DIFFERENCE AND IGNORANCE
The Eternal Return of Diversity
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DIFFERENCE AND IGNORANCE
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The secret of life is that it has no secret; not just one, but an infinity. All different. The eternal return of differences as a conjecture is based on the current scientific visions of the cosmos, which show that everything is related to everything else in an inextricable indeterminacy presided over by ‘chance’; a concept synonymous with ignorance, which in turn is the foundation of freedom.
This Theory of Difference examines surprising facts and paradoxes, such as the following: The starting point at the Big Bang was as unique and identical to itself as photons, electrons, or other elementary particles are. In our real world, the farther away we get from ‘things’, the more identity we find (stars, for example, look the same to us), and the closer we get (elementary particles). Human beings are all equal and different at the same time. We are equal precisely because each of us is different. Identity occurs in the ‘thing itself’, the ‘being’, the ‘whole’, while difference is appreciated in its appearances. However, we are ignorant of both identity and the infinite differences in our universe.
The perception of ‘difference’ between what we are as particular entities and ‘Being’ is the origin of philosophy. In our language, any subject or predicate can be substituted for another. A duck is identical to another duck, but in the real world there is nothing like another. To think is to analyze differences, but it is also to generalize, to produce "universal concepts. Science analyzes differences and religion emphasizes identities (religare means to gather), but in order to evaluate differences, science, like religion, must also look for "identities" among the diversity of facts.
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Cover: Rubin's vase an ambiguous or bi-stable (i.e., reversing) two-dimensional forms developed around 1915 by the Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin. Design: De Ataturk.svg: NevitNevit Dilmen - Ataturk.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0,
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