Reality is three or four dimensional. When you are dealing with fewer dimensions you are making an abstraction. It is a selected representation of the reality. It is a conceptualization of what the speaker wants to highlight of the reality.
Tag: ontology
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Here is an example of how the medium changes the colour of an object.
As the object goes deeper into the water where the pressure of the water changes the colours change. The most dramatic change is with red and brown and black. Certain wavelengths are scattered differently so the colour of the objects change.
But this is the point. Is the colour changing? Is the colour in the object? Or is the light which reaches our eyes changing?
This is a good example of quality not being in the object. We must question what is consider inherent.
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There are things and property of things. The property of things are process, quality and relations. Things are articulated in nouns. Processes are articulated in verbs. Qualities are articulated in adjectives and adverbs. Relations are articulated in pronouns, determiners, propositions, and conjunctions.
It is possible to articulate about imaginary things with imaginary properties. This does not bring them into existence. All that exists is the thing that articulates this.
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Matter is incoherent without space or time. Space is incoherent without matter or time. Time is incoherent without matter or space. Reality is matterspacetime.
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Articulation and conceptualization are, like all processes, “embedded” in reality, in matterspacetime.
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How does one justify a mental substance when there is no evidence of a body-independent mind? The substantialness of something like a unicorn or someone like Harry Potter is as real as the imagination makes it. Are we not duped by the same trick of the imagination for the mind?
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All along we are stuck in the paradigm where the mind owns the body, where the mind is seen as whole and the body part.
When we have a body owner paradigm the body is whole and the mind is part.
By flipping the paradigm many problems dissolve. What once were hard problems become easy ones.
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When I say “my mind” I no longer mean the owner is that of a souls or spirit but the owner of the mind is the body.
The owner of the mind is the body. I can no longer say my body either.
“Property is theft.”
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Universals are without matterspacetime. Particularly obvious is the timeless nature of universals. The fact that “they” are unchanging means they also must not have spatial location, for if they did they would be particulars. And by not being particulars they are without substance.
Universals do not exist in reality.
But “where” then do they reside? To hold a universal is for a matter-body to have such a thought. Universals are a process of the body. Someone or something must hold on to the conceptualization of universals.
When that body ceases to hold those thoughts, it either has forgotten them or has perished.
You do not find universals in reality. They mapped into the reality by a body in reality.
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Consider a reality without either matter, space, or time. Such a reality can only ever be a considered reality (conceived) and not be reality as such. We observe the inviolate-ability and interdependence of matterspacetime, both as seeing it and accepting it.
theoria 