METAPHYSICS OF DAVID BIRNBAUM
PHILOSOPHY OF DAVID BIRNBAUM
a) PHYSICS will not solve PHYSICS without METAPHYSICS….and
b) METAPHYSICS will not solve METAPHYSICS
without POETRY….
now, re: (a)
Why is that?
PHYSICS operates with a quasi-dead-spot on its cumulative brain that PHYSICS is a stand-alone field…. albeit directly interacting with the hard sciences.
This is wrong.
All fields are interconnected – meaning the hard and soft sciences – and it will frankly require integrating multiple fields to penetrate truly deeply into the
cosmic code.
now, re: (b)
Why is that?
Metaphysics operates with a quasi-dead-spot on its own cumulative brain that METAPHYSICS is a stand-alone field…albeit directly interacting with the hard sciences. This is wrong.
The concepts necessary to get us to the core of cosmic code are too abstract for METAPHYSICS alone (whether from 5,000 years ago or contemporary). [Among other thinkers, the legendary theologian Rav Kook (b. 1865), Chief Rabbi of Palestine from 1921-1935, understood and followed-through on this.]
POETRY, while still hampered by the limitations of the human word and human consciousness, nevertheless affords us the opportunity of potentially thrusting closer to the core of cosmic mystery…
Of course, once one enters the world of POETRY, one enters another netherworld….
Sort of, damned if you do; damned if you don’t
But, nevertheless, poetry ultimately has a place
in the arsenal of the metaphysician….