Everything is simple, at the same time, complex. Does it sound enigmatic? In reality, this ambivalence bothers us when we embrace multiple perspectives. For example, there is a glass of water in front of me on the sofa table. It looks like a mere object, which doesn't impact my life. I don't consider it as … Continue reading A Glass of Water
Tag: #Cosmology
The Infinite Holarchy
Everything is the whole in itself, at the same time, the part of the whole in the next level. Arthur Koestler called this concept holon. Holon signifies a hierarchical component that can be simultaneously both part and whole depending on the context of each layer. And he defines this hierarchical relationship among all holons as … Continue reading The Infinite Holarchy
Gravitas
Gravitas is one of the virtues emphasized among ancient Romans. It means seriousness, responsibility, dignity, and so on. It is also the origin of the word gravity, one of the forces we articulate in the field of physics as we feel it physically in our everyday life as a sense of weight and heaviness. As … Continue reading Gravitas
Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience
During the Christmas season, as small children, we often wondered how Santa Claus could manage to deliver his gifts to every child all over the world within one single night only, didn't we? We also thought of how he handled to understand the wishes of every single child in the world. If you are fond … Continue reading Omnipotence, Omnipresence, and Omniscience
Non-being of Being
In Greek, meta (μετά) means "after" or "beyond." When Aristotle wrote his book, Metaphysics, his primary intention was to provide another work "after" his previous work, The Physics, which was a compilation of writings after the previous work (τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά). The implication, however, is more than chronological order. After hundreds of years of … Continue reading Non-being of Being
The Grand Stories
Have you ever thought of a question like why you are who you are? Aside from the fundamental questions like "where we came from, why we are here, and where we will go," "why there is anyone at all rather than nothing," it is also a type of question we can never stop asking. At … Continue reading The Grand Stories
Pebbles
Let's look at things around you. What can you see? If you stay in the living room, you could find items like a sofa, a small table, books, magazines, picture frames on the wall, and the like. If it is in the morning, you have breakfast, and there are things as a cup of coffee, … Continue reading Pebbles