[MD] The differentiating nothingness

[Ham Priday]

Hi Reinier --


> It is my believe that existence is the playground for science.
> Indeed, science can never make valid assumptions about
> Essence, awareness or transcendence, but it can, and it
> does, about existence. Science is experimental, thus
> creating or shaping our existence. Experience may be
> an illusion, but then Science is the tool for understanding
> that illusion.  Science is what we experience, so in my book,
> any metaphysics must obey the rules of science for its
> existential part.

For whatever it is, and whatever its cause, science is man's approach to
explaining existence.  I agree with that concept and have no quarrel with
Science within the limitations of that role.

> I have a very mathematical approach of value.
> To put in I [?] a bit of a MoQ perspective,
> for me value makes something static. Mathematically
> speaking; value makes something known, or constant.
> Value is the result of experiencing. In our separation
> from Essence we've created a duality of opposites.
> We've left the notion of completeness and oneness,
> and since we've done that we have to need to
> describe something that is no longer one or
> undifferentiated, and we have to distinguish it
> from it's surroundings since if we wouldn't do
> that it will be one and undifferentiated again.
> Value is what we place on a part of Essence of
> which we think it's separated from Essence. You see
> I don't put moral or ethical (or any) judgment on
> value. There is no higher or lower, more or less value.
> Valuing is acknowledging the differentiation of Essence.

If there is no "higher or lower, more or less" value, how can you apply
methematics to it?   Mathematics deals with numbers, quantities and powers.
It quantifies light energy values in lumens, sound values in decibels,
pressure values in lbs/sq. inch.  If your concept of values is limited to
quantitative measurements, you are acknowledging only the objective values
of Science.  What about esthetic and ethical values which depend on human
judgment and are the concern of philosophers?  (e.g., the MoQ and
Essentialism.)

>  Well, that's my 2 cents for starters.

How much value are you willing to give me if I up the ante to, say, 10
cents?

Or isn't the value of life worth that much to you?

Essentially curious,
Ham