Re: virus: Wisdom and Infinite Sets

B. Lane Robertson (metaphy@hotmail.com)
Wed, 13 May 1998 12:59:16 PDT


The paradox I understood about "infinite sets" as it
applies to "wisdom" (and more usually as it applies
to such concepts as The All or The One) is that in
order to conceive of such an entity one must
(theoretically) be outside of this entity and thus
able to view it within another entity ("mind",
perhaps).

I fail to see how "wisdom" fits this criteria, for
the most part; though, I assume saying that there is
a "true" wisdom borders too closely on "intent" and
thus "divine wisdom" for some (and causes these
people's hackles to rise as they fight their own
battles against those evil christians in favor of a
"skeptical" position which includes science-- the
correlation of observed effects without cause).

The kabalistic tree of life (for example) deals with
this problem by proposing a singularity which
becomes a duality (which resolves to the
singularity)... which creates the quaternity (of
"movement")... resolves to the singularity...
creates the pentamic understanding, etc. (counting
1, 2, 3, 4, 5... which all resolves to the *sum* of
"one" such that the equation can be equal on both
sides of the equal sign as opposed to arbitrary and
thus meaningless).

Seen in this way, the totality of wisdom (if we are
to look at wisdom as adequately representing a
totality) emanates from the singularity, appears
from a dualistic perspective as "that" which causes
"itself", is resolved into a 4 part system which
moves between aspects of itself and is thereby
intuited by the singularity as a systems version of
itself (within itself, or in relation to itself as
in the duality, as perceived by the singularity, in
a trinity of thing, as existence... duality-- as
objectification... and trinity-- as continuation of
existence, "being").

I do not know this person who supposedly created a
paradox which states that anything which evolves
from a singularity cannot be perceived by itself in
relation to either it's cause or it's effect. The
position indicated is one of "all things being
relative" and has, itself, certain problems in
applicability. The "solution" requires only a small
bit of creativity-- if a "solution" is what is being
sought.

B. Lane Robertson
Indiana, USA
http://www.window.to/mindrec
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