Category: Science, Physics, and Philosophy of Science

PLATONISM IS JUST FRAUD. PLAIN AND SIMPLE.

There is no matter except as a function of the limits of our actions.

As far as we know existence is constructed of forces.

The relations between those forces exist.

From that set of relations between those forces, some set of operations are possible.

The states of equilibrium that those forces rest within.

Everything is constructed from the operations that are possible between those forces.

Our experience of the universe is limited by the limits of our actions.

The universe is not capable of introspection, planning, or choice.

We can, because we can remember, search, model, and forecast, identify the forces and operations at various scales of the universe starting with human scale and working in both directions large and small.

We can make and test observations and create those theories of observations we call ‘facts’.

We can use operations to attempt to transform that which we observe between states.

We can create stories (narratives) theories to attempt to explain those transformations (we call these stories ‘theories’)

We can create many ‘crutches’ to assist us in memory, recall, comparison, and operation given the limits or our actions (the limits of our perception, memory, categorization, and comparison).

We call these crutches by many names.

But they are must memories.

They exist as memories.

Memories limited by our ability to act (change state).

Fragmentary relations subject to constant revision the construction of which we are unable to analyze through introspection.

The experience of which we cannot analyze through introspection but can analyze through mechanical inspection.

And through that inspection we can easily observe some variation of (overly simplistically stated) a brainstem that operates purely mechanically.

a lower brain that senses change in state and rewards or punishes.

a midbrain that produces wants and incentives.

an upper brain that performs various complex functions of memory and recall.

a forebrain that organizes into the language of negotiation the wants of what operates beneath it.

And our consciousness consists of the experience of what we can judge within a 2-3 second window worth of iterations of stimuli mixed with those memories and fed to different brain regions and the rewards and punishments that our brain gives us as instructions produced through millennia of evolution.

As far as I know the forces in different states, and the opportunities to change state that we call operations, and our memories exist.

Giving other-worldly names to nothing other than the experience of memories and the associations we find by searching those memories, is to conflate the physical changes in state, the results of those changes in state upon our ongoing iteration of perceptions, and the reality that exists whether we imagine it or not.

This conflation, like all forms of conflation, is the origin of deception of the self and others. Conversely, the west is the only civilization to successfully create and retain deflationary truth. We did so because the adults practice law out of necessity, and the warriors pay the price for wishful thinking and pretence. And the priests and the little people including the philosophers are simply malcontents trying to create excuses to circumvent that law and steal.

SUGGESTION

We think by suggestion, we communicate by suggestion, we understand by suggestion, but we truth-test through criticism (due diligence).

And we have a name for those who fail to perform due diligence in order to negotiate on behalf of their wants:

FRAUD.

As far as I know, all platonism is fraud. fraud by learned habit. fraud by convenience. fraud by intent.

BUT ITS JUST FRAUD.

Humans seek to acquire. If you cannot acquire truthfully, then you are acquiring untruthfully.

FRAUD.