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Brahman (thrust) In Hinduism, Brahman (thrust) is an impersonal (gender neutral) principle, the unchanging reality amidst and beyond the world, the cause of all changes, the nonphysical, infinite, eternal, pervasive truth, consciousness and bliss, the unity behind all diversity. Brahman is present in the oldest Vedas, the Vedic Samhitas, as in this verse from Taittiriya Samhita VII.3.1.4, translated by Barbara Holdrege:
The Ṛcs are limited (parimita),
The Samans are limited,
And the Yajuses are limited,
But of the Word Brahman, there is no end.
Wikipedia: Brahman#103
-1300
the Muses Hesiod, while shepherding, was taught by the Muses.
...we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know, when we will, to utter true things...
...[they] breathed into me a divine voice to celebrate things that shall be and things there were aforetime; and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally, but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
And they, uttering through their lips a lovely voice, sing the laws of all and the goodly ways of the immortals
Hesiod. Theogony.#70
-715
love In one of the earliest Upanishads, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.4.2–5, Vedic sage Yajnavalkya explains to his wife Maitreyi that love is the connection of one's soul with the universal Self:
Lo, verily, not for love of a husband is a husband dear, but for the love of the Self a husband is dear.
Not for the love of the wife is a wife dear, but for love of the Self a wife is dear.
The gods (Devas) are not dear to one out of love for gods, but because one may love the Self (Atman) that the gods are dear.
Wikipedia: Maitreyi#86
-700
LORD God In Deuteronomy 5:6-10, the LORD God uttered to Moses:
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods before me.
You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.   #81
-560
LORD (Yahweh) In Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Moses declares:
Hear, Israel: The LORD is our God. The LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.#82
-560
Ahura Mazda (Wise Lord) In the Gathas, attributed to the Ancient Iranian sage Zoroaster, there is one universal, transcendent, all-good, uncreated, omniscient but not omnipotent creator Ahura Mazda (Wise Lord), existing in light and goodness above. Ahura Mazda is opposed by destructive Angra Mainyu, existing in ignorance and darkness below.
Wikipedia: Ahura Mazda#95
-560
the First and the Last The Book of Isaiah includes a clear statement of monotheism.
 Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel,
 And his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts:
 I am the First and I am the Last;
 and beside Me there is no God.
Wikipedia: Isaiah 44: Verse 6#515
-540
God Xenophanes of Colophon, in modern day Türkiye, argued against traditional Greek polytheism. He believed that there is one greatest God, supreme among gods and men, not like mortals in form, body or mind. God is spherical, eternal, comprehends all things within himself, is absolute mind and thought, moves not but moves all things. God is beyond human morality, and apart from human affairs. There is no divine hierarchy.
Wikipedia: Xenophanes#84
-520
cosmic mind (nous) Greek philosopher Anaxagoras believed that nous (νοῦς), a cosmic Mind or Reason, segregated like from unlike and arranged them. Mind is pure and independent, everywhere the same, manifesting the same. Mind is of finer texture than the mixture that is the universe. Mind is all knowing, all powerful and rules all life forms.
Wikipedia: Anaxagoras#88
-450
demiurge Greek philosopher Plato, through Timaeus, describes the creation of the universe by the demiurge, a divine craftsman, an Intellect. The demiurge brings order out of substance by imitating a paradigm, an unchanging and eternal model, the perfect world of ideal forms. The demiurge is the cause, the father and the maker of the universe. The demiurge, being supremely good, makes the universe supremely beautiful.
Wikipedia: Timaeus (dialogue)
Stanford: Plato's Timaeus
Plato. Timaeus. Wikipedia: Timaeus (dialogue)#71
-360
heaven Chinese philosopher Xun Kuang (c.310-c.238 BCE), revisioner of Confucianism, in his writings, Xunzi, chapter "Discourse on Heaven", emphasizes that heaven is constant, impartial to humans, going its own way. However, humans can respond to it with order, preparing for disaster, or with disorder, inviting disaster.
Wikipedia: Xunzi (book)
天論篇第十七 Chapter 17: Discussion on Heaven#118
-250
incorruption Apocryphon of John, a Gnostic text attributed to John the Apostle, describes the Monad.
The Monad is a monarchy with nothing above it. It is he who exists as God and Father of everything, the invisible One who is above everything, who exists as incorruption, which is in the pure light into which no eye can look. "He is the invisible Spirit, of whom it is not right to think of him as a god, or something similar. For he is more than a god, since there is nothing above him, for no one lords it over him. For he does not exist in something inferior to him, since everything exists in him. For it is he who establishes himself. He is eternal, since he does not need anything. For he is total perfection.
Wikipedia: Monad (Gnosticism)#762
180
contradiction French logician Guillaume de Soissons developed the principle of explosion. He proved that given a contradiction, any assertion can be inferred as true, including its negation. All things are true.
Wikipedia: Principle of explosion#135
1150
supremely cold body Anglo-Irish scientist Robert Boyle, in his New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, discussed primum frigidum, the question of which classical element (earth, water, air or possibly nitre) was the source of coldness, manifesting the absolute minimum temperature.
There is some body or other that is of its own nature supremely cold and by participation of which all other bodies obtain that quality.
Wikipedia: Absolute zero#505
1655
creator of the Tyger and the Lamb Creative, romantic English poet, painter, printmaker William Blake ponders God's intent.
 Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
 In the forests of the night;
 What immortal hand or eye,
 Could frame thy fearful symmetry? ...
 Did he smile his work to see?
 Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

William Blake. The Tyger.#146
1794
the Absolute German idealist Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling contemplated how God, the Absolute, relates to its own ground, endlessly beginning, a devouring ferocity of purity.
Now if the appearance of freedom is necessarily infinite, the total evolution of the Absolute is also an infinite process, and history itself a never wholly completed revelation of that Absolute which, for the sake of consciousness, and thus merely for the sake of appearance, separates itself into conscious and unconscious, the free and the intuitant; but which itself, however, in the inaccessible light wherein it dwells, is Eternal Identity and the everlasting ground of harmony between the two. (System of Transcendental Idealism)
Wikipedia: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling#607
1800
molecular chaos Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell supposed the molecular chaos hypothesis that, in the kinetic theory of gases, velocities of colliding particles are uncorrelated, and independent of position. This hypothesis was later shown by Josef Loschmidt to introduce time asymmetry (the inevitable increase of entropy) in a time-symmetric theory.
Wikipedia: Molecular chaos#511
1860
single microstate Austrian physicist and materialist philosopher Ludwig Boltzmann defined entropy as S=kB log Ω, the product of the Boltzmann constant and the logarithm of the number of microstates that have a system's energy. Zero entropy occurs when there is a single microstate, thus absolute certainty.
Wikipedia: Ludwig Boltzmann#509
1877
set of all sets that are not members of themselves British philosopher Bertrand Russell's paradox considers a set R which is the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. Is R∈R? If R∈R, then R∉R. But if R∉R, then R∈R. Thus we have a contradiction.
Wikipedia: Russell's paradox#134
1901
isotherm T=0 German physical chemist Walther Nernst developed the Third Law of Thermodynamics during the years 1906 to 1912.
It is impossible for any procedure to lead to the isotherm T=0 in a finite number of steps.
Wikipedia: Third law of thermodynamics#507
1912
zero entropy American physical chemists Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall, coauthors of "Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances", stated a version of the Third Law of Thermodynamics.
If the entropy of each element in some (perfect) crystalline state be taken as zero at the absolute zero of temperature, every substance has a finite positive entropy; but at the absolute zero of temperature the entropy may become zero, and does so become in the case of perfect crystalline substances.
Wikipedia: Third law of thermodynamics#508
1923
free energy principle The free energy principle is the minimization of (variational) free energy. It equates existence, self-evidencing and enactive inference. It is the "first principle" of active inference, and ranges far beyond it, beyond neural information processing to ground all of biology, including evolutionary, cellular and cultural.
Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, Karl Friston. Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain and Behavior#63
2006
fundamental existential challenge of existence The normative aspect of Active Inference is that living organisms must face their fundamental existential challenges. The fundamental challenge is existence, in other words, survival and adaptation. Organisms face this by developing adaptive strategies, namely, minimizing their free energy. Active inference researchers similarly face the challenge of creating good models of themselves and other systems.
Unlike many other approaches to computational neuroscience, the challenge is not to emulate a brain, piece by piece, but to find the generative model that describes the problem the brain is trying to solve. Once the problem is appropriately formalized in terms of a generative model, the solution to the problem emerges under Active Inference — with accompanying predictions about brains and minds. In other words, the generative model provides a complete description of a system of interest. The resulting behavior, inference, and neural dynamics can all be derived from a model by minimizing free energy.
Getting the generative model right — as an apt explanation for the sentient behavior of any experimental subject or creature — is the big challenge.
Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, Karl Friston. Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain and Behavior#67
2022
energy dissipation Lucy Weir, instructor of philosophy, yoga and meditation, considers the good as driving systems from behind rather than pulling them forwards.
...consider the image of systems being driven from behind, pushed to avoid their own annihilation, as a metaphor that better fits our current understanding of evolution and the laws of thermodynamics. ... energy dissipation across the universe, from a narrow base at a higher concentration to a less concentrated, much broader set of potential outcomes ... In universal terms, the dissipation of energy through graduated flows is neither beneficial nor harmful. Yet the universe would not exist at all if it were not for the activity that slows or reverses the second law of thermodynamics, albeit temporarily, by creating flux in the flow. In the local, planetary sense, this gradual dissipation of energy is ‘good for’ us, in the sense that it forms the foundation for our survival, giving us time to develop as a culturally sophisticated species with language, technology, and the ability to decide what to value.
Lucy Weir. Beginning with the Good of Systems, Philosophy as Practice in the Ecological Emergency.   #362
2023

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