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Reality is a Rainbow
Reality is a Rainbow
Is there a demarcation boundary between instinct and reason? Is there a demarcation boundary between anything between here and the Big Bang? Is demarcation boundary a part of nature or is it a necessity of human comprehension? Is category a fact of nature or is category a necessity of human comprehension? Is anything different in kind from anything else? Is everything different only in degree from everything else? I conclude that demarcation boundary is not an essential characteristic of nature but is an essential characteristic of human comprehension. Everything is a seamless flow from the Big Bang to now. Only in our mind do we have a difference in kind. I wrote the first two paragraphs of the OP several days ago and only 24 hours later did I fall off my horse. Lightening struck and I realized, finally, what I had written. This realization has led to a large number of connections for me. I was convinced of certain fragments of knowledge and only when I was knocked off my horse did I find these fragments became a synthesis that I shall have to realize by writing more essays. To recognize as true that reality is a rainbow allows me to comprehend the error of classical metaphysical realism, which is the foundation of Western society’s comprehension of reality. This may not be true for you but it is true for me. Reality is a rainbow but we humans perceive reality as a myriad of containers! We perceive reality as containers because our “gut” tells us so and because classical metaphysics tells us so. Reality without demarcation boundaries means that everything is a seamless reality from everything else. It means that everything is not a kind of thing with its own necessary and sufficient nature but that all reality runs together and it is only in our minds that these containers exist. |
Re: Reality is a Rainbow
Would you care to explain what you have written?
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Re: Reality is a Rainbow
This is one of those times where fancy language ends up confusing the article rather than enhancing it. A lot of metaphors and words that distract you from the main points.
Admittingly, very good metaphors, but you should probably back them up or preceed them with things that are going to explain it, because the points made are going to go right over almost everyones head XD Summary: paragraph 1- He's talking about limits or boundaries within the mind and space-time, and wether they are real or something we place upon the universe in an attempt to comprehend it. He starts to hint at the idea that the human mind is incorrect in assuming things are different from one another. 2- he's saying the universe doesn't need a limit or any boundaries, but that our minds require it because the mind is limited. 3- he's saying he figured something out. 4- he figured out reality is a rainbow. 5- he's comparing the universe to an endless flowing spectrum where everything is essentially a different manifestation of something else, but that we as humans like to classify things and break the universe up into parts and things that we can take and understand as seperate entities. 'Myraid of containers' refers to mans idea of taking things in the universe and seperating them as something different than something else. So a 'limitless' reality has to be one where everything is one and that the human mind is responsible for breaking things into categories. That's what I got out of it. I would disagree with some points, but in a general sense I agree. I like to think of the universe as a sort of giant manifestation of energy, so I wouldn't classify life or the mind as anything different. I think life is just an increasingly animate form of energy, so to speak, as the universe for whatever reason feels the need to exploit various levels of possibilities contained within it. |
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You do that very well. It is clear concise and accurate. The only quibble I might make is that you say “but that we as humans like to classify things and break the universe up into parts and things that we can take and understand as separate entities.” But I would say that humans are not classifying as we do because we like to, but because that is how we have evolved. We have to do what we do because our ancestors left us with that legacy in our genes. |
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Western philosophy emerged in the sixth century BC along the Ionian coast. A small group of scientist-philosophers began writing about their attempts to develop “rational” accounts regarding human experience. These early Pre-Socratic thinkers thought that they were dealing with fundamental elements of nature.
It is natural for humans to seek knowledge. In the “Metaphysics” Aristotle wrote “All men by nature desire to know”. The attempt to seek knowledge presupposes that the world unfolds in a systematic pattern and that we can gain knowledge of that unfolding. Cognitive science identifies several ideas that seem to come naturally to us and labels such ideas as “Folk Theories”. The Folk Theory of the Intelligibility of the World The world makes systematic sense, and we can gain knowledge of it. The Folk Theory of General Kinds Every particular thing is a kind of thing. The Folk Theory of Essences Every entity has an “essence” or “nature,” that is, a collection of properties that makes it the kind of thing it is and that is the causal source of its natural behavior. The consequences of the two theories of kinds and essences is: The Foundational Assumption of Metaphysics Kinds exist and are defined by essences. We may not want our friends to know this fact but we are all metaphysicians. We, in fact, assume that things have a nature thereby we are led by the metaphysical impulse to seek knowledge at various levels of reality. Cognitive science has uncovered these ideas they have labeled as Folk Theories. Such theories when compared to sophisticated philosophical theories are like comparing mountain music with classical music. Such theories seem to come naturally to human consciousness. The information comes primarily from “Philosophy in the Flesh” and http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/302/folkmeta.htm |
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