A Defense of Perpetual Motion, metaphysical approach Part of a response to a critic at: Critic: “Every effect must have a cause” except being. Note that everything is being. Apart from time there is no reason for cause. Cause is a fallacy in realizing what exists in the present. Inevitably to consider cause is to consider what something was or what something will become; it is to forget what it is now, apart from those conditions. To forget the present is also not to think of it. Yet the present is precisely the only thing that has bearing on reality. In fact, cause is what imposes the restriction of the present. Apart from time the connection between objects is not linear. One may ask, “what is the reason?” and this may be expressed in many ways. The house was built because of certain skills, or these particular people were alive, or the idea of house was invented ages ago, or because people wanted to live there. There is no reasoning behind a house forming out of atoms, except on a fabulously complex level where individual atoms, and their individual properties considered as such, most likely cease to matter. In a causative sense, any number of atoms defer to some larger event which may not even participate in the same range of interactions. There’s a great schism between a shoe causing footprints and a great explosion causing someone to run and make them. What is atomic about an explosion causing footprints? The explosion may be made of atoms, and the footprint may be made of atoms, but is the causation atomic? If the footprints were not (as they were evidently not) directly caused by the physical explosion (that is, without a person), can we say that the person is caused by the explosion? One might expect such a person to have energy generated by fear; the energy may be a product of an explosion. Yet equally, we can also surmise that similar footprints may have been created without an explosion. We certainly wouldn’t say that this second person making the second track of footprints was caused by an explosion. So where is the causal relation between the explosion and the footprints, if footprints are not in essence, the product of explosions? Does it have anything to do with energy level (for example, the difference between exploding dynamite and eating a piece of fruit? Consider relaxing to watch fireworks. Was energy expended to keep people from becoming energized?) or is it more about the consistent capabilities of distinct elements (dynamite being a metaphysical threat by going out with a bang)? Considering “the reason” apart from time it becomes less substantial. What is the reason for matter? What is the reason this stuff is? Is there a cause for matter or energy? One might say more energy, but this is an endless loop leading to something far beyond energy, so quantified as to be beyond quantity, so beyond quantity as to not be a question of quantity. When it is no longer a question of quantity, when number in the end, is realized as a zero-sum game, it becomes a question of whether causation has anything to do with time at all, or simply the imperatives of existence, the perceptions and theatres within which matter has a role. In such a world cause is as easily a desire, a motive to reach a destination, as it is an impulse threaded from the depths of time. The question becomes, if it is also as such for a machine, also acting in the realm of human actions, can we not say that it is as logical for its cause to lie in the future, that is, a motive or volition to follow a particular path, a means within which the goal is not to take off, something that perhaps ended with the Wright brothers, but rather to let go of extraneous cargo, to become aerodynamic, to find the condition within which output, regardless of input, is reliable. If input is minimized in such a condition, or if the condition reaches a paradigm within which output is greater, this would be a profound shift where cause has escaped the past, where being is concerned with its own destinations. Out of articulation, out of nature, comes an ability for life; perpetual energy, something I believe to be inherent in the notion of being at all (Whence comes IS? Is there a meaning to mortal absolutes? Or must we confess that being possesses energy, insofar as it exists, not-existing not existing?). Return to the Primary "Defense" Essay Theory Basics Theory Applied Critique Essays Perpetual Motion Concepts nathancoppedge.com E-Mail: contact@nathancoppedge.com |
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