Fig. 13
Orthoexistence does not posses purpose but
man, society, and hence universe can attain purposes, can develop
wills. In its assembly, the material world appears without purpose,
or with partial purposes, subsumes of a general selfcreation property.
2. The image, that we could say that
we are compelled to construct about the totality of the existence,
appears in general as a ring (Fig. 13). Some of its portions are
not yet clearly defined. Important is the fact that this ring
closure contains a link with "open" characteristics,
with the property of an unstructurable continuum, a link that
could be the instrument of closing and finalizing a cycle, a link
that is open in order that it could be closed by creation.
Hegel5 considers
the existence of an essence of the world, in fact an Itself
having essence and being diversifiable in "existent real"
like "movement and developing formation". According
to Hegel, the existence-in-itself, of spiritual nature, goes into
its contrary, the existence in fact, and then, through the man,
the cycle closes back into the spirit. He has thus a three-stage
movement via contraries. Nevertheless this is an idealistic overturn
of what it appears to us like something predominantly material.
Owing to his overturned scheme Hegel could not accept the mathematical
knowledge but for the existence-in-fact and hence said: "The
evidence of this deficient knowledge, of which Mathematics is
so proud and of which it beasts so much in front of Philosophy,
lies only in the poverty of its purpose and in the deficient character
of its material, and hence it is of a kind that Philosophy, should
despise"6.
Hegel is against Mathematics in the process of knowing the
"essence",since according to him it is useless here. Within
his idealisticscheme, Mathematics, Logics do not have important parts, in fact
being eliminated just with respect to most profound things. For
him, the conclusive proof that Mathematics cannot describe the
world is the fact that it does not comprise the contradiction,
and hence the dialectics.
Philosophical experiments show how contradictions
appear at a certain limit of knowledge, by reflecting a certain
object. Behind this limit a certain contradiction may disappear;
but we shall find new contradictions, corresponding to new limits.
How could then be the world constituted by monades, by a single
principle ? Could not there be two principles as the basis for
all contradictions ? Who has got the program for our universe?
A spirit providing the contradiction of the material
world and by this its dialectics ? We tried to answer this by
the principles of energymatter (E) and informatter
(I), providinga vision, so far only generally sketched, but
giving a certainoverall logics together with a natural opening,
expressionof the principle opening of all possible logics.
Energymatter represents a support matter,
to remain in motionless state and total equilibrium, were not
the second principle, informatter. By its properties and the information
it carries, informatter opposes itself the equilibrium type found
in depths and motionlessness. Its information provides the complex
dynamics, lawful, of the material world. Informatter without information
remains an active principle but determining a deep movement.
In this state it could generate rudimentary existence based on
orthoexistence support. Only systematic generation of information
via conscious and their inprint in informatter can lead to really
logical universe. Inprinting by adequate material devices of a
new deep information can represent an act imposed by the material
world.
Why should we be satisfied by Nature laws
and hence by the deep information sustained by them ? How can
we evaluate them, what comparison can we use? Our consciousness
can judge in such a way since nothing is above it. It is of the
order of the world essence when it actually manifests itself as
such, both at individual and social levels.
In a previous work7
we observed that if we were to consider the spiritual states as
real states and if we wished to treat them mathematically, we
could address to the Sets Theory, the fundamental of modern Mathematics.
The sets consider the world as distinct objects, the world is
represented by discontinuum. The link with the continuum is done
by confrontation with geometric, topological objects. The set
of points can constitute a line, the connection between continuum
and discontinuum being a difficult problem of Mathematics and
for human intellect.But the spiritual states are continuous, whereas
the machine states of the central nervous system are determined
by the assembly of the physical states of all neurons contained
in the nervous system, exactly like in an automaton. The correspondence
between these two is not clarified yet and perhaps it is not important
yet to know this, but only to see if we can apply some kind of
mathematics to the spiritual states, some kind of specific topology.
The present stage of mathematical development does not offer a
Mathematics of the spiritual states, similar to that of space
and time, with substance properties.
Regarding our problem we have the choice:either the spiritual life of man
is not a mathematical object,or it is a new mathematical
object; the future sciencehas to decide upon these two alternatives.
If it were a new mathematicalobject, it is possible the relation between Logics,
Mathematics,and automata.
Myself feel that the spiritual states ar not
in their depth a mathematical object, although certain aspects
of the spiritual life could be, to a certain degree, expressed
mathematically. The problem of Mathematics and Logics is connected
by the existence of certain structures. These structures can
be mathematically described and this can be done to anything that
is structured in the material world, hence in the deep zone too.
Something that is not structured cannot be mathematically described,
but we can apply to an unstructured substance some structurability
and hence impose upon it some Logics and some Mathematics. Hence
spirituality is not alien, in principle, to Logics and Mathematics,
it is but only susceptible to Logics and Mathematics, without
being dominated by them in any moment.
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