Difference between the physical and ideas/knowledge

[charlie cho]

What is the difference? 

Well, let's see. 

Music vs composition 

Spoken words vs writing (essays)

Engineering vs math/physics concepts

creative art vs creative idea

physical vs knowledge/memory

What's the difference between the physical and knowledge? 

Simply a duality. The physical isn't more real than the non-physical. Of course, 3rd symphony of Beethoven didn't start playing from an orchestra right away. It started from Beethoven wanting to dedicate a composition he had made to whom he had admired most, Napoleon Bonaparte. It started from his heart and to his mind. And he composed the 3rd symphony for Napoleon. 

https://youtu.be/ft9lJBXW5rg 

However, because Beethoven composed this music from his heart, to his mind, to his pen, to the paper, we are able to listen to such music in the physical world. So what is the difference between the idea of the 3rd symphony and the physical music we are able to hear today?

Well, in this dual world, there is no difference between the idea in Beethoven, and the music of the 3rd symphony. They are exactly the same! Seeing and non seeing. Hearing (the 3rd symphony) vs non hearing (3rd symphony in Beethoven's mind) are basically two sides of the same coin. 

Therefore, an idea (knowledge) and the physical has no difference. Both are abstract. The first basketball game to be played ever (in Canada) is just as abstract as the person who had created the game of basketball first in his mind. 

Mind and physical has no difference. 

People love television above reading books

People love talking in person above talking in the phone or the internet

People tend to put superior importance to the physical than to the non-physical

People tend to like sports rather than college lectures.

But the problem is the physical isn't more superior than the non-physical. Television isn't superior to books. Sports isn't superior to lectures. And of - course it is also the case with the non physical not being superior to the physical. Books aren't superior to television. Sports isn't superior to lectures. They are simply the two sides of the same coin. 

Ideas are just as physical as any physical object. And any physical object is just the same as an idea as any idea

 

Edited June 7, 2022 by charlie cho

[Breakingthewall]

ideas are the brain's tool to influence the physical world and increase the chances of survival. a plant has no ideas. It grows and adapts. but a lion has ideas: he visualizes, foresees, organizes, to achieve his goal in a totally changing environment. a human takes that capacity and adds language to it, that is, transfer of ideas, put processors to work in series, and from there to splitting the atom and understanding the big bang. ideas are mental representations of reality to make calculations about how that reality will be in the future in order to take advantage of the circumstance. hunt the zebra or colonize galaxies

Edited June 7, 2022 by Breakingthewall