The Dual Source

[Voidmatrix]

We have, as humans, or consciousness in this form certain metaphysical assumptions, certain axiomatic points that we appeal to as maxims, that we operate from and with in order to discern and draw conclusions about the world we live in ("world" is used a philosophical sense entailing the universe, or moreover, all that exists). In most cases, the world over, for many systems developed, but not all, there is an inherent appeal to reductionism, which leads us to an expectation of a given thing, thing x, to have had a genesis from a single point.

In trying to discern the nature of the Universe, we use subtext from within the Universe itself.

Calculus was developed by two different people in two different parts of the world.

Before a person is a person, they are first a baby. Before a baby is a baby, they exist as a fetus. Before becoming a fetus, the existence is a zygote. But the zygote... the zygote comes to being by virtue of two sources, not one.

Planets are formed from particles that collide and stick together. A planet is derived from many sources.

Now while this may seem to disobey Occam's Razor, it's logical as to why. This also contradicts many ideals surrounding oneness. But again, the ideals are predicated on some metaphysical assumption, of which, cannot be verified.

In all the instances mentioned above (and I'm sure there are more that I just haven't thought of) something came into being by virtue of more than one source. The only thing that is singular is where the forces for the sources have their energy "focused".

Perhaps the Universe on the whole came from more than one source, and those sources all happened to be focused on the same thing/space.

The one/many paradox

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[zyun]

I like thinking about how things stem from the coming together of two polarities. You could for example, think of happiness as the coming together of the I that is and the I that says "I am". Achieving a baseline level of welfare (food, water, shelter, ...) provides fertile ground for those two aspects to meet somewhere in the middle, generating peaks above that baseline. The question being, why do we so often seem to come down from those peaks? It seems like our attempt, or impulse to transmute this happiness into material value is one of the things that drives a wedge between the two. Something like that

Metaphysics is interesting, I should really get to finishing that Bergson book I've been sitting on...

 

[CommonConduit]

I seem to perceive one thing that’s happening. Then two, three, four, etc.

At the root however: just one.