Friday, October 31, 2014

Space of Base

In Kant's exposition on the nature of space, he defines space as an a priori template of infinite magnitude, in which the other significant non-physical attributes besides space itself that also possess an a priori nature are geometric shapes. However, these geometrical entities that exist outside of the human mind are arrived at synthetically, rather than in a purely analytic manner, like space itself. Through what is mostly an impenetrable fog of verbal convolution and and excessively multi-layered complexity, Kant arguably delivers an excellent point regarding why it is that geometric shapes are synthetic, a priori judgments. The essential point is that shapes, or structures corresponding to exact geometrical laws, must first be apprehended with the impulsion to understand their overarching and exact mathematical foundations, and to perhaps actually apply the shapes for a technical, or intelligent use of some sort. That is to say that a precise understanding of such shapes, let alone application, could very well be deemed unnecessary by a certain society or individual, and they may never even envision what a perfected form of shapes would look like in their mind. Space alone, on the other hand, is clearly conceived of by everyone regardless of sensory handicaps like blindness or deafness, and it possesses a supreme application of the highest order in terms of how people experience the entirety of their lives in accordance to not only the vacuous space that separates objects, but how displacement or adjustment of objects effect their existence insofar as newly occupied space takes on new properties, which are in turn configured by the properties of the object(s) that now define space. Even then, knowing the exact mathematical properties of geometric shapes could theoretically never spell the difference between life and death, or serve any significant practical purpose—perhaps.
Now supposing one possessed a desire to know geometric shapes to the point of mathematical perfection, it would conceivably be necessary for them to utilize means of systematic and scientifically rigorous measurement to determine that shapes have specific angular measures that are equal when the sides are also equal, and that deviation from such exact measurements will result in a lack of cohesion, and therefore a deficit in optimal application, whether that be for engineering purposes or otherwise. Such measurements and scientific work therefore entail synthetic activity (i.e., measuring and going about the process of determining the a priori aspects of geometric shapes), rather than a merely analytic judgment that does require a means of discovery or verification that certain concepts which appear in the mind are indeed not dependent on human consciousness to exist. On the contrary, space does not require measurements and precise calculation, or a scientific method of any kind to judge that space in fact exists. It is recognized as an obvious and inherent superstructure of existence that could only be systematically doubted, or approached in a calculating sense if one were to question whether or not they are in a machine or hallucination (as extreme examples meant to elucidate) insofar as all they perceive is an illusory product of a higher or invisible intelligence, or fabrication brought upon by a substance(s) or enigmatic technology unbeknownst to the person undergoing the ridiculously overblown deception that comprises existence on Earth.
Moreover, space simply does not require synthetic action in order for it be perceived as the a priori template in which all objects and physical events are inextricably bound. It is rather automatically experienced as a prerequisite for existence (even if you're trapped; you're still in space), to the extent that all that ever happens occurs within space, or interactively with any and all objects that happened to be generated within the framework of space. All objects, or physical components of space, are subject to dissolution en route to conveying portals that enable an infinite possibility of new objects to enter, combine, and take action in a multiplicity of ways, but always to the degree that the same space is eternal in its nature, as well as ability for expansion. Geometrical shapes do not possess this feature though; for shapes are manipulated and objects come to be in a manner tantamount to instantiating the existence of the shapes by the warping of, or intrinsic operations within the infinite and shapeless, formless entity (albeit proto-non-entity, in a complementary sense) that space is.


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