And now a little almost pure philosophy…

In this article, I want to discuss the relationship between material and ideal. Traditionally, these concepts are opposed. The most typical example, this is the opposition of the philosophical currents of materialism and idealism. The work on the unified field theory, of necessity, made me think about these questions.. And it turned out to be a very funny thing. It turned out, what “idea” necessarily appears already at the most basic stage of the description of the world, is one of the unavoidable features of the description. And what follows from this – read.

Idea – and what is it?

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Idea, perfect is usually contrasted with material as something, accessible only to our minds or, if you really feel, then some inner sensations, kind of faith. And not to direct feelings. Here, to my mind, and lies the reason for this opposition. Let's try to isolate the concept of an idea in its purest form..

Take for example music idea. It is unlikely that anyone will dispute the statement, that music exists. But what is it, “music exists”? Music is – those sounds, which are pouring out of the pipe? Or the sounds of a huge orchestra? Or that feeling, which occurs in a person, when he hears these sounds? No man and no music? Seems, that this is something so subjective, inextricably linked to human perception. but, there is also a musical notation, allowing gifted people “hear” music just by looking at a sheet of paper dotted with some icons. And where are the sounds? Again in the head of a person? But a not so gifted person comes, who was taught to understand these icons and use a certain tool – and here she is, music. And now it's even easier – pressed a button on some device and the orchestra is not needed. The music is playing… Even if the one, who pressed the button has no idea about it, and does not know such a word. Imagine a fantastic situation. People died out. But the music players they created on flash memory have survived and are still functioning.. And the surviving descendants of monkeys, or say cats have developed their minds. The future archaeologist found them a record player, pressed the button and the music started playing. And the archaeologist liked this set of sounds, and a new life of music began. Without a man. It turns out, basically, music does not need a person for its existence…

But for a very long time there were no sounds. And the music has survived. What actually survived? Preserved music idea. Not in the form of sounds. Not in the form of human sensations. But survived.

What do all these cases have in common? – air vibrations, lines on paper, something invisible to the eye on a tape or optical disc? All these items are carriers, form of existence music, as ideas. But the idea itself is different from any of its forms. Even from the same, which we called music originally. In a word “music” there are always two components – abstract idea and its form of existence.

Let's ask a question – and idea music, simple or complex? Ie. can this idea be considered as a collection of simpler? Can. We know the idea, called a melody. Melody is already music. But she can be very simple and artless.. And music as a general concept can be built from many melodies., sounding together or in turn. A melody? The melody is also a difficult idea., it is a sequence of sounds. Sound is also an idea, having a different form of existence. But we won't call sound music. And let's call the melody. If the idea of ​​general music is born from a union, interaction of a set of melodies, then the melodies themselves are born when the sounds are combined. When combining ideas from initially others. Moreover, not every combination of sounds creates a melody.. Much more noise is generated.

Now let's take the wheel. Wheels are different – wooden, iron, knitted or solid. And even drawn on paper. Again we have an idea and forms of its existence.. And wheels better than music will survive when we disappear from the face of the planet. And it will be quite simple for a future archaeologist to use the found wheel.… Or a cart with wheels. Again we have complex ideas, composed of simpler, which, in turn, maybe it turned out as a combination and interaction of ideas of even simpler ones.

What these examples show us? Then, what our concepts always contain two components – idea and its form of implementation. That ideas are different. That they can combine and interact. Generate other ideas. And different. Ideas of sound can also give rise to ideas of music, and the idea of ​​speech, and the idea of ​​noise. And what different ideas of mechanisms does the idea of ​​a wheel give its contribution to and you get tired of listing.

Let, but the wheel, and sound – all these things are purely material. Exactly. If you look closely, in any material thing, which one do not name, you will find an idea. The idea behind this thing, cleaned, abstracted from a specific implementation, which can be different. This is where the temptation can arise.. The idea is primary, and secondary matter. So? Not so… Can an idea exist without any implementation?? I will be told – I’ll think of something, which cannot be done. So much for the idea without implementation. Cunning is. The idea is already being realized then, when it was invented. And it exists fully realized in the head of its creator., as a set of some kind of connections between its neurons. We don't know yet, how our brain works, the soil is shaky, speculate about, how exactly our thoughts are realized in it. But that, that are somehow implemented exactly there, there is no need to doubt. And our brain is quite even material. And the statement that matter is primary, and the idea is secondary? This statement can be substantiated?

Matter – what we usually mean by this word?

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Material, matter… Most often, these words are used by us to refer to all and all kinds of things., which exist or may exist in our world. For most people, these will be items., that you can feel (table, chair, bread, water, etc.) or at least feel (light, warmly, sound and similar phenomena). But the above examples have already shown us, what is in each such concept, if you scrape, we will find an idea. The idea behind this object or phenomenon. Yes, all these things are quite complicated. Maybe that's why it's so easy to find the perfect in them.?

Let's look at the very basics of our description of the world. I don't know the easier concept, than elementary, simple (indivisible) event. Any object or phenomenon can be described as a certain set of elementary events related to each other.. Is this concept free from “ideological” component? Not. Not free. Have an idea for an elementary event (one, any). And there is an idea of ​​their plurality, the plurality of realization of this elementary idea. And one more idea already exists. The idea of ​​organizing these events together (chains, sequences). Does this fact depend on, what we describe the world, people? In no way. It doesn't even depend on, is there someone, who wants to describe the world. Yes, when we describe the world, these elements of the world, their ideal sides find themselves a new realization in our description, in books, conversations, in my thoughts at last. But without the original material realization, they would not appear there..

Ideas – it is an inalienable property of the world.

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It turns out, that the ideal component is already at the very foundation of the world, it must be taken into account in any attempt to describe this world. So maybe then it is not necessary to single out the concept of an idea separately from matter? Need to. because, what the idea concentrates in itself many properties of the world, which are not otherwise described. Here, the quotient-general relations, singular-plural. And organizing the same elements into different structures, and thus the emergence of a new idea. And the implementation of the same idea by other elements too. And just a description of peace, by and large, also an idea. Which can be implemented in different ways. Dividing the world into matter and ideas is convenient, useful and allows you to describe it effectively. But this division of the one into its properties. therefore, I find, the opposition of the material and the ideal is vicious and fruitless.

This view of the relationship between the material and the ideal immediately leads to very funny things.. for instance, simplifies the attitude towards religion and the concept of God. In particular, answer to the question “whether there is a (does it exist) the God?” comes immediately. Yes, exists. But not as some separately realized being somewhere, but as an idea, living in the heads of believers in this god, in the literature dedicated to him, in churches built for him, and so on. Does such a god affect the world, on our life? Influences, and how. And creates, and destroys, and maintains and manages. And encourages and punishes. Yes, not as a being all-seeing and all-knowing. And as an idea, leading to certain results, conscious bearers, or not conscious, it doesn't matter. What is a distributed idea (realized as a set of many elements, god as a body of believers) in this sense differs from the idea of ​​a concentrated (implemented by a single element, god existing separately )? Yes, nothing.

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