THE TENTH MAN : 91




As Science Sees It


We only see a star once at a time: we then repeat the experience in our minds indefinitely, and so give its light, and all light, a potential velocity, and the star a potential distance in what we term 'light-years'. But the repetition in mind consists of so-many quanta, and we say that light moves by quanta, even that it is quanta, but the quanta are the repetitions in our mind, not in the light, so that the velocity, the distance, and the light itself seem to have been found to be all in our own mind.

If this is not an accurate description of the latest findings of physics, as I believe to be the case, it should be an accurate description of what metaphysics has understood, believes and should teach.

Each original perception remains unexplained herein, but it is evidently only an image, with a mnemonic background which arises in mind itself, other than which there is nothing for it to be in the supposed Cosmos.

For all phenomena are totally conceptual.


Note: All perception is thus, by quanta in mind, so that motion is a relation between subject (thereby become an object) and its object, and nothing moves ('movement' being only a succession [of quanta] in 'mind'). 'Passing time' is a calculation of the quanta of perceptive repetition within mind, and 'distance' a calculation based on 'time'.

Thus there is seen to be no 'time', no 'distance', no 'velocity', and so no 'space'. Space-time is revealed and demonstrated as the aspect of 'mind' with which we are identified as supposed individuals.


(© HKU Press, 1966)
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