Is God a Mathematician

Tot semblava un mor en flor,i l'anima n'era jo

All seemed a world in flower ,and I was the soul of this world.

He who sees Ratio sees only himself.

Anyone who goes to university is brainwashed into believing that "critical analysis" is the be-all and end-all of thinking. Everything must be broken down or seen from a fragmentary point of view.

The end of Aristotelianism is the end of the world having a soul and the birth of modern science.

For the world is not atoms or radio-active or other forces, the diamond is not carbon, and light is not vibrations in ether. You can never come to the reality of creation by contemplating it from the point of view of destruction.
---Rabindranath Tagore.

What is the difference between charcoal and diamond? Nothing but a mere matter of structure and arrangement ! So speak the moderns. Those who look at the world from the perspective of material continuity are wont to say: we share 99.4 % of the same genetic material with apes or monkeys and other such absurdities. And what, do they think the same of us! And if so, why so many cages?Yes! We are earth and wind and stars as well..but for the moderns this is merely a question of 'fact', not of truth.

The world that people had thought themselves living in-a world rich with colour and sound..speaking everywhere of purposive harmony and creative ideals -was consigned now into minute corners in the brains of scattered organic beings. The really important world outside was a world hard, cold, colourless, silent, and dead-a world of quantity, a world of mathematically computable motions in mechanical regularity.
----E.A. Burtt.

The self-revealed mystery which maintains the fundamental unity of the created shape , its idea, through all its variations and modifications.
---Goethe.

Any statement about the nature or meaning of Being are invalid. The metaphysical is, strictly speaking, non-sense; science is concerned only with the processes in the phenomenal world , the laws that govern becoming, matter-in-motion. It represents a change in perspective from the cosmos and proportion to the infinite universe and function, from geometry to algebra.

The spiritual destructiveness, the sheer nihilism implicit in such a shift is only too apparent. What is the universe and to what end is it moving? Nothing but a play of blind forces; Nature is reduced to quantity, 'extension' , power and that alone. "Dead matter". And to ask 'to what end' is to ask an illegitimate question.

The world of values is lyingly added. Only man is of any value in this alien universe. Man is all but he too is but a part of the universe, he too is , ultimately, a machine of sorts, a chance agglomeration of matter. After that, why philosophize one wonders...

But why reproach science for its dynamism when you maintain that life itself is ceaseless flux, constant striving? Yes, but it is held together at every moving point and at every fleeting moment by a centre of stillness:

Und alles Drangen , alles
Ist ewige Ruh in Gott dem Hernn.

'And all this struggle, whirl, and stir is infinite peace in God.'

All truth which cannot be 'realised' in one's understanding, imagination, reason, and soul, that cannot be lived, assimilated into one's experiences, that remains an abstraction from life and one's whole personality, is a partial truth and from a certain perspective-that of the absolute truth- "false", or at least worthless.

A form of knowing (science) that has nothing to say of friendship, love, art, thought itself and its emergence from matter, the freedom to act in this way and not that, the different degrees of freedom that exist throughout nature, a methodology that rules out on a priori grounds the metaphysical, that says nothing, can say nothing, of God, the soul, spirituality: this is an impoverished conception of what a human life is and can be.

The Urphanomen is at the intersection of 'idea' and 'experience', thought and reality. Science, on the other hand, is hell bent on insulating the experiment from man and attempting to get to nature through artifices and instruments ..an empirico-mechanico-dogmatic torture chamber.

The dangers threatening modern science cannot be averted by more and more experimenting, for our complicated experiments have no longer anything to do with nature in her own right, but with nature changed and transformed by our cognitive activity.
---Heisenberg.

Everything 'factual' is already theory. For experience to be experience there must already be the idea , the 'categories of understanding'.

Every scientific theory is merely the surface rationalization of a metaphysical substratum of beliefs, conscious or unconscious, about the nature of the world. ---Heller.

Would scientific discoveries even be possible without had a new type of explanation not been sought, had there not been a change in man's sensibilities, a radical shift in his outlook and perspective or his desire to look at things in a new way?

Kant: We are able to think of an understanding which, not being discursive like ours, but intuitive, starts with a universal vision and descends from there to the particular.

Walter Benjamin:
For Goethe, modern science is 'subjective' because it does not address the whole man, because it depends on the emancipation of the subject from the totality of which it is a mere part. The scientist appears imprisoned within the hypothetical limitations of an obstinately self-willed and narrow-minded individuality...what is there exact in mathematics except its own exactitude?
For the scientist the subject-object distinction means thinking of the latter as lifeless, so much dead matter. Compare this to Goethe:

If the eyes were not sun-like how could we ever see light? And if God's own power did not dwell within us , how could we delight in things divine?

(For Jonah, one of the few people left who truly understands Blake)