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APPENDIX A:

Metaphysics Analysis

 

One can never PROVE a metaphysics.

By definition.

Because one would have to stand outside the entire cosmos to view it all –

and simulate Creation itself – to test it all.

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However one can certainly ASSESS different metaphysics.

Metaphysics is always hypothesis. But, hopefully very, very intelligent hypothesis.

One can, indeed, analyze different metaphysical constructs with a consistent set of questions.

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Now, some of the questions involved in assessing various metaphysics might be the following: (These questions tend to overlap, but have different thrusts and nuance.)

Is the metaphysics overarching? All-embracing?

Does the metaphysics handle the key questions in philosophy? (re-capped in the INTROS and FOREWORDS of the two books of this series)

Does the metaphysics have a fatal flaw(s);
a major gap(s),

– or does it essentially legitimately ‘stitch-together’
all the key issues

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To what extent is the metaphysics TETHERED to classic works or spiritual texts?

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Does the core of the metaphysics RESONATE within us?

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Is the case made exclusively “in an Ivory Tower” –

– or is the case somewhat brought-down-to-earth,
as well?

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Is the presentation some sort of miasma (murky, obscuring vapor)

– or is it actually fairly articulate and systematic?

Are the themes, however allegedly profound, articulated in a totally obscure manner –

– or in a generally intelligible manner?

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Do we grasp the CREATIVE ESSENCE of the presentation?

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Does the proposed metaphysics gently ‘tip-toe around the garden’ –

or does it attempt to get to the very core of the cosmic code?

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Does the proposed metaphysics primarily concern itself with playing with SEMANTICS and DEFINITIONS –

or does it actually provide an overarching integrated formulation for the cosmic order?

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A proposed metaphysics must be assessed, as well,
by these not inconsiderable – and, frankly, non-negotiable, demands, as well:

Does the proposed metaphysics truly embrace all known dynamics – in all fields?

Does the proposed metaphysics embrace our experiences and accumulated wisdom over the centuries?

Does the metaphysics embrace all that we scientifically believe to have occurred – and the overwhelming great bulk of what we hypothesize to have occurred – since the dawn of time?

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Does the particular proposed metaphysics – about our most extraordinary universe and profound existence –

run flat and dry

– or does it, on some level,

actually, touch our soul?

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APPENDIX B:
Schematically

(as introduction to this particular appendix, first let us take one more quick look at the Baal Shem Tov’s philosophy.....

see lead paragraph

on the Baal Shem Tov’s doctrines

(a.k.a. the BESHT’s doctrines)

Elements of Besht’s doctrines

Jewish Encyclopedia Online, http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/

view.jsp?artid=18&letter=B (accessed October 5, 2009)

   “The foundation-stone of Hasidism as laid by Besht is a strongly marked pantheistic conception of God. He declared the whole universe, mind and matter, to be a manifestation of the Divine Being; that this manifestation is not an emanation from God, as is the conception of the Kabbalah, for nothing can be separated from God: all things are rather forms in which He reveals Himself…”

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Now, having the BESHT’s doctrine noted above for easy reference, to schematically outline what is happening
as regards our formulation,

juxtaposed against other formulations

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let

A = God

B = Man

AB = GodMan

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Maimonides:

encapsuled one core proposition:

God created Man (Aristotelian)

A created B

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Lurianic Kabbalah:

encapsuled in one core proposition:

Man is an emanation from God

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(sort of, from WITHIN God);

GOD WITHDRAWS to create Man

(tzimtzum)

B comes from WITHIN A

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Baal Shem Tov:

encapsuled in one core proposition:

All is a Manifestation OF God

(panentheistic)

A and B are part of AB

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SUMMA / Birnbaum:

encapsuled in one core proposition:

Holy Quest for Potential (to the infinite recursive power) drives GOD, MAN and the COSMOS ever-forward towards EXTRAORDINARIATION.

Now, Summa
Metaphysica lays the FORMULATION
out in

18 multi-faceted propositions:

9 in the first book, God and Evil

9 in the second book, God and Good

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But, let’s give you the “Monarch notes’

‘test-prep version’ here

on Summa
/ Birnbaum

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Thus, to attempt to outline SUMMA in 6 quick propositions:

1.

QUEST FOR POTENTIAL∞ is on a journey from
POSSIBILITY through METAPHYSICAL REALMS through REALITY, then towards PERFECT FULFILLMENT & REALIZATION (‘EXTRAORDINARIATION’)

(the first part of this proposition has components

in-common with RASHI (‘na-asheh adahm b ‘zalmenu’ –

Let us make Man in our Image - Genesis), and with

Lurianic Kabbalah (En Sof...Sefirot) and Plato’s Forms... aside from being anchored in ‘Eheyeh Asher Eheyeh’ – Exodus)

2.

Infinite Potentialities at the end–of–the–rainbow

(‘EXTRAORDINARIATION’), retroactively ignite
Creation – and the Divine ‘spark’

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APPENDIX C:
Extraordinariation

To our readers:

Summa Metaphysica proposes the concept of  Extraordinariation.
This concept is proposed and elaborated upon in
the chapter

Mu: Cosmic Tool Kit- Shelf #2 above

(in the first section of this book, Cosmic Womb
of Potential)

The following is a finalé commentary piece on the theme.

by D. N. KHALIL:

EXTRAORDINARIATION

To say that the feeling in the listener’s soul at the climax
of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is ‘perfect’ is drastic
and degrading understatement. The meta-emotional human response to this piece of art (and it is not alone)
is outside of perfection as it is outside of language.
It is transcendent, extra, extraordinary.

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It has been said that God is the ultimate artist,
creating a world-dynamic with all the idiosyncrasies of complex art. To praise His work as being merely ‘perfect’ or ‘efficient’ is to miss its creative essence. It is to embrace the engineer while neglecting the artisan. This is a neglect bolstered by science and mathematics, disciplines whose unique understanding of the universe’s exactitude has been used to turn the focus from its delicate elegance. The cold progression of evolution engenders an appreciation for the lion’s strength, for the cheetah’s speed; the precision of physics provides a window into the flawlessness of
our cosmos; but there is more.

Darwinian evolution need not have yielded the frail butterfly, the vulnerable dove; the Earth’s orbit need not have yielded the grace of changing seasons, snow-decorated forests. Indeed laws of nature and principles of physics need not have yielded complexity at all. Nevertheless, complexity permeates our world from subatomic particles to cosmic galaxies. It is this complexity that allows for the sophisticated beauty that stands in wait of our perception daily.

Yet the paradox of this complexity surfaces as we probe it more deeply. Structural biologists have shown that fundamental biology depends on predictable chemistry. Quantum mechanics has shown that chemistry, in turn, can be dissected into the physics that underlies it. Einstein showed that even within physics separations are an illusion. His special theory of relativity (1905) revealed that the division between

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space and time is artificial. His subsequent general theory of relativity  (1915) showed the same of the distinction between space-time and matter.

Thus, the broad perspective reveals our world’s complexity while the deep, penetrating perspective reveals its unity. Stepping back, we appreciate worldly complexity, stepping close we are astounded by its unity. Such is the paradox. Complexity and unity challenge one another as they each thrust forward expanding their respective scopes simultaneously. New species are discovered as unified theorems are developed. This duality teases us with its plainness: we can only watch, spellbound, as our cosmos’ singularity and its nuance develop and unfold, hand-in-hand, before us. Herein lays the irony of our world’s progression: a relentless trajectory towards unbounded extraordinariation.

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APPENDIX D:
Consciousness Connection?

Consciousness remains a vast unknown.

Above, in the main body of the book, I posit a  “cumulative consciousness”. And this speculative conjecture is an integral part of my philosophical construct.

Now, we know from Astrophysics that
approximately half-a-billion years

after the Big Bang (with the Big Bang currently calculated at 13.7 billion years ago), Supernovas (collapsing hi–mass stars) started ‘creating/manufacturing/cooking’ the so–called heavier elements (elements heavier than #26 Iron) in their cores,
and then projected them outwards to the far reaches
of the universe.

These heavier Elements were, in turn, necessary building–blocks for LIFE. 

Meaning, without the DEATH of the supernovas,
there would be no LIFE.

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Meaning, on some level, from DEATH,
emerges (fuller and fuller) LIFE.

Now, we posit as a consistent theme throughout SUMMA,

that:  the human parallels the cosmic.

The question is just exactly how.

So, we see from Astrophysics, that DEATH can profoundly yield LIFE.

The question is:

Is there a parallel in human death?

So, perhaps, perhaps,

(individual) human death enhances the
cumulative cosmic consciousness.

This is fragile and dangerous terrain,

and I simply do not have a good intuitive feel here.

Hence, placement in an Appendix.

However, intriguingly,

Maimonides, Guide to the Perplexed,
from Friedlander’s translation,

Part I, 74, 7th argument:

“Amr, and therefore the souls of all the departed form only one being as has been explained by Ibn Bekr Ibn Al-zaig, and others who ventured to speak on these profound subjects.  In short, such intricate disciplines, which our mind can scarcely comprehend, cannot furnish any principles for the explanation of other subjects.”

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Somewhat cryptic, for sure, but positing that,
post-Death – all souls merge into one.

Now, Souls are certainly not necessarily
Consciousness.

But, then again, maybe they are (very) closely
inter–related...

Thus, perhaps, the Death of an individual, somehow enhances the cumulative consciousness – on some level, however profound.

Perhaps, we should respectfully leave this particular matter (Consciousness) at that (for this treatise)...

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APPENDIX E:
Potential-Impacted Evolution

Conceptually, Evolution is correct. However, Evolution is heavily impacted by the mandates of Quest for Potential^∞.

The “entrenched orthodoxy” on the subject is:

Randomness, then “natural selection”-guided evolution. The mechanics of “natural selection” are in-dispute by the academic/scientific community. It was originally thought that “survival of the fittest” was the driver of Evolution – with “survival of the fittest” incorporating the optimal ability to propagate and pass on genetic coding.   

From my speculative perspective as a so-to-speak Conceptual Theorist, as opposed to a scientist, “survival of the fittest” is necessary but not sufficient. The grander and more accurate concept is that Q4P^∞ impacts the evolutionary process via its Macro-Holistic Optimization tool.

[ See section MU above: “The cosmos OPTIMIZES and EVOLVES & MORPHS  as it seeks OPTIMIZATION, an iterative macro–holistic–optimization of eco–systems towards the ultimate goal of INFINITE DIVINE EXTRAORDINARIATION presumably incorporating vanguard species....” ]

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Local imperatives and considerations  receive the most “weight” in the  Macro-Holistic Optimization calculation.

Q4P^∞ = ( Survival-Traction ( Panoply of Potential

             ( Extraordinariation

Meaning, Survival-Traction is necessary-but-not-sufficient “bedrock consideration,” but far from the only consideration.

Summa maintains that Q4P^∞ is significantly impacting both the “mutations” and the natural selection. Indeed, to a very great extent Q4P^∞ is choreographing multiple facets of Evolution and related. 

 

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Author’s editorial comment / perspective on the classic and historic ‘dispute’ between Lurianism and Hasidism on the subject:

As the gemorah might say,

“Eylu v-aylu divre’ Elokim Chayim”

i.e. Both (exegesis) positions stand valid
side-by-side eternally

and, indeed, in this case,
both philosophical propositions:

The Lurianic*** [The universe as EMANATION from God] –

and the Hasidic position
[The universe as MANIFESTATION of God]

Both tether different (intertwined) aspects of the proposed Quest for Potential∞ paradigm.

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Meaning, philosophical thrust #1 does not exclude philosophical thrust #2, as the respective theological /
philosophical camps supposed; On the contrary, BOTH philosophical thrusts must be true side-by-side in order to explicate and outline – in even the most general terms – the contours of an all-embracing metaphysics.

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APPENDIX F2:

The Suffused Divine

Rav Chaim of Volozhin*^a (b.1749, Volozhin, Belarus;

d. 1821, Volozhin, Belarus) elucidates Hashem (the Divine) as filling – and surrounding – all worlds.

“It says in many places in the Zohar that ‘Hashem fills all worlds’ and ‘surrounds all worlds.’ This means that from Hashem’s perspective, He fills all worlds, and we, from our Torah-oriented vantage point, see Hashem as surrounding all worlds. The meaning of the concept of ‘Hashem filling all worlds’ is concealed from us.

The truth is that from Hashem’s perspective, even after creating the world, He fills all the worlds and all existence; literally, ‘There is nothing else beside Him’ (Devarim 4:35).”

Meaning, as per Summa, the Divine is not “over there” and we are “over here”; Rather, the Divine suffuses all. And, parallel to our metaphysics, wherein Quest for Potential∞ is the core of the Divine, and the Divine drives the cosmos....

^*a Rav Chaim of Volozhin, Nefesh Hachaim, The Judaica Press, Inc. Brooklyn, NY,

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APPENDIX G:

Push
v.
Push & Pull

Classic Western and Jewish philosophy*   

(call them both Model #1) each has  –   

the “Concrete subject” –

God –

“pushing” Creation forward –

  in the moment.

Whereas my metaphysics

(call it Model #2) has –

a) Q4P∞/Extraordinariation

“pushing” Creation forward inexorably

as well as

b) the future perfection goal-point –

Infinite Divine Potential –

“pulling” and igniting Creation –

from the future.

Thus, these are 2 very different “models”

– on multiple levels.

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APPENDIX H:
“The Spiraling Collective”

The outwardly-spiraling 

COLLECTIVE-vortex-unity

potentially incorporates the following

interlaced layers, among others

Spirituality

Consciousness

Intelligence

Love

Life-force

Energy

Equations

Potential

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Taking-a-stab at a more schematic representation of
the current state of our little Quest for Potential∞ dynamic, we respectfully offer the schematic on the left.

“The Spiraling Collective”: an industrious and ultimately spiritually-driven ‘collective,’ which has a habit of creating solar systems and life forms, and is even rumored, via its GODHEAD, to have parted the Red Sea once, a long time ago...

– D. Birnbaum

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APPENDIX I:

Balance and Diversity

 

To focus first on our own planet,

balance of life  and diversity of life

are embedded in the overarching theme of

Quest for Potential∞/Extraordinariation.

.....which maneuvers on an ongoing basis

to protect and advance* these two important

“sub-motifs,” among others.

 

*balance of life is maintained to protect survival

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APPENDIX J:

Convergence

 

All roads lead to the infinite fount of Quest for Potential∞.

Religion, spirituality, the life sciences, physics, chemistry, astronomy et al. all converge on the road to Infinity.

They do not quite merge, as the quest for ultimate
infinity is elusive, but they do converge.

In our quasi–finite milieu they are seemingly separate,

– at least without the Quest for Potential∞ overlay
onto them.

However, on that ethereal road to the infinite fount of Quest for Potential∞ they converge closer and closer.

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