This pod introduced me to Nails work some years ago and nowadays I think of it as a critical piece in my mental map of philosophy. Keep up the great work Thomas
I’m currently a student and academia has really negatively impacted my relationship with philosophy. Your guys’ channel and the people you cover have made me love it again. Thank you.
That's really great to hear. I was talking with a Penn State professor today about how the institution has been dispiriting for some, and he finds what we are doing to be refreshing as well.
I whole heartedly and deeply associate with this theory. Thank you Thomas Nail to devote time and thought to this line of philosophy. I believe that ideal language would be made of verbs only and always described as movement.
Movement is very first thing that comes into existence has nothingness become something because of the information describing it. This information must be learned and to learn something you must be conscious and Consciousness is dependent upon time hence movement. Furthermore multiplicity depends upon movement for differentiation to occur. And movement is the very answer to all the paradoxes that have puzzle Humanity 400 years. That is how you can solve such things as Chaos and Order being in duality when they are mutually exclusive and incompatible yet completely dependent upon the other for their survival and causal to it. When you have an immovable object and an irresistible Force the only answer is to direct the fourth in a path around the object and this is what movement is for. The trick is to take a duality and change it from absolute to relative
Movement or velocity is key to it all. Because of causality velocity cannot be infinite it can be instantaneous but not infinite because infinite is more than instantaneous. Because no matter how fast you get somewhere the distance will still be finite but infinite velocity implies infinite distance as well. This brakes causality and without such things as time and space and fancy tricks like a Klein bottle you can't go back in time and murder your grandpa meaning that you can't break causality. So this limitation of velocity is why we have the speed of light and every other thing. There's another type of Infiniti that's impossible and that's infinite gravity in in a universal sense and I don't mean just one Universe I mean everywhere. If gravity is not contained you can't have differentiation and separation animal publicity so after gravity reaches a certain limit it causes space to curb so much that the curvature space becomes infinite even though the mass of matter that is causing this is not. This is two instances where finite numbers can equal infinite numbers and both of these things have a relative aspect and a Quantum aspect
The foundation where it doesn't change is called absolute nothingness but that is impossible because of the words I just used to describe it as absolute nothingness. Because if that was the nature of existence then the information describing it would still exist no matter what it would have to because it's something that you can conceptualize that means the information about it must exist as well and that means it's something. And since it's the only thing there is that means it's also everything which is the first type of infinity or the infinite density or the seed that contains all other infinities. This is a completed Infinity though and it cannot change or grow or move in any fashion and there's a problem here because nothingness has a potential complexity number so much larger than the completed Infinity does because the completed Infinity is just one, a unity and a Unity actually has the mathematical value of 0 in some cases because it can't exist any more than nothingness can exist itself and since nothing is so much bigger than Vicente there has to be a relief valve and that is what we call the physical universe or multiplicity number differentiation or just something. And it can and does move and grow and change because it is inside of the infinite density and all of the infinity that the infinite density contains play out here but none of them could actually be infinite you can't have an infinite multiplicity or magnitude in a physical universe and to accommodate everything that must exist they must all take turns existing in the same space. In reality there's a place where the forms are that they do all exist at the same time in the same place but just in a slightly different vibratory frequency and dimensional address which is there coordinates in physical time and space but it would have to accommodate their entire duration of existence. So it's more like a file system on a computer than anything
The subjective frame of reference is the frame of movement or the rest frame I should say. And relativity is not contained into some local part of space it is actually everywhere even more than Universal it's affect can be seen all throughout existence. That means every subjective frame of reference is literally the center of its own Universal bubble of causality that extends to the edge of the observable universe and anything beyond that point literally doesn't exist and as the universe expands and pushes things Beyond these things just disintegrate in a recycle back into the rest of it to cause further expansion. It's like free energy. And this is all fueled by movement as well because the whole existence is that of nothingness becoming Infinity. This this gives us directionality and so does the fact that we have to reconcile chaos in order in such a passionate to where it is moving from chaos to order but then entropy music back in an unseen fashion buy radiating the heat back into the universe and breaking up all the form into homogeneous clouds of thermal equilibrium
The universe is not completely terministic it's in a 50 50 balance with randomness. That's the nature of reality everything has its opposite. If determinism exists that means Randomness also exists but it is movement that helps cutest conundrum because at the point of criticality where the dualities meet we're all light processes biological and chemical and physical take place you have the point of probability where Randomness and determinism come together and gravity kind of just squishes all the subatomic particles into whatever form it wants. It's not going to count every individual particle it leave that up to the particles but they're going to get where they're going in the end no matter what. Kind of like a man shoveling a pile of gravel it's not going to count every single little piece of rock and he's just going to be concerned with the shovel fools and the wheelbarrow full and then the truck loaded and so on and so forth. This is how Quantum things are shaped by relativity and it's the point of probability that lies in between
This pod introduced me to Nails work some years ago and nowadays I think of it as a critical piece in my mental map of philosophy. Keep up the great work Thomas
I’m currently a student and academia has really negatively impacted my relationship with philosophy. Your guys’ channel and the people you cover have made me love it again. Thank you.
That's really great to hear. I was talking with a Penn State professor today about how the institution has been dispiriting for some, and he finds what we are doing to be refreshing as well.
I whole heartedly and deeply associate with this theory. Thank you Thomas Nail to devote time and thought to this line of philosophy. I believe that ideal language would be made of verbs only and always described as movement.
Really enjoyed his trilogy of books on Lucretius and his book on Marx and Motion!
Amazing - thank you
Very fascinating parallel to my current reading in Dogen
Also begging you guys to read the zhuangzi
walking mountains?
Wow this site is really lonely, but its contribution is important
Movement is very first thing that comes into existence has nothingness become something because of the information describing it. This information must be learned and to learn something you must be conscious and Consciousness is dependent upon time hence movement. Furthermore multiplicity depends upon movement for differentiation to occur. And movement is the very answer to all the paradoxes that have puzzle Humanity 400 years. That is how you can solve such things as Chaos and Order being in duality when they are mutually exclusive and incompatible yet completely dependent upon the other for their survival and causal to it. When you have an immovable object and an irresistible Force the only answer is to direct the fourth in a path around the object and this is what movement is for. The trick is to take a duality and change it from absolute to relative
Movement or velocity is key to it all. Because of causality velocity cannot be infinite it can be instantaneous but not infinite because infinite is more than instantaneous. Because no matter how fast you get somewhere the distance will still be finite but infinite velocity implies infinite distance as well. This brakes causality and without such things as time and space and fancy tricks like a Klein bottle you can't go back in time and murder your grandpa meaning that you can't break causality. So this limitation of velocity is why we have the speed of light and every other thing. There's another type of Infiniti that's impossible and that's infinite gravity in in a universal sense and I don't mean just one Universe I mean everywhere. If gravity is not contained you can't have differentiation and separation animal publicity so after gravity reaches a certain limit it causes space to curb so much that the curvature space becomes infinite even though the mass of matter that is causing this is not. This is two instances where finite numbers can equal infinite numbers and both of these things have a relative aspect and a Quantum aspect
The foundation where it doesn't change is called absolute nothingness but that is impossible because of the words I just used to describe it as absolute nothingness. Because if that was the nature of existence then the information describing it would still exist no matter what it would have to because it's something that you can conceptualize that means the information about it must exist as well and that means it's something. And since it's the only thing there is that means it's also everything which is the first type of infinity or the infinite density or the seed that contains all other infinities. This is a completed Infinity though and it cannot change or grow or move in any fashion and there's a problem here because nothingness has a potential complexity number so much larger than the completed Infinity does because the completed Infinity is just one, a unity and a Unity actually has the mathematical value of 0 in some cases because it can't exist any more than nothingness can exist itself and since nothing is so much bigger than Vicente there has to be a relief valve and that is what we call the physical universe or multiplicity number differentiation or just something. And it can and does move and grow and change because it is inside of the infinite density and all of the infinity that the infinite density contains play out here but none of them could actually be infinite you can't have an infinite multiplicity or magnitude in a physical universe and to accommodate everything that must exist they must all take turns existing in the same space. In reality there's a place where the forms are that they do all exist at the same time in the same place but just in a slightly different vibratory frequency and dimensional address which is there coordinates in physical time and space but it would have to accommodate their entire duration of existence. So it's more like a file system on a computer than anything
The subjective frame of reference is the frame of movement or the rest frame I should say. And relativity is not contained into some local part of space it is actually everywhere even more than Universal it's affect can be seen all throughout existence. That means every subjective frame of reference is literally the center of its own Universal bubble of causality that extends to the edge of the observable universe and anything beyond that point literally doesn't exist and as the universe expands and pushes things Beyond these things just disintegrate in a recycle back into the rest of it to cause further expansion. It's like free energy. And this is all fueled by movement as well because the whole existence is that of nothingness becoming Infinity. This this gives us directionality and so does the fact that we have to reconcile chaos in order in such a passionate to where it is moving from chaos to order but then entropy music back in an unseen fashion buy radiating the heat back into the universe and breaking up all the form into homogeneous clouds of thermal equilibrium
The universe is not completely terministic it's in a 50 50 balance with randomness. That's the nature of reality everything has its opposite. If determinism exists that means Randomness also exists but it is movement that helps cutest conundrum because at the point of criticality where the dualities meet we're all light processes biological and chemical and physical take place you have the point of probability where Randomness and determinism come together and gravity kind of just squishes all the subatomic particles into whatever form it wants. It's not going to count every individual particle it leave that up to the particles but they're going to get where they're going in the end no matter what. Kind of like a man shoveling a pile of gravel it's not going to count every single little piece of rock and he's just going to be concerned with the shovel fools and the wheelbarrow full and then the truck loaded and so on and so forth. This is how Quantum things are shaped by relativity and it's the point of probability that lies in between