Chapter 20: Existence vs Essence | by Nicolas Berggruen

"Existence versus Essence" with Nicolas Berggruen.
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"It's through existence that you're bringing essence into being and into life."
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  • @vladimirrogozhin7797
    @vladimirrogozhin779710 ай бұрын

    Thank you very much! A very important topic and thoughts for a global brainstorm, taking into account the current existential crisis of Humanity and a conceptual- paradigmatic crisis of the metaphysical/ontological basis of fundamental science (mathematics, physics, cosmology), which manifests itself as a "crisis of understanding" (J. Horgan "The End of Science", Kopeikin K.V. "Souls" of atoms and "atoms" of the soul : Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Carl Gustav Jung and "three great problems of physics"), "crisis of interpretation and representation" (Romanovskaya T.B. "Modern physics and contemporary art - parallels of style"), "loss of certainty" (M.Kline M. "Mathematics: Loss of Certainty"), "trouble with physics" (Lee Smolin. "The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next"). Not only Mathematics "lost certainty", but also Logic (D. Zaitsev "Truth, Consequence and Modern Logic"). John A. Wheeler, "the unsung paragon of science": “We are no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself." To understand the EXISTENCE itself means to "grasp" (understand) the nature of the primordial TENSION of the Cosmos. And for this it is necessary to "grasp" the primordial ontological structure of matter - "La Structure Mère". The paradigm of the Universe as an eternal holistic generating process gives a new look at matter. MATTER is that from which all meanings, forms and structures are born. Space is an ideal entity, an ideal limit for the states of matter. The ontological structure of space (absolute, ontological, existential) is rigidly connected with the absolute forms of the existence of matter (absolute states). And there are three and only three of these states: absolute rest (linear state, absolute Constinuum, "cube", "Cartesian box") + absolute movement (vortex, cyclic, absolute Discretuum, "sphere") and their synthesis - absolute becoming (wave, absolute wave, absolute Dis-Continuum, "cylinder"). Accordingly, SPACE (absolute, ontological, existential) has three ontological dimensions (9 gnoseological dimensions). But we must "dig" deeper into ontology in order to “grasp” the MetaNoumenon - ONTOLOGICAL (structural, cosmic) MEMORY, the “soul of matter”, its measure. Ontological (structural, cosmic) memory is that "nothing" that holds, preserves, develops and directs matter (enteleschia, nous, Aristotelian mind, prime mover). Therefore, we must write not "space-time", but "SPACE-MATTER/MEMORY-TIME". More than a quarter of a century ago, mathematician and philosopher Vasily Nalimov set the task of building a "super-unified field theory that describes both physical and semantic manifestations of the World" - the creation of a model of a "Self- Aware Universe". In the same direction, the ideas of the Nobel laureate in physics Brian Josephson (which are not very noticed by mainstream science), set out in the essay "On the Fundamentality of Meaning". Fields Prize winner mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky (1966-2017): "What we now call the crisis of Russian science is not only a crisis of Russian science. There is a crisis of world science. Real progress will consist in a very serious fight between science and religion, which will end with their association." I think that the main "serious fight" will be here: Meta Axiom "In the Beginning was the Logos…/ Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος..." VS. Hypothesis "In the Beginning was the Big Bang..." "LOGos" - MetaLAW that governs the Universe (in the spirit of Heraclitus). Cognition of the First Law of the Universe (Logos, Meta Law) provides a single basis for science and religion. The modern nuclear-ecological-informational era of increasing existential threats and risks forces us, Earthlings, the people of planet Earth, to add the Cartesian conclusion "Je pense, donc je suis" with a metaphysical maxim: "Nous pensons, donc nous existons." John Archibald Wheeler: "To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another, 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?'... "Philosophy is too important to be left to philosophers." A.N. Whitehead: “A precise language must await a completed metaphysical knowledge.”

  • @paulmonk1104
    @paulmonk11042 жыл бұрын

    Hi Nicolas can we have a meeting at your office