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NARRATIVE FOR REALIZATION ANIL MITRA, © MARCH 2014—March 2014 CONTENTS Wide perspective. Time frames are highlighted Individual and identity. 2014+
PREFACEINTRODUCTIONFOUNDATIONA definition specifies a concept. BeingBeing is that which ‘is’. ExperienceExperience is awareness. There is experience. There is being. Experience and worldExperience seems to be a relation—it seems to be of a real world. There is a real or ‘external’ world that contains and is known in experience. Experience and beingExperience and being have an intimate connection. MeaningA concept is mental content. A referential concept is one purports to have at least oblique reference in the world. An object is the reference of concept. A concept meaning is a concept and its object (or, equivalently, objects). In linguistic meaning a symbol is associated with concept meaning. The association is often tacit for this is efficient; however to abstract symbols have meaning when unmoored from concept meaning is to risk confusion and paradox. ExistenceUniverseThe universe is all being. A natural law is our reading of a pattern. The manifest pattern may also be referred to as the law. All laws have being. Since they have being, all laws are in the universe. PossibilityThe concept of possibilityA possible state (or event or process) of a system or context is one that satisfies its constitution or definition. The concept of logical possibility is satisfaction of the laws of logic. A limitless universeA limitless universe is one in which all possibility obtains. The actual universeGiven the ‘empirical universe’—currently the roughly 13.8 billion year old and 92 billion light years across cosmos of big-bang origin—what can we say of the entire universe? Simply, a robust ‘possibilist’ argument has been given that the universe is limitless (a proof will be given in the universal metaphysics). And if the universe is limitless, chosen empirical base has almost no effect on the entire universe. Alternatively, any part of the universe is equally a base for the entire universe. Science and logicThe voidThe void is the absence of being. The void contains no laws. A void may be said to be associated with every ‘particle’ of being. KnowledgeKnowledge is important because it enables negotiation of the world. It is important to destiny. Therefore the nature of knowledge—what it is—and criteria for validity are important. In the development so far—except some discussions in the section on—we established cases of perfect knowledge in that the concept perfectly matches the object (and that the matching has meaning). Clearly not all claims to knowledge are perfect. Remaining knowledge claims are practical in that (though they are not known to be better rough and in that metaphor of representation in such cases is not known to be better than rough) they may be useful (instrumental) and they may be perfect from the being-in-the-world point of view (in which of course ‘frustration’ is also perfect). Later, especially in interaction with the perfect, some aspects of the what is known as practical will be revealed or improved to the perfect while some will remain obviously or not known to be better than practical. A divide between the perfect and the practical will remain even as understanding improves. Since the perfect knowledge so far concerns being and the universe it may constitute a boundary or container for all knowledge and the interaction between the perfect and the practical. This will turn out to be the case. The perfect will be seen to bound and illuminate the practical and the practical will ground and show the way to the perfect. From the point of view of perfect faithfulness, the distinction will remain. However, it will vanish according to instrumental criteria (especially there will be no limit to cosmoses where local knowledge cannot become perfect but need not do so because it functions positively as an instrument on the way). Finally all knowing is and remains perfect in the sense of being-in-the-world. METAPHYSICSIntroduction to metaphysicsThe universal metaphysicsThe universe has no limit to being and identity. If power is a measure of what is realized, there is no limit to the power of being—of the universe. This power is conferred on individuals—the contrary would be a limit on being. Realization of the ultimate is given; individuals participate in self as universal identity. While in limited form realization is an endless journey in being. ObjectsRealismCosmologyNormal worldThat individuals in our world experience limits, that our world has limits (laws) is not a contradiction of the limitlessness of the universe. A limitless universe—there can be only one—necessarily has parts that have temporary limits. Our cosmos is ‘necessary’. It is the problem of a normal world to find a way into the universal. This is not an avoidance; it is ‘the problem’ in that our worlds and the universal are necessary to one another. See the discussion on realization below. MindSociety and civilizationLifePhysical cosmologyEpistemologyKnowledge for a normal worldJOURNEYRealizationEssentialsSome dimensionsPATHWide perspective. Time frames are highlightedBe-ing. All timesBecoming. OngoingIndividual and identity. 2014+Civilization. 2014+Artifact. 2014+After. OpenNOTES FROM THE FRONTSUPPLEMENTOther versionsSourcesHistory of the metaphysicsLEXICONINDEXTHE AUTHOR |