Abstractism

Abstractism is the philosophical doctrine that states that physical reality is really abstractistic reality, because the physical is really an aspect of the abstract. In other words, physics should really be called abstractistics, because that is what it really is. I should point out at this time that the matter and energy that we perceive are really mental phenomena. Physical phenomena are unproven and unprovable phenomena, because all that we perceive are really the characteristics of our own minds.

Physical reality is merely a rationale or rationalization for the flow of consciousness, but it is not a substitute for the flow of consciousness, because the physical is an unproven and an unprovable hypothesis, due to the nature of reality. The irony is that physics hypothesizes a physical reality, but it deals with quantifiable abstractions. Quantifiable abstractions are the only evidence that scientists have for a physical universe, and that is rather flimsy and ironic evidence, because quantifiable abstractions are still abstractions.

Most people believe that what they perceive in their everyday lives are physical reality, but they couldn't be more wrong, because they could really be the minds of desktop nonclassical computers, which would make their so-called "physical perceptions" illusions. In fact, we could all be the minds of the same desktop nonclassical computer. One might very well ask: Where is this desktop nonclassical computer located? The answer to that question is that it would be located in a different reality that has its own conscious beings.

This process can go on indefinitely, because the beings in that reality could also be the minds of desktop nonclassical computers, and so on, ad infinitum. That is why I believe that reality is relative, and not absolute. I also maintain that the only certainty is uncertainty, because we can never know for certain our true place in nature's scheme of things. Our universe in nature's scheme of things might be as insignificant as a mouse or cockroach, but that does not prevent us from giving our lives any significance we want. We can still feel like God's special creatures, although we might not be. The importance or significance of anything or anyone is based on the context in which anything or anyone is evaluated.

Keith N. Ferreira, Author
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