Division by Zero
Mood: contemplative
Music: Some shit playing down the hall...
Okay, I promised to post my theory, so here it is in all its craziness.
It all started back in high school. Senior year. Pre-cal class. We were studying those damn limits, and you know the problems that occur when a limit is some number over zero (i.e. x/0). Things get bitchy. Let's not forget how long I've had the fact drilled into my head that you can never divide by zero and get a real answer. I was always angry that they told me I could not divide by zero and get an actual answer other than "no solution". I cried bullshit. So I got to thinking, when can you divide by zero? Why doesn't something like 6/0 work? Well, think of it in the way you first learned to divide. Take 6/3 for example. Read it as a sentence worded in this way: What do you multiply 3 by to get 6? 2, of course. Now go back to 6/0. What do you multiply 0 by to get 6? Ummmm....shit. Any number multiplied by 0 is 0. That doesn't work. Then I came to this thought: 0/0. What do you multiply 0 by to get 0? Any damn number you want, real or imaginary. 0/0 is not "no solution". Rather, it is EVERY solution.
Okay, I latched onto that word "nothing". What is nothing, after all? I now mathematically define it by any number that is divided by 0. If 0 is in the denominator, it is the very definition of nothing. Therefore, using a variable, x/0 = nothing for any number x. Great, I've defined nothing. How is that useful? Well.... When you divide by 0, it's defined as nothing. However, 0/0 gives you everything. But that's still a case of x/0 meaning it is therefore still under the definition of nothing. This had a large impact on me. Something, 0/0, is still a case of Nothing. Have you ever thought about what a paradox it is that anything exists in the first place? I mean, let's say there is a creator god (just for giggles)... Sure you can explain all of the cosmos as a creation of this god, but what created the god? What came before the god? People will try to tell you the god has just always been here. Immortal. Um, okay. Have proof for that? You don't? Well I do. How can even a god, which is under the category of something, have always been when only nothing can come before it? This is where that 0/0 comes in handy. Something has just been designated as a special category of Nothing. In truth, there's only Nothing. It is just that the Something is contained in that Nothing.
Even if you don't think a god created everything, it still works out just fine. I'm merely offering an explanation how Something came from seemingly Nothing. The truth seems to be that the Something and the Nothing are one. That's why there's no beginning before the Something. The Something, just as The Nothing, has always existed. And they always will exist. And don't think that because I'm capitalizing the words that I'm making them Forms (as in Plato's theory of Forms). No, there's no Form of these things. They just two different names for the same thing. The cosmos. Existence.
Here is where some people may disagree that Nothing can exist. Did you ever think that maybe you were thinking of the Nothing in an incorrect way? To me, the Nothing seems to have some amazingly special and unlimited characteristics that allow all this and more to be.
What was the first to come out of the Nothing as Something? Um.... Invalid question. It's eternal. There is no beginning. There is no end. There is merely change. AHA! Change. Let's discuss that.
Change. We know what it is. We know how to measure it (i.e. Time). But do we really understand what it entails? It has been proposed that if there was a god, Unmoved Mover, and so on, it could not be part of existence because then it would be subject to change. If a god is subject to change, it could go from a state of existence to a state of non-existence, and then you have mortal gods. Then we have a problem since, by definition, a god is undying. Think about change. Changes bring about the end of one thing and the beginning of another. With my theory of Something and Nothing being one and the same, that means a god would HAVE to be subject to change. Problems have arisen. I've already seen that the problems really don't pose a threat to the theory. What, exactly, is able to change without being subject to destruction? I thought about that one a long while, and the answer I came up with is the Mind. Anyone who knows Aristotle knows he stated the Unmoved Mover as a perfection of Mind. A perfect mind. Aristotle is one of those people who thought the Unmoved Mover could not be part of existence due to the change problem. I'll tell you why he's wrong. Minds do undergo change. What is the measure of this change? Thoughts. A new thought designates a change in state of mind. Think about it, your thoughts are changing ALL the time. Did you ever stop to think that your mind was constantly dying with each change in thought and a new one born with each new though? Of course not. That's a little extreme. Just because you don't think the same way you did just a second ago or 8 years ago does not mean you stop being you. I'm still Blaine. I was Blaine when I was 6 years old. I'm still Blaine at the age of 21....
BAM! Mind. Now we, being humans, have bodies. We are all painfully aware that bodies are not eternal. Hence people like Aristotle positing the theory that an immortal being...being a perfect mind. No body. And I think he's right in that respect, but I think Mind exists just as a body exists. However, the changes Mind undergoes are different from the changes a corporeal body undergoes. Mind can be immortal. Even in existence or outside of existence. They are all the same. On the other hand, perhaps all thoughts are going on simultaneously, eternally? If so, then there is no change for the Unmoved Mover. It's all golden even still.
This poses some interesting possibilities that are just that, possibilities. If there's a perfect mind out there that we could define as a god, then it is thinking, has thought, will think everything that's possible of being thought. And then some. Humans and other animals of higher thought processes are quite odd. We seem to have a truncated form of mind. However, one possibility is that since the one perfect mind is everything, then the minds in us are just glimpses of the thoughts of the perfect mind. Why can't we have the full form (not Form) of mind in us? Bodies... They aren't immortal. They can't exhibit it all. That's why we can appear as individuals. Different thoughts going through different bodies at different changes. They look drastically different. We seem like individuals. We might not be. Only individual in body and thoughts but not in mind.
Time. Let's discuss that now. Changes are measured in time and in thoughts. I'll tell you why time doesn't really exist, and then we'll apply that to thoughts. Time is a measure of change. Change is very real. This is analogous to something like the word "meter". A meter doesn't really exist. It's just a human word made up to represent a certain distance. To say a meter exists is getting into something like Plato's Forms. There's a Form of a meter. Well that's just retarded. The same goes for time. It's a made-up term to represent a measure of something just like meter. It doesn't really exist. It just helps us cope with physical world. Did you know scientists think there are around at least 500 universes, and failing that, 500 sections of one giant universe each with a different set of natural laws? Think about it, with an infinite amount of space and matter, any and every possibility is able to be played out at once. What good is it to get so entrenched in learning tiny specifics of one area of knowledge when it will no more help you understand everything than knowing that the fact that water is wet will help you learn to swim? It doesn't. Your body is mortal, remember. It will undergo changes that will bring about its end. You try to learn everything while concentrating at equally mortal natural laws and you fail at life.
Interesting. That just coincided if you didn't notice. Nothing and Something is one and the same. There is an infinite possibilities all being played out at once. No such thing as time. Something/Nothing being eternal (i.e. no time). Every thing plays into the other. So, what we just discussed is that time isn't real. Time is a measure of change. Change is real, but it's all happening at once. To our bodies, it all seems VERY organized. A sequence of events ruled by time. To something immortal it's all the same. All going on at once. Was going on before. Is going on now. Will go on in the future. In this way all thoughts in the perfect mind go on at once. When you separate them...individualize them....then you think there is time. You think one thought ends when the other begins. No, only in a physical body does that happen.
What can one take from this? The only true immortal is some perfect mind. It appears to undergo change by change in thoughts, but that doesn't mean it ceases to exist. In fact, the changes aren't really there. All thoughts are being thought at once eternally.
What does that mean about us? What happens to us? I'd imagine that there are several possibilities to that as well. For one, since Nothing and Something are the same, if there is Oblivion (i.e. Nothing) after we die, maybe it is some sort of existence? Perhaps our bodies may die, but the thoughts, really being part of the eternal mind, return to their source? Even if our minds aren't part of the eternal mind, think about it.... Everything that can exist is existing right now given infinite space and energy. There's no reason to believe there is a limited source of energy. If energy, being Something and therefore Nothing, has boundaries, then what the fuck is outside of Nothing? Therefore, to us we seem constrained by limited time, but perhaps the base energy that makes up everything will once again arrange itself in such a way to bring you about again. This whole existence about again. All the different possible ways for the existence to happen could be created along with it. Well, infinite energy and space means they already do exist. And they'll continue to exist. It could be every time we go to sleep we die. We wake up and live again. We dream that others die and never come back, but perhaps we'll see them again? Maybe in the Oblivion existence, eh? Sure, energy could arrange itself in an infinite amount of ways, but there is no time. There is eternity. You could exist body-wise and mind-wise an infinite amount of times. What it all comes down to is, I can think of no plausible possibility to suppose we ever really stop existing. Either in mind or possibly even in body.
One last thing. People might wonder, if our minds are really just physical, transitory instances of the perfect, eternal mind, why only certain beings seem to have these higher thoughts. We're going into the subject of biology now. The brain. The brain is the bridge between mind and body. It lets the mind occupy a body. It's not that the perfect mind is picking and choosing what to inhabit. It's just certain animals have evolved a physical machine within their body that just so happens to be a temporary house for mind.
Okay, I lied. This is the one last thought I have to share. Remember the Teilhard thang? Perhaps the perfect, eternal mind does have a corporeal component. Since there is only eternity and everything exists at once, then there have always been and always will be physical beings with the capacity for higher thoughts. Perhaps it is one god with many bodies? We seem to Teilhard like our minds our evolving toward the Omega Point, but that denotes time. No time. Everything now. It has already happened. In fact, it's not something that came to happen, it always has been. We, and every other higher-thought being, have been at the Omega Point all along. This physical world is just really fucking with our minds. It's hard to ignore the physical world when you are part of it. There's a good reason why philosophers have been trying to determine what is real (i.e. eternal) and thinking only on that. You with your physical body trying to think on transitory things is futile. Infinite amount of things to think about. Only the one perfect mind can think of all at once. What's real is that there's a base energy that composes everything. What's real is that there is no time. What's real is that everything is possible. Stick to the eternal truths. Do away with the transitory ones. What's true today in the physical world could be different tomorrow. Today I am alive. Tomorrow my body may be dead. Therefore, to call something truth, it has to be eternally true. Then again, if you remember, our existence could be eternal too. Haha! It gets crazy near the end. The deep thoughts in philosophy usually do.
Addendum:
One more possibility about the perfect mind and our minds. If the perfect mind is perfect, it knows everything capable of being known. However, the mind is incorporeal. How could it know about the corporeal world? Some people say it doesn't because the corporeal world can't be known due to it's tendency to change. It cannot be known. Well, remember, there is the very real possibility that the corporeal world is just as immortal as the incorporeal world. It's just to us it seems like it is not. So how would the incoroporeal even begin to go about knowing the corporeal? Maybe that's where we come in? I mean we as in any corporeal being with the capacity for higher thought. Not just humans. Any animal. Native or extra-terrestrial. Remember, our numbers are infinite. Therefore, the incorporeal Unmoved Mover now has an infinite amount of corporeal, sensory devices in the corporeal world. The individual, corporeal thinkers when taken all together know all the corporeal. The Unmoved Mover knows the incorporeal. All taken together, we make up the final being that knows all. So, what it all comes down to is there is one ultimate being (The Omega) that knows all. But to know all there has to be all. Enter existence stage right. To know all The Omega must be a part of all. All is part of The Omega. Just a god trying to get to know everything by knowing itself. Maybe that's why we humans have such a high priority on trying to figure out who we are with relation to the world? In doing so, we get closer to knowing ourselves and the world both at the same time. And then The Omega gets closer to knowing itself. Maybe the reason we are here really IS just to figure out who we are...
And for those confused: God = god = the perfect mind = corporeal + incorporeal = Unmoved Mover = The Omega Point = The Omega
Music: Some shit playing down the hall...
Okay, I promised to post my theory, so here it is in all its craziness.
It all started back in high school. Senior year. Pre-cal class. We were studying those damn limits, and you know the problems that occur when a limit is some number over zero (i.e. x/0). Things get bitchy. Let's not forget how long I've had the fact drilled into my head that you can never divide by zero and get a real answer. I was always angry that they told me I could not divide by zero and get an actual answer other than "no solution". I cried bullshit. So I got to thinking, when can you divide by zero? Why doesn't something like 6/0 work? Well, think of it in the way you first learned to divide. Take 6/3 for example. Read it as a sentence worded in this way: What do you multiply 3 by to get 6? 2, of course. Now go back to 6/0. What do you multiply 0 by to get 6? Ummmm....shit. Any number multiplied by 0 is 0. That doesn't work. Then I came to this thought: 0/0. What do you multiply 0 by to get 0? Any damn number you want, real or imaginary. 0/0 is not "no solution". Rather, it is EVERY solution.
Okay, I latched onto that word "nothing". What is nothing, after all? I now mathematically define it by any number that is divided by 0. If 0 is in the denominator, it is the very definition of nothing. Therefore, using a variable, x/0 = nothing for any number x. Great, I've defined nothing. How is that useful? Well.... When you divide by 0, it's defined as nothing. However, 0/0 gives you everything. But that's still a case of x/0 meaning it is therefore still under the definition of nothing. This had a large impact on me. Something, 0/0, is still a case of Nothing. Have you ever thought about what a paradox it is that anything exists in the first place? I mean, let's say there is a creator god (just for giggles)... Sure you can explain all of the cosmos as a creation of this god, but what created the god? What came before the god? People will try to tell you the god has just always been here. Immortal. Um, okay. Have proof for that? You don't? Well I do. How can even a god, which is under the category of something, have always been when only nothing can come before it? This is where that 0/0 comes in handy. Something has just been designated as a special category of Nothing. In truth, there's only Nothing. It is just that the Something is contained in that Nothing.
Even if you don't think a god created everything, it still works out just fine. I'm merely offering an explanation how Something came from seemingly Nothing. The truth seems to be that the Something and the Nothing are one. That's why there's no beginning before the Something. The Something, just as The Nothing, has always existed. And they always will exist. And don't think that because I'm capitalizing the words that I'm making them Forms (as in Plato's theory of Forms). No, there's no Form of these things. They just two different names for the same thing. The cosmos. Existence.
Here is where some people may disagree that Nothing can exist. Did you ever think that maybe you were thinking of the Nothing in an incorrect way? To me, the Nothing seems to have some amazingly special and unlimited characteristics that allow all this and more to be.
What was the first to come out of the Nothing as Something? Um.... Invalid question. It's eternal. There is no beginning. There is no end. There is merely change. AHA! Change. Let's discuss that.
Change. We know what it is. We know how to measure it (i.e. Time). But do we really understand what it entails? It has been proposed that if there was a god, Unmoved Mover, and so on, it could not be part of existence because then it would be subject to change. If a god is subject to change, it could go from a state of existence to a state of non-existence, and then you have mortal gods. Then we have a problem since, by definition, a god is undying. Think about change. Changes bring about the end of one thing and the beginning of another. With my theory of Something and Nothing being one and the same, that means a god would HAVE to be subject to change. Problems have arisen. I've already seen that the problems really don't pose a threat to the theory. What, exactly, is able to change without being subject to destruction? I thought about that one a long while, and the answer I came up with is the Mind. Anyone who knows Aristotle knows he stated the Unmoved Mover as a perfection of Mind. A perfect mind. Aristotle is one of those people who thought the Unmoved Mover could not be part of existence due to the change problem. I'll tell you why he's wrong. Minds do undergo change. What is the measure of this change? Thoughts. A new thought designates a change in state of mind. Think about it, your thoughts are changing ALL the time. Did you ever stop to think that your mind was constantly dying with each change in thought and a new one born with each new though? Of course not. That's a little extreme. Just because you don't think the same way you did just a second ago or 8 years ago does not mean you stop being you. I'm still Blaine. I was Blaine when I was 6 years old. I'm still Blaine at the age of 21....
BAM! Mind. Now we, being humans, have bodies. We are all painfully aware that bodies are not eternal. Hence people like Aristotle positing the theory that an immortal being...being a perfect mind. No body. And I think he's right in that respect, but I think Mind exists just as a body exists. However, the changes Mind undergoes are different from the changes a corporeal body undergoes. Mind can be immortal. Even in existence or outside of existence. They are all the same. On the other hand, perhaps all thoughts are going on simultaneously, eternally? If so, then there is no change for the Unmoved Mover. It's all golden even still.
This poses some interesting possibilities that are just that, possibilities. If there's a perfect mind out there that we could define as a god, then it is thinking, has thought, will think everything that's possible of being thought. And then some. Humans and other animals of higher thought processes are quite odd. We seem to have a truncated form of mind. However, one possibility is that since the one perfect mind is everything, then the minds in us are just glimpses of the thoughts of the perfect mind. Why can't we have the full form (not Form) of mind in us? Bodies... They aren't immortal. They can't exhibit it all. That's why we can appear as individuals. Different thoughts going through different bodies at different changes. They look drastically different. We seem like individuals. We might not be. Only individual in body and thoughts but not in mind.
Time. Let's discuss that now. Changes are measured in time and in thoughts. I'll tell you why time doesn't really exist, and then we'll apply that to thoughts. Time is a measure of change. Change is very real. This is analogous to something like the word "meter". A meter doesn't really exist. It's just a human word made up to represent a certain distance. To say a meter exists is getting into something like Plato's Forms. There's a Form of a meter. Well that's just retarded. The same goes for time. It's a made-up term to represent a measure of something just like meter. It doesn't really exist. It just helps us cope with physical world. Did you know scientists think there are around at least 500 universes, and failing that, 500 sections of one giant universe each with a different set of natural laws? Think about it, with an infinite amount of space and matter, any and every possibility is able to be played out at once. What good is it to get so entrenched in learning tiny specifics of one area of knowledge when it will no more help you understand everything than knowing that the fact that water is wet will help you learn to swim? It doesn't. Your body is mortal, remember. It will undergo changes that will bring about its end. You try to learn everything while concentrating at equally mortal natural laws and you fail at life.
Interesting. That just coincided if you didn't notice. Nothing and Something is one and the same. There is an infinite possibilities all being played out at once. No such thing as time. Something/Nothing being eternal (i.e. no time). Every thing plays into the other. So, what we just discussed is that time isn't real. Time is a measure of change. Change is real, but it's all happening at once. To our bodies, it all seems VERY organized. A sequence of events ruled by time. To something immortal it's all the same. All going on at once. Was going on before. Is going on now. Will go on in the future. In this way all thoughts in the perfect mind go on at once. When you separate them...individualize them....then you think there is time. You think one thought ends when the other begins. No, only in a physical body does that happen.
What can one take from this? The only true immortal is some perfect mind. It appears to undergo change by change in thoughts, but that doesn't mean it ceases to exist. In fact, the changes aren't really there. All thoughts are being thought at once eternally.
What does that mean about us? What happens to us? I'd imagine that there are several possibilities to that as well. For one, since Nothing and Something are the same, if there is Oblivion (i.e. Nothing) after we die, maybe it is some sort of existence? Perhaps our bodies may die, but the thoughts, really being part of the eternal mind, return to their source? Even if our minds aren't part of the eternal mind, think about it.... Everything that can exist is existing right now given infinite space and energy. There's no reason to believe there is a limited source of energy. If energy, being Something and therefore Nothing, has boundaries, then what the fuck is outside of Nothing? Therefore, to us we seem constrained by limited time, but perhaps the base energy that makes up everything will once again arrange itself in such a way to bring you about again. This whole existence about again. All the different possible ways for the existence to happen could be created along with it. Well, infinite energy and space means they already do exist. And they'll continue to exist. It could be every time we go to sleep we die. We wake up and live again. We dream that others die and never come back, but perhaps we'll see them again? Maybe in the Oblivion existence, eh? Sure, energy could arrange itself in an infinite amount of ways, but there is no time. There is eternity. You could exist body-wise and mind-wise an infinite amount of times. What it all comes down to is, I can think of no plausible possibility to suppose we ever really stop existing. Either in mind or possibly even in body.
One last thing. People might wonder, if our minds are really just physical, transitory instances of the perfect, eternal mind, why only certain beings seem to have these higher thoughts. We're going into the subject of biology now. The brain. The brain is the bridge between mind and body. It lets the mind occupy a body. It's not that the perfect mind is picking and choosing what to inhabit. It's just certain animals have evolved a physical machine within their body that just so happens to be a temporary house for mind.
Okay, I lied. This is the one last thought I have to share. Remember the Teilhard thang? Perhaps the perfect, eternal mind does have a corporeal component. Since there is only eternity and everything exists at once, then there have always been and always will be physical beings with the capacity for higher thoughts. Perhaps it is one god with many bodies? We seem to Teilhard like our minds our evolving toward the Omega Point, but that denotes time. No time. Everything now. It has already happened. In fact, it's not something that came to happen, it always has been. We, and every other higher-thought being, have been at the Omega Point all along. This physical world is just really fucking with our minds. It's hard to ignore the physical world when you are part of it. There's a good reason why philosophers have been trying to determine what is real (i.e. eternal) and thinking only on that. You with your physical body trying to think on transitory things is futile. Infinite amount of things to think about. Only the one perfect mind can think of all at once. What's real is that there's a base energy that composes everything. What's real is that there is no time. What's real is that everything is possible. Stick to the eternal truths. Do away with the transitory ones. What's true today in the physical world could be different tomorrow. Today I am alive. Tomorrow my body may be dead. Therefore, to call something truth, it has to be eternally true. Then again, if you remember, our existence could be eternal too. Haha! It gets crazy near the end. The deep thoughts in philosophy usually do.
Addendum:
One more possibility about the perfect mind and our minds. If the perfect mind is perfect, it knows everything capable of being known. However, the mind is incorporeal. How could it know about the corporeal world? Some people say it doesn't because the corporeal world can't be known due to it's tendency to change. It cannot be known. Well, remember, there is the very real possibility that the corporeal world is just as immortal as the incorporeal world. It's just to us it seems like it is not. So how would the incoroporeal even begin to go about knowing the corporeal? Maybe that's where we come in? I mean we as in any corporeal being with the capacity for higher thought. Not just humans. Any animal. Native or extra-terrestrial. Remember, our numbers are infinite. Therefore, the incorporeal Unmoved Mover now has an infinite amount of corporeal, sensory devices in the corporeal world. The individual, corporeal thinkers when taken all together know all the corporeal. The Unmoved Mover knows the incorporeal. All taken together, we make up the final being that knows all. So, what it all comes down to is there is one ultimate being (The Omega) that knows all. But to know all there has to be all. Enter existence stage right. To know all The Omega must be a part of all. All is part of The Omega. Just a god trying to get to know everything by knowing itself. Maybe that's why we humans have such a high priority on trying to figure out who we are with relation to the world? In doing so, we get closer to knowing ourselves and the world both at the same time. And then The Omega gets closer to knowing itself. Maybe the reason we are here really IS just to figure out who we are...
And for those confused: God = god = the perfect mind = corporeal + incorporeal = Unmoved Mover = The Omega Point = The Omega
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