#metametaphysical

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Alright, the urge hath reared its ugly head and I have succumbed. I will now drop my work in progress theory on all of existence.

So, where do we start? Not at the beginning actually! But at the basics. And then the beginning.

Reality in my point of view is set up on four levels. The physical, the most basic everyone knows but no one really understands, which is built upon the metaphysical, which no one seems to really know or care about, there’s degrees of separation between them, but you can draw a pretty distinct line in the sand at what point a physical particle becomes a metaphysical particle, (it’s all the same stuff really, there’s no difference in actual make up, just how we perceive them to be), and then there’s the metametaphysical, or the conceptual realm, where all physical forces come from, and then the void, the great nothing everything spawned from. Conceptualization is everything as nothing yet, metaphysics is everything in action, and physics is everything as a result. You have an idea, you work on an idea, and suddenly, you have something!

It’s a fundamental law that nothing cannot exist, I mean just think about it, how could nothing possibly exist? It’s nothing! Something HAS to exist! It is the only true law in all of reality, that something must exist, and so theoretically, there was an infinite amount of time where there was nothing in the multiverse, but also, nothing never existed, it’s like if an apple fell and no one heard it, did it really fall? Except on like, a level of all of reality that has and hasn’t ever existed. Regardless, there had to spawn an every-thing to counteract the no-thing, and thus, the everything was born! What was it? Well uh, it was something I guess?

It didn’t really matter, there was no such thing as matter, or energy, a single electron is billions upon billions more times complex of a creation than the literal everything at this stage in its existence, but after a few untold countless millenia’s no one was ever there to witness, it began having “ideas” a rudimentary consciousness, the most idiotic of rats of the modern age would seem like a god in comparison, but given a few more countless ages, it learned how to make things out of the void, and thus, created the very first instance of a “soul”, a simple metaphysical object that an idea of an individual is bound to in some way, the average insignificant soul of a bacterium is infinite magnitudes stronger than this so called “soul”, but given time, and enough experimentation, the very first instance of split personality disorder happened to, in a world with no natural laws, split the person of the first god, resulting in the very first example of mitosis also! In a non-existent way I guess.

This was an interesting development, because for the first time in literally forever, and I do mean literally, there was more than 1 “person” in existence, and they could communicate and share, and fight and love, except none of those things existed yet as we know them. They were bacterium’s in space, before even nebula’s existed. They could do a lot more than just talk however, they could create things, worlds with “rules”, rudimentary rules sure, but there were restrictions, they weren’t just meaningless everything when they entered these world, suddenly they were, quantifiable. This is where physics comes from! Not the ingenious and masterful work of physics in our universe, that comes from a much younger and more powerful god, but physics as a concept had just been invented, and so to worlds, games, and universes.

Now I have no way of ever knowing what worlds they made or games they played, probably something so abstract and simple, our genius and complicated works of thought couldn’t possibly comprehend it, simply less than a blip on our radar, we’re so used to the awesome stimulant of our universe, playing the first ever game would feel like, sensory deprivation, with a teeny tiny imaginary electric shock every once in a blue moon, but these were entire worlds to the very first gods, these, insignificant creatures with weak spirits held the key to literally everything that could possibly exist, starting a chain reaction that will literally go on forever, until everything possibly happens, and our universe is just another stepping stone in accomplishing that everything.

So there’s the creation myth, infinite millennia before our universe was even thought of. Our universe is so complex and large, it only makes sense that it wasn’t the first or even hundredth universe to be made. We’re all infinite orders of magnitude stronger, in literally every single way, than the very first god. At least, if you think it faded away. I like to think when gods ghosts and spirits die, they become one with all of reality, and evey so often, cause a ripple, or poke their heads above the waters of the void to be born again as a tree, or a bacterium, and if they go mad enough, their personality will stop existing, and then they will never be heard of again. It’s incredibly likely this happened to the first god, but if it didn’t? Well, than our entire universe may just be lesser than electrons to it, to put into perspective how incredibly significant in the multiverse a creature like that would be, given infinite amount of time to learn and grow, maybe both of these things are the same thing, we are just electrons in the body of existence. Small and insignificant, but important, because if we didn’t exist, reality will never reach infinite possibility.

Every death, rape, murder, theft, birth, life, gift, act of love and sacrifice all is important. Sin was made up by aristocratic gods who taught it to aristocratic humans, sin doesn’t exist! If you’re punished for something, it’s because something chose to punish you, not because you deserved it, (nobody deserves anything) or that it’s somehow baked into the fabric of reality that stealing will send your soul to the bad place! Ghost cops take your soul to the bad place to be punished over their stupid laws, I hate them just as much as I hate real cops and real laws! I am a literal spiritual anarchist, because I exist in the realm of realism and reality, and in reality, anything is possible, everything will happen, and nothing is good or evil, it is all just meant to be! I’m also a hypocrite and like to think of myself as a force of justice and judgement, at least eventually I’ll be, free to administer my own punishment and reward to whoever I see fit and bend reality to my will, whether by physical, metaphysical, economical, or politcial means. Mostly as a reactionary anti-tyrant to fight tyranny, but also to satisfy a sick dream I’ve had since I was as young as 5 of conquering the world through militaristic might!

That’s not even the tippity top of the iceberg though, that’s just the bottom tip, a deep sea fish’s view of reality, if reality was an iceberg, that’s not even getting into the complexities of the soul, or fate, or reincarnation, or reality manipulation! But I’m tired now and the head of urges has returned to the deep recesses of my mind I still fear, so until next time you, sorry sap! Thank you for indulging my schizophrenic ramblings! It was drug induced, (drugs including ridiculous amounts of caffeine and also alcohol) but that doesn’t make it any less truthful! At least that’s what I believe. I mean, I’ve already dedicated 5 years of my life to studying this, and I’m determined to make those snake oil selling spiritual gurus and those stupid fuck ass priests and those damn wizards suck it with facts and logic and magical mushrooms! Maybe I’ll make something more coherent when I actually write something I want people to see, until next time! Your very own, unlicensed un-professional.

#hexacles.txt #pentacles talks #metaphysics #creation myth #ramblings #personal philosophy

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Pataphysics is the science of that which is superinduced upon metaphysics ... An epiphenomenon being often accidental, pataphysics will be, above all, the science of the particular, despite the common opinion that the only science is that of the general Pataphysics will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one; or, less ambitiously, will describe a universe which can be - and perhaps should be - envisioned in place of the traditional one ... Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments

Alfred Jarry. Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll, Pataphysician

#alfred jarry #holographic universe theory? #metametaphysics #metametametaphysics #and so on endlessly

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

While I really like Jasper Fforde, I hate how he sums up postmodernism like this

postmodernism is about existentialism.

existentialism is about the contradictions between the self and the world.

ontology is about in-betweenness.

philosophy is about metaphysics and how they produce objects, descriptions, and reality.

physics is about nature. metametaphysics is about the reality behind reality.

maths is about abstractions.

physics is about consciousness.

#late night bull session

[spilledreality]

The short story is that I do think, if we attend to the details of what metaphysicians are doing when they engage in many of the classic debates (about personal identity, freedom, art...) one gets a better account by seeing them as engaging in conceptual negotiation than as seeing them as reporting metaphysical 'discoveries'. Locke, for example, in arguing for his conception of personal identity, begins by noting that 'person' is a 'forensic term', used for assigning praise and blame, and goes on to appeal to that in justifying his revisionary continuity of consciousness view of personal identity. 

Why then put it in the object language, and present it as a discovery about what persons are, or what art is, rather than as a conceptual recommendation? To some extent this may be a product of a misguided metametaphysics. But to some extent it is a power move: if you say 'hey, let's use the term 'person' this way!', then you might get ignored; if you present it as a discovery about what persons really are, this sounds like a scientific discovery that must be heeded.

Amy Thomasson, AMA

#conceptual engineering

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Australian Journal of Logic, Vol. 14, #1, 2017 Dissent, Vol. 64, #2, 2017 Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 141, #3, 2017 Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, Vol. 42, #2, 2017 Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought, Vol. 34, #1, 2017 Mind, Vol. 126, #501, 2017 Nanoethics, Vol. 11, #1, 2017

Australian Journal of Logic, Vol. 14, #1, 2017 Special Issue: Non-Classicality: Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy. Editors: Zach Weber, Maarten McKubre-Jordens, and Patrick Girard Articles Jc Beall. There is no Logical Negation: True, False, Both, and Neither. Amanda Bryant. Resolving Quine's Confict: A Neo-Quinean View of the Rational Revisability of Logic. Guillermo Badia. A Remark on Maksimova's Variable Separation Property in Super-Bi-Intuitionistic Logics. Graham Priest. What If? The Exploration of an Idea. Suki Finn. Metametaphysics and Dialetheism. Shawn Standefer. Non-Classical Circular Definitions. Tore Fjetland Øgaard. Skolem Functions in Non-Classical Logics. Greg Restall. Fixed-Point Models for Theories of Properties and Classes. David Gilbert, Giorgio Venturi. Neighborhood Semantics for Logics of Unknown Truths and False Beliefs. Zach Weber, Maarten McKubre-Jordens. Paraconsistent Measurement of the Circle. Colin Caret. Hybridized Paracomplete and Paraconsistent Logics. Back to Top

Dissent, Vol. 64, #2, 2017 Editor's Page Michael Kazin. Trump and the F-Word. Culture Front Evan Malmgren. Don’t Feed the Trolls. Natasha Lewis. On the Dole with Ken Loach. Manisha Sinha. Slavery on Screen. Capitalism Today Mark Levinson, Timothy Shenk. Introduction: Toward a New Economy. J.W. Mason. A Cautious Case for Economic Nationalism. Michael Jacobs, Mariana Mazzucato. Breaking with Capitalist Orthodoxy. James K. Galbraith. Can Trump Deliver On Growth? Alyssa Battistoni. The False Promise of Universal Basic Income. Michael Ralph. The Price of Life: From Slavery to Corporate Life Insurance. Daniel Luban. The Elusive Karl Polanyi. Portfolio Grace Paley. This Is What We Must Do. Valérie Igounet, Vincent Jarousseau. Scenes from the Front: France’s Front National in Power. Repression and Resistance in Asia Jeffrey Wasserstrom. Repression and Resistance in Asia: Introduction. John Delury. The Candlelight Revolution. Vicente L. Rafael. Duterte Unbound. Alexis Dudden. Japan’s Antiwar Legacy. David Bandurski. An Umbrella Closes in Hong Kong. Jeffrey Wasserstrom. The Chairman of Everything. Tyrell Haberkorn. Court vs. Crown in Thailand. Articles Michael Walzer. The Historical Task of the Left. Nelson Lichtenstein. Who Killed Obamacare? Johanna Brenner, Nancy Fraser. What Is Progressive Neoliberalism?: A Debate. Joanne Barkan. The Miseducation of Betsy DeVos. Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. Party Crashers: How Far-Right Demagogues Took Over the GOP. Cole Stangler. The Red and the Rainbow: The Life and Work of Daniel Guérin. Andrew Elrod. What Happened to Workers’ Ed? Robert Jay Lifton. Malignant Normality. Reviews Patrick Blanchfield. Like the Weather. David Glenn. The Rise of Solitary. Abigail Fradkin. The False Economics of Anti-Immigration. Udi Greenberg. Against Conservative Internationalism. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins. The Logic of Populism. Back to Top

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Journal of Medicine & Philosophy, Vol. 42, #2, 2017 Introduction Tyron Goldschmidt. Shifting the Focus While Conserving Commitments in Research Ethics. Articles David Wendler; Alan Wertheimer. Why is Coerced Consent Worse Than No Consent and Deceived Consent? David DeGrazia; Michelle Groman; Lisa M. Lee. Defining the Boundaries of a Right to Adequate Protection: A New Lens on Pediatric Research Ethics. Nicola Jane Williams. Harms to “Others” and the Selection Against Disability View. Joel K. Press; Caryn J. Rogers. Defining Research Risk in Standard of Care Trials: Lessons from SUPPORT. Miguel Ricou; Eduardo Sá; Rui Nunes. The Ethical Principles of the Portuguese Psychologists: A Universal Dimension. Lawrence Burns. What Does the Patient Say? Levinas and Medical Ethics. Back to Top

Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought, Vol. 34, #1, 2017 Research Articles Jan Maximilian Robitzsch. The Epicureans on Human Nature and its Social and Political Consequences. Ann Ward. Oedipus and Socrates on the Quest for Self-Knowledge. Andrea Catanzaro. From the Homeric Epic to Modern Political Theory. Bernard J. Dobski. The Enduring Necessity of Periclean Politics. V. Bradley Lewis. Eusebius of Caesarea’s Un-Platonic Platonic Political Theology. Adriel M. Trott. ‘Not Slavery, but Salvation’. Others Paul Christesen. The (Re)Birth of the Greek Economy? Ravi Sharma. Platonic Inquiry. Book Reviews P.L.P. Simpson. Aristotle’s Politics: A Critical Guide , written by Thornton Lockwood and Thanassis Samaras. Daniel Kapust. Livy’s Political Philosophy: Power and Personality in Early Rome , written by Ann Vasaly. Paula Gottlieb. Passions and Persuasion in Aristotle’s Rhetoric , written by Jamie Dow. Emily Austin. The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists , written by James Warren. Jakub Jirsa. Politics in Socrates’ Alcibiades: A Philosophical Account of Plato’s Dialogue Alcibiades Major , written by Andre Archie. Wilfred E. Major. Aristophanes and Alcibiades: Echoes of Contemporary History in Athenian Comedy , written by Michael Vickers. Back to Top

Mind, Vol. 126, #501, 2017 Articles Edward Elliott. Ramsey without Ethical Neutrality: A New Representation Theorem. Hsueh Qu. Hume’s Doxastic Involuntarism. Daniel Greco. Cognitive Mobile Homes. Michael Cholbi. Paternalism and our Rational Powers. John Pittard; Alex Worsnip. Metanormative Contextualism and Normative Uncertainty. Leon Horsten; Graham E. Leigh. Truth is Simple. Discussions Chris Zarpentine. Moral Judgement, Agency and Affect: A Response to Gerrans and Kennett. Philip Gerrans; Jeanette Kennett. Mental Time Travel, Dynamic Evaluation, and Moral Agency. Book Reviews Michael Price. One: Being an Investigation into the Unity of Reality and of its Parts, including the Singular Object which is Nothingness, by Graham Priest. A. C. Paseau. The Laws of Belief: Ranking Theory & its Philosophical Applications, by Wolfgang Spohn. Sacha Golob. Kant's Transcendental Deduction, by Henry Allison. Karen Margrethe Nielsen. Levels of Argument: A Comparative Study of Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, by Dominic Scott. Ivo Pezlar. Proof-Theoretic Semantics, by Nissim Francez. John Hyman. Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, by Alva Nöe. Miriam Schleifer Mccormick. Judgment and Agency, by Ernest Sosa. Back to Top

Nanoethics, Vol. 11, #1, 2017 Special Section: Visioneering Socio-Technical Innovations Editorial Christopher Coenen. Visions Making Sense of the Present and Co-Creating the Future. Original Papers Simone Arnaldi. Changing Me Softly: Making Sense of Soft Regulation and Compliance in the Italian Nanotechnology Sector. Martin Sand, Christoph Schneider. Visioneering Socio-Technical Innovations — a Missing Piece of the Puzzle. Urte Brand, Arnim von Gleich. Guiding Orientation Processes as Possibility to Give Direction for System Innovations—the Use of Resilience and Sustainability in the Energy Transition. Sascha Dickel, Jan-Felix Schrape. The Logic of Digital Utopianism. Franziska Engels, Anna Verena Münch, Dagmar Simon. One Site—Multiple Visions: Visioneering Between Contrasting Actors’ Perspectives. Arianna Ferrari, Andreas Lösch. How Smart Grid Meets In Vitro Meat: on Visions as Socio-Epistemic Practices. Niklas Gudowsky, Mahshid Sotoudeh. Into Blue Skies—a Transdisciplinary Foresight and Co-creation Method for Adding Robustness to Visioneering. Sabine Pfeiffer. The Vision of “Industrie 4.0” in the Making—a Case of Future Told, Tamed, and Traded. Book Review Rosangela Barcaro. Ethical Assessment of Emerging Technologies. Appraising the Moral Plausibility of Technological Visions. Back to Top

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TONIGHT I went to a talk on metametaphysics and there was an excessive amount of red wine present, which entails my newfound authoritative position to warn others of this dangerous mixture

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ALIUS Bulletin, n. 1, 2017 Analytic Philosophy, Vol. 58, #1, 2017 Developing World Bioethics, Vol. 17, #1, 2017 International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 81, #1-2, 2017 Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 113, #7, 2016 Journal of Social Ontology, Vol. 3, #1, 2017 Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 42, #1, 2017 Méthexis, Vol. 29, #1, 2017 Nursing Philosophy, Vol. 18, #2, 2017 Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 98, #1, 2017 Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 57, February 2017

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