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Anton Cebalo's avatar

Throughout literature and philosophy, one commonly sees this tension between the mechanistic worldview and the musical one, like you said. They are really two differing archetypes, two modes of thought each producing their own way of interpreting the world.

I’m reminded of what theologian Sergei Bulgakov wrote, “for the enlightened eye of the saints, the world is a continuously-enacted miracle but conformity to mechanical law of the world […] conceals divine Providence from us.”

Philosopher Hannah Arendt put it more secularly, “the new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability. The new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.”

I've always been drawn to this view. Grasping life and history mechanically is to not really grasp it at all. Additionally, I think the day history and life moves entirely by mechanical laws and predictive power, is the day humanity ceases to exist - luckily, life has not yet been reduced to inputs and output

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OWEN's avatar

When is the next installment to the YouTube series!

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