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Gravity enveloped the whole Cosmos with its embrace. What many people don’t know and schools don’t teach is that, to Newton, gravity was inseparable from God.
Marcelo Gleiser • The Dawn of a Mindful Universe: A Manifesto for Humanity's Future
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
Erin Glasstwitter.comDescartes thought that
what it means for something
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to physically exist is
for it to take up space. Philosophy students may
remember the term 'Res Extensa.'
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That's Latin for 'extended stuff.' It's Descartes' term for physical matter.
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And so because existence
means taking up space, that means the universe must be full.
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There is no empty space... See more
what it means for something
9:02
to physically exist is
for it to take up space. Philosophy students may
remember the term 'Res Extensa.'
9:10
That's Latin for 'extended stuff.' It's Descartes' term for physical matter.
9:16
And so because existence
means taking up space, that means the universe must be full.
9:25
There is no empty space... See more
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Philosophy Tube. Descartes.
Galileo and Newton appeared to have removed God from these everyday workings of the world, explaining it instead as the clockwork of a vast machine of impersonal force and mass, but even they still needed the Clockmaker to wind it up in the beginning, to imbue the universe with the potential energy that has run it ever since.
Charles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
“To be is to be perceived,” said the Irish philosopher George Berkeley (1685–1753). We exist and give existence by virtue of perception. Berkeley meant that God’s omniscient perception maintains all things. For a moralist—and Berkeley was a bishop—this could mean you’re never out of the sight of God, so you’d better be good! For a metaphysician, “E
... See moreJames Hillman • The Soul's Code
He maintained that material objects only exist through being perceived. To the objection that, in that case, a tree, for instance, would cease to exist if no one was looking at it, he replied that God always perceives everything; if there were no God, what we take to be material objects would have a jerky life, suddenly leaping into being when we l
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
the object of perception cannot be separated from the mind that perceives it.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche • In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
Empty space means the freedom to act!
The Problem with Video Essays
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Berkeley summed up this strange view in Latin as ‘Esse est percipi’ – to be (or exist) is to be perceived. So the fridge light can't be on, and the tree can't make a noise when there is no mind there to experience them. That might seem the obvious conclusion to draw from Berkeley's immaterialism. But Berkeley didn't think that objects were continua
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