An interesting youtube video from a physics channel discussing maths. Without realising it they prove the eternal reccurence is actually true, even though Nietzsche meant it as a thought experiment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GCf29FP ... ure=relmfu
Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence Proven by Science
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Re: Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence Proven by Science
It hasn't been proven at all.Grendel wrote:An interesting youtube video from a physics channel discussing maths. Without realising it they prove the eternal reccurence is actually true, even though Nietzsche meant it as a thought experiment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GCf29FP ... ure=relmfu
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Re: Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence Proven by Science
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I saw the vid and read some more, interesting, but this metaphysics isn't as much about proof as they are about the attitude implications. Eternal Recurrence would in physics only mean that things that expand themselves contract back to their former positions, and would do so indefinitely many times, Nietzsche however means it as modifying factor of attitude towards the world, his amor fati, as you most likely already know. Things doesn't have to go back to anything close to similar situations for similar outcomes to recur.
For instance, Pain, Suffering, Good, Bad, Personal Satisfaction, Joy, Thrill, Death, Life. All these things, intentionally capital lettered, are as much or more metaphysical as they are physical, but their metaphysicality makes them determinable of our attitude towards things, the world. Our view of suffering, changing our attitude of suffering, is what Nietzsche want and eternal recurrence tells us that it's pretty much hopeless to skip the suffering altogether so we better just try to live with it.
I saw the vid and read some more, interesting, but this metaphysics isn't as much about proof as they are about the attitude implications. Eternal Recurrence would in physics only mean that things that expand themselves contract back to their former positions, and would do so indefinitely many times, Nietzsche however means it as modifying factor of attitude towards the world, his amor fati, as you most likely already know. Things doesn't have to go back to anything close to similar situations for similar outcomes to recur.
For instance, Pain, Suffering, Good, Bad, Personal Satisfaction, Joy, Thrill, Death, Life. All these things, intentionally capital lettered, are as much or more metaphysical as they are physical, but their metaphysicality makes them determinable of our attitude towards things, the world. Our view of suffering, changing our attitude of suffering, is what Nietzsche want and eternal recurrence tells us that it's pretty much hopeless to skip the suffering altogether so we better just try to live with it.