Progress is merely decreation. “Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. We must not assume the existence of any entity until we are compelled to do so. This principle is purely destructive, it takes something away.”1 Decreation: “A person can doubt only if he has learned certain things; as he can miscalculate only if he has learned to calculate.”2 The advances of civilization are gross exaggerations; a function of the language with its built-in commitment to the accretive historical model. Flat earth: round earth. It isn’t a one hundred percent accretive advance from one to two: one hundred assumes and decreates ninety-nine. Round earth assumes and decreates flat earth. Invisible assumes and decreates visible. Events assume and decreate matter. The relativistic universe assumes and decreates the mechanistic universe. “Progress is always a transcendence of what is obvious:”3 decreation. Is it simply that “progress in any aspect is a movement through changes of terminology?”4 “A no man’s land, or better said, a no signals region extends between past and future.”5 Universe is finite: no space-time continuum.
What do You think about By The Late John Brockman?
