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Krazysh0t
Visitor2012
Krazysh0t
reply to post by Visitor2012
The word duality is derived from the word dual, meaning two. Explain to me how everything is two? That contradicts the concept of everything, if there are two everythings then obviously they don't contain everything.
Yes duality is comparison of one to another, like contrast. It operates in sight, hearing, touching, smelling, and even our thoughts andour minds which operate on the basis of duality. All of our senses operate like this. Duality is what allows you to experience your reality.
Are you ever going to go into detail with this? What do you mean when you say our senses operate with duality? Our sense are ALWAYS on, they are CONSTANTLY sending information to our brains. Where is the duality in this? Where are the two states?
Your whole argument is lacking development. You state a premise: Everything operates through duality. Then you proceed to repeat this premise OVER and OVER again. Where is your reasoning? Where have you defined how you think of duality? The way your argument goes, you could substitute any random string of letters for the word "duality" and it would keep the same meaning.edit on 15-2-2014 by Krazysh0t because: (no reason given)
Krazysh0t
reply to post by Visitor2012
So you say that we are either alive or we aren't? Well define what it means to be alive. You equate no incoming senses to being a vegetable. What if that person still has conscious thought but just cannot sense any external stimuli? Is a being that doesn't have conscious thought not alive? Apparently humans are the only animals with an ego, so are other animals not alive? What about trees or bacteria? Are they not alive?
You still aren't making sense. And you still haven't throughly demonstrated an example of duality.edit on 15-2-2014 by Krazysh0t because: (no reason given)
Krazysh0t
reply to post by Visitor2012
Ok refute this: There is no such thing as light or dark. Whatever you can produce as light, I can produce something that is brighter meaning that your object is relatively dimmer. We can do this infinitely, just add more energy being expelled from the object. Therefore there are infinite states of lightness which means there are more than two states. Therefore duality of brightness doesn't exist.
Like I said, look at things with an either/or perspective is simplistic in nature. There is never only two options. Only the illusion of two options.
Krazysh0t
reply to post by Visitor2012
Ok your posts are starting to make my head hurt
Visitor2012
Krazysh0t
reply to post by Visitor2012
Ok refute this: There is no such thing as light or dark. Whatever you can produce as light, I can produce something that is brighter meaning that your object is relatively dimmer. We can do this infinitely, just add more energy being expelled from the object. Therefore there are infinite states of lightness which means there are more than two states. Therefore duality of brightness doesn't exist.
Like I said, look at things with an either/or perspective is simplistic in nature. There is never only two options. Only the illusion of two options.
You're exactly right. Brightness and darkness is a perception. it's a relative term. Just like a dark sunspot is. There's nothing right or wrong with it, it's just perception. Perceptions are relativistic. Relativity..or comparison equals duality. If you perceive form, dualism is its foundation. If you perceive sound, dualism is it's foundation...and this applies to ALL senses. The word "Senses' and 'perception' implies duality.edit on 15-2-2014 by Visitor2012 because: (no reason given)
Krazysh0t
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Go ahead. I don't care what you think about my posts.
Krazysh0t
reply to post by Visitor2012
I still fail to see the duality in sense perception. When are you NOT sensing something? Are there ever a time where your eyes are not seeing things? I'd say that as long as there is enough visible light in the area, the answer is no. Even when your eyes are closed, they are STILL seeing things. You can tell that this is the case by pointing your face towards a bright object with your eyes closed. Some of the light will go through your eyelids and light them up reddish color. Also your eyes are always moving, that is how they create a clear image in front of you. The majority of your sense processing cells are wide processing cells and make things blurry, so our eyes have to dart around constantly to get a good image.
The act of not sensing something is just your brain not consciously processing the incoming information from those senses because the information hasn't changed enough to warrant the brain addressing it consciously. This doesn't mean that your senses are "off," they are just in automatic mode.
Krazysh0t
Visitor2012
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Ok refute this: There is no such thing as light or dark. Whatever you can produce as light, I can produce something that is brighter meaning that your object is relatively dimmer. We can do this infinitely, just add more energy being expelled from the object. Therefore there are infinite states of lightness which means there are more than two states. Therefore duality of brightness doesn't exist.
Like I said, look at things with an either/or perspective is simplistic in nature. There is never only two options. Only the illusion of two options.
You're exactly right. Brightness and darkness is a perception. it's a relative term. Just like a dark sunspot is. There's nothing right or wrong with it, it's just perception. Perceptions are relativistic. Relativity..or comparison equals duality. If you perceive form, dualism is its foundation. If you perceive sound, dualism is it's foundation...and this applies to ALL senses. The word "Senses' and 'perception' implies duality.edit on 15-2-2014 by Visitor2012 because: (no reason given)
This doesn't make sense. Where are the two choices that warrant the descriptor of dualism? You keep saying that things are dualistic but you don't make a solid case as to what is dualistic about it.
Also, relative things cannot be dualistic. The very fact that it is relative means there are infinite states of it. That is more than 2.
Dualism deals with two. An either/or option. Show me an either/or situation. My assertion is that nothing is dualistic because to say that there are only two states to something is simplistic. Prove me wrong.
I still fail to see the duality in sense perception. When are you NOT sensing something? Are there ever a time where your eyes are not seeing things?
Visitor2012
Duality does NOT deal with two. It deals with one over the other. In physical realm,the word "dualism" would equate to the word "experience".
Dualism (from the Latin word duo meaning "two")[1] denotes a state of two parts. The term 'dualism' was originally coined to denote co-eternal binary opposition, a meaning that is preserved in metaphysical and philosophical duality discourse but has been diluted in other usages to indicate a system which contains two essential parts.
In philosophy of mind, dualism is the position that mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical,[1] or that the mind and body are not identical.[2] Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism, in the mind–body problem.[1][2]