“The magnet is a primeval phenomenon where mere naming already serves as an explanation; that is how it becomes a symbol for all the rest for which we need not seek a name or words.” Goethe recognizes that behind many things there are certain primary phenomena; those phenomena also express themselves, they are not entirely hidden; what would Goethe say about quantum mechanics, about modern metaphysics? Resentment toward others arises from a personal confinement, but it is aimed at others as an…
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HH1: Could gravity be tubular-wormhole’s, entanglement-gravity one and the same thing?; nature coincides down to the smallest details—on literalness, names, the actor and labels: remembering depends on it, and so does the association of ideas. There is no history that moves toward the future, a radical critique of progress: development, morphology, or progress toward the future does not exist; the sense toward the future is systole, energy without qualities, history is its diastole. Poetry and…
To come closer to the truth: it appears at the end of the morphology of conception. To move a little away from the truth: it appears at the end of the morphology of creation; creation differs from conception in that it is still more superstitious, mysterious; divining and deifying: «to accept something and for that reason bring it onstage»1. Conception is closer to the truth than creation; the boundary between creation and truth is more encompassing than the boundary between conception and truth…
In the asceticism born of a wound, a person can be reduced to economy, and a lasting resentment can be founded on that. «Spengler’s position lets him see the appearances, but does not readily let him see their «extension»1. A continuous morphology that runs from creation to truth must not stop midway at stations created by wasting and conning the powder before its time. Truth appears at the end of that morphology, and is marked by the fact that it has value all on its own, like an image to…
Differences in rank exist more than they distinguish. In turn, «existence is a function of the possible»1. Truth has a relation to duty: desire helps us fulfill truth. Truth is strategic, desire is tactical. The possible is not existence; something may be possible yet not function, not yet have a function, but every existence (function) must be possible. A good equation describes well the value of art: wealth and universality. The bourgeois has a taboo when it comes to the relation between…
«Hope and the Art of Measurement»1: «unease appears when we achieve our dreams»2: addiction to hope is the enjoyment of it, even on a path that leads to no fruition; hope is an experience on the way to the fulfillment of a dream; if the bar was set too low with respect to the goals, one gains hope along the way, but toward a destination that bears no fruit. In analogy there is a comparison of things that are not equal, on ground where there is no equality; hence mathematical physicists find them…
“In any case, the man who is a friend of the Muses will have to expose himself, but he should not get involved. Either perish or enter the central building. In that way the man who suffers becomes the man who directs. He does not adapt himself to the plan, but he can modify it. His optimism reaches beyond all horrors.” If we see the parabola as Plato perhaps saw it, geometrically, as a semicircle, there are only two invisible points; the rest of the outline of the parabola is the illuminated…
I asked Claude this: If the whole of the Internet as we knew it will be used only by agents, it will become an inhuman terrain. And so the whole of the Internet will be subsumed into a more comprehensive sphere, a sphere that agents will not be able to reach and that will be only a human sphere. What is the part of reality that is closest to this agentic sphere, extrapolation of the maximum that LLMs are going to be able to do, assuming they will be able to do everything that we expect they…
On getting things right and getting them wrong: every truth is pareidolic, but it is also algebraic, that is: representations can be replaced by others, their theoretical labels are only perspectives replaceable by others; we see this, for example, in the fact that human beings throughout history survived with the cultural—technical level reached up to that point; that is why, amid the well-being achieved by the United States or Europe, humanity feels malaise; exaggerations balance out, the…
In this titanic, transitional stage, «transcendental faith must be replaced by fundamental faith.» “We are struggling for the perfection of the work of art in itself and for its own sake; the others are thinking of its outward effect, a matter to which the real artist gives no more thought than nature does when she produces a lion or a humming bird.” In transitions, you do things that fundamentally strike you as brilliant, but once you pull them off you notice they were less significant; this…
On the gravity of the smallest particles: without dropping over the invisible figures a net woven from the finest and heaviest threads, they do not reveal themselves: without a foundation, nothing is unveiled. Perhaps the day will come when we can easily discount the human, all too human, in mathematics, and so see with less distortion what it brings to light for the first time. The cardboard stiffness of our theories does not match current practice. Today even physicists sense as much. Quantum1…
The problem of complacency without merit. Where does merit come from, what responsibility can we actually take on? That of our «own» nature, «one becomes who one is even if for a long time one has no idea who that is». In Goethe, in his finest passages, we notice what at first glance seems surreal, but in his finest passages it is simply Goethe himself. Nietzsche and Jünger are somewhat German, but above all they are Goethean. Surrealism is relative; this becomes obvious in the differences…