ALL particle physics
philosophers (and therefore all modern consensus) make the following common
mistake which may be epitomised in the following assertion: 'All the world's
greatest paintings are only paint.' By this I mean they say that because
the universe is understood in terms of a few elementary particles, they go
about saying 'We are all only collections of quarks and electrons.'
which is false. We are collections of quarks and electrons (in a certain
very specific scientific sense) but we are not only these. Otherwise
there were no difference between a pot of paint and the Sistine Chapel! This is
why the downward perspective is deceiving, because we think it is leaving so
many hallucinations and entering into reality. The truth is we never leave the
hallucinations, going up or going down.
The truth is only known in its entirety, and this cumulative appreciation of
qualities leads inexorably to God.
Sometimes I have wondered if the speed limit
of light is a kind of disproof of pantheistic omniscience, as a thought could
not travel instantly from one part to another, but on reflection I realise that
the very notion of speed and movement is restrictive, and only a
measure of perceptible relative acceleration, not definitive as to essence (which
indeed is shown in the observation that space, the fabric of Existence itself, expands at a faster rate than light).
'There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'
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