Is metaphysics matters to you?

Question

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Answer 1

There is nothing more effective against confounding spells cast upon the mind by all things physical, the mind that is somewhat of a different nature. To be able to rise from the slumber, therefore, to seek liberation for the mind, to take a flight of fancy round an immensely galactic universe, to be ale to transcend the ordinary at least once in a lifetime, is so important that I regard this to be in equivalence with the matters of life and death, and certainly beyond. Think the unthinkable, imagine the unimagined able, and see impossible possible!

As how would I understand things that I could not understand through artifices of matter portraying nothing, in the end, but their own limitation to a mind yearning for the limitless? Where the immensity of the universe, at its best, only makes me think of possibilities of its own boundaries, its own circumference, there is some greatest unknown voids beyond that my universe does not tell me anything about - my universe never fulfils my mind even with the entirety that it is.

One day long time ago, when it was beginning to get hotter and days were beginning to become uncomfortably brighter and longer, just before long summer holidays. I though to myself, in my recess-time with school science laboratory still in my head – ‘what would it be like to see your self while inside a spherical mirror?’ The question was tempting, but I could not figure out what could hold the central place for that spectacle inside of the sphere, me or some certain source of light? ‘For if I am displaced from the centre’, I thought, ‘I would not see a truly proportioned image of mine myself, and on the other hand, if the source of the light is removed the effect would still be the same’ … therefore a dilemma!

Then one day many years latter long after I had finished my school, my college and also the university, when I was an adult, someone of a similar age as mine asked me this – ‘what if someone turned a sphere inside out?’ What! No, not again! But that was the question, and there it was, and I had to answer it. I could believe that the universe architects its matter in all the proper places by using spherical forms of all various sizes; and that the universe itself is an ever-expanding sphere too that is spatially curves over horrendously vast distance all around to form itself into what it is, but what could be at the heart of the universe: some source of light, or the observer of this universe?

The universe and its things are of no good to us unless we are either all around it as an observer, or all things are inside us as a source of light for us to see, to conceive ever so more better manifestations of reality of our being. Things in our perception might change in time, they might invert or metamorphose to reveal more of the reality they represent, but the central questions that we ask remain the same. We might go about searching for ourselves and find the ways of God, so to speak; or we might start off searching for God and in the end come to ask – who am I? And where does this light of my thoughts come from, with which I see?

Answer 2

Very much so. Here's an example. An individual has a persistent identity through time. It's prudent to consider one's future, even though much of what one is will have changed. There are also other individuals elsewhere in space. Considering their needs is analogous to considering one's own future. This is an instance of metaphysics impinging on ethics, cited from Derek Parfit. However, Henri Bergson saw time and space as essentially different, in that space is static and time dynamic, so time is not a dimension in the same sense as the spatial dimensions are, and presumably if you believe that, prudence and altruism are not interchangeable in the same way.

These are metaphysical issues with ethical consequences, so metaphysics is important.

Answer 3

Metaphysics is my favorite thing!

I am interested in understanding things, especially getting to the roots of everything. This of course goes beyond the realm of the known physical world and intercepts with things often considered unknowable. Such intangibles is what metaphysics is about.

When we look closely at physics we find that everyday certainties such as universal time and unchangeability of the past, become less certain.

In philosophy there is the problem of the relationship of mind and body or "mind-body problem", and the problem of ultimates such as ultimate causation, "if every effect had a cause, what started it all?" or ultimate structure "if molecules are made of atoms and atoms are made of sub-atomic elements etc., what are the smallest things that everything is made of"

E.g. In order to address the mind-body problem, I suggests that only mind actually exists and in effect everything is a dream. This leads to the idea that dreamers decide what happens in the dream. This leads me to propose theories about how decisions are made or information is shared etc is at the mathematical foundations behind the laws or physics. Thus Decision Theories such as Game Theory and Information theories such as Information Physics, Cybernetics, Holographics and, Digital Chaos; might apply.

Answer 4

Every word in every language except proper nouns represents a metaphysical concept. Simply by expressing one's opinions or knowledge, one is using metaphysical concept after concept. Metaphysics matters to everyone even if they don't know it or even if they deny it. Without metaphysics, there could be no language whatever.
Metaphysics is conceptual descriptions of everything that exists.

Answer 5

Yes metaphysics matters to me.
It's a philosophy beyond science..
As man continue to exist, in his inquiring mind, he never stops to explore and search for meanings of all around him.

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Answer 6

Yes, Metaphysics matters to me, as it is the Philosophy of mind.

Answer 7

Metaphysics is a much higher level than matter

Answer 8

Do you mean DOES metaphysics matter to me?
If that is what you mean, then no it doesn't! No more so than algebra or other "pure" forms of science or mathematics. Things only matter to me if they have some direct link or influence to me and my life. I don't know anything about metaphysics I plead total ignorance, so no, it really doesn't matter to me one iota. Where as I "know" about psychology, illness, mental health etc these things DO matter to me because I know about them and have had direct experience of them.

Answer 9

Certainly. Metaphysics is a great frontier we can't tap into with science (though they try)... It's the stuff we marvel about be we can't grasp. I never closed my door to metaphysics when I declared no proof.

Answer 10

The Metaphysician's Nightmare by Bertrand Russell
http://www.solstice.us/russell/metaphysician.html