What the Universe and Mind are Made of

I am not sure what the question; 'what is necessary for physics" means. W.V.O. Quine assented to the question of was he a physicalist, that is, did he believe anything other than physical stuff exists (and he said no). With energy and mass being convertible, the stuff of which the steady state of matter is apparent to people as embedded mass is just what is. 

Paradoxically Christian theology does not require a substanceless 'spirit' that is the mind at all, or for a soul constructed of spirit, since a soul in some respects is simply everything that one does and think as a physical being during a lifetime- and I am sure that God can keep track of that information as easily as someone using ebay tech can video capture stuff and keep track of what happens during one day at some place and store the information on a terrabyte thumb drive. The question of what is God made of as Spirit isn't answerable by anything that is substance and form in the Universe that one might refer to. 

Of course the entire Universe is simply what it is and no one really knows what anything is made of ultimately- even strings and zero dimension points can't solve that question. One can know the forms and shapes of things and how the forces and particles-waves interact, and that is a lot, yet the question of what they really are-perhaps digital information itself at some level, might never be known exhaustively.

Why would Bishop Berkeley have invented ideaism- idealism as an alternative explanation for reality, if he wasn't Christian or a theologian as well as a philosopher- and what about St. Augustine's concept of what time is? People should quit being insulting about Christian perspectives, or theistic perspectives concerning reality. One wouldn't want to start lining out people like Spinoza for instance, and so many others. The entire Universe could be a thought of God's; and every mind in it comparable to a subroutine; philosophers should have an interest inf finding truth and increasing knowledge rather than defending political popular repression.

I wrote yesterday about Kurt Godel's incompleteness theorems concerning sets and the set of all sets. Some Christians are theologians as well as philosophers and are not antipathetic to Cantor's trans-finite infinity paradigm concerning some infinities being greater than others. I suppose some would like to rule out relativity and infinity as mutually exclusive from Hilbert space metaphors of the verse (uni or plural/multi etc).

 Ontology as a definition- everything, might preclude use of the word 'entity'. I am not an ontology expert. Deontological abstractions from one may include 'nouns-entities"? If one were referring to God as 'an entity' i don't think that would work for me. I suppose one could use Heidegger's language etymology meanings to track down a reason why that lexicon  selection would be inadequate. Russell's paradox was a good point. I view these matters concerning intelligence as contingent being something like humans being subroutine trying to define a much larger programs containing n kinds of subroutines, with God being more than a large A.I. program-really undefinable. Godel's incompleteness theorems seem to reflect that inability, or work as a simile.

People noted the problems with language and means concerning philosophical issues in the mid 20th century. Russell too wrote about objects and sensation in his 'Essay on Metaphysics' early in that century. Quine and Strawson wrote a lot on the topic. In physics perhaps monism is more true than pluralism, since 'objects' are part of a unified field that has pluralistic features on the surface. People have knowledge as well as awareness- in fact that may be how intelligence evolved- with triangulation and re-enforced memory to better analysise and classify motion and 'objects'. Objects may initially have been more of a verb experience than an ossified class of 'nouns'. Nouns (nows) are presorted things. Knowledge of cosmology is concatenated learning. I trust Jesus Christ and God for various reasons that are not simply learning. Life is quite brief in some senses and God is good- those without faith might not experience the goodness of God so much as His incidental general provisioning of grace. Oh well, to return to just philosophical things. Sartre's Being and Nothingness explains present awareness and perception as epistemology. I read that book pretty well, its good yet there are so may philosophical works and schools concerning subjective epistemology and perceptions- that's what 'PF Strawson's 'Individuals' and Quine's 'Word and Object' are about for example. Still, there are so many more, even the very hoary 'Mind and It's Place in Nature' by C.D. Broad. Self-awareness probably differs from awareness. Then one has Cartesian rationalism, sensations, forth. Awareness exist within a unified field of physics. 

There is a Christian ontology, and many don't understand the trinity. The way God with a perfect divine economy relates to the imperfect in-the-Universe with entropy for being in time is through the Son Jesus Christ. Because of original sin- missing the mark-humanity was cast into entropy, birth, death, work. It is a sorry condition and people forget about God. They are lost and without merit. Jesus is perfect though and God sees the Son rather than the lost for those that have accepted his sacrifice. Jesus is the most remarkable individual that has lived. Look at what he said and compare that to what anyone has said before in history to that point.  Morality is what people actually do regarding patterns of social behavior and ethics is how they do it, or consider it. 

 Humans have the original sin of being temporal and subject to willfulness, entropy and imperfection-they consume energy to sustain existence. They have biological and reproductive drives, they gather in clusters and conflict sometimes. They have imperfect knowledge and conceits. Faith in the Lord and his kingdom (the Kingdom of God) is the only way to transcend the problem of original sin that governs humanity, yet humans that are saved are still imperfect. 

The Universe is like a train station and people should do the best they can while here regarding stewardship and helping or loving others. Jesus Christ was crucified though. That was the essence of human morality. Even wolf packs have a kind of morality-social behavior and ethics of who leads, follows, gets first bite on the prey etc. One may reason about everything in the Universe obviously. Isaac Newton was fairly good at that and was Christian as were so many others. One of the primary differences between the saved and those remaining lost is the different destinies when the individual's time in-the-Universe ends.

Atheism is a Zero-Sum Philosophical Effort, Unlike Belief in God

Belief in nothing is easier than belief in a creator of what exists; that is, belief in nothing requires no thought at all. Belief in anything such as a Multiverse, for instance, requires work and creative thought. I stipulate that artists of graphic novels and "smurfs" requires some work, more than nothing certainly, yet smurfs are inadequate straw men for supporting an atheist belief in nothing. 

The Multiverse and or Universe require work to understand very well, so far as human knowledge may understand. God is superior to the impossible set of all sets including itself such as Kurt Godel considered, and prior to all forms such as one may regard quantum physics and the energy thereof to fall into, before all Universes that would ever be, though a great paradox is that God is eternal and knows all things that would every be, including Universes- so one may wonder of Plotinus' ideas about the One issuing the Intelligence and therefrom forms (in his Enneads), and if all that is like Godel's set of all sets including itself. If it is, as analogous to Tegmark's level 4 or 5 Multiverse that is pre-existent in all possible ways of being (with each thought moving mind to the appropriate place in another with that branch), one has something to think about. 

One has a Multiverse as a thought of God that has eternally existed with God- that is something rather than nothing. Philosophical work in great depth can be afforded through contemplation of God rather than 'smurfs or belief in nothing.
https://www.iep.utm.edu/phe-time/

 I like Matthew 22:33-46 about the absentee owner (God) and His Son. "Matthew 21:33-46 King James Version (KJV)
33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?"

The Left's Idea of Solely Religious Objections to Abortion

A doctor mentioned to me once that some mammals auto-abort when there is over-population. People are more like animals than most care to admit concerning behavior. Deontic moral selections are valid enough for those that have faith, yet the idea that some abortion is rational and others not is valid in the sense of ancient German laws, and those of the pre-Christian era. When people did harm to others it was expected that one could repay the perpetrator in kind with interest. When others victimize others, such as rape, or bashing a skull, seeking remedies to redress the balance to a normative state was the goal. The abortion of progeny of rape was therefore logical. Biologically it prevented rapists from profiting with progeny. Remember in times of war rape was often an opposition force policy-even in the Serbian conflict fairly recently. The incest exception was equally logical because of the awareness of society of the consequences of inbreeding. On purely human grounds i.m.o. abortion is worse than ugly; it is a testament to the evil of mankind with its low regard for others, for life and so forth. Marcus Tullius Cicero's 'On Natural Law' still seems meaningful considering how long ago it was written. People have made a virtue of narcissism and neglect interests of the commons such as the fracturization of the remaining land wilderness. They also have dehumanized unborn human life in order to allow killing it, for the left's interest in morality today is that of finding comfort at whatever cost. That is the left's idea of rationality. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_Bosnian_War

Atheism produces a null-set philosophically. Contemplation about the being of God leads somewhere. An empty mind is easier to achieve than intelligence. Being on the same thought-plane as amoeba is all atheist-hedonist-consumers require. That may be why it is popular in modern society.

Obama Judge Orders DOJ to Give Impeachment Comm Mueller Grand Jury Files

Another Obama appointee judge made an order in favor of impeach-o-crats that will help them move forward cherry-picking information to release to the media from their secret impeachment committee. The Department of Justice must turn over the Grand Jury transcripts from the Mueller investigation of President Trump. Usually Grand Jury transcripts are kept secret unless needed in a criminal trial.

The impeachment committee seems to be on another fishing expedition looking for something to stoke up the recall fire with. Plenty of smoke should appear from the committee with the Grand Jury transcripts that can provide ample data for juicy leaks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/25/judge-orders-release-of-mueller-material-citing-impeachment-chance.html

The main problem with the fishing expedition is that House Republicans have been kept out to a certain extent and the impeachment committee is meeting behind closed doors. The public has a right to know what material is being considered for evidence to support impeachment. Since the Democrats would not keep any secrets unless it made their side look unfavorable the entire Grand Jury transcripts should be released to the public so the voters can consider the matter for themselves.

The Secret Impeachment-Recall Committee should allow the media and the nation in so the appearance of a Democrat KKK-style impeachment would go away.

Imperfect Wonders (poem)

So many Universes before the beginning

of time and space compiled in mind

thoughts with structures given like

forms of being and time

dimensions nowhere

compiled into layers before and after

points and ideas strung together

where imperfect beings woven from soil

toil to ever without levers
they were free to be and become

something like won and next    

texts grown green brought to naught

never ending shares with signs of rhymes

taut three sheets to the wind

union of savings the imperfect 

contingent tries to rise

bettered

from the fractured point of view

waves to the shrewd shapes

stars setting

Universes that were

smashed to dark infinite points

tightly wound up in gravity

so there the imperfect wonders

about the perfect representative

who offered his own life

for others

wasn't it simply the Earth
with its waterfalls and wonders
where time would stand still
future worlds beyond 
nothingness and nil.

Solid State Dream (poem)

Solid State Dream

3 April 2017

April’s concentrating growth starts when

time’s clocks accelerate intemperately

sprouting, budding, righteous leaves entitled

to live growing and die

-green disrupts so many silent hexagons,

sliding like freedom down the face of a mountain

Contemplating eternity with frozen light

solid state dynamics processing recursion

in-itself quantum fields echo time

hypercubes coated with reasoned tension

stuck upon surface-tensioned inner angles

where equal and opposite conflations shine

like dueling bureaucracies thinking of five’s

ways of working Klein’s bottle brigging loops

untroubled with cilia elsewhere

provide timeless answers

The rhymer sanctioned plain fractal’d down

buildings built time-in lines

to markets plus or minus forests

lacking a spiritual dimension

called and unchosen

Crassing through dozers

push over scrub trees shrubbed

sounds of sweet turned Earth smelling organic

pipes of sun-day morning

engines, cat-tracks little-feating

reluctant fields’ clocks

rushed to wind down

main-springed and broke

Primers of extra-terrestrial, terra-formed interiors

spit-wadded, shaped, placed just so

where nothing grows.

Speed of Light and Mass- Crossing Over

I asked a question at Quora about increasing mass as one approaches to light speed and got numerous answers saying that it doesn't, yet other have written about concatenated effects of gravity acting to increase mass as one nears light speed. I believe it does. It is supposed to become infinite at light speed. Others say it doesn't and one may just pass write on through with no problem. If it does increase toward light speed I would think a comparatively trivial gravitational field aboard the ship would be obliterated as the mass increased opposite to the direction of travel to infinity.

There may be a few reasons that apparent mass could increase to infinity- that is various fields such as the Higgs, as well as gravity, might be more localized, and passing through them too quickly could increase the forces acting upon the mass of the ship. Since gravity itself travels at the speed of light, it is hard to say what would happen if one went faster...something though one might guess.

Because all of the forces that hold mass together- strong, electro-weak, gravity etc exist within a certain space-time circumstance it could be that some of those that hold the ship together would fail making the mass transition destructively. Maybe all of the particle related fields act at the speed of light.

Others have asked the question- here are some replies... https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-for-human-to-survive-if-they-travel-at-the-speed-of-light

Someone pointed out that energy is converted into mass within criteria of general relativity nearing light speed. Maybe people confuse general and special theory paradigmata.