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TA32 (Muller)

Commentary 4

( CONSCIOUSNESS AND MATTER )
by Adrian van der Meijden
29 November 2000, posted 5 December 2000

If I may say so, superb. It's what I've been fervently hoping for, with a few quibbles perhaps later, but that would be "personal". It retrieves the birth of science from Alchemy. In the Beginning is the ONE, which begets the TWO [any duality set] which begets the THREE as a triune world of, for this, subjective and objective, mediated, correlated, "managed" in "the Myriad". A 1st order permute is 6, the 2nd 720 as viewpoints and philosophical stances, after which my calculator gives up and answers 0. Mircea Eliade has it Alchemy is stone age old. Vide the article in his Encyclopedia.

Similarly the sentence has 3 parts: two nouns with a verb and the verb is the more important function as the relation construed between nouns. "I" use the verb function to make up puns which group together classes of same events but differently "nouned".

WE should not adhere to beliefs and theories, except when practically useful and learn to utilise them unto their declarable purposes only. This 3rd world is a virtual world of fictions, communal and private, which begets a 4th order of what we all do with our lives. The issue is not "unanswerable", merely too complex for our current means of analysis. Dare I say this? It feels like a new "para-digm". I've never been able to accept "the given" or "intuitively obvious". Thank you.

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Adrian van der Meijden