SA wrote (Feb. 24) quoting Alan Rayner:
"But that is precisely what rationalistic logic,
based ultimately on the exclusion of "space" as "void
nothing" from "matter" as "definite something", has
been persuading us to try vainly to "do" for
millennia, whilst becoming ever more deeply entrenched
in our philosophical, mathematical and scientific
foundations. The fundamental premise of this logic ?
the existence of independently definable and
quantifiable objects ? lies in an idealized freezing
out of "imperfection" (i.e. "space") from discrete and
regularized geometrical form, constrained within a
three-dimensional box extended to infinity.
This abstract imposition of discontinuity by
definition neither takes account of nor does justice
to contemporary scientific findings and real life
experience of the dynamic continuity of natural flow.
Yet it continues to be defended most zealously by
those whose claim to authority rests in what they
regard as disinterested objective observation and
evidence. It also leads to the deep paradox, conflict,
waste and damage that arises through dislocating
"self" from "neighbourhood", making us believe in an
unsustainable, competitive struggle for existence and
individual perfection that is at odds with the
variability of the natural world that both sustains
and includes us.
The scientific beginnings of the ending of this
dislocation, and associated recovery in awareness of
our dynamically continuous natural geometry, have
emerged with the advent of relativity, quantum
mechanics and non-linear dynamical systems theory. All
these theories signify, in one way or another, the
inextricability of space from matter in a fluid
dynamic cosmos of energy flow."
- Alan Rayner
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http://www.inclusional-research.org/spacetime.php
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Thanks, SA, for bringing up the above quote and
the link to the website of the Inclusional Research
group. Quite a lot of interesting materials in there.
On reading those texts I was wondering how MOQ
could connect with their views on Space. In this forum
there seems to be a lot of concern about DQ in-time;
this to judge from the many posts on static/dynamic,
etc. What about DQ in-space? Seems an interesting
field of exploration; not in Newtonian (absolute)
space but in Space as understood by people in the
Inclusional group.
Perhaps this has been discussed before in
MOQdiscuss? I wrote "inclusional" in the Search box
with zero results.
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