Sunday 19 August 2007

THE THING-IN-ITSELF CONCEPT AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE WILL

The "thing-in-itself " concept which is alluded to by philosophers like Immanuel Kant, and Arthur Schopenhauer is a concept that can be viewed in two different ways, so can therefore be used in two different ways depending on your inclination. The first way in which the thing-in-itself concept can be viewed is that it is merely an ideal for unrealisable perspectiveless knowledge, and so can be viewed in this way if one choose, but this strikes me as being a very passive manner in which to use such a useful concept, even Immanuel Kant himself was not sure whether the concept should be used in an active or passive manner. I believe that the thing-in-itself concept should be used in an active and constructive manner as a way of trying to understand what truly constitutes matter and forms and the nature of things-in-themselves, for instance, when one thinks about it for any length of time it becomes obvious by inference, and also evidence of facts that the true nature of energy, forms, and also the nature of things-in themselves is a "force, activity, and inclination" that is inherent in all energy or particles, and it is the ceaseless and perpetual vibration that exists in all energy and particles, and it can also be said to be the most mysterious and elusive force that we know of in the cosmos and is responsible for all the forces and forms in physical reality, even Immanuel Kant himself always referred to the thing-in-itself concept or true nature of things as the aspect of physical reality that we cannot fully understand, and he was right!, because in sub-atomic physics especially in quantum mechanics heisenberg's uncertainty principle has proven kant to be correct, at least for now!, in time humans will know more about the true nature of energy, space, and the universe.
This thing-in-itself force must have been responsible for the big bang, and all the other forces that exist in matter, but a lot of people usually try to explain this away as being the creation of god and so forth. The thing-in-itself force always appears as a process that goes from groundless and irrational, to arational, to rational, as its processes work themselves out fully and develop, this process usually aquires a harmony of activity as it organizes itself structurally in a concerted manner, for instance, energy and its rates of vibration going from so-called strings, to particles, to atoms, to molecules to ever so more complicated structures relies upon a sort of concerted effort on the part of energy or the thing-in-itself aspect of energy, and it is not too much of a stretch to suggest that the forces in matter are an extension of this vibrational activity or force that we call the thing-in-itself. According to arthur schopenhauer the "will" in nature emanates from this thing-in-itself force also, even though the concept of the will in nature is responsible for a lot of the evolution of biological life, in speech it applies more to desires, needs, wishes, hopes, urges, inclinations, volitions, resolutions, determinations, decisions, choices, purposes, selections, plans and so on that a lot of the forms of biological life goes through and experiences.
In the forces that exist in nature it is usually the processes that can be considered to be rational, rather than the causes or aims. The "will" of a particular thing obeys no time constraints, it is timeless and can be activated by whatever causes come along, for instance, this happens when we plant seeds that have been lying around on our shelves for years, or when we conceive a child. Once the cause of a thing has been activated it is the internal and particular aspect of its appearance and phenomena that exists and subsists in time in the sense of causality, and time cannot be a fixed determination of the outward aspect of phenomena. Without the thing-in-itself force everything in the universe would be static, and undynamic, and without movement, how could one conceive of any processes within energy without it. The main reason biological life exists at all is because of the "ceaseless and perpetual vibration " that exists in "energy"and this activity is "infinite and eternal in movement and quantity", it is the driving force of everything, and anything that has a "will" in nature, and of so many other things in nature also, it is what makes biological life grow and progress, it gives us meaning and purpose. Our existence as we know it today is the resultant activity of this thing-in-itself force, it is even at work in the ageing process of our bodies at this present moment, and all the processes that have lead to our existence within matter is due to this force and it is what has produced us. All the creative aspects of nature such as biological life mostly come about because of the harmony that exists in processes that are part of the thing-in-itself force. Even electricity is a part of this thing-in-itself force, in a way it can be viewed as an aspect of this force which can produce a pure and continuous current of movement. One day more in the future when peoples senses improve they will be able to see and feel the ceaseless and perpetual vibration that exists in energy and matter, and they will also be able to see the colours that are part of the electro magnetic spectrum more clearly. All universals, forces, laws, and rules in nature are inherent within the ceaseless and perpetual vibration in energy and its activities (i.e., the thing-in-itself force,) and this general thing-in-itself force is the essence of these processes and harmonies of activity. There is no doubt that all energy appears to be living, and also appears to be conscious and highly aware of its activity and surroundings, and energy is always in harmonious communication with the other energy that is around it. Matter, or energy depending on how we use these words are used to express how seemingly solid objects or things in reality appear very solid, and this is only because the activity or vibration of energy itself is in a state of constant and continuously structured movement, so therefore energy appears to be more solid than it really is, but in reality so-called solid matter has more empty spaces than our senses can detect in their present state of advancement, maybe in the future when peoples senses are more advanced and refined this less solid aspect of energy will be more noticeable to the senses of humans. All of the movement in the universe, from the big bang, to orbiting planets, to the movement of the iron core mantle of the earth, and also to the tides of the sea by the pull of the moon , and also to the movement in biological life itself in the sense of the will in nature all comes from the activity and perpetual vibration in energy and its interactions with itself in the sense of a continuum of its activity, and processes.

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