ('omnipotently', constantly re~creating, in infinity)'.
So, what exists (and remember this is regardless of whatever 'name' we give it) must do so;
a.) Infinitely
b.) Energetically
c.) Interconnectedly
Is it possible for us to agree with this? Or, is there any valid reason why it is not true? We cannot move forward until we have established a 'base-camp' of fundamentally necessary truth, as we will end up back in the realm of subjectivity and more speculation, leading to our old friend the 'semantic issue' again...
If we can agree upon terms and their meanings, we have a platform to work from.
The 'bottom line' is that we are trying to advance our understanding of our surroundings, our 'environment', so that we may more efficiently co-exist within it, and thus the most plausible understanding is what we seek, but this act of 'understanding' is a task, a motion, performed by the individual, and what we struggle with is a terminology that allows us to find a comfortable balance between our personal views, and the way in which existence necessarily 'operates'.
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtop...ndpost&p=349639Perhaps you have something to contribute to it?
g.