Souls of Analytical and Gestalt Psychology

Trees are green because they have a green purpose, or as part of a process. Trees are green because it says everything, or because truth is inaccessible. Trees are green because that is what works best, unless we're wrong. Trees are green to inspire us, or because trees are that way somehow.

The heart itself has its own reason that reason itself cannot understand.

Some objects have little or no mass.

When one visits another country, it is never authentic. Because authentic things never happen there.

A lot of belly-button lint. More and more. Endless streams. Endless belly-button lint. Disappointing belly-button lint.

First of all, if you have more extreme problems, consult a doctor, as I am not an expert and I don't want you to dislocate anything.

If it is not a zero-sum game, the results can sometimes be positive.

Things change when its no big deal.

I have thought considerably more than most about the psychological implications of a society that considers big ears—which are not even part of the brain—to be a sign of stupidity.

Because the context sucks → Because high standards were applied → Because its challenging → Because I have a soul.

The major doors that we know lead to greater simplicity.

Put to an incomplete arbitrarily complicated task, however, the brain can be very limited.

Either life is peaches, or you're doomed, or you don't understand psychology.

Souls of Mathematics

“1. The potential that existed at the beginning, or else in the ideal case. 2. The alternate imagination or the ideal that exists now. 3. The ability to predict and manifest possibilities.”

—The Triangle or Psychic Triangle by Nathan Coppedge

“Knowledge of limits.” —Isaac Newton

“The true figure of mathematics is strangely indefinite. If mathematics changes, it will require a great process. Some figures are real, and some less real: this describes the folly and potential of mathematics. If something is absolute, it is often very small, or else its potential would be unreal. There is nothing truly limiting for a real exponent. Limits, true limits, are something finite, and so the more mathematics we know, the more we go blind. The nature of mathematics, if it is beautiful, is no more than a strange blot of color in a field of blank space. The blank space is terrible, demonic, and destroys mathematics. If there is something more essential than mathematics for mathematics, it is an odd figure.”

—Paraphrase of Gödel

“Logic is in Chains.” —R. Volkman

“I. 1. Induction (guesstimation)→ 2. Abduction (Scientific hypothesis) →3. Causal inference (Syllogisms) and Axiomatics, Proof Theory, Incoherent Set Theory.→ 4. Incoherent Qualification: Qualification in Causal Inference→ 5. Major Exceptions to Coherence (irrationality, solving paradoxes, empty sets, formal incoherence). →6. Fuzzy logic, intuition, formal semantics, semiotics.→ 7. Infinitary logic, closed systems, exponential efficiency.→ 8. Non-causal inference, Coherent Set Theory→ 9. Universal Qualification→ 10. Informal Exceptions. II. 1. Ideology. → 2. Mechanics. → 3. Paradigmatics. → 4. Core Essence. → III. 1. Perfection. → 2. Complexity. IV. Divinity.”

—Narhan Coppedge

“May we predict, now you have brains?” —N. Coppedge

Souls of Physics

“The laws of physics are only ideal at being themselves.” —Unknown

“Physicists need to learn about tie-die.” —A Thought Interpretted from my Mother

“Unless you do physics, all you can think of is a crusty cookie.” —Unknown

“Motion continues unless there is resistance. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. An object in motion tends to stay in motion.” —Paraphrase of Newton's Laws

“0: That, all conditions being equal, energy remains constant. 1: That, with some resistance, energy decreases. 2: That, with heat energy, energy tends to dissipate. 3: That, since most structures have some void, no perfect seal can be built to contain heat. 4: That, over infinite time, energy tends to return to zero. 5: That energy tends to be created from the destruction of particles.” —Laws of Thermodynamics

“A black hole is a singularity. You don't know your wave functions if you don't know that. A black hole is a hole: an absence of space relative to time. Heat is a bowshock, the wave of a crescendo. Waves describe everything in motion, if it is also admitted a wave can also be a surface. Quanta describe particles at rest. The foundational principle is construction and continuation. But this basic principle is broken by indefinite energy states. Wave-particle duality is broken by a further principle of the multiplication of elemental composite properties resulting from indefinite energy. Many of the correlated properties concern either waves or composite properties, such as those observed in material science and biology. If there are unique or unusual properties, they tend to emerge because of an opposition singularity or some of the properties mentioned above. Physicists say that an oppositional singularity is not a black hole, but people don't listen. In fact, an oppositional singularity is any state involving sufficiently opposite properties which might create a unique energy state.” —Advanced Physics

When we see the facts for what they are, we can do whatever we want.

Souls of Classical / Ancient Philosophy

Less pain was the key to the other things. Nice straight pleasure, any amount with no major future pains. Death is the exception. Avoiding death is promising.

THE IMAGINATION THOUGH IS GOOD TERRITORY IF IT DOES NOT INVOLVE VICTIMIZATION

Something true might even be more than true. If it is true in relation to some lesser thing. It might even be less than true. If it is true in relation to some greater thing. But if it's true, we can say: ‘That it's true through-and-through!’

—Socrates

… Some things are true, but not good, and this is not truly good. And some things are good that are still true, although if they were bad, they would not be true. This, unfortunately, is true.

—Socrates

First, Justice is from the gods. No one can dispute that.

—Socrates

Whatever you believe, there can only be one god named Justice.

—Socrates

Since we cannot know divine justice absolutely not being absolute in judgment like her ourselves, we must concern ourselves with justice of this kind. The justice of not being Just. A lesser justice. Justice of this kind… must be some weak kind of justice. It is not really justice at all, but some mere appearance of justice.

—Socrates

If justice is 'just’ the appearance of justice, then we must concern ourselves with the good life, for the good life is all that has the appearance of justice.

—Socrates

If anyone would like to speak on my earlier questions, now is always the time to hear it.

—Socrates

Just because you see that you know doesn't mean that you know that know. Just because you see that you know everything doesn't mean that you actually know anything. Just because you make an effort to know does not mean you succeed in the process of knowing. Just because you have reached certainty of knowledge does not mean that you have actual knowledge.

—Socrates

Thus, we begin with what we say that we know, which is what we think that we know well. We then inquire into the process of knowing, which is the thing that we might endeavor to know. Then we inquire into what we think we see, which is that thing which we must know, if in fact we do know. Finally, we must see as to whether we know it, and that is the most challenging part.

—Socrates

In the end, very often we do not know, or there is some way that we know, which is in fact the way that we do not know.

—Socrates

Thus, it may be said that the Sophists were wise, for although they knew, they also knew that they knew not.

—Socrates

We may endeavor to know that we know not, for unless we know that we are not wise, we cannot know that we are wise.

—Socrates

This in all things: Know thine self, and to thine own self be true.

—Socrates

Now we will discuss the subject of relative ideas. For it is my view that relative ideas are all that is necessary for truth. Consider the notion of an idea-relation. An idea is in some way a relation that is expressed. It is 'some thing’. If the thing is expressed as some relation, then we can call it an expressed relation. And an expressed relation has at least one idea. After all, an idea is an idea. Once an idea is a related thing, an idea is an adequate representation. A representation of what? Well, a representation of itself. For unlike things that are not related, or which cannot be considered, An idea is something which is considered as related. Thus, as soon as we have an idea, we have something related. Thus, all that is necessary for truth is a relative idea.

—Socrates

Abandon your prior conceptions: put your mind on the truth, and nothing else. What is true is the objects of truth. Some are infinite, some are finite. It may be hard to fathom, for not all men are the same. Make your choice of reality and illusion. If you choose reality, you will know of other things, and they will give you sight and wisdom. If you choose illusion, you will not know even yourself. Pick one! One is good, and the other evil! One belongs to the world in all its shining glory, the other belongs to the cave in all its darkness. Men are judged on the basis of their awareness. Those who are most aware will gather the fruits of wisdom and reap plenty. Those who live in the cave will learn despair. So, the world is divided into good and bad men. The success of a man is the success of his life: wise or foolish, long or short, happy or sad, the beginning or the end. Much has been said of life on Earth. Do what you must. Make of it what you will. If you can, apply your intelligence to invention. Write harmonic verse. Prove your claims. Life does not end with truth! Truth is only the beginning.

—Socrates

The soul very often has a ‘first inspiration.’ Afterwards, the soul seeks perfection. Seeking perfection creates a drama of the soul: idealism or conflict. In those terms the soul is defined.

—Socrates

It seems to me we should trust our close neighbors. They have knowledge of our materials. And if we are surrounded by aliens, then we should only trust parts of ourselves. And these parts of ourselves can be somewhat separate from who we really are if we do not realize ourselves. Thus, if we do not realize ourselves, we can still trust part of ourselves which is a neighbor to ourselves, but which our not-so-neighborly neighbors do not consider part of ourselves. We can also transform into others like our neighbors, but only after incorporating parts of ourselves which are not yet parts of ourselves.

—Socrates

Ideas are the real things… in its essence a composition with a purpose for the soul.

—Socrates

It is only the best ideas which deserve to be part of the soul.

—Socrates

Knowing neighbors is the fundamental identification with ideas, while the actual realization of the soul is higher than that.

—Socrates

The natural soul realizes natural ideas, while the intellectual soul realizes intellectual ideas. The object of the soul is to become natural, yet the natural soul may not be intellectual.

—Socrates

The soul is superior to ideas.

—Socrates

Understanding ideas creates the soul.

—Socrates

The ideas of the higher soul are merely neighbors. The ideas of the higher soul need not exist as ideas, but as real things. These things are as much neighbors as they are other people or parts of the soul.

—Socrates

The neighbors, which are elements of the soul.

—Socrates

This is the cloud we call the True Cloud. The highest form of the cloud, which we cannot always see.

—Socrates

Difference is true difference, but it is neither love nor hate. It is true that when we love what is different, it is not loving the same. It is a true difference. But, such it is true, we may hate it or we may love it.

—Socrates

The different thing is of a different nature if it is truly different, although it may truly be the same. And this is what we call subtle.

—Socrates

The clouds may be at war in the way of clouds being different. They may be at war about the same. And we, being different from the clouds, are not at war with the clouds. We are at war with being different. And now, it must be, if those who make war are opposed to us, they are in love with opposition, for they do not oppose the clouds, nor do they oppose difference.

—Socrates

And, fundamentally, it is the same-looking clouds, one completely rare and familiar, and the other completely common with difference.

—Socrates

Mathematics was trumped by concepts like Justice and the form of the Good in Plato's philosophy.

—Juste Ledger

Epicurus — one of the most misunderstood, he really advocated moderation in pleasure, but the word Epicurean now refers to a seeker of pleasure.

—Turns on Heroes

The symbol of the laurel given to elites gave intellectual achievement a kind of indefinable essence.

—Writings in Stone

Souls of Analytic Philosophy

People die when their histories are lost.

—Paroxysmus

Knowledge can be favored for practical reasons.

—Unknown

It isn’t really until its complete and if it happens to be scientific—Some philosophers today might love being called scientists, but not all of them

—Unknown

What follows from a premise is the action taken to produce the result.

—Kripkenstein

Disjunctions… if they are used as premises support truth value.

—Kripkenstein

Intuitionist logics… How it is treated becomes the truth-value.

—Kripkenstein

It depends… whether the premises adopt the structure of the argument.

—Kripkenstein

One term might be expressed as many terms, and thus truth must be expressed in terms of functions.

—Kripkenstein

Analyzability is potentially disconnected between the logical agents of an argument… the argument itself must make the claim.

—Kripkenstein

Under the definition of canonical and sub-object it might be easier to determine how they work within various different models.

—Kripkenstein

Subobjects… might be shown to be interdependent on a larger, overall more explicable structure.

—Kripkenstein

Sensation can be rationalized, just as many other things can also be done with it.

—N. Coppedge

The feeling of an object of sensation such as a piece of fuzz can be smaller in its impression than it's ultimate idea.

—N. Coppedge

Now, by rationality particular behaviors are adopted which may not be universal… relative to limited observations, rationality, sensation, or other concepts.

—N. Coppedge

What we mean by knowledge is not meaningless knowledge… if knowledge were meaningless we would have the same problem we had without knowledge.

—N. Coppedge

Although knowledge is concerned with the good… there is nothing which makes meaning inherently expensive or… should make us assume that when it is meaningful it must be impractical.

—N. Coppedge

What is meant by good in every way is if it is meaningful to the point of being practical.

—N. Coppedge

The practical consists of an elevation of the good, that is, meaning.

—N. Coppedge

We can trace the path of higher meaning… into… subjects like philosophy and art that are most pleasurable to… those who do not declare life to be meaningless.

—N. Coppedge

Meaning… is at least a lack of meaninglessness.

—N. Coppedge

Concepts are good, and so they have meaning, and so they are an elevation of practicality.

—N. Coppedge

And where what is good must have meaning, so too what is meaningful must be the only elevation of practicality.

—N. Coppedge

The ultimate is any exceptional thing, which has its own meaning, good or bad, and… can be judged ultimately practical or impractical.

—N. Coppedge

Many ultimate things are in fact the …things we ought to take for granted… because they have practical meaning.

—N. Coppedge

There are techniques… For example, finding significance. Or strategizing… happy events.

—N. Coppedge

Many of these [strategies]… since they aim at the extreme, involve a kind of madness.

—N. Coppedge

So… there might be a practical and also an exaggerated view of an object, which puts it somewhere in the space of finding significance.

—N. Coppedge

The sometimes extremely useful practical meaning of each object.

—N. Coppedge

If something could be bad when it is exaggerated, it clearly does not have practical meaning, and so, it must be unrelated to the good, and so, it must be somewhat unethical to consider it. And when it is unethical to consider it, it is unlikely to involve itself in any kind of good life. And so, there is a sense of ethical virtues related to the exaggeration of practical meaning.

—N. Coppedge

The ethical person is one who can exaggerate his every sensation and still find meaning. This means that everything is subject to critique.

—N. Coppedge

If he is to be virtuous there will be no forgiveness, nor will there be any punishment other than meaninglessness.

—N. Coppedge

And so, we see it that the difference between the good life and the bad life is that the good life has significance, and the bad life is merely superficial, because the bad life is full of the meaningless things.

—N. Coppedge

The first property of meaning is sensation, impression, interpretation, or synthesis, all of which require an intellectual experience and often a lack of discomfort. The second property of meaning is a state, quality, dynamic, or symbolism that makes meaning possible. A meaningful experience is not just sensation, impression, interpretation, or synthesis, but some specific state, quality, dynamic, or symbolism that has a particular fascination, pleasure, curiosity, or charm. The third property of meaning is the context, existence, pursuit, or impetus which makes the fascination, pleasure, curiosity, or charm substantial enough to take part in the intellectual experience that is not uncomfortable. The context, existence, pursuit, or impetus may be involved with languages (logic), systems (elaborate structures and organizations), guarantees (physical laws), and ideas (intellectually justified events and information) which motivate and permit substantiality. The fourth property of meaning is it's activity, usefulness, value, and consequence for sensations, impressions, interpretations, and syntheses. For example, meaning may affect the manner in which substance (infinity), improbability (commonness), uniqueness (universalism), and perfection (qualification or evolution) are activated, effective, valued, and consequential.

—N. Coppedge