As cultural humans, we
are familiar with the efficacy of reductionism. To explain things in
terms of simpler things requires the cautionary noticing of the end
of the explanation. To continue to nothing, and then beyond to minus
nothings, is beyond parody. The less said about nothing, the more correct.
Having looked, but
never found, life, yet registered this =false, many further
quests have been embarked upon, one direction towards
the absent consciousness, the other towards the absent nothing. The quest was
born with the concept of the origin of the universe, and has remained
co-extant with that carelessly inherited faux-paradox, that taunts
cosmogonists in their position as frustrated theologians. It is
written =true in the mentalese, for the utility of perceived
causality. But we are not using perception for our enquiry, since
that would be circular folly. Let us leave the creationists, with
their workings out unread, as conclusions vary with their premises.
To show the universe is
not mechanistic, some have proffered other mechanisms. And some,
peering too close, have described illogical things, whilst marvelling at
how logic pervades the universe, and it's twin, mathematics,
successfully describes it.
Let us leave the invalid
measurers of spacetime, the infinite regress of instruments, and
the false separation between instrument and observer – himself,
after all, another instrument. The external calibrant required to end
the infinite regress is unavailable, outside of spacetime. nowhere,
never.
Yet the quest persists
as it is written =true, in the mentalese. Of course, I just lied. In
some it is =absent, in some =halftrue, still others =twice true. How
easily we forget there are others amongst us. Let us not delay with
musings on the adaptative possibilities of believing alive=true. For
causal explanation of a phenomenon is not required to show that it is
false.
Our quest to find life
has so far yielded only absence of evidence. Let us now show evidence
of absence, lest our enquiry need be widened somewhat to infinity. We
shall begin with logic, which we have yet to prove false. Now, we may bypass perception. Now, we are
free to dismantle ourselves. We shall demonstrate, to our
satisfaction, the falsity of all the macro components of self, all
the aspects that constitute person. We shall perceive this all, since
we have the time, later.
The thoughts of atoms
we may leave to the schizophrenic, the charlatan, the imbecile.
Thus spoke
Bendithustra.
REM:- Must get syphilis.
Mutating germ (9)
ReplyDeleteThe coding impact of syphilis on the genetic infrastructure of present generations may be traced back. A complex thing is a combination of more simple things. Thus a Man may be seen to be a collection of germs that found ways to group and specialise. We should expect to see the simplest lifeforms continue to combine/provide addition to create future complexities and adaptations to the more complex genotype. In this way, geographic isolation is not necessary to create grouped mutations even to speciation and sudden changes become more transparent with a consideration of immunology.