constrict0r"Nothing is perfect, everything is approximated" #philosohy #math
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Starting to read philosophy again with Hegel might have been a little bit too ambitious on my part. Interesting dude in an interesting time, but hard to read
em | שמחהMatts then continues with a quote from Dov Baer:
If the material world were constantly attached to the Creator without any forgetting, the creatures' existence would be nullified, [since] they would be attached to the root, to ayin. Thus they would do nothing, considering themselves to be ayin. So there had to be a breaking [of the vessels], which brought about forgetting the root. Everyone could then lift his hand and act. Afterwards, through Torah and prayer, they attach themselves to the root, to ayin... and thereby raise the sparks of the material world,... bringing pleasure to God.
Especially this last quote addresses two major issues that both sound like the same question, "why are we here?"
'Why are we here?' as in, if God is One, how can "we" perceive ourselves as separate. and
'Why are we here?' as in why would the infinite manifest itself in a physical world, why even do a creation?
#jewish #monism #pantheism #panentheism
#mazeldon #kabbalah #philosohy
Occasionally I'll mention jewish monism, pantheism, or panentheism... and reading Essential Papers on Kabbalah with my rabbi has thoroughly confirmed that all my reads on this are pretty on target.
there's a ton of examples, but one that rung clear for me was in this chapter on Ayin/Nothingness by Daniel C. Matts:
Underneath it all, God is the only "thing", the only existent. "Apart from Him, all are considered nothing and chaos." The world, though, is allowed to enjoy the illusion of separate existence, so that it not lie utterly passive in the pool of ayin.
#jewish #monism #pantheism #panentheism
#mazeldon #kabbalah #philosohy
mvuFinally finished reading "I Am a Strange Loop"!
It was a really approachable philosophy-of-the-mind book that leans heavily into allegory and analogy, which I greatly appreciated as someone with a low attention span for dry philosophy and relatively little experience in the subject.
I felt it got a little lost in the weeds at times (especially during the math discussions) but found a lot of the ideas intuitive and convincing.
The author's own experience and privilege seem to color some of the opinions quite a bit, which left me a little concerned about swallowing the other ideas so easily... but it feels like most famous philosophers come from relatively high privilege -- who else can afford to spend their whole career just thinking about thinking?
Overall gave me lots of things to think about, and I'm quite fond of the "strange loop" concept of the self found within the book.
Daniil BaturinThe definition of knowledge as "justified true belief" reveals that we are seriously lacking terminology.
What are the terms for:
* unjustified true belief?
* justified false belief?
* unjustified false belief?
DeclanRules are artificial so unnatural, patterns are within nature and us so they are natural.
#thougts #philosohy #science #discusion #nature #spirit #rebellion #think #pattern #universe #universality
ConatusPrinciple (he/him)Is the English word «mind» untranslatable into #norwegian? We have “sinn», but it does not feel right. Need a good translation from English into Norwegian that keeps the original philosophical and scientific distinctions between «mind», “brain”, “cognition” and “consciousness” intact. Sorry for bringing my caveman language into academia. #philosohy #language #norsktut #allheimen
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