Relativity can be traced to much earlier times than Einstein. I'm not sure the corner is painted to anyway. Most current problems are to do with idiot thinking.
On 28 Nov, 07:25, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > “… If the experience of emptiness is to make all relative then I can't > make it as I'm sure I wouldn't stay here if all was such.” – archy > > No need to leave then Neil! > > As far as I can tell, there is no ‘making’ involved…such activity > would be like standing before one of Van Gogh’s Starry Night paintings > and tagging it (spray painting it). In this sense, what is …is. > > In an apparently different sense, any such analysis of anything > apprehended through the senses will include a related conceptual > nature (as well as a contextual nature). Emptiness merely means the > truth that anything is empty of inherent existence. No thing/thought > arises out of nothing. Further, such things have component parts. If > they are conceptual or perceptual, specific thoughts/words etc. are > involved and have direct links to it and those so linked things are a > part and parcel of the thing currently under investigation. Thus, it > is related to other things/thoughts/concepts etc. Being so related > directly implies a relationship and relative nature. This all > identifies the set of relative/subjective ‘mind’. > > There also exists that which has no components or movement. This is > the absolute/objective ‘mind’. > > And, we have in fact produced a synthetic separation here too. > > On a more mundane level, Albert E.’s addition of relativity to western > thought has helped to support and change previous anti-metaphysical > views. The result is the philosophical corner currently most find > themselves painted into. A more practical level helps one to > understand how politicians, educators, thinkers etc. now find no > ‘center’…no ethos other than one without a possibility of actual > ethics. This because ‘everything is relative’. Well, it is for their > thinking…but not in any other way. > > On Nov 27, 10:13 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 'Holes' come in for much philosophical treatment too. Early atomist > > theories made much of them and voids. Newton got rather a long way by > > construing space as separate from body. If the experience of > > emptiness is to make all relative then I can't make it as I'm sure I > > wouldn't stay here if all was such. > > > On 28 Nov, 06:06, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would doubt Nom that any of this kind of void has anything to do > > > with thoughts in physics about the nature of emptiness. This is about > > > essential conditions in being. I'd admit to some similarities with > > > relativity. There is stuff to learn from these sources though I don't > > > see it boiling down to much. > > > > On 27 Nov, 19:32, "Serenity Smiles" <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > Madhayamaka Buddhism vis a vis Hindu vedanta - this is a very good site > > > > to > > > > visit. have not studied it fully myself yet > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > From: "nominal9" <[email protected]> > > > > Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 4:57 PM > > > > To: "Epistemology" <[email protected]> > > > > Subject: [epistemology 10995] Re: Different points of view. > > > > > > while most schools of Tibetan > > > > > Buddhism do make a synthetic separation, call it void/not-void for > > > > > now, ... etc./ ornamentalmind > > > > > > I'm lazy, Orn, especially when it comes to the "meditative religions- > > > > > philosophies" named....can you save me some reading and give me a > > > > > notion of what is contained in the "void" or whatever else the > > > > > different views may care to call it?.... and what is the character or > > > > > the special way in which the "synthesis" interaction you speak of > > > > > takes place between the two... void .. non-void... > > > > > nominal9 > > > > > > On Nov 25, 1:56 am, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> ��The Tibetan Buddhists call these two aspects the void and > > > > >> nonvoid. The nonvoid is the reality of visible objects. The > > > > >> void,�� � soc > > > > > >> A slight addition to this statement�while most schools of Tibetan > > > > >> Buddhism do make a synthetic separation, call it void/not-void for > > > > >> now, how these two truths are apprehended/understood varies from one > > > > >> school to the next. That is, the very notion of �reality� and > > > > >> what > > > > >> �visible objects� are differs greatly from one system to another. > > > > > >> For a simple overview, see: > > > > > >> �Appearance & Reality, The Two Truths in the Four Buddhist Tenet > > > > >> Systems� by Guy Newland, Snow Lion. > > > > > >> On Nov 24, 9:47 pm, socratus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> > � The idea that the universe can be viewed as the compound > > > > >> > of two basic orders, the implicate and the explicate, can be > > > > >> > found in many other traditions. > > > > >> > The Tibetan Buddhists call these two aspects the void and > > > > >> > nonvoid. The nonvoid is the reality of visible objects. The > > > > >> > void, like the implicate order, is the birthplace of all things > > > > >> > in the universe, . . . > > > > >> > . . . only the void is real and all forms in the objective world > > > > >> > are illusory, . . . . > > > > >> > The Hindus call the implicate level of reality Brahman. > > > > >> > Brahman is formless but is the birthplace of all forms in > > > > >> > visible reality, which appear out of it and then enfold back > > > > >> > into it in endless flux. > > > > >> > . . . consciousness is not only a subtler form of matter, > > > > >> > but it is more fundamental than matter, and in the Hindu > > > > >> > cosmology it is matter that has emerged from consciousness, > > > > >> > and not the other way around. Or as the Vedas put it, the > > > > >> > physical world is brought into being through both the > > > > >> > � veiling� and � projecting� powers of consciousness. > > > > >> > . . . the material universe is only a second- generation > > > > >> > reality, a creation of veiled consciousness, the Hindus > > > > >> > say that it is transitory and unreal, or � maya�. > > > > >> > . . . > > > > >> > This same concept can be found in Judaic thought. > > > > >> > . . . . in shamanistic thinking . . . . . . > > > > >> > . . . . . . > > > > >> > Like Bohm, who says that consciousness always has its > > > > >> > source in the implicate, the aborigines believe that the > > > > >> > true source of the mind is in the transcendent reality of > > > > >> > the dreamtime. Normal people do not realize this and > > > > >> > believe that their consciousness is in their bodies. > > > > >> > . . . . . > > > > >> > The Dogan people of the Sudan also believe that the > > > > >> > physical world is the product of a deeper and more > > > > >> > fundamental level of reality . . . . . .� > > > > >> > === . > > > > >> > Book / The Holographic Universe. > > > > >> > Part 3 / 9. Pages 287 � 289. > > > > >> > By Michael Talbot. / > > > > >> > ==================== . . . > > > > >> > My questions after reading this book. > > > > > >> > Is it possible that Physics confirmed and proved the > > > > >> > Religion philosophy of life ? > > > > >> > How is it possible to understand the Religion philosophy > > > > >> > of life from modern Physics view? > > > > >> > # > > > > >> > My opinion. > > > > >> > Fact. > > > > >> > The detected material mass of the matter in the > > > > >> > Universe is so small (the average density of all > > > > >> > substance in the Universe is approximately > > > > >> > p=10^-30 g/sm^3) that it cannot �close� the > > > > >> > Universe into sphere and therefore our Universe > > > > >> > as whole is �open�, Endless Void / Nothingness / > > > > >> > Vacuum : T=0K. > > > > >> > Quantum Physics says the Vacuum is the birthplace > > > > >> > of all � virtual� particles . Nobody knows what there are, > > > > >> > but �the virtual particles� change the Vacuum in a > > > > >> > local places and create Non Void / Material / Gravity > > > > >> > World with stars, planets and all another objects and > > > > >> > subjects in the Universe. > > > > >> > === . > > > > >> > Without Eternal/ Infinite Void / Vacuum physics makes no sense. > > > > >> > But as Paul Dirac said: > > > > >> > " The problem of the exact description of vacuum, > > > > >> > in my opinion, is the basic problem now before physics. > > > > >> > Really, if you can�t correctly describe the vacuum, > > > > >> > how it is possible to expect a correct description > > > > >> > of something more complex ? " > > > > >> > === . > > > > >> > # > > > > >> > But there is a strong tradition ( scientific and religious) that > > > > >> > insists > > > > >> > that any time we say we know who God is, or what God wants, > > > > >> > we are committing an act of heresy. > > > > >> > == . > > > > >> > Best wishes. > > > > >> > Israel Sadovnik. 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