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"The Puzzle of Ether"

"The Puzzle of Ether"

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Alex Stenzel
May 30, 2025
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To have knowledge of the origin of knowledge one cannot stop at the process of thinking. That is in its dialectic moments of words and numbers and their logic and semantic syntaxes. If one does one will find no meaning in any of it as all can be negated and exist only in its dualistic opposites.

That is, any particular thing, a thesis or concept of something, and a word or number as a concept, and picture too, can only be thought of because of its antithesis and antimonies. That is if one thinks of the number one, or a word or the word, it only has reality because we contrast it in the act of thinking with its opposites (the color red and word God are real but not as products of thinking and reason only).

Any mathematical number and equation and a word as a semantic equation has only an illusory reality as we must think it, in assuming its existence in its nonexistence or contrasting shades and nuances that makes the concept protrude against the background of neurological noise, as particular neural patterns form, binding nerves as concepts, word and numbers, as the nerves basis of our thinking.

“I have realized all knowledge.”

As such it is not possible to have an absolute knowledge of neither God, a first cause, existence as a real being, a will wanting to be free as the nature of being itself and nor the purpose of any of it.

One will never find what one is looking for by means of thinking, reading, and speaking. Yet the very reality of our existence is that scientific laws as observed are regular and appear ordered in nature. Numbers and words and sounds and colors are regular shapes and forms of that what we perceive, hear, and see, smell and taste and feel in our five senses. And although we may think their illusory synthesizes as their coherent body of existence, as it appears in matter of form and is empty of substance at the very core of thinking itself, the negating faculty of reason, reasonable thinking, we cannot know what gives rise to thinking by means of thinking.

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