Dontaskme wrote:Contradictions are complimentary opposites. They need to exist mutually so as to know anything at all.
Okay, and what we know is that the situation is false and a contradiction therefore does not exist as it is an impossibility.
There is no such thing as a thing except as concept.. no thing or nothing is not a concept, so for a thing to be, it has to be a concept, except there is such thing as a THING...so where does the concept of a thing come from? ....answer that then?
It comes from the fact that if there were no states of affairs or things you'd have nothing to conceptualize about. Kant called it the Noumena and I call it the external world.
You would never know what regress is without also knowing progress, so what's it to be, which way are we heading, back or forward...you choose....or is this not moving anywhere? if it is moving one way or the other, which way is it going? have you got any ideas on that one?
If it's all 'ideas' then you have to have something thinking the ideas that you are not thinking, I guess you have a 'God' in there somewhere but then that 'God' must be an idea, so whose idea? Infinite regress.
It's not really absurd when you think about it deeply enough...because if you exist, you wouldn't know that unless you knew you couldn't possibly not -exist...and since you know you cannot not exist, what makes you know you can? who is it that knows they do not not exist, but knows they do exist? and how can you be absolutely certain you exist, how would you know that? ..you'd first have to know you don't exist, in order to know you do exist, so how are you going to know you don't exist? ....how can you know you don't exist, if you've never not existed....?
I didn't say I've never not existed, I know I haven't existed because I understand Biology and because of this I also know that there's an amazingly high probability that I'll not exist in the future, I know I exist because by definition just raising the issue means I do and I don't need to know that I haven't existed to know this. All I've said is that nothing cannot exist as if it did it'd not be nothing.
We are making comparison....so the question is which one is true, and how would you know the difference?
To be honest I'm lost as to what you are making a comparison with?
The external world is the projection of conciousness. Any thing projected cannot know it is a projection because there is no such thing as a thing, except as concept...so where does the concept come from? does it come from the projector or the projection?
No, the external world is the external world, how we perceive it is a product of the kind of body with senses that we have but this does not mean that it is dependent upon our existence as it is patently not.
The same one who is beating your heart, breathing your breath in and out.
And that would be?
The point is, you say you have consciousness, but you don't know what it is, and that is the point, how can you know something when you don't know what it is? if you know what consciousness is then please explain what it is here on this forum?
Which 'consciousness' are you talking about? You mean conscious of the world or self-conscious about being conscious?
Likewise, my head hurts in exactly the same way, when I contemplate space/time or anything else as if it's forever, ad infinitum, because I just can't visualize that either. Neither one seems possible. Which is why many astrophysicists have turned to god as the originator of the big bang. They just can't see something from nothing or something eternal. Both possibilities baffle them, an end to their reasoning.