The infinite In act


A Treatise on the Founding Principle of the Physical

body

Endowed with Continuous Motion

by Ion G.

Soteropoulos

◙ A revolution in thought and in the foundation of the physical

universe

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Cosmology/philosophy

ISBN-13: 978-1-931807-62-3
ISBN- 10:1-931807-62-0
Paperback: 245 p
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Publication date: 1st May 2008

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Description

The infinite in act

is a treatise on the

nature

of physical reality, human perception and the problem of

Continuous motion

.  Beginning with

Aristotle

’s interpretations of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno’s arguments,

Soteropoulos

engages

Aristotle

’s

analytic logic

to uncover the inherent

Contradiction

s in his discussions of

inifinity

and motion.  Claiming that the analytical

nature

of empirical science cannot help us comprehend the indeterminate

nature

of physical reality,

Soteropoulos

suggests we replace empirical, analytical principles with

Synthetic logic

, which the author defines as principles which admit contrary (equal and opposite) elements, and therefore generate freedom from time and sense.  “In fact, nothing in the perfectly uniform and just

universe

is one thing rather than another,” the author writes, “and this is what constitutes the

infinite

nature

of the timeless, externally causeless, and therefore self-caused physical

universe

.”

The infinite in act

is a complex, deeply creative work that evolved over the course of 25 years, and that draws on philosophy,

Metaphysics

, mathematics and cosmology. It is the first publication sponsored by the

Apeiron Centre -

, which is recently launched in Paris. The Centre’s mission is to study the impact of the idea of

inifinity

on the finite, and how such an idea influences science, philosophy, ethics, art and society. The

infinite

act

is the theoretical foundation upon which the

Apeiron Centre -

is built.

Readership:

Scholars, students and the general critically thinking public interested in fundamental questions about physical reality, human perception, and accelerating growth.

Subjects:

Ancient and Modern Philosophy − Epistemology − Natural Philosophy − Biology − Logic − Cosmology − Scientific

Metaphysics

− Metamathematics − Ethics − Ontology − Theology − Glossary

Backcover

Starting with Zeno’s and

Aristotle

’s problem of motion,

The infinite in act

 poses and answers the following fundamental questions about the physical

body

, the analytic, particular perception of the physical

body

, and the meaning and limit of our acceleration. The real, physical

body

, which we number by the real 1, has the property of

Continuous motion

and designates the physical

universe

and any being of the physical

universe

.

  1. Assuming that

    Continuous motion

    is a real property of the physical

    body

    , what, then, is its founding principle?
  2. What is the geometry of the physical

    body

    endowed with continuous motion?
  3. Why is it that science, grounded in our finite, analytic, particular perception of things and employing the analytic paradigm for knowing the object, can tell us nothing about the physical

    body

    and its founding principle?
  4. What kind of science and what kind of cognitive faculties and organizing principles must we have in order to know the real, physical

    body

    and its founding principle?
  5. Does knowledge of the real, physical

    body

    liberate us from evil, whose diverse aspects are ignorance, suffering, injustice, and death? 
  6. Can we think of our

    Cosmic acceleration

    as the realization of the

    Supreme good

    , which is our liberation from evil?
  7. Where is the place (topos) of the

    Supreme good

    relative to us here and now taken as the center of the physical

    universe

    ?

Contents

Symbols and Metric Units…ix
Preface…xi

  1. The Problem of Motion

    2. Why Motion from a to b Is Imposible…1
    The Analytic Principle of

    Contradiction

    Declares Motion Absurd… 4

  2. Different Solutions to the Problem of Motion

    3. Aristotle

    ’s Analytic Solution… 13

    Aristotle

    ’s Incomplete Synthetic Solution…19
    Analytic Convergence and the Apparent Passage to the Limit…23

  3. The Founding Principle of Motion

    4. The Finite−

    infinite

    Equivalence principle

    Grounds

    Continuous motion

    along the Unit Distance ab…37
    What Magnitude Measures Exactly the Unit Distance ab?...47
    The Geometry of the Physical,

    infinite

    Whole 1…56
    Fundamental Properties of Cosmic

    Singularity

    …69
    The Definite Solution to the Problem of Motion Resides in the Possession of the Ideal Faculty of

    infinite

    Synthetic Universal

    sensibility

    …89

  4. Physics of Universal Perception

    5. Topology of the Individual Brain and the Universal Brain in the Physical

    universe

    …99
    Metric Description of the Physical

    universe

    …115
    Of the Ontological Division of the

    universe

    into Sensible

    universe

    and Physical

    universe

    …125
    Different Ways to Elevate the Energy Content of Our Individual Brain…150

  5. The Meaning of Acceleration

    6. The Meaning of Acceleration…167
    Different Meanings of the Real 1…168
    The Physical Meaning of the Real 1…170
    The Epistemological Meaning of the Real 1…178
    The Ethical and Ontotheological Meanings of the Real 1…193
    The Geometric Synopsis of

    The infinite in act

    …202

Glossary…213
Acknowledgments…239
Index…240

About the author


Ion G.

Soteropoulos

is an independent research philosopher and scientific metaphysician of Hellenic origin, who studied social sciences and philosophy at the University of Paris. For the past 25 years, the author had undertaken independent research and meditation on the

nature

of the physical

body

endowed with

Continuous motion

and numbered by the real 1; on the problems created by our analytic, particular perception of the physical

body

and their necessary solution and on the sense of human endeavor and the limits of our accelerating growth.

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Review of

The infinite in act


by Georges Comtesse, author and philosopher

(I) - Everything begins and ends with a relation between two bodies, which has remained dissimulated in the metaphysical, scientific, philosophical, and cosmological discourse.
The work of Ion

Soteropoulos

, a work of rare logical rigor, puts an end to this dissimulation, restores and accentuates the problematic relation between these two bodies, and becomes the stake of a new, original way of thought to come.
It is the question of the conflicting relation between the sensible, organic

body

of the particular individual conditioned by Euclidean space-time, the Euclidean here and now, and the Real, Physical

body

, which is the Physical

universe

(everything) taken as an

infinite

Whole, existing everywhere and nowhere.
How can an organic and individual

body

that imagines itself as real be  prevented from seeing and knowing the true Real

body

?
Ion

Soteropoulos

shows how the individual

body

, which conjugates a finite, particular

sensibility

with a separating understanding -inseparable of the analytic principles of reflexive identity, exclusive difference, and excluded third- gives rise to a partial, selective, and incomplete perception of the Real, Physical

body

, which is also an ontological destruction of the existence of such a

body

.

(II) - When the analytic, separating understanding gets lost within the perception of the sensible (observable)

universe

along the line of unlimited spatial extension and conceives nothing but a multiplicity of different, distant, separated, and discontinuous parts, synthetic reason breaks this reflecting mirror  and affirms a complex, indeterminate Real

body

, which taken as a limiting point -a

Singularity

- unifies and assembles the dispersed, scattered parts or series. Synthetic reason affirms the Real

body

as a Whole that holds together its immanent parts, such as the unity of the limited and the unlimited, of the finite and the

infinite

, of the point and the straight line, of the open and the closed.
An analysis of Zeno’s paradox and

Aristotle

’s problem of motion will show the impossibility to think the principle of equivalence that renders equal unequal things, that unites the unlimited series and the limiting point,  that founds the rotational movement of the Real

body

whose speed is that of light.

(III) - The Real

body

is this transcendental Whole, this actual

infinite

or

infinite

in act: a spherical Whole cut by a Euclidean plane passing through the center. It is about the neutral, complex, indeterminate Being leaving behind the partial, simple, univocal, determinate being.
Hence the geometric analysis of the Real

body

, of the relation between  the line of unlimited extension and the cosmic

Singularity

point that assures the immediate communication and connection of the parts assumed separate, untied, disconnected.
Hence the analysis of the properties of the Real

body

with a cosmic

Singularity

: unity, limitation, constancy, compression, substance.
What will emerge from such an analysis is the relation of the circular rotational movement of the spherical Whole and the mutual neutralisation of the opposite forces of attraction and repulsion for the benefit of an original complex force. The spherical Whole is a function of this original force -the first force of rest and motion.
The individual

body

perceives the Euclidean plane or line, the conflict of the forces of attraction and repulsion but not the

infinite

Whole point and the original force of its

Continuous motion

, of its continuous rest.

(IV) - The liberation from a double illusion -perceptive and epistemological- will open the exploration of a series of differences: finite

sensibility

and

infinite

sensibility

, analytic understanding and synthetic reason, real, physical light and sensible (observable) light, center and circumference, individual brain and universal or cosmic brain.
What about

infinite

sensibility

? How is it possible to attain it? What is the mode of activation of our analytic individual brain operating at low energy to become a synthetic cosmic brain emitting and intercepting the real, physical light at high energy?

(V) - Whereas the logic of analytic reason remains at the alternative
-either a/or not-a - that renders inconceivable the

infinite

Whole until now assumed impossible or inexistent, the logic of synthetic reason is by virtue of its principle of equivalence and zero temporal order both a and not-a, and neither a, nor not-a.
It is the logic of the Real or Neutral inseparable of the ethic of permanent life, of universal justice and love.
It is the emergence of a lightning cosmic

Singularity

- fundamental and exalted!

Paris, November 1, 2007 

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