Hi Craig Weinberg In my suggested definitions,
To exist = to physically be in spacetime (at location r at time t). To inhere = to be otherwise (to be mental, outside of spacetime, not at (r,t)). Anything physical must be at a location r at time t. It is acting at f(r,t). Without time, space is just a concept, so I say that it inheres rather than exists, same as time without space. They cannot exist separately. Idealism represents all physical objects as ideas. It considers what exists as what inheres. Physicalism denies the existence of inherent objects. Physical Realism -- that something physically exists without an observer. Metaphysical Realism = that something inheres without a thinker. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/24/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-23, 08:57:53 Subject: Re: Re: Physics, Metaphysics, and Realism Hi Roger, My hypothesis is that the grouping of space and time together is a function of the exterior public realism view, not a primitive reality. The bigger picture is that while quantitatively seamless, time and space are (obviously) experientially perpendicular qualities. Astrophysics makes sense for astrophysical computations, but that view of the universe is one in which we can ever participate in personally. We can understand astrophysics, and predict and control matter, but we will always directly experience space and time as experiential formats which are as opposite as they could possibly be. With multisense realism, we can group together any of the primitive categories of space, time, matter, energy, sense, motive, entropy, and significance and get sensible juxtapositions with the remaining categories. That's the way it works. If you say space is time, then you are saying matter is energy and experience doesn't exist. If you say entropy is significance then space and time become concretely real information, and matter and energy become the dumb vehicles. It's like a balloon wherever you mentally pinch the monad, the opposite side will seem to bulge out. Craig On Sunday, September 23, 2012 8:46:15 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg Yes, time and space have to be together to be in spacetime. This is just basic astrophysics. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/23/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-22, 10:53:02 Subject: Re: Physics, Metaphysics, and Realism On Saturday, September 22, 2012 5:49:49 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: Hi Craig Weinberg I would classify your items as follows: MENTAL (outside of spacetime) : All experiences, dreams, delusions, information, mathematics, logic, time, space, feelings, thoughts, ideas, numbers, life itself, God, monads, mathematics, physical laws themselves, theory of any type. Huh? You are classifying "time, space" as "(outside of spacetime)". If we recognize that experiences and dreams, feelings, thoughts, ideas, life itself, rely on significance which builds through story-like relations, and that they are not only cognitive but wordlessly emotional then I don't think that "MENTAL" is a meaningful category nor is it correct to consider these things separate from time. God, monads, physical laws, logic, mathematics, information, theories, etc are accessed through experiences in time, but represent space-like cognitive level qualia. PHYSICAL (within spacetime): Anything with dimensions, anything you can measure with physical instruments (even indirectly), weigh or see under a microscope or telescope, mass, energy, force, velocity, time, distance, voltage, optical or sound intensity, wave amplitude, dna type, cancer type, living tissue, dead tissue, flesh (brain). I reject the assumption that the experiential aspects are not 'physical' since our feelings and thoughts are profoundly and directly affected by physical changes. It makes more sense to understand that the difference is in public persistence across space as bodies as opposed to private experience through time as significance. Craig Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/22/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ===================================================================== ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-21, 10:58:11 Subject: Physics, Metaphysics, and Realism I see all of our experiences, including dreams and delusions as being physical, but not necessarily ?eal?. To me, realism is a loose term describing the ?iddle of the road? range of experiences in which bodies and minds are clearly separate. The contrasting ?nreal? ranges are the profoundly spiritual/psychedelic/psychotic experiences and the profoundly logical/mathematical/abstracted principles, both of which can be understood as signifying real or more-than-real referents. Physical (< Unrealism of Logic < Realism of Bodies and Space ? Realism of Experiences and Time > Unrealism of Psyche >)* Metaphysical = Hypothetically outside of spacetime and matter. Energy = Logical conceptualization of the perception and participation of material bodies in spacetime. Information = Logical conceptualization of logic in spacetime. Logic = Phenomenology turned in on itself - subjectivity that seeks to evacuate subjectivity of itself, leaving purely universal and involuntary truths as a residual product. Psyche = Deep phenomenology. Unconstrained by logic, subjectivity is free to sense and dream itself into transpersonal and near-metaphysical ranges of experience. * This is the Multisense Continuum, which is involuted like a Mobius strip, and can be shuffled and turned around: < Unrealism of Logic < Realism of Bodies and Space ? Realism of Experiences and Time > Unrealism of Psyche > (? = ?erpendicular/orthogonal fold? relation of Pedestrian Realism, ie supermarket reality). ? Realism of Experiences and Time > Unrealism of Psyche > < Unrealism of Logic < Realism of Bodies and Space ? (> < = ?vanescent dissolve? relation of Profound Unrealism, ie hypnogogic trance, epiphany, transcendence, enlightnenment) The contemporary cosmology I would describe this way: Information Laws of Physics > Energy Matter ? Space Time The problems with this are embodied as problems with Idealism, Materialism, and Infocentrism, with each being unable to account for the prominence of the other without disqualifying it. Materialism makes information and subjectivity unreal, Idealism makes matter and spacetime unreal, Infocentricism makes matter and subjectivity unreal. Each of these three views have a blind spot for their own bias, which becomes pathological when applied in a thoroughly literal way to the the universe. Living beings become indistinguishable from programmed robots and animated cadavers. The world becomes an illusion conjurable by codes. We paint ourselves into a corner so that we are forced to conceive of ourselves paradoxically as epiphenomenal voyeurs yet inevitably omnipotent masters of the universe and ourselves. My approach, of course, is to weigh anchor with sense itself, as the primordial prerequisite of being and doing that is beneath and above all forms, materials, spaces, times, and subjective experiences. A neutral monism which projects itself within itself, always through juxtaposed experiences. Sense puts the 'in' into information and makes structures matter. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/jHjKd7AGTAYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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