Monday, November 27, 2006

make it easy....

Easy, by The Barenaked Ladies


Singulation does provide the philosophical moment of creation, the scientific (quasi?) moment between free will and determinism, between becoming and being, between abstract and concreteness, between infinity and finiteism. As Arthur Young says in Mathematics, Physics, and Reality, "we are not filling in the continuum, we are dividing it." (Italics his) This process of division relates directly to von Neumann's mathematical 'cut'. This 'cut', this dividing, happens at Planck's constant, a smaller than small abstract mathmatical space along the three dimensions, which in so doing, sets the 4th dimension, time, in place, and provides forwardness and a linear reality to our consciousness, our sense of reality. (It may also provide momentum, but I'm not sure about this yet.)

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