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7/9/2025, 9:51:42 PM
>>24531970
Language is the basis for human thought, therefore, when the linguistic organ improves, so does our capacity for contemplation. Reading exercises this organ in a manner that no other medium of consumption can compare with. Words are impactful when isolated, and whereas a viewer is subordinate to the painter, the reverse becomes true for a reader and the author of a text. A great act of creation occurs when one imagines murder, love, and abstract ideas, and so the process itself is useful, if not immediately tangible.
More interesting is the opportunity to inhabit the mind of another being; words are thoughts, irrespective of their physical medium, so when I read you, I become you for a moment. For philosophy, the real value is in constructing models of thought, much akin to what a student does when modeling reality through scientific principles. One tends to forget the details, unless revisited, but the act itself orders the mind.
Language is the basis for human thought, therefore, when the linguistic organ improves, so does our capacity for contemplation. Reading exercises this organ in a manner that no other medium of consumption can compare with. Words are impactful when isolated, and whereas a viewer is subordinate to the painter, the reverse becomes true for a reader and the author of a text. A great act of creation occurs when one imagines murder, love, and abstract ideas, and so the process itself is useful, if not immediately tangible.
More interesting is the opportunity to inhabit the mind of another being; words are thoughts, irrespective of their physical medium, so when I read you, I become you for a moment. For philosophy, the real value is in constructing models of thought, much akin to what a student does when modeling reality through scientific principles. One tends to forget the details, unless revisited, but the act itself orders the mind.
6/29/2025, 3:28:23 AM
>>24504825
Thinking on this further, discovery of the basis would be equivalent to finding nature's limits. Therefore, natures "intent" could be captured since all intended outcomes are within this area. The question then becomes one of limit verification: how can one know if the discovered basis is complete? Unless they were capable of escaping nature completely, they could not; this leads to a paradox because we cannot escape nature while within it.
Humans can only perceive a subspace of the entire vector space, due to limitations of biology; think, for example, of a 4D structure and you will find it beyond you.
Thinking on this further, discovery of the basis would be equivalent to finding nature's limits. Therefore, natures "intent" could be captured since all intended outcomes are within this area. The question then becomes one of limit verification: how can one know if the discovered basis is complete? Unless they were capable of escaping nature completely, they could not; this leads to a paradox because we cannot escape nature while within it.
Humans can only perceive a subspace of the entire vector space, due to limitations of biology; think, for example, of a 4D structure and you will find it beyond you.
6/23/2025, 10:29:44 PM
>>24490729
>muh theological decline
>bible.. is le good ok!!11
Christians always point towards religion as some paragon of art or science, when in fact, humans have made progress in spite of it. Let's suppose we delude ourselves once more, as you suggest. Is it not inevitable that humans reject God once more? Art, by nature, is the usurpation of God to create in our own image; God itself is the sublimation of this act, where we idealize ourselves beyond the limits of our material world.
>muh theological decline
>bible.. is le good ok!!11
Christians always point towards religion as some paragon of art or science, when in fact, humans have made progress in spite of it. Let's suppose we delude ourselves once more, as you suggest. Is it not inevitable that humans reject God once more? Art, by nature, is the usurpation of God to create in our own image; God itself is the sublimation of this act, where we idealize ourselves beyond the limits of our material world.
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