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Thomas Stark
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April 10 - April 12, 2020
You can arrange lifelessness and mindlessness in infinite ways. Not one will logically achieve the miracle of creating the “emergent properties” of life and mind. Life and mind must be essential to existence, or life and mind should not exist at all.
energy cannot come into existence and nor can energy go out of existence. So, all energy has existed forever. It exists eternally and necessarily. What is energy? Energy = existence = mathematics. Specifically, energy = sinusoidal waves, the eternal, necessary outputs of Euler’s Formula, the master formula for existence.
The point of life is to know what the point of life is, and you can accomplish that only via the attainment of absolute knowledge, absolute understanding, absolute consciousness.
The sense-space is all about percepts, the mind-space all about concepts.
Consciousness is impossible without a mind-space you can contemplate. Sentience is impossible without a sense-space you can experience.
Logos (mathematics) is the language of analytic numbers. Mythos is the language of emotional words.
Only mathematical concepts are definable and intelligible. Everything else is undefinable and unintelligible. Everything else is mere description, and never explanation. Mathematics alone is a system of intelligible ontology, epistemology and explanation.
The meditators claim they are reaching “pure consciousness” or “bare consciousness”. In fact, they are eradicating consciousness, or reaching the most primitive and useless expression of consciousness, i.e. Hegelian sense-certainty where you simply acknowledge the existence of the world, but have absolutely no conception, knowledge and understanding of what existence is, of what you are experiencing.
Who wants to be an animal? Only the meditators! They want to abandon consciousness. It has proved too much for them, too demanding. It has been immensely stressful for them, the poor little lambs, the fragile little snowflakes. They can’t bear their own thoughts, their own judgements, especially on themselves.
Bicameralism is infinitely more compatible with ontological mathematics, based on mind, than scientific materialism, based on matter.

