Time = a human measurement of change, based on the juxtaposition of simplified/generalized flux - noumena (abstractions). \ This juxtaposition is determined by the organism's, in this case the human's, metabolic rates (cellular systolic/diastolic rates, which is no more than the period required for the cell to recuperate form the expenditure/direction of energy. This is the basis of binary thinking, later to evolve into dualism. It is a representation of the simple process of energy flowing through a cell, and no energy flowing through a cell, the on/off switch, which later becomes 1/0 - positive/negative, the very foundation of moral good/bad, or positive/negative in mathematics.
The conception of time is always a step, behind, the flow of of (inter)activity, and so it is a measurement of what has-been. The reversal of time, linear towards entropy, is impossible because it would requires the return of all processes to a state proceeding the moment the brain constructed its mental-snapshot, its "now/here", and it must do so in the precise (absolutely similar) way that the change (inter)action occurred. Already we see how the "natural" state of existence, for life, is a towards increasing entropy - a "negative" state in relation to life's dependence on order(ing). Therefore life, as an emergent self-organizing incomplete unity, is, in relation to existence, as the sum of all (inter)actions, in a perpetual state of antagonistic - antagonism as in "war" or (re)active resistance. This is the root of life's anxiety, its need/suffering, its continuing self-preservation, which may, or may not, accumulate energies to discharge as growth, or reproductive extension of self - (pro)creativity, or libidinal discharge which is expressed sexually, in a primal state, and later artistically, as innovation, imagination/fantasy. Need, left unsatisfied grows to the sensation we call suffering, or pain, and it is the sensation of existence, as perpetual (inter)activity resulting in increasing fragmentation and randomness.
Big Bang, as a metaphor, describes the impossible. No singularity ever existed, as no absolute can ever exist, because this would mean the end of existence. Absolute order either describes a singularity where no (inter)action is present, because what would the perfect change to, and because by definition order is the reduction of possibilities, and so absolute order would be the implosion of possibility, or space/time, into an absolute one, an absolute certainty, a singularity. The only way around this is to define the absolute order, as constant (re)ordering, implying a border encompassing a whole, which is rearranging itself into inferior forms of order for no reason at all. Reordering makes of life, and consciousness, a slavish joke. What it implies is that there is an absolute, a God, an authority, a one, which we are the parts of - imperfection defining the perfect - and we are only to discover the absolute one, the absolute truth - we are submissive to it. It is the Judaeo-Christian myth repeated using pseudo-science. Man's only mission is to reunite with the absolute one, which is already present - omnipresence, immanent. Man, as slave, only uses his will to align with the One Will's essence - salvation, the reunification with God in Paradise.
Big Bang was never a singularity. The lost point to the absolute one would be a duality - the beginning of the binary system. What could not have been integrated into absolute order, collapsing space/time into a singular one, would be that which lacks all order, (inter)active with no pattern.
It is this randomness which explodes space/time form the near-absolute, towards absolute randomness, which we call existence, and ti is this chaos which eventually makes life possible, as a (re)action to this increasing entropy, or as the inevitable emergence of self-organizing (inter)activity when space (possibility) expands to the point where it is possible. Without randomness the possibility of life would never have emerged, because order is the reduction of possibility. When we say "order" we mean the certainty, predictability, of (inter)activity, in other words the probability of a specific (inter)action and the exclusion of all other possibilities. Life, as ordering, is such a reduction of possibilities and the increase of specific possibilities - probabilities. To decrease possibilities, and increase specific probabilities, life needs energy....it needs to appropriate order wherever it finds it, to integrate them into its declining, under stress, imperfect, ordering. Pleasure is the sensation of this increase or correcting of ordering, which requires consistent care. Pleasure is also the expenditure of stored energies, due to this assimilation and storage of order, which is called libidinal energies (ordered energies).
It is need/suffering which makes the accumulation of excess energies possible, or more possible (probable). Essentially life, when reaching a certain level of consciousness, idealizes the return to this near-absolute order, which it imagines as completed, as one, as God, as thing, as Paradise/Utopia. It calls this "positive". It also demonizes entropy, chaos, even though it makes life/consciousness possible - increasingly so as chaos increases, space/time expands.
Chaos/Randomness describes a state of absolute possibility...in other words everything is possible - which is antithetical to life, as ordering. Life is ordering, and the kind of life we know requires a certain order to come about and to persist. Chaos, in an absolute state, would make life impossible.
But as always the absolute is absent, and so absolute chaos will never be reached - within it some remnant of order will remain even if insufficient to bring about life.
Because life, and consciousness, depends on some degree of order, understanding must find a pattern to know, to store as data. This is why man, even when thinking of chaos imagines it as complex order, and why man's language reflects its dependence...such as in the concepts of something/nothing - the thing being that presupposed "order". Man, in fact, cannot think outside this 1/0, something/nothing binary/dualistic paradigm. The paradox is inevitable when one attempts to describe a concept outside this paradigm by using the symbols, presuppositions, which are innate to thinking and language (math and geometry included).
It is why philosophy requires a particular kind of mind, if it is to break free from this one/nil paradigm, to go beyond god and evil. It requires an artistic mind - a mind that can use static forms, to insinuate the real, the fluctuating. Science approximates, and philosophy insinuates. The world s counter-intuitive in the same way it is counter-order, disordering. Intuition being based on ordering, on some level of order reached and preserved for a time - time being a measure of entropy.
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Lyssa Har Har Harr
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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] is an Iranian, pushing for a [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], using Heidegger and Nishida's Kyoto School, and while arguing Against the Islamic side of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] is advocating the Nothingness school with Xt. apologetics:
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"Together with our Japanese allies, we must struggle against those nationalistic traditionalists who stand in the way of the transformation of real-world Tokyo into the New Atlantis envisioned by the generation of Neon Genesis Evangelion. We also cannot allow economizing technocrats to cobble Japan together with a dozen other neighboring countries into a Chinese-dominated Asia-Pacific Commonwealth. What shared cultural values could such an organization possibly reflect? Personal character effaced in favor of filial piety and clan interest? The dynamic creativity and spontaneity of individual genius sacrificed to disciplined collective planning?
For 60 years now, the Japanese people have been boldly moving beyond these ‘Asian’ values. It would be the height of irresponsibility to allow a regress. The horrific suffering that culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki cannot have been in vain. The spectral significance of the promethium sky over Japan in those days of devastation cannot be forgotten. It was not just physically destructive, but also psychologically de-constructive. The Japanese psyche was torn apart and restructured around the aesthetic ideas of Prometheus and Atlas. We must see to it that the metamorphosis then set into motion is irreversible. It is not a question of sustaining American military occupation of Japan, but of understanding the gravity with which the Japanese cultural vanguard has been captured by the spiritual orbit of Atlantic Civilization. Moreover, at least insofar as this vanguard is concerned, the Japanese role in Atlantic Civilization is by no means subordinate. It is in Japan where, unburdened by the Judeo-Christian heritage, visionary artists have most crystallized transformative images of the coming metamorphosis of the merely human being into a more diabolically daring and dynamic superhuman race destined to liberate a capriciously ruled cosmos and conquer the inner space of latent psychic powers."
Make that Jason Jorjani ; ) Def. another orgonaut,, and interesting only because it yet again shows how left the 'Right' is. (He's Ed. in chief for Right On, along with de Benoist.)
Its because the origins of Plotinianism and the One Good Truth already had some Zoroastrian influence.
If one wants to understand this modern 'Prometheanism', they should read, Bruce Lincoln's [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] for some must-read history.
