The First Glimpse of the Cosmic Womb

held that while the universe seemed to be constantly in flux and eternally changing, we could think of things that exist solely in the mind which were unchanging truths. Reason, for instance, is always the same regardless of when we try to employ it. Or consider math. No matter how many things exist, 1+1 will always equal 2.

So, something at the heart of existence was eternally present and unchanging. Plato laid this out in his conceptualization of perfect forms. He reasoned that, for instance, while different types of shoes exist, there was, in some intangible part of reality, the perfect shoe. Aristotle considered the viewable universe around us essentially where matter took on a semblance of these perfect forms constructed with matter.

The First Glimpse of the Cosmic Womb

What Aristotle and Plato had stumbled across was the first, vague glimpse of Birnbaum’s Cosmic Womb of Potential. As to these ideal forms, Potentialism has no such equivalent or need to have one. Aristotle was off the mark on that one unless you count the geometry of Potentialism. But such things as cosmic spirality just happen to be the best geometry for Birnbaum's later Complexification (C+). The perfect footwear is totally unnecessary. In fairness, do remember that philosophy itself

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