Eternity:
The second big question of philosophy is that of movement, of change. The question comes from: if something is moving, it must have a mover, correct? But if we employ the notion of eternity (which, most can fathom eternity in the “forward” sense of time, but it’s much harder to visualize the contraption of eternity stemming backwards too: eternity just always, eternity in every direction), and also the idea of constant change, is it so hard to answer the question now?
This, with a strange stretch of the imagination, solves the problem of matter from unmatter and movement from stillness. Matter always existed, and it’s always moved and has always been changing. It is only so hard to actually understand, because we’re finite creatures, with finite understandings of the world, and the complexity (or ironic simplicity) involved in a belief in a eternity going backwards as well runs counter to the natural functionism of the brain.
Infinity:
There’s a very important distinction which must be made between infinity and eternity. One is endless in time, and one is endless in space. Infinity deals with the size, quantity, the physical measurements of a particular mass at a particular point in space/time. Or even a series of moments, as in an inorganic particles ability to be “potentially infinite”, unlimited in it’s future mass (something that is ever-expanding.) But an organic particle, such as a human, or tree, can only be comparatively infinite, and certainly not eternal, if you classify it’s “living” with being part of “what it is.”
This means that at any point in time, a particle, or rock, or solar system, can be broken down beyond a measure of perception and also be expanding potentially without boundaries, given eternity. Therefor, inorganic particles are comparatively infinitely small and potentially infinitely large.
We must remember that we’re using our brains as a medium. Humanities consciousness (or imagination) can project only to the ends of it’s capabilities, which would be equal in each direction, both large and small. So the Iz, the objective reality at any point in space/time, will have no heirarchy, or placement, for mankind. Since our senses, perceptions, and levels of conscious awareness are formatted how they are, we are forced to appraise matter according to it’s position to ourselves.
Consider any sense by which we understand the world - touch, taste, hear, see, smell - and think of a fellow conscious creature that is more adept: An eagle can see farther than we. To thier subjective state, an object in space is not as far away as we percieve it to be, nor a small object so small, so long as they can perceive it clearly. Consider a conscious being whose eyesight processes the visual imagery of an atom as a medium setting, it will also perceive equally large and small from that, to whatever degree, to a point that a tree, or dog might seem the stretches of the Universe, and electrons, protons, neutrons, quarks … beyond quarks … are only too obvious. So if we can plausibly assume a system of an atom-based medium for a consiousness, can we also not assume an entity at the far reaches of the atom-based consciousness’ perception, as it’s own medium? And one smaller after that? And another after that?
I think you have to.
On the flip-flop, consider a consciousness larger than ourselves (don’t think of it as a “big” human, just perceive it as a conscious entity, in some sort of physical capacity, abiding by scientific laws, and for all intents and purposes can be dumber n’ all hell.) It would have no conception of creatures so small as inhabiting these dust particles we call planets.
Thus it only makes sense that through any subjective standpoint, the physical universe is both infinitely small and large. While it may be true that consciousness has only appeared somewhere and around our medium, it would be wrong to rule out the furthered existence of organisms with change and movement and complexity at all mediums.
That, my friends, is infinity.
Space and Matter:
The above post might make you think these intricacies, smaller mediums, only exist in organisms we already perceive. In actuality, there are worlds of action right before, inside, around, and all over our very eyes. Because: There is no empty space. There is only “invisible” matter (that is, undetectable to the human eye.) Everywhere you look is packed with physical particles, the only variable being their density as compared to our medium’s biological mechanism’s (our eyesight) ability to perceive it. A more sensitive eyeball, in fact, could not see from your eye all the way to the words you’re reading right now.
Picture throwing a rock, and watching it rip through a fabric we call air. So thin and discreet our senses cannot perceive it, but surely it’s there. Anyone who smokes: watch smoke move about through the air in your living room. It makes it’s way as it does, usually spreading out and doing all sorts of interesting movements. If the particles in the air were thicker than the smoke particles, the smoke would be blocked. If there were less dense particles, the smoke would pass through quickly, straight up, without spreading out. Each intricate movement is the collision and subsequent action of matter colliding. Smoke cannot interact with nothingness.
Another example: When a ray of sunlight pokes through the blinds and illuminates hundreds of floating dust particles. These particles are evident, yet cannot be seen except by that special illumination caused by a bright light against a dark back-drop. These particles exist everywhere, and only under special circumstances are you aware that you see them.
However, I’d go so far as to say that light travels on this matter, devouring it, lighting it up, and we “see” light by actually becoming aware, visually, of the matter it illuminates. This matter is so small, and “invisible” that our medium sees right through it. The subsequent effect is the awareness of light, and thus the awareness of space the light is illuminating, and only now, the awareness of that space being matter.
This works for any sense that involves travelling through the matter of space. An odor must have a physical susbtance that attaches to the matter of space, sounds don’t emit wavelengths through empty air but along the matter comprising it.
Now there’s a lot more to the equation, and certainly one must know what it means to be “matter”, as scientists are finding that particles and wavelengths travel and are measured the same way. And did Einstein prove that all matter was compact energy? While this is all very interesting, and will add depths to our understanding, it doesn’t directly dispose of anything I’ve said here. The general idea is still the same and If you compare the idea of our conscious mediums with things being infinitely small, yet complex and evolving, compact in every inch of “space”, you’ll see that in fact there are worlds being played out before our very eyes. And it is along this trane of thought we understand the astral plane, astrological influences, maybe even the true influence of prayer.
Tis an amazing thing, if you allow it into your subjective reality.
