The Bard College Epiphanies, Nathan Coppedge PREFACE NOTE: Explanation of the Preface I once wrote there was a 1000 year gap between the time of no technology and the time of some technology. I attributed this gap to the conceptual curve in apprehending any new invention— That it is easier to apply an invention about ideas than an idea about matter. It may have been a careless statement on my part, which I later deleted. What I meant was that perpetual motion would cause the number of useful inventions to explode. We can mark the onset of wild invention only about so far back as the grandfather clock, which surprisingly came after idea-inventions including the Calculus. Here is a work that describes the abstract mode that lives in that time of the netherworld between invention and invention’s mother. THE BARD COLLEGE EPIPHANIES 2001 Introduction What if there was something wrong with accepting anything the way it was? Would you change your thinking? If metaphysics is art, does this mean that language is somehow more universal than nature? If logic is deeper than art, does it also transcend language? What can be accomplished by uncertainty at two removes? What can be accomplished by saying something obvious at three, four, etc removes? Is there a more basic logic than what this shows, seeing as how it is reductive of a potential gradual non-truth? Where is the formula of the known that speaks of the maddening cruelty--a cruelty that-is-not cruel, a vain transmorphy and soothtide that is no longer befitting for simple problems, yet it goes on into the future-processing! What is your rational answer? The truth speaks in riddles: What is the answer? That is the question that answers, a double-delicacy braver than it is deep, deeper than it is brave. We have learned fortune rhymes for the depraved, and many songs are lost on the sighs of the machines, many songs are lost—it is as if there is not a single thing withiut weight. This ‘Clock of Token Weight’ is worth the world to me—Stranger eyes have I than the brooks of beyond, inward-turned upon death’s double-scribble: logic is a riddle, and if it applied! The fountain would run—any fountain would run, to me, I remember the price, it is worth the world, it can make fountains run riddles around the world, a Clock of Token Weight Indeed. Is irrationality worth a type of freedom? The math of matters says death dies is the mortal soul, and gods sell themselves for dreams—both like a gargoyle caught on a riddle, fair games fair games! The machine turns away, beckoning dreams, silver hour, amber nought, the potion counterbalancing the scheme—Triple alchemy making truth unseem. Weather of words, the pattern seems au resolvé! Fortunate Man! A sìecle of potential. Ambergris has been holding his hand! A cross of philosophical meritus is displayed with flashing eagles and suns bathed in jade—he’s the devil’s psychopomp, a queen of spades. What evil upends his illustrious name? Surely it could not be cheap to call on Easter and resolve the world, all while crying like a little girl! The shape of things forgotten is to come! Sinister portents for the Old Wheel! This poet has learned to steal and makes it look like Santa Claus. [End of Introduction] MAIN TEXT OF THE BARD COLLEGE EPIPHANIES 1. What’s good is really good, so good things are possible. There's no equivocating. 2. Problems are problematic. So, if you think about it, nature is against problems. Insofar as life is authentic, there aren't any problems. Problems are contradictory. 3. Possibility is possible, so it's impossibly possible or possibly impossible, or impossibly impossible, or already true. But since these categories technically describe everything, then everything that is possible can happen insofar as it is possible. For, afterall, what is impossible if it is not impossibly impossible? And, how can possible not be possible? And, since both seem to express possibility, then the intermediates must also express possibility. For if the possible is impossible, that is still impossibly impossible, and if the impossible is possible, that is still possibly possible. (Apparently, the impossible is impossible. So, what we mean by impossible is really yet another form of possibility. But if that is true, there is nothing contradicting possibility). 4. Insofar as you die, you are already dead. So how do you die? You can't, unless it is not you. 5. Nothing is something at being nothing, whereas something is nothing at being something. Apparently, things are the opposite of what they do, which means although they have identity, they're made of their opposites. So we know opposites are the thing that is not contradictory, so we know there is knowledge, and we know the only contradiction is contradiction itself, and the same for everything, which means there really aren't any opposites, just a presence or absence of contradiction, plus the question of whether it contradicts itself. So, in one degree we get identity and contradiction, and in two degrees we get opposites and double-contradiction, and in three degrees we get metaphysical semantics and triple contradiction, and in four degrees we get metaphysics and quadruple semantics. In short, knowledge works at every level, from nothing, because all that can define a thing is what it is, and the only thing contradictory is contradiction, and contradiction can always contradict itself again. So, its like Platonism, its ex-nihilistic, and it may as well be perfect, because after all problems are contradictory so there are no problems, or else problems must be true problems and therefore ideal, because truth is ideal because problems are problematic so problems must barely exist or exist for philosophical amusement. In short true evil must make sense unless it is problematic, or it is contradictory and won't exist, so we know evil is problematic or sensible. But if evil is problematic it is contradictory, and if evil makes sense it must make sense to madness and reason. If it makes sense only to madness, it must contradict reason, and if it makes sense only to reason, it must contradict madness. If evil contradicts reason, then it is contradictory. And so, evil must involve reasonableness unless it is contradictory. And so we know if there is evil it must be sensible to reason, or it must contradict itself. And since we know evil contradicts the good, we know if evil contradicts the good, it opposes its own contradiction, and so we know when evil is sensible to reason, it does not contradict the good. Thus, we know that evil is a contradiction. And so we know that unless we are being contradictory ourselves, then evil exists only for philosophical amusement. Thus, we must oppose contradiction and devote ourselves to philosophical problems, and that is the ultimate contradiction which leads us to metaphysical semantics and four-dimensional semantics, the meaningful creative life in which even philosophical problems are meaningless, because they are contradictory. And at that point it is only meaning which can be contradictory, which means that we have achieved the meaningful life. 6. I may add, we also say that the possible is impossible (like in physics), and the impossible is possible (like in perpetual motion). But they seem to mean the same thing, which means perpetual motion IS physics. If not, physics is not in perpetual motion. That's a little grim, but it might indicate perpetual motion if we're already alive. If we're already alive we may come from eternity. So it is a little bit like perpetual motion is possible as long as we’re not innocent, which means knowledge of perpetual-motion-eternity would be sufficient knowledge, in which case the eternity of the universe is a choice, in which case it is not so grim. 'However, if the alternative to contradiction is physics, then there is no way to contradict the physical universe, and so the universe would be a perpetual motion machine. But if this physics were a contradiction, it could only produce smaller perpetual motion machines, since the universe exists, and eternity is measured in perpetual motion machines, and insofar as eternity is measured perpetual motion is physical. If physics is not a perpetual motion machine, that means it is being contradicted, which means there are contradictions in physics.' 7. Relative relativism in a first or second sense: there is no value attached to our specific place, except through adaptive synthesis. 8. If the universe contracts, it is a wormhole. If it expands, it is the universe as we know it. There must be a third element that is as extruded as the compaction and expansion, and that is consciousness. Thus, there is a trinity of Wormholes, Consciousness, Universe. Whatever acts on the universe acts on these things, and since one of them is the universe, they are interchangeable. And so, if we are familiar with the universe we must be wormholes, and wormholes are the explanation of consciousness. A simpler way to put this is that the universe is its own animal, or it is an animal as animal is to something else. 9. Where something is a problem it may be more intelligent to be a paradox. Thus problems are ideally high-minded, and practical problems must be unintelligent compared to practical paradoxes. However, practical paradoxes are often cases with fewer problems, e.g. cases it is possible to choose one of two choices. And so, because a case with fewer problems is closer to a solution, even practical paradoxes should aim to be intellectual. And so, problems should aim to be intellectual whether they are practical or not. And so, problems are ideally intellectual. And so, problems are ideally paradoxes. 10. A quanym is an expression that contradicts itself with no apparent contradiction. At first I found only one example, which could be used to elaborate the fundamental nature of systems: I thought I was great or so I thought. 11. If possible, in a thinking process, criticisms are joined together as the analytic meaning of the genius idea. The idea hypothetically becomes as important as all prior ideas if it succeeds. 12. True in many ways absolutely, or true by emotion only? Then the only link is emotional if one's judgment is not yet absolute. And it is a causal essence to move immediately from the pre-emotional to the absolute. (However, it seems that the causal essence is much like emotion). 13. Abstract interface. Click composition. Ideal composition using single-effect evolution. A function of composition and a stack of tools and preferences. Alternately, 'flawed prospecting’ based on determined bias (causal chain) and an aesthetic forest of values like the perfect palette concept. Also, a combination of composition, values, stack, and bias / causal chain may be an idea of simple but nuanced artwork. 14. Problems must be ideal to be problems, for an absolute problem would contradict its own existence. And so, if there is something problematic about problems it is ideally problematic, and so, not only is everything ideal, but problems are not really problems, they are solutions. Problem is an idea to solution. But only to extreme intelligence. We can also say that a problem is an incorrect approach to a problem, and so, problems are idealizations, and idealization is the whole purpose of a problem. Therefore, there should be nothing disillusioning about problems unless we have an incorrect approach to them. 15. Value is a razor, a standard of standards, a perfect aesthetic. 16. One can be right by an exception, which can be bound by the law, a perfect concordance. 17. Truth may have a special spine, a dimensional keyboard, a secret access, a divine problem. Divine problems may be solved if they are eternal, if they are ideal and problematic. 18. There may be a pin-turn, which is the picture, an operation, a large formula, a tractatus, a diabolical unification, a puzzle, a figure. A separation, a wizard. 19. Pleasure is a deserving essence, a meager 'meil’. A mailstrom, another picture. 20. There is another figure, a childlike zöon, a moot temper, a temptation, an animal. It has many colors and textures. They are logical* [star lemma]. 21. There is also a clown, who is philosophy, who wears the animals, and thinks of problems. 22. The problems are seperate from philosophy, and so, philosophy is two-degrees ideal, and this vanquishes bad approaches, and adds stars to numbers. 23. And numbers are like Gods, but there is only one, and as one, like many it may be unumerated. 24. The numbers-like-God are Illuminati, different and yet related to philosophers. 25. And the imagination of numbers is theory. 26. Therefore, there is a 'High Standard’ which is above all theories, and is an iteration of aesthetic standard, and it is in touch with metaphysik. 27. And the metaphysical theory is as much material as it is psychological. 28. It is proven, just as it is spiritual. 29. And so it is that the occult contains mastery. 30. Intuition without further necessity. 31. Ingenuity that is sacred and fundamental, unlike computing. 32. Or some fundamental logical archetype which might exist, manifold, manifest, like epoche, elision, eridi, and eliote. 33. The arch-logic of manifolds, perfect math, separated only by a logical 'imprecision’. Delicate, and materially-wise. Like gold amber honey with wine. 34. The thoughts rebound, and the result is ideally, identically immortal. 35. One serpent, one 'world’ —heedless of debaclasmic logicians. 36. ‘Separate’, infinite (qualifying terms). 37. A spiral world of perfections. 38. Endless manifolds. 39. Made empty, quiet, peaceful somehow—with can I say it logic! 40. Beauty beyond comprehension is the secret, the artificer of machines. Wise beyond comprehension, ensconced in idolation or isometry. 41. The field is green—I sojourn, waiting for a scream. 42. Precedent in God. 43. Devil's test. 44. Truly clever engineering. 45. Unless perfect, or like… language, we will not be immortal. 46. Truth being a kind of universal standard. 47. Sometimes we countenance truth without countenancing an idea. 48. Dimensional Pleasure Principle: To be miserable past the ‘20.5th’ dimension you need to have a really good theoretical justification of why/how to be miserable. Thus, most beings in the 21st dimension originate in lower dimensions or have a good or bad theory of how to be 21st dimensional or even higher dimensional—Whence comes the expression that pleasure originates with theory. 49. A grand theory as a graphical pattern. Energy as the next dimension of systems. 50. If a concept had not ever existed, would it still be possible? Effectively no. Although if it's potential existed it's potential would exist, etc etc. Originally thought of around the same time as: The philosophical razors Coppedge, Nathan 2017/08/06, p.