where's the mystical
Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 8:38AM
Robert Twigger

"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922

People have different ideas about where to locate the mystical. That the world IS rather than ISN'T does seem a mystery of the highest order though...and I am always interested in attempts to try and explain it away using mathematical ideas about energy states etc. The motive to remove mystery is just as strong in some as the motive to add unnecessary mystery is in others.

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