"Philosophy is the translation of Eros into Logos" - Byung-Chul Han : "...and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called, "Love"" - Plato "Symposium" (Aristophanes' Speech)
"Science is Apophatic" - Iain McGilchrist
On the Apophatic from Google AI:Apophatic theology, or "negative theology," is the practice of describing God or the divine by negating all finite characteristics, defining what God is not rather than what God is. It emphasizes divine transcendence and the belief that human language and reason are too limited to grasp God's infinite, incomprehensible essence.
Key Principles and Purpose
- Transcendent Incomprehensibility: God is "wholly other" and beyond human comprehension, existence, and logic, which are only created things.
- The "Way of Negation": Rather than saying "God is good" (which limits God to human concepts of goodness), apophatic theology says "God is not not-good" or simply that God is beyond all human concepts.
- Intellectual Humility: It serves to prevent idolatry by stopping us from creating a mental image or "idol" of God based on human concepts.
- Theosis and Union: It focuses on the experience of God, encouraging a journey of "unknowing" and direct mystical experience over intellectual comprehension.
Relationship to MysticismApophatic theology is inseparable from mysticism and contemplative prayer, sometimes called "apophatic prayer" (e.g., centering prayer), which involves emptying the mind of concepts and words to rest in the divine presence. It is described as entering a "luminous darkness" or "divine silence".Notable FiguresCriticisms and Contrast
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite: Crucial in bringing "negative theology" to the forefront in the late 5th century.
- Gregory of Nyssa: An early 4th-century Cappadocian Father.
- Maximus the Confessor: Linked apophatic theology with hesychasm (stillness).
- Gregory Palamas: A major 14th-century proponent.
- Contrast with Cataphatic Theology: While apophatic is negative theology, cataphatic is positive theology (e.g., "God is love"), which often acts as a necessary counterweight in Christian theology, balancing God's transcendence with his revealed, immanent nature.
- Criticisms: It can be accused of leading to an unreachable, impersonal God and sometimes results in a "both/and" approach, as the finite mind still relies on symbols and analogies to understand the infinite.
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On the 'Greater Truth' of (Quantum) Fiction (Mythos)
(Stochaisticaly Decentering an Independent Observer
- ala Orpheus and Eurydice)
"If you look directly at her, you will shrink her into a Left hemisphere reality"
The Double Slit Experiment
Feynman's "Principle of Least Action" (aka Occam's Razor)
Science's Holy Trinity:
Reason - Intuition - Imagination
When the Biological Wave Function Collapses...
the imperfect particle zoo appears!
Particle Emergence from the Zero Point Vacuum
The Big Bang Theory - A Cataphatic (vice Apophatic) Universe?
19 comments:
\\was it (realization of mortality) from bedtime prayers like the ones I was taught to repeat?
Obviously not. Yawn.
And that very thing that you do ask such things -- confirm my analysis.
That you still unsure if I am not fellow USAian. %^)))
Which is funny.
\\Noon Universe (Communist Utopia Apex)...
Funny thing... same as "bright future of Star Trek"... they was fr#akingly unable to describe mechanisms -- how it can work.
Though, they tryed much more than Rodenberry. ;-p
\\or Capitalism's "Technological Singularity"...
BS
You yourself stated that -- that capitalists would not be happy to build TS
\\the Progresssor's equivalent = USAID (exploiting wokeness for "democracy")
Obviously not. Yawn.
\\Yes, it's hard to be god. What you end up with is the hubris of the "progressors".
Naah.
\\It's why I'm a Deist. My G-d never interferes in the world.
Whatever.
That just mean... ehm, "I do not need hypothesis of gawd to explain it"
That's all.
\\The Ethics of Intervention: Frequently debated, particularly in Hard to Be a God and The Inhabited Island, is whether an advanced, benevolent civilization should interfere with a less developed, despotic one, or if such intervention merely results in new forms of subjugation.
Obviously not.
Their question was not "to be or not..."
But technological -- how???
With that implicitly explicit awarness in the mind -- that first who need to be uplifted -- earthlings themself.
Really, if there is some way to rise to enlightment some ETs, why not use it here on Earth first???
shrooms? ;)
...nor I, in atheism (absence of one).
as far as you'd not try to prozelite ;-p
I keep forgetting that the Enlightenment bypassed Russia. Logos never made it there. You're all pathos and kairos...
Google AI:
Ethos, pathos, logos, and kairos are the four traditional rhetorical modes of persuasion used to create compelling arguments, speeches, or advertisements. They include appealing to credibility (ethos), emotion (pathos), logic (logos), and timing (kairos) to influence an audience. These strategies help speakers establish trust, evoke feelings, present facts, and choose the perfect moment to persuade.
btw - If capialists would hate the tech singularity, imagine how much communists would hate the disappearance of the State (government)...
It would mean the DEATH of the Party!
Que no paren la fiesta!
\\communists would hate the disappearance of the State (government)...
Extinct as a spicie "communists"?
Because, who today in their right(pun non-intended) mind, or lost all marbels mind... would really believe in Communism
Or nazism
Or... any other outdated practices.
Yes, today power must be hidden. Hence technofeudalism.
yeah, yeah, yeah... call it whatever you like... until it became outdated. ;-p
time is fleeting... grub it, and hold it. ;-p
I prefer to get ahead of the curve. ;P
???
Anticipate Kairos as he runs by so that I can grab the fore-lock and not the back of his shaven head.
;P
Like that is possible without leap of faith... yawn. (smack from Bruce Lee again)
Bruce Lee never trained so that he could strike at the proper moment?
???
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