The Last Man Who Knew Everything Quotes

“Leibniz’s brilliant monadic system naturally gives rise to calculus (the main tool of mathematics and science). But it was not Leibniz who linked the energy of monads to waves – that was done later following the work of the French genius Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier on Fourier series and Fourier transforms. Nevertheless, Leibniz’s idea of energy originating from countless mathematical points and flowing across a plenum is indeed the first glimpse in the modern age of “field theory” that now underpins contemporary physics. Leibniz was centuries ahead of his time. Leibniz’s system is entirely mathematical. It brings mathematics to life. The infinite collection of monads constitutes an evolving cosmic organism, unfolding according to mathematical laws.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” --     Schopenhauer”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything

“Creationism is false and absurd. God is subject to evolution. He is not an eternal, perfect being. Why is there evil in the world if the world was created by an all-powerful, perfect being devoid of evil? The Creationists can never answer this. It’s a category error to say that a perfect God can create imperfection and evil.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything

“What is a God? It is a conscious monad that, through its own efforts, has effected the transition from the domain of finite mind to infinite mind.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything

“We are all nodes of mathematical reality. We are walking, talking equations progressively solving ourselves.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything

“3) The mathematical, dimensionless points (monads) of Leibniz. These are elemental life-forms and have elemental minds that are unconscious but have the potential to become conscious. They have infinite energy capacity. This is a panpsychic vitalist view. The fabric of the cosmos is literally imbued with mind and life, although these qualities are not expressed in any meaningful way until the evolution of organic entities: plants and animals, and, above all, conscious beings such as humans and gods.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything

“There is only one “substance” – life – and life exists on a continuum of expression, starting from basic life particles that barely manifest life at all and concluding with God: life fully actualized.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything

“No one need ever again be embarrassed when they mention religion. It’s not some mad, deluded flight from reality. On the contrary it is ABSOLUTE reality, thanks to mathematics. Had mathematics not had any religious elements, we would be atheists. That’s not how it turned out. The soul is the basis of mathematics – exactly as Leibniz, one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, stated. Descartes, Plato and Pythagoras – three other towering mathematicians and philosophers – would have had no difficulty in agreeing with him. Join Team Logos, Team Mathematics. Mathematics is the one, true, divine subject.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything

“Leibniz’s assertion that we live in the best of all possible worlds is, no matter what present appearances suggest, absolutely true – because the issue has to be considered over an entire cosmic Age, not just one snapshot in time. All the horrors of today are necessary for the glories of tomorrow. They provide the dialectical obstacles we must overcome, and we do so by becoming more and more perfect ourselves.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything

“A good God is not free to be evil. A moral God is not free to be immoral. The Abrahamic God is worshipped because he is said to be all-powerful and there is nothing that makes people’s eyes sparkle more than power. We are all creatures of the Will to Power.”
― Mike Hockney, The Last Man Who Knew Everything