tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741716959458397892.post5318894532984338677..comments2012-10-06T15:43:36.425+01:00Comments on Relationships: Is it true or just another fad?Joanne Milnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17309348265333690906noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1741716959458397892.post-87707605752876749802012-02-14T10:22:02.943+00:002012-02-14T10:22:02.943+00:00Interesting read; I have a few comments on truth! ...Interesting read; I have a few comments on truth! <br /><br />In my view the Physical Universe exists and, as a consequence, thinking species, of which humans are but one of many, through their experience of that universe are able to derive, create, impressions of it that are products of both representation and interpretation and that exist as a prevailing state within the brain. This state is a product not only of their physical, cellular structure but also of their associated prevailing energy states and exists as a whole within in the greater whole of existence, a holon within the holarchy (Koestler).<br /><br />This, combined with the unavoidable uniqueness of all the components of existence, means that within the Phenomenal Universe (mind) nothing is ever quite as it seems, nothing is ever totally true. Because our understanding exists only within the Phenomenal Universe the nature of it exists on a graduated basis that relates to the extent to which we interface with reality through the portal of the brain, a process which, as mentioned above, is totally dependent on interpretation of representative sensory stimulation. The more abstract the nature of the of a subject of understanding the more complex the understanding becomes due of the greater dependence of it on the internal, often untested, workings of the mind.<br /><br />Uniqueness ensures that nothing is ever exposed to the totality of existence, although wholeness ensures that the Condition of Existence to which everything is exposed is a prevailing state of the whole in the location of its existence. Consequentially and in combination with the representative state of sensory experience, originating both externally and internally, and the nature of the interpretative processes of the brain based on states resultant on that experience, the mind only ever has a degree of understanding of truth. Because there is only a degree of understanding it follows that there is, of necessity, an inherent misunderstanding of experience; in other words mind, the Phenomenal Universe, is inherently prone to error. Truth, as an absolute, does not exist in the Phenomenal Universe, there is only the degree to which we understand truth.<br /><br />We have the potential to increase our understanding of truth by interfacing with the Physical Universe through the portal of the brain, being the gateway between reality and mind, by means of our behaviour (where reality is defined as the physical universe, which is free of error and hence true; a philosophical supposition!). Hence the probability of our experience of a physical object being true is high, approaching one, where as that of our understanding of abstract ideas being true can, in many cases, approache zero, due to the inherent error that resides in our minds. The development of truth in our understanding of abstract concepts is inherently fraught with difficulty and we frequently pursue, and are pursuing, fallacious lines of thinking for long periods of time (radical fallibility and fertile fallacies - George Soros). Your contention that M Theory is attributable to Hawkins is an example! (I think I'm right in saying that Edward Witten et al. were its core proponents). <br /><br />Reality is made more complex by the realisation that the Phenomenal Universe is of course a part of it, a component of the total universe, that evolved combination of the Physical and Phenomenal Universes, the Physphen Universe, the Whole.<br /><br />Regards, JimJim Daly (JDEvolutionist)http://www.1plusinfinity.comnoreply@blogger.com