Thursday, 24 August 2017

Everything is hypothetical



Subject: Everything is hypothetical

If the importance we give to religion and philosophy in describing mankind is fixated on a false premise, "that we are important", the apotheosis of the Darwinistic trail which prides itself in the surety of thoughtful analysis.  If there is no surety, no meaningful prognosis and our culture has, at its base, chaos and total unpredictability, what does it do for our belief in a religious insurance.
God is often accused of rolling the dice but what if the dice he rolls are completely indeterminate with no chance of predicting the outcome, it would surely send the most enthusiastic Las Vagus addict home on the next bus.
If the sub matter, the sub atomic partials which makes us, is determined by a quantum of energy which exists for a quantum of time before dying, and even in its short life is totally unpredictable to the point that its existence, relative to place, is unknowable. If the essence of all that is around us, including ourselves, is dubious, how can we begin to understand how we came into being.
This is the ingredient we have to work with. An unknowable, unpredictable, place irrelevant, sub quantum set of partials which is at the root of us all.
I suppose scaled up, it pretty much describes mankind but in our quest to give everything set rules to describe and to exist by, (much like the bible), we find there are no rules, there is no description that can be tested through observation, that everything is ruled by hypothesis.
"I think therefore I am"."Cogito ergo sum" is based on the knowledge that by thinking we can know. But what if we can't know, what if knowing is out of reach.
Is it not therefore, (philosophically) the case that, "I can not think, therefore I cease to exist".  If I cease to exist at the margin how can I claim with surety that I exist at all if the marginal mix is a phantasy.
Of course the fact that whilst "to exist" is at least  a comforting supposition, it draws us into a nightmarish world where knowledge begins to reveal that we don't know very much at all.  
Previously everything in science was built on fundamentals revealed by science and in science if the fundamentals can't be verified by observation, then empirical science cannot say for certain the thing exists. For instance, Science's view on religion can only be conjecture, no better or worse than the 'Popes' view.
And so it seems, in the case of quantum physics we are no nearer than conjecture, the type of conjectural thinking which led to a belief in God.

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