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Mar. 17th, 2007 01:24 amSo the plenary theory of the universe, is in a sense, the opposite(but has the same implications) of merelogical nihilism...
It's not that the universe is made of uncollectable points, but that it is an indivisible plenum. Our isolation of "things" is a lazy shortcut.
For the sake of talking about one segment of the pattern, it is permissible to speak of things, as long as we remember that this is a convenient gloss, that there really are no things at all, just one thing.
That said, I don't quite believe in plenarism either. I think the information grid model subsumes both the merelogical and plenary views of the universe.
I've posted this to make a certain point (and my point isn't really contained inside the words I've posted, though they are all my own). It's not really an important post at all, but it is.
It's not that the universe is made of uncollectable points, but that it is an indivisible plenum. Our isolation of "things" is a lazy shortcut.
For the sake of talking about one segment of the pattern, it is permissible to speak of things, as long as we remember that this is a convenient gloss, that there really are no things at all, just one thing.
That said, I don't quite believe in plenarism either. I think the information grid model subsumes both the merelogical and plenary views of the universe.
I've posted this to make a certain point (and my point isn't really contained inside the words I've posted, though they are all my own). It's not really an important post at all, but it is.