Oneness Vs. Duality Part 2 of 3: Kurt Godel, Camus, and the Never-Ending Proof
Continued from: Overcoming the Madness of Infinities
Austrian Mathematician Kurt Godel (1906-1978) (pronounced like girdle) came up with what is called the Incompleteness Theorem. And while most people have never heard of Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem, it is nonetheless one of the most important discoveries in human history. What Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem demonstrates is that in any formal system (a system consisting of a formal language and a set of inference or transformation rules) there are true statements that are not provable within the confines of that system. In other words, formal systems are doomed to incompleteness; there are always dark spots that are true but not provable.
What this means to a formal enterprise like science, is that such an enterprise is perpetual: no matter what you find out or what models you make, there will still be missing elements and so new things to discover and new models to make. A few years ago, famed physicist Stephen Hawking gave a lecture titled Godel and the End of Physics. In the lecture, Hawking, referencing Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem, described why the Holy Grail of science, the Theory of Everything, will never be fully realized. There will always be things that are not predicted. Therefore, science is in effect never-ending.
As was discussed in the previous article, multiplicity leads to infinities and infinities lead to madness (both figuratively and literally). If we are to attempt to merely understand the universe on its own multiplistic terms, we are doomed to live like the mythical Sisyphus, perpetually pushing a rock up a mountain only to let it roll back down again. Which is to say, we are doomed to chase infinities.
The mythical rock rolling Sisyphus is a great example of the plight of the infinity chaser. And that plight was explored thoroughly in the essay “The Myth of Sisyphus,” by the French author and philosopher Albert Camus (1913-1960) (pronounced like cam-ue). In the essay, Camus concludes that happiness comes from the recognition of the undeniable futility of the perpetual task: a contended acceptance. Thus Camus says that “The struggle itself is enough to fill a man’s heart, and so one must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
However, while Camus’ attempt to come to terms with chasing infinities is noble, it is nonetheless simply a classic case of turd polishing. Consequently, I do not quite hold the same sentiment as Mr. Camus. I would instead say that the struggle itself is enough to keep a man temporarily blind (psychologically asleep), and so one must imagine Sisyphus as complacently mad (chasing infinities).” No one is ever doomed to the impossible (chasing infinities) unless he continues to accept it so.
Chasing infinities is an act of war/conflict; it is an external struggle to find fulfillment that is doomed to incompleteness. The plight of the playboy (or girl) ever unfulfilled by his extravagant excesses, is the same plight of the intellectual attempting to understand the universe on its own terms. Satisfaction is always elusive when chasing infinities; it is an exercise in futility.
While a person can attempt to simply revel in the futile absurdity of chasing infinities–like Camus, existentialists, and scientists like Stephen Hawking try to do–or justify chasing infinities–like many mystics, religious, and new-ager-types try to do–it is not until a person inverts the multiplistic thinking of the world that any true, un-fleeting satisfaction can be found. To invert the thinking of the world is to flip multiplicity around from being a road to infinity to a road to oneness (singular Infinity). (Note: Don’t confuse singular Infinity with the idea of singularities. Singularities are another form of infinities, not oneness.)
Infinities (plural) are as much related to spacetime as Infinity (singular) is related to eternity. The spacetime world we see with our bodily eyeballs is an artifact of a pervasive idea, the idea of multiplicity, duality, separation, splitting. Devoid of the concept of multiplicity, there is no world, only the eternal, only oneness, only the sublime.
It is just as imprudent for the materialist-rationalist to dismiss concepts like eternity, as it is for the mystical non-materialist to mix eternity with multiplicity (infinities). Such is an example of confusion of levels, confusion of mind and matter, confusion of cause and effect. Such is the confusion that keeps man chasing infinities. And that confusion is what we will explore in the next article: Level Confusion Dreamtime
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Goedel’s incompleteness is but a statement of fact that Evolution IS the essence of existence, or existence = Evolution; humbly says Manohar Tilak, the author of the 1998 book “Infinities to Eternities”. The statement can be proven as follows: Undeniable is Energy, which brings changes and interactions. The effect of continued interactions is accumulation of information in Chemical forms which does give rise to the phenomenon of life and then man.
GOD cannot be necessarily be proven to be existing.
Spirit in my opinion is more like a Quantum Gravitational evolutionary fact. Spirit is an information system…….
Of further general interest, are the vision widening Audio Visual Lecture Tapes created by Philosophy Professor Dr. Johnny Washington at the Boca Raton Campus of The Florida Atlantic University. This broadens the view of Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorem revealing it’s real application to existence as Evolution which always is “INCOMPLETE” not only mathematically but with a view of Cosmic Existence which is evolutionary.
Chemistry leads to life and life to man, whose broadening of the activity field in to the Universe as we can witness today……..>
This is reported in my 1998 book “Infinities to Eternities” presenting a vision of Cosmic Evolution.
Most humbly,
Manohar Tilak
Thing to notice about science as Open is to conclude that it is INCOMPLETE! The Universe is an open system, and not a closed one.
Any perfection is thus an Illusion. That the Vedic Philosophy considers Existence as Maya or “An Illusion* is of the same nature as the statement of Stephen Hawking.
Since the Cosmos is Infinites and Eternal it paradoxically can be concluded as perfectly Logical.
I of course can always be corrected.
Humbly yours,
Manohar Tilak,
(author of the 1998 book “infinities to Eternities which after page 58 has a concentric and colored chart showing 8 Time linier-ly arranged 8 Cosmic Information systems, which at the same time a kind of a proof of existence the cosmic form of TIME; of which Hawking the Physicist in his book “Brief History of Time” has concluded the time in Cosmos has been so little! ; which again is a case related to Goedel’s Incompleteness…… )
There are 8 Fields singularity, duality of Physics, three dimensional Information of Chemistry, Linear sequence of the 4 Nucleotides in the DNA (which IS the information of the living form of each particularized *Life Form*; Evoluon 5 is the human field with it’s five PEANO Axioms in mathematics;(Logic ALSO has 5 constituents; 6th field is each universe for itself, Just as Astrophysicist Gribbins says the when a person is NOT OBSERVING in the same environment there may occur origins of brand new Baby Universes whose origins — the person who triggers these origins — himself isn’t aware of!
This is only the essential part of the total story which includes all the disciplinary informations in the background.
Asserts humbly,
Manohar Tilak author of the 1998 book “Infinities to Eternities”
Text from above: “Infinities (plural) are as much related to space-time as Infinity (singular) is related to eternity. The space-time world we see with our bodily eyeballs is an artifact of a pervasive idea…the idea of multiplicity…duality…separation…splitting. Devoid of the concept of multiplicity, there is no world, only the eternal, only oneness, only the sublime.
It is just as imprudent for the materialist-rationalist to dismiss concepts like eternity, as it is for the mystical non-materialist to mix eternity with multiplicity (infinities). Such is an example of confusion of levels…confusion of mind and matter…confusion of cause and effect. Such is the confusion that keeps man chasing infinities. And that confusion is what we will explore in the next article: Level Confusion Dreamtime”
Reminds Manohar Tilak about the 2 — Vedic Philosophy Related ASSERTIONS:
1. “Aham Brahmasmi” i.e. *I AM* the Creationary Principle of the entirety of *COSMOS* and,
2. Ekoham Bahusyam = I AM *the one* in ALL!
Seems to settle the main effect of The Primal Duality, which then can be understood as indicating necessity of interaction AND the *on-going-evolution* as the factual necessity or the Quantum Gravitational Spirit, as the absolute singularity, which humanistically can be projected as playing with itself, eternally!
1998 book: “Infinities to Eternities” — in which the title of the book carries — included meaningful directional guidance toward evolution in the word *to i.e. the guiding directional IMPULSE as if Physical Inertia obtaining evolutionary guidance while sort of dancing spirit’s IMPULSE toward evolution! Depicts whatever ever is, i.e. evolutionary energy relationships as flux of the Douthart-Washington-Tilak described totality of the essence of Cosmic existence = 1st and the strongest Postulate of the Resurrected Evoluon Theory of Cosmic Evolution.
The second and the third postulates have to be based on approximations based on changing informations AND essences of the Vehicles of Actualizations based on the basic and transient aspects of existences! This sort of explains the discussion between the Google sort of experts’ judgment versus author’s statement that the word *to* in the title which pays ATTENTION that was informed and not just a mathematical judgment used by the experts.
This is no hurray I won comment by Manohar Tilak who has learned wisdom of being humble, in the sense of the spirit = to the very point in the symbol OM!
Humbly says,
Manohar Tilak