Transcendental Mathematics (The God Series Book 25) by Mike Hockney

Author:Mike Hockney [Hockney, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Hyperreality Books
Published: 2015-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Spectators and the Theatre

According to Hume, we are but passive spectators in a world of constantly changing sensations (colours, shapes, sounds, smells, tastes and textures). Within our experience, we find a rapid succession of perceptions: a perpetual flux and movement. The perceptions are like actors passing across the stage of a theatre while we watch, looking at one and then another, and failing to notice many of them. This is just a giant disconnected jumble that we imagine makes some kind of sense, but our knowledge is entirely illusory.

This is the true logic of empiricism, including the empiricism that underlies science. Science avoids this irredeemable skepticism purely by invoking the ultimate rationalist, ordering subject – mathematics.

In Kant’s scheme, we don’t experience this jumble. Rather, our inbuilt faculties of mind ensure that we are watching something inherently ordered and organised, obeying cause and effect, hence we can indeed have knowledge of this system. We don’t see fragments and disconnected pieces: we see wholes and continuous processes.

It’s as if we are at the theatre and have the exact stage plan, all of the actors’ scripts, stage positions, and timings, and all of the director’s directions.

The Sensory Language

It may not seem like it, but the “senses” are languages. They have to be learned, and they can be forgotten or impaired. Some people who have a stroke lose their language skills and have to relearn how to read, write and speak. Equally, some people can become blind and, if they recover their sight some time later, it’s not a question of resuming where they left off. Rather, they have to relearn how to “see”, i.e. they have to relearn the language of sight. It’s not a given, as Kant suggests.

All languages other than mathematics – including sensory languages – are social languages learned in a social context. Mathematics is Nature’s only pure language ... because it’s the language of existence itself.

Mediation

Because we can never switch off our mental sensory faculties, we can never have a pure, unmediated experience of the world in sensory terms. Reason alone takes us to the unmediated nature of existence: mathematics ... numbers. As Pythagoras said, “All things are numbers.”

Baby World

William James described the experience of a baby as a “buzzing, blooming confusion”. That’s a good description of Hume’s understanding of reality. It also describes what a blind person recovering his sight would first experience.

What Is Reality Like?

We can have objective, universal, and necessary knowledge of the world because it has a certain structure. That structure is nothing to do with Kantian a priori “categories” but purely to do with ontological mathematics. No matter what situation we find ourselves in, it will always be a mathematical situation. There are no non-mathematical occurrences.

According to Kant, we can never know reality in itself because we can never encounter it before our minds have done their job of processing, filtering and mediating it. According to Illuminism, we can know reality in itself ... mathematically. Mathematics is what reality is before the mind does any mediation; it’s unmediated reality, reality with no appearance .

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