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humanity and the cosmos: silence and chatter

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 2:36pm.

"Of that which we cannot speak we must remain silent" ... Wittgenstein

"The answer to the question 'What is the way the world is? What are the ways the world is?' is not a shush, but a chatter." ... Nelson Goodman

Yes, "rare and wondrous moments when we can feel ourselves at one with this silence" are to be valued as the closest we can get to "hearing" the cosmos at any given time.  But I wouldn't advise just waiting around for them.  They depend on hearing the chatter of art, science, day to day life, and on chattering onself.   See Reality: that of which we cannot speak? and  below ("If the cosmos could talk ...").

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