Saturday, February 27, 2010
There’s so much information out there ready to reveal itself, its syntax and semantics, ready to reveal a grand unified explanation of everything, both physical and metaphysical. And, I feel obliged to synthesize this information.
While any theory based on metaphysical assumptions can be dismissed as unverifiable, or failing to meet the scientific standard of falsifiability, metaphysical truths, if there are any, may possibly be determined by their physical effects, if any. Just in the way that the gravity of the Earth will have an effect on a person inside a windowless room from which they can’t leave, something outside the Universe, if possible and existent, may have an effect inside the Universe which can be observed or inferred from other effects which depend on it. Such may be the case with dark matter and dark energy. Of course, if possible, things may exist outside the Universe and have no such effect, or no things could exist outside the Universe, or, no things could possibly exist outside the Universe. None these options are falisifiable, and could be dismissed as easily as asserted. But, such assertions are commonly made, most often in the case of God, but also concerning other subjects such as the origin of the Universe, the dwelling place of other supernatural beings or of the dualist’s ‘mind’, or in conceptions of cosmic consciousness, universal will or ‘the world as will’, or an all prevalent force or forces which are common to all things in the Universe, and perhaps to the Universe itself. Some people might even go so far as to say these are all the same thing, and all of reality consists of various mutations, arrangements, or movements of it.
As said before, such an assertion could be dismissed as easily as it can be made, but many, if not all people base their ideas off of such metaphysical assertions, adopting them as interim truths or working hypotheses. It would be wise for people to choose those metaphysical assumptions that most easily allow for and fully agree with empirical reality. So, this is not an attempt to defend presumption, but rather an attempt to direct metaphysical thought such that it may be agreeable, provide some epistemic value, and furthermore to suggest how metaphysical propositions might actually be detected and supported through effects they may have in the observable world.
