| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] The Mind of God | | Date: | Sunday, August 28, 2005 10:52:09 (-0700) | | From: | William B. Ryan <w_b_ryan @.....com>
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I have not read Kierkegaard, and know little about
him. So I shall not comment beyond this quote (you?)
attributed to him. It is put in the form of a
paradox:-
"A person cannot possibly seek what he knows, and,
just as impossibly, he cannot seek what he does not
know, for what he knows he cannot seek, since he knows
it, and what he does not know he cannot seek, because,
after all, he does not even know what he is supposed
to seek."
A paradox I have often referred to, I'm sure you
remember, is Zeno's paradox of Hercules and the
Tortoise. Zeno "proved" through the geometrical
mathematics available in his time that Hercules could
never overtake and pass the Tortoise, yet we know that
he will overtake and pass the Tortoise. Zeno knew it
too. What Zeno demonstrated was the inadequacy or
"incompleteness" of the mathematics of his time, and
inferentially "proved" that a more complete
mathematics necessarily existed awaiting discovery.
Historically, that did not occur until some 2500 years
after Zeno presented his paradox, in the formulation
of calculus by Newton and his colleagues, with time
incorporated as constituent element.
The resolution of Kierkegaard's paradox occurred with
Goedel's Theorem and its extrapolation into the
Inclusive Logistic Progression.
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"Reason alone cannot find the truth as is demonstrated
by Godel's theorem: The only thing that can be proven
with absolute certainty is that nothing can be proven
with absolute certainty...If one asks that one prove
something beyond all doubt, then Godel's theorem
states that is an impossibility and the question
itself becomes absurd."
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This misconstrues Goedel's Theorem. I'll state the
theorem as succinctly as possible: Any logistic
system that is complete necessarily contains
contradiction; any logistic system that does not
contain contradiction is necessarily incomplete.
The qualification I would insert here is that the
theorem applies to "any logistic system" of finite
order.
This has been extrapolated into the Inclusive Logistic
Progression.
From my post the other day:-
"The human mind functions logistically, through a
process combining metaphor with observation. When
observation conflicts with metaphor, then a new
metaphor is invented to bring sense to the new
observation. This does not necessarily invalidate the
earlier metaphor...
"There is a true statement X which may be deduced from
logistic system A, but there is a true statement Y
which cannot be deduced from A. There is an INCLUSIVE
logistic system B which can deduce both X and Y, but
there is a true statement Z which cannot be deduced
from B. There is an inclusive system C which can
deduce X, Y and Z, etc...The theoretical limit to the
progression is the set of all possible inclusive
systems, which is infinitely large."
I will add here that the set of all possible inclusive
logistic systems is the metaphysical equivalent to the
Mind of God.
It is therefore demonstrated through extrapolation
from what we know about how the human mind works that
God necessarily exists though outside the context of
time (the theoretical limit to the infinite
progression), which does not preclude the possibility
that God intervenes in human affairs from time to
time, if not continuously.
Just as Zeno proved the existence of calculus but had
not yet discovered it, we have demonstrated the
necessary existence of God though not yet discovered
Him.
We strive to be on the path to discovery and concede
we will never quite get there within the constraints
of the finitude of time.
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