Good observation!Nick_A wrote: ↑July 29th, 2021, 11:48 pmSome like Simone Weil and Einstein are attracted to the light of the eternal unchanging. But at the same time
“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
― Heraclitus
Is this a contradiction or can it be reconciled by a higher quality of reason? Can constant change and the eternal unchanging exist together or is it impossible due to the law of non-contradiction?
We do note that no particular state remains even for an instant (Planck Time?), continual change being ubiquitous; so, if there is an absolute unchanging eternal basis (and not relationalism as in my poem about no absolutes) the the Eternal 'IS' transmutes in such a way that it can ever return to itself, so to speak, as in some topological type way, perhaps, but probably more so as in what we call the laws of nature that appear to be reversible.
Parmenides is a generous monist in that he has the 'IS' transmuting although he notes that it doesn't have to, but I suppose that because it is 'energetic' it has to change. It appears that 'Stillness', being a kind of a cousin of 'Nothing', cannot happen, so, strike it, too, off the list of what's possible.