The 'Mad' Scientist
"The great sleep is life, and in death we finally awake." - Yidhna
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Thursday, February 21, 2019
A search for truth is a search for eternity
or that which is independent of our conscious experience.
A physicist, or a mathematician tends to deviate first towards defining the origin of time.
First, questioned by St. Augustine, it is established in temporal consciousness that the measurement of time is only meaningful or existent to the impermanent, i.e. our consciousness. Without us, the observers, it is only the constant present.
And if time is non-absolute, non-linear, and only restricted to our conscious navigation through what has already happened, or never ceased to be.
That is likely to give in to fatalism, and the rejection for the false illusion of working towards a material award that is not only meaningless beyond our impermanent conscious experience, but also something that regardless of recognition, what has happened, solved, and gave meaning to is the end in itself. Meaningless for redundant and needless acknowledgement for that which is beyond not only our creation, control, but even our full understanding.
The madness of it comes from the horror of the likely possiblity of the complete end of consciousness, rendering not only material life but all life meaningless, and thus forcing the wiser of us to abandon all material or even just impermanent pleasures to search for the truth that evades consciousness and the human condition.
As Einstein stated:
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case.
If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility or the meaning of such a comparison.But he certainly believes that, as his knowledge increases, his picture of reality will become simpler and simpler and will explain a wider and wider range of his sensuous impressions. He may also believe in the existence of the ideal limit of knowledge and that it is approached by the human mind. He may call this ideal limit the objective truth."
[The Evolution of Physics (1938) (co-written with Leopold Infeld)"]
The optimism comes from the sweet possibility, of the dream of life, the human condition being a temperary amnesia of an unfathomable eternal mind.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
A search for truth is a search for eternity
or that which is independent of our conscious experience.
A physicist, or a mathematician tends to deviate first towards defining the origin of time.
First, questioned by St. Augustine, it is established in temporal consciousness that the measurement of time is only meaningful or existent to the impermanent, i.e. our consciousness. Without us, the observers, it is only the constant present.
And if time is non-absolute, non-linear, and only restricted to our conscious navigation through what has already happened, or never ceased to be.
That is likely to give in to fatalism, and the rejection for the false illusion of working towards a material award that is not only meaningless beyond our impermanent conscious experience, but also something that regardless of recognition, what has happened, solved, and gave meaning to is the end in itself. Meaningless for redundant and needless acknowledgement for that which is beyond not only our creation, control, but even our full understanding.
The madness of it comes from the horror of the likely possiblity of the complete end of consciousness, rendering not only material life but all life meaningless, and thus forcing the wiser of us to abandon all material or even just impermanent pleasures to search for the truth that evades consciousness and the human condition.
As Einstein stated:
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case.
If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility or the meaning of such a comparison.But he certainly believes that, as his knowledge increases, his picture of reality will become simpler and simpler and will explain a wider and wider range of his sensuous impressions. He may also believe in the existence of the ideal limit of knowledge and that it is approached by the human mind. He may call this ideal limit the objective truth."
[The Evolution of Physics (1938) (co-written with Leopold Infeld)"]
The optimism comes from the sweet possibility, of the dream of life, the human condition being a temperary amnesia of an unfathomable eternal mind.
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