Platt,
Platt Holden wrote:
> Hi Scott:
>
>
>>Or are you
>>still working under the assumption that there are some (non-mathematical)
>>static patterns that are eternally true?
>>
>
> Am I correct to assume that you assume there are no eternally true
> static patterns?
>
Well, I can't think of any that aren't tautologies.
I DO make assumptions, though I prefer to call them "working
hypotheses". For example, I adopt as a working hypothesis (in my
metaphysical moments), as do some physicists working on quantum gravity,
that space and time are not containers of matter and energy, rather
matter and energy, in their relations, constitute spacetime. And, of
course, I operate by all sorts of unacknowledged assumptions as I go
about my daily business. But in metaphysics I do not consider those
assumptions to be eternally valid. Rather, they are useful in this
universe (this manifestation of Quality). They don't work in dreams, and
if we survive death they probably wouldn't work in that situation either.
By the way, I would not discount the possibility that physical laws are
themselves tautologies, and that the physical universe is a blackboard
on which (speaking mythically) DQ is enjoying the exploration of
mathematical equations.
- Scott
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