mardi 30 juin 2009

. 73

That which is its own causality can only be the totality of all causalities. 

lundi 29 juin 2009

. 72

Some things exist only when half known. 

vendredi 26 juin 2009

. 71

A thing-in-itself is a thing collapsing in on itself. 

samedi 13 juin 2009

. 70

There is no time in mathematics, only directions of deductions. 

mardi 9 juin 2009

. 69

What is not is the limit of what is. 

. 68

Without emotions we are strangers to ourselves. 

. 67

Emotions are what relate ideas to themselves. 

. 66

The greatest violence we can do to a story is not to let it end. 

dimanche 24 mai 2009

. 65

What is the geometry of pain? 

jeudi 21 mai 2009

. 64

From a conversation with a mathematician: 

- We start with the void, a state where there are no numbers. The void precedes ZERO; from this state we can make a group called the totality of the void. This group contains ZERO members; thus the number ZERO is generated. Then there is the group of the group of the void. This group contains ONE group, thus the number ONE is generated. Then the group of the group of the group of the void. This group contains TWO groups, thus the number TWO is generated, etc. Number can thus be generated infinitely.  To generate numbers we are not already presupposing numbers since numbers are simply symbols of groups. It is the groups that are fundamental in this instance. 

- The problem is that their is nothing within the original void that says we can jump towards something called "the group of the totality of the void". A "group" is already a generalization not contained within the original proposition itself. Furthermore, this external element is at least as "big" as the original proposition. It doesn't work as a fundamental explanation of the rise of numbers. 


. 63

Time is the negation of self-identity. 

. 62

Logic excludes time precisely because it is based on self-identity. 

. 61

Self-similarity is the fundamental symmetry of nature. 

dimanche 10 mai 2009

. 60

Whenever we attempt to capture ourselves, our would-be prison manages to escape.  We cannot help being free. 

. 59

Introspection is fundamentally a search for self-coincidence.