let us think about what we do know and what we don’t know…
We know that we humans, are transitory, temporary beings…
we are finite…
we know that we are matter, which means we are also energy…
we share both these traits with everything in the universe…
we know the universe is transitory and we know that the universe is also
made up of matter which means the universe is also energy……
one might ask, what about space and time? what can we know about them?
well, we know that time itself will end at some point in the future in billions of years…
and we know that space is some form of matter because it bends………
space is flexible and bends so it is something… we just don’t know what
and we know light bends……. so it is something……
and that means that space and light are matter and energy…thus they are
like all other matter in the universe…………
but matter is only a small percentage of the known mass in the universe……
we think that dark matter and dark energy is the bulk of the universe……
we think… but we don’t know thus we can only guess and that is not
our goal today… we are only talking about things we know……
everything we do is transitory… our words, our buildings, our ART,
if it is made or done by humans, it is transitory………
as living matter, we are a product of evolution…
we are determined by evolution to have certain processes which we
cannot exists outside of ………….
thus we must exists within certain parameters…… we must eat
and we must drink water and we must breath and we must sleep
and we must remove excess waste and we procreate and
and we must have feedback loops to inform us of what is going on in
our bodies and environment and we are finite…….
these facts are the same for everything biological in the universe…
for everything biological must exists with certain processes in place for
the biological matter to exist………
these are the things we know
let us begin our work on things we do not know…….
that which is anything metaphysical… beyond the physical…
we cannot know anything beyond the physical…….thus we
cannot know if there is a god or heaven or hell or angels………
we cannot know if there is an immortal soul…
we cannot know anything outside of what we experience and what our
senses can tell us……
as we exist with certain properties that is shared by all matter and energy,
we can make reasonable guesses as to the nature of the universe because
we share those traits with the universe………….
now the living matter in the universe may be quite different from what
we understand to be life, but it must follow certain rules as all life must
follow certain rules to be life…….as you understand how there are many
different types of dogs and all those dogs look so very different but dogs
must follow certain rules to be dogs and if they don’t follow those rules, they
are not dogs… they are something else……… but dogs are still living matter
and as such, doges must follow the rules of existence which is existence is finite,
temporary…and matter is both matter and energy……….
thus we have the basis for all philosophy…… matter is finite/temporary…
and matter is both matter and energy………here begins our understanding of
what it means to be human… that we must follow certain rules to
be considered human……
now what is the next step?
how do we make the next understanding of what it means to be human?
Kropotkin