Originally posted by JS357
Sometime when you are out walking, have you ever imagined that you are standing still pushing the earth backwards underneath you? You are still, and the earth moves as your feet impel it to. I guess many people have imagined this.
Carry this to an extreme. You turn to go in a different direction. No, it's not you that turns, it is the world, rotating about ...[text shortened]... they become part of what is external to you, along with time and space.)
What is really you?
Cool!
Since 1929, thanks to Edwin Hubble we became bit by bit aware of the fact that every galaxy in the sky was moving away from Earth. Observations make clear that the entire universe is expanding; so yes, in a uniform expanding universe every observer is potentially at the centre of the expansion.
When you think of an “observer World that moves whilst the individual stands still”, methinks there would be two motions instead of one: the motion which makes the World a mover and the motion by which the World moves (due to the fact that a distinction between the constitutive and the instantiated properties of the “moving World” cannot be drawn), so we end up with two different motions: the motion that constitutes the “moving World” and the motion that is the property of the “moving World”. However this is untenable, because there is only one motion, the motion of the moving World.
It follows that, since the distinction between constitutive and instantiated properties is absurd, there is no substantial distinction between these properties and hence the conceptualization of such a situation (the moving World) in terms of these is just a result of cognitive convenience.
In fact, the “moving World” and the “motion” do not exist substantially. All we have is a reflection of the division of its features into constitutive and instantiating properties, therefore a reflection of our pragmatic concerns in conceptualizing the “moving World” -but not a reflection of its intrinsic nature. Methinks the same applies as regards the conception that “the individual is a mover whilst the World stands still”.
Edit: "What is really you?"
I am the one whose vehicle drives him everywhere, and from there to the non-differentiated reality. I refute both existence and non-existence😵
It's about time
05 Feb '13 07:11
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