We can mentally divide a component entity into its components, and we can then mentally divide each component into its own components. Do we ever reach bottom? Do we ever arrive at something which has no parts, which is pure and simple and homogeneous? — Art48
There is, monks, an unborn–unbecome–unmade–unfabricated. If there were not that unborn–unbecome–unmade–unfabricated, there would not be the case that escape from the born–become–made–fabricated would be discerned. But precisely because there is an unborn–unbecome–unmade–unfabricated, escape from the born–become–made–fabricated is discerned. — Ud 8:3 Unbinding (3) (Nibbāna Sutta)
I've seen energy (which cannot be created or destroyed) used in that way but, of course, there are differences between that and Buddha's unborn and the One of Plotinus. The idea of one principle that underlies the universe is the object of science's search for a theory of everything. So, we have multiple concepts which, thought dissimilar, seem to point to a monist view of the universe.My view is that there is no conceptual equivalent for the uncreated in the modern lexicon. — Wayfarer
'Field excitations' are events, I think, not "acts" (i.e. intentional agency).The idea of an excitation brings us to the concept of act. — Art48
Brahman. Dao. Democritus' "void". Plotinus' "the one". Ein Sof. Spinoza's "substance" Schopenhauer's "the will" ... Meillassoux's "hyperchaos" ...God which is not a person and which underlies the entire universe, of which the universe is a manifestation.
:up:So, we have multiple concepts which, thought dissimilar, seem to point to a monist view of the universe. — Art48
Good point. However, I don't mean act as intentional agency.'Field excitations' are events, I think, not "acts" (i.e. intentional agency). — 180 Proof
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