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REVIEWING TODAY: THE ARCHETYPE OF THE NUMBER AND ITS REFLECTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY COSMOLOGY BY ALAIN NEGRE
The Archetype of the Number and its Reflections in Contemporary Cosmology by Alain Negre is so filled with potent, almost mind-blowing declarations, any one of which might keep a thinker thinking indefinitely but infinitely as due to any simple koan offered by a Zen master, only the intellectually intrepid need break its cover. Almost inaccessible to the layman, this supra-intellectual treatise by Mr. Negre is, however, worth every super-human effort made to understand it. For deep within these startling declarations is a cosmological and scientific insight impossible to refute: mathematics and philosophical/psychological realities are so mutually embedded and mutually dependent as to defy all attempts at discrimination. At least, if I have understood the book correctly.
Sample: “However, it was through a step beyond the limits of reason that Jung and Pauli considered the qualitative aspect of number and wished to use it as a basis of representation of all physical and mental processes.”
Sample: “With the existence of undecidable propositions, Gödel was doing nothing more than rediscovering through mathematics that scientific knowledge originates outside its own system of thought in an ‘unknowable,’ other level of reality.”
Two short random samples from The Archetype of the Number and its Reflections in Contemporary Cosmology by Alain Negre, both of which sound radical and revolutionary, even for the casual cosmologist or mathematician of today. Neither of these propositions is what the everyday person signed up for. Math is supposed to be logically self-affirming, and human experience is supposed to transcend numbers. But this incredibly intelligent, incredibly thought-provoking book is a gold mine of much intriguing speculation, revelation, and provocation, even to the extent of pairing contemporary scientific cosmology with ancient esoteric astrological symbolism. Approach cautiously but eagerly, and let your mind be blown.
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