GENIUS FORUMS

Reply to the original question: There is no value in anything. A concept of value must be constructed. I read through this thread and it seems the underlying message is, 'Having the ability to see what the world could be but not the ability to project that view onto the external world leads to less ...

I'm going to make an attempt to translate this relational dependence into metaphysics that I can understand. ___________ According to a relationally dependent conception of reality a phenomenal universe exists by this description: A point with vectors toward all other points. But not by this: All po...

algorithims generate structure. mind generates algorithms. mind, algorithms, changing appearance (structure) are inextricably bound in possibilities for being. Mind, algorithms and changing appearance are inextribably bound in manifestation. Being exists regardless of the nature of its derivations....

The central objection I've seen has been to my claim for the reality of being outside of perspective (undifferentiated reality). My evidence for its existence is mathematics. Mathematical truths exist, they can be discovered, they do not depend upon any mind. Before Pythagoras was the square of a hy...

Quote: I don't adhere to materialism, I think a more useful way of describing the world we see is as an isomorphic graphing of underlying mathematics. Something is useful only in the context of something that has to be achieved. Utility can only be measured by stating the goal first. The goal here ...

Mental Vagrant, can you help me understand how my reasoning is circular? The attempt at understanding singularity from the "outside" creates a perspective, and therefore creates a differentiated reality. Nevertheless, my understanding of the singularity in itself is pure infinity. It has a...

what forces the range of the potentials to assume one value is the act of observation. The act of observation is the differentiation of reality. Copenhagen supporters would suggest that observation/interaction creates a "real" manifestation as opposed to potential. I disagree, the many wo...

There is no somewhere in the totality, location only exists through perception. But do your parents exist? Yes, in the sense that all the informational constituents of their perception are just as part of the Totality now- from your perspective, as they were when they were alive- from your perspecti...

How does reality manifest as an undifferentiated whole? Reality is an undifferentiated whole, differentiated reality is perception. Without a perspective all points in time and space are equally far away, location is meaningless without an observer. Perspective is necessary to differentiate reality...

Dennis, I believe that you've come precisely to my point. It is via perspective (mental activity being one type) that a pluralistic reality can exist. Causation only bears meaning in a pluralistic reality, so causation must be a property of perspective/mental activity/logic/syntax and not of a physi...

It looks like you are saying mental activity is effectively no more and no less than a magician's trick. Mental activity is an inevitable phenomenon and it is through it that time, space and causality can be viewed as anything but aspects of singularity. Think of a cube, we understand the dimension...

I'm saying that both form and the play of causality depend on mental activity. Without an observer (which is a limited view of reality) reality cannot manifest except as an undifferentiated whole. All being exists. All time exists. Causation implies a temporal hierarchy, which is valid but only from...

Yes, that is a much more elegant way of putting it- if you substituted physical reality for the perception of physical reality. Specifically, I'm claiming that form and causality (as a conceptual device to describe the relation of form to itself) are properties of mind. The play of causality is in p...

My use of the term nature was ambiguous. When I say nature I refer to the commonly held presupposition of a material universe as opposed to something like Max Tegmark's mathematical universe. Within an informational singularity the phenomenology of mind (which includes concepts) can be described out...

Is causation a conceptual device or a property of nature? I believe it's a conceptual device and is essentially a representation of syntax. Describing causation is impossible empirically. We can observe change in energy states coinciding with interaction but the assertion that these energy changes a...