SpaceweaverThu, Jan 3, 2008 To obvious: Very interesting. What comes to mind, in relating consciousness to the infinite, is the inherent negation of the second. Infinite is in fact in-finite, a definition via negation which some would refuse to endow with the status of definition in the first place. I made a small thought experiment replacing all instances of the word 'infinite' in your post with the word 'no-thing'. It still makes the full sense that it had before, which is, I think, a hint as to the nature of consciousness.
Emptiness, or better yet openness might be a prime key to the riddle. To grasp infinity, if possible , starts with releasing the idea of finiteness. To figure the finite we have to do, to figure the infinite (I know... oxymoron :-)) we have to undo.
To obvious: Very interesting. What comes to mind, in relating consciousness to the infinite, is the inherent negation of the second. Infinite is in fact in-finite, a definition via negation which some would refuse to endow with the status of definition in the first place. I made a small thought experiment replacing all instances of the word 'infinite' in your post with the word 'no-thing'. It still makes the full sense that it had before, which is, I think, a hint as to the nature of consciousness.
Emptiness, or better yet openness might be a prime key to the riddle. To grasp infinity, if possible , starts with releasing the idea of finiteness. To figure the finite we have to do, to figure the infinite (I know... oxymoron :-)) we have to undo.