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Great stuff, all around.
Really interesting points - the forces hadn't even entered my mind. From your position, how does something like the standard model stack up with what could be the absolute cosmic fundamentals? Primarily interested in your opinions, no need for technical knowledge (although it is always welcome, in my mind).
@version you mentioned, in the Prynne thread, a list of things to bear in mind when reading Prynne, and one of them was about the difference between what language does, and what language can do.
Its like the "potentiality of expression" is qualitatively different from the actuality of expression, and that we somehow confine ourselves to the latter - its being empirical and all.
If you don't mind elaborating, what is your understanding of infinity? If nothing else, I find the topic fascinating.
But I'm with you, in that this is where any question of theos/theology seems to lead - to some conception or articulation of infinity.
Consider the signified of "infinity" - what comes to mind?
For me, its like static noise on a television. Infinity means infinite complexity, which registers as chaos to us who are bound to some finite cognition, no?
I've only a cursory understanding of photography/lens, but a class I took mentioned an "infinity point" - the maximum focus distance for a lens (?). That is, you can focus the lens to 20 meters, to 30 meters, to 50 meters, to 100 meters - but that is where it caps off. So anything past 100 meters appears to you as being in focus?
but I understand it to be basically that God is synonymous with not with Nature but with the infinite potentiality of expressions of matter - that is, modes - by the natural forces of the universe - what we would now call gravity, electromagnetism, strong and weak nuclear force.
Really interesting points - the forces hadn't even entered my mind. From your position, how does something like the standard model stack up with what could be the absolute cosmic fundamentals? Primarily interested in your opinions, no need for technical knowledge (although it is always welcome, in my mind).
@version you mentioned, in the Prynne thread, a list of things to bear in mind when reading Prynne, and one of them was about the difference between what language does, and what language can do.
Its like the "potentiality of expression" is qualitatively different from the actuality of expression, and that we somehow confine ourselves to the latter - its being empirical and all.
So I guess I've reframed the question around where spirituality begins and ends, and in this frame of reference the ontological God question becomes a question about infinity. Whats my understanding of infinity? whats my relationship to infinity? and are/how these spiritual concerns? That all probably makes me a cowardly agnostic
If you don't mind elaborating, what is your understanding of infinity? If nothing else, I find the topic fascinating.
But I'm with you, in that this is where any question of theos/theology seems to lead - to some conception or articulation of infinity.
Consider the signified of "infinity" - what comes to mind?
For me, its like static noise on a television. Infinity means infinite complexity, which registers as chaos to us who are bound to some finite cognition, no?
I've only a cursory understanding of photography/lens, but a class I took mentioned an "infinity point" - the maximum focus distance for a lens (?). That is, you can focus the lens to 20 meters, to 30 meters, to 50 meters, to 100 meters - but that is where it caps off. So anything past 100 meters appears to you as being in focus?