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Aug 31, 2004 Whatever ‘grand unifying theory’ may arise from the minds of scientists, theoretical physicists, or philosophers, it will never be able to explain being or existence as a whole. It is so because any ‘grand unifying theory’ is subjected to a condition of uncertainty, incompleteness and the necessity of absolute verification, where the latter subjection is comparable to a person trying to jump over his own shadow in order to run from it. This is because in every instance of a resolution needing objective verification, that verifier can be doubted, non-existent, imaginatively extended from the resolution or accepted as verification, but in this case another need for justification arises, and so it becomes an infinite chase of the horizon of reason. So, in any case it will be an absurd situation of subjective will or imagination trying to free itself as infinity itself. A possible theory: Existence postulated as a whole or, an entity containing beings. An explanation of the complete workings and laws of the nature of such an entity, call it a Universe will be ridiculous, for that very thing that is explained is at the same time also the host of this explainer. And therefore the contents of the host are only building blocks forming part of the whole – they cannot observe this host from any other perspective than from the inside. Thus it is unable to obtain a complete view of it from every possible perspective, including from the outside. And even if an observer could theoretically find itself on the outside of the host, it would either again find itself residing inside another host which contains the observers’ former host, or it would find itself in nothingness, and being a parasitic being, it is now unable to exist on its own and consequently seizes to be at all . Another possible theory: Existence postulated as an infinity, or eternity, ‘containing’ beings. An explanation of this infinity will always be shrinking in completeness, because infinity with observing beings can never be covered as it stretches on and on. Another possible theory: Existence being one absolute, infinity of Mind, or Minds. And so, we can truely say it is the primary and eternal problem of (human) existence to explain its presence in terms of origin, purpose, meaning and direction. Its contemplative process reeks of the burning matter of thought which finds itself on the verge of madness. Oh yes, it is indeed a process bordering on a sickness as it endeavors so profoundly to locate and define itself in the ‘big picture’ or, life itself and more so even to find that so-called ‘big picture’ as such. What an absurd thing is this self- consuming beast of thought – this circling, spiraling mind, which is perhaps, existence itself in the eternal event of a cosmic endeavor to escape itself in order to view itself from no view point at all and thus to the extent that It wills to burst out of its own form to become devoid of all essence and so to become nothingness itself or, rather to un-become. This is the problem of the philosophical being - the problem that always was. Never was it pushed screaming out of any womb and never will it be pulled silently into the tomb of intelligence, but it will go screaming in agonizing insanity as it dies; stretched between two extreme poles: the puzzled, puzzling philosopher and the entangled, exhausted maniac trying one last time to jump over its own shadow that is being cast by the darkening Sun of its own tragic imagination. But now you pose the question of why we are haunted by this vibrant, though also self- consuming Sun of our imagination. So why are we? Well, some of us are not troubled by this at all. Those ones are like institutionalized misfits, drugged and so either smiling or, without any expression at all. But for those of us who are awake in this hell of a dream it is agonizing and fatal. We postulate the present, the past and the future. It is truly a sad story. Depression, anxiety and escapism bleeds out of it. For as long as it is alive it will be dead in the dark enlightenment of its human invention. And so it is here where we arrive at the temporal and spatial sphere of experience and where we are able to query its dimension. What is it? Is it at all? And if it is, what is its significance? But if it is not, what is the meaning of its absence coupled with the experience of its presence? We can propose three conditions of its possibility as a presence: a purely subjective subsistence on its host; an absolute environment which existentially determines all enclosed conditions and ultimately an absolute condition where the subjective hosts and the spatial- temporal are one force. The subjective case then, which is also probably the one where its very idea originates, is wholly an experience by the one who creates it. In this case nothing can be said but that it is experienced in so and so a fashion. It is solely dependant on the individual entity if the latter exists at all, and this question of individual entity is off- course conditionally adjacent to the subjective case. They both share the same pulse of life. And thus if the temporal-spatial force is in fact born from the individual then it becomes the child of each and every one who feels it and so it is totally non-absolute and thus non-existent in a cosmic sense. ------------ About the author Werner Reyneke: I am a 23 year old passionate writer/poet in my spare time and a computer programmer by proffession. Visit my website to see my first published book. I live in South Africa and have been published in a local newspaper (some poems in Haiku form) for the first time in February 2000. I have also been selected for publication in a VoicesNet Anthology (visit www.Voicesnet.org) and a Poetry.com (ILP Publishers) anthology called "Eternal Portraits"). Visit my website at: http://myweb.absa.co.za/wreyneke/Mybook.htm Email: wreyneke@absamail.co.za Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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