There are eternal unchanging truths. Absolute and relative truth. The difference between relative truth and absolute truth. The concept and criteria of truth

Part 2
"Whatthere is true?"

Center of the lenticular galaxy Centaurus A

The Sombrero Galaxy in the black hole of huge mass in the center

Mass birth of new stars

Spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices

Greek word a le tei a, translated as “truth,” comes from a word that means “not hidden,” so often truth means revealing what was previously hidden.

There are many theories about truth. Some are convinced that truth does not exist at all, others are looking for it in philosophies, others believe that it exists, but is not comprehensible to a person ... What do you think?

The Bible says that there is Absolute Truth. And this is the truth about everything. And the understanding of the truth is given by the Creator and is available to every person if he sincerely desires to know it and persistently seeks it. And this is logical, because only the one who created everything can know the absolute truth.

One person commented on the search for truth: "What sometimes seems to us a paradox, only seems to be so - and all this is our temporary idea, due to our imperfection in knowing the Absolute Truth. The truth is simple, but people cannot reach this simplicity, getting confused in labyrinths of objective and subjective complexities.

FACE TO FACE stood two completely different person. One is a politician, cynical, ambitious, rich, ready to do anything for his career. The other is a teacher who has neglected wealth and fame, ready to sacrifice himself for the lives of other people. Needless to say, these two people did not share each other's views. On one point in particular, their opinions differed absolutely—on the question of truth.

These people were Pontius Pilate and Jesus Christ. Jesus stood before Pilate like a condemned criminal. For what? Jesus explained that the reason for his arrest—no doubt the very reason he came to earth and carried out his ministry—was one thing: the truth. “For this I was born, and for this I came into the world,” he said, “to bear witness to the truth” (John 18:37).

In response, Pilate asked the noteworthy question: "What is truth?" (John 18:38) Did he really want an answer? Probably not. Most likely, the Roman ruler asked this question simply out of cynical disbelief, as if saying: “Truth? What's this? It just doesn't exist!" However, even now, people who supposedly seek the truth, in fact, do not want to hear answers to their questions. Pilate's skeptical view of the truth is also characteristic of our day. Many people believe that truth is relative, in other words, what is true for one person is not true for another at all, and both of them may be "right." This belief is so widespread that there is even a separate name for it - "relativism".

Whyneed search truth?

MANY religious organizations, for example, claim to have the truth and zealously offer it to others. But collectively they offer an overwhelming abundance of "truths." Is this another proof that all truths are relative, that there are no absolute truths? No.

In his book The Art of Thinking, Professor V.R. Ruggiero marvels that even the most intelligent people sometimes say that truth is relative. He reasons: “If everyone has their own truth, then one person's idea can never be better than another person's idea. All of them must be equal. And if all ideas are equal, what is the point of researching anything? Why dig into the ground looking for answers to archeological questions? Why study the causes of tension in the Middle East? Why look for a cure for cancer? Why explore the galaxy? These activities only make sense when some answers are better than others, when the truth is something separate from and unaffected by personal aspects.

In fact, there is not a single person who in reality believed that there was no truth. When it comes to such physical realities as medicine, mathematics, or the laws of physics, even the most unshakable relativist is convinced of the truth of some things. Who among us would dare to fly an airplane if we did not believe that the laws of aerodynamics are absolute truths? Demonstrable truths exist, they surround us, and we trust them with our lives.

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The fallacies of relativism are especially evident in the realm of morality, because it is here that such thinking has done the most harm. The Encyclopedia Americana notes: “There are serious doubts expressed by many as to whether knowledge, or generally accepted truth, is comprehensible to men... Nevertheless, it is clear that if the associated ideals of truth and knowledge are rejected as utopian or harmful, human society is in decline."

Maybe you notice such a decline. For example, few people today accept as true the Bible's teachings on morality, which unequivocally condemn sexual immorality. Situational ethics - "decide for yourself what is right for you' is the prevailing opinion of our day. Would anyone dare to say that the social decline is caused by not this relativistic view? Widespread epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases, broken families and the problem of teenage pregnancy speak for themselves.

Whatsuch true?
But let's leave the muddy waters of relativism and take a quick look at what the Bible describes as the pure waters of truth (John 4:14; Revelation 22:17). In the Bible, "truth" is not at all the abstract, vague concept that philosophers argue about.

A man named Jesus Christ who lived many centuries ago and changed the history of mankind said this: “Know the truth and it will set you free” (John 8:32). This man was Christ, who claimed to be the son of God. Do you think if it were not so, he would have said these words? (The existence of Christ has long been proven by historical facts and archaeological finds. Even the countdown goes before the birth of Christ and after the birth of Christ).
When Jesus said that the purpose of his life was to bear witness to the truth, he was referring to something that faithful Jews have treasured for centuries. In their Holy Scriptures Jews have long read about "truth" as something concrete, not theoretical. The word "truth" in the Bible translates the Hebrew word 'emet, which means something unshakable, solid and, most importantly, reliable.

The Jews had good reason to view the truth in this way. They called their God "the God of truth" (Psalm 30:6). They called him that because God did everything he said. When he promised something, he kept his word. When he gave prophecies, they came true. When he pronounced the final sentences, they were carried out. All these events were witnessed by millions of Israelis. The divinely inspired writers of the Bible recorded these events as undeniable historical facts. Unlike other sacred books, the Bible is not based on myths and legends. It rests firmly on demonstrable facts—historical, archaeological, scientific, and sociological realities. We can see all this for ourselves, having become acquainted with the works of ancient and modern historians, the latest archaeological finds and scientific discoveries.

The very study of truth can have a devastating effect on a person's beliefs. The Encyclopedia Americana says, "Truth is often unpleasant because it refutes a prejudice or a myth." When we see how the falsity of our beliefs is revealed, this leads to disappointment, especially if these beliefs were taught to us by religious leaders whom we trusted. Some might compare this to what happens when a trusted parent suddenly turns out to be a criminal.

To reject truth as relative or non-existent is to forfeit the most exciting and satisfying search life has to offer. To find truth is to find hope; to know and love the truth is to know and love the Creator; to live in harmony with the truth means to live with the meaning of life and peace of mind.

Changeswhether someday true?
SUCH a question was raised in his book The Art of Thinking by V. R. Ruggiero. His answer: no. Ruggiero elaborates: "Sometimes it may seem that it is changing, but on closer inspection it turns out that this is not the case."

“Consider,” says Ruggiero, “the authorship of the first book of the Bible, Genesis. For centuries, Christians and Jews believed that this book was written by one person. But over time, this view was challenged and eventually supplanted by the belief that perhaps five people wrote Genesis. Then, in 1981, the results of a five-year linguistic analysis were published, according to which the probability that the book was written by one person, as it was thought from the very beginning, is 82 percent.
Has the truth about the authorship of Genesis changed? No. Only our belief has changed. Truth does not change because of our knowledge or our ignorance."

Let's see what the book is, which is also called the Word of God and which claims to contain the truth. After all, if this book is really a message from God to man, then it would be logical to look for absolute truth in this book. After all, only the one who created the universe, the planet Earth and everything living on it, can give an accurate, exhaustive answer to the question "What is Truth." You may be surprised how different this book is from any other book on earth, how unique, simple and at the same time it contains the depths of unsurpassed wisdom.

So what is the Bible?

To be continued.

Truth is hidden in the depths of infinity.
Democritus.

I am the way and the truth and the life.
Jesus Christ (John 14:6).

Truth is Being.
UFS book.

There are many definitions of Truth, which only testifies to the absence of a true idea of ​​it. One gets the impression that Truth is generally a far-fetched conditional concept that exists only in formal logic and is of little use in reality. According to the classical or correspondent concept, this is knowledge corresponding to reality (Aristotle, Bacon, Holbach, Spinoza, etc.); ontologically, it is a comprehensible idea, which is the basis of reality (Plato); conventionally, it is consistent knowledge consistent with collective experience (Poincaré, Durkheim); in terms of coherence, this is the logical correspondence of the new truth to the proven truth (Leibniz, Russell); according to the intuitionist, this is intuitively obvious knowledge that does not need proof (Descartes, Galileo); according to a priori, these are the original inherent universal forms of knowledge a priori present in the human mind (Vedanta, Kant); according to dialectics, this is the essence of being (Hegel); according to axiological or psychological, this is an evaluative concept in the hierarchy of values, taken for granted; according to praxeological or existential - this is what is practically significant for a person and contributes to his self-realization; according to the empirical - this is the correspondence of experience and theory.

The most modern definition: truth is an adequate reflection of objective reality by the cognizing subject, in fact, is complete scientific nonsense, since modern science in the form of quantum mechanics deals with purely ideal mathematical subjective constructs, which, nevertheless, are confirmed experimentally. In it, all reality is subjective, physically unrepresentable and different, and cannot be.

When considering the category of truth, one must proceed from the fact that truth is a concept expressed in language, is a historical concept, and is a fundamental or ontological concept. The words truth or essence come from the boreal or Nostratic language from the phoneme i-sa or i-su, meaning connected light or stopped light, that is, what remains after freezing water in a vessel ice (English) or Eis (German) - ice. This was the first understanding of the concept of truth as what is hidden behind the external form. Hence the name Isa or Jesus - the Light-bringer, the goddess Isis (double is) - The Snow Queen ice and cold that originated from ancient Hyperborea.

On the other hand, is means to connect, to connect with oneself or to eat - to consume food, preserved in Sanskrit as isti - a sacrifice to the deity in the form of food. The ancients understood the fundamental nature of food as a necessary basis in order to live or be-exist. Hence the widely used is (English) and ist (German) in the sense of being, being. In this concept, questions are hidden, what we are, what is the meaning of our appearance and the search for an answer, why do we exist? That's what it's all about further development concepts of Truth. Thus, already in the deepest antiquity, by comprehending reality, the concept of Truth was formed as a hidden vital basis of Being.
In addition, in Sanskrit, essence or truth is denoted by the word Sattva, consisting of the boreal nouns sat - light and va - water, stream, path, which meant first the path along the water, and then the Path of Light or the Path of Truth. This confirms the equivalence of both meanings of truth and the original origin of the concept. From here comes the ancient custom of sacrifice or bringing food to the gods (prasad) to maintain their essence or being.

Therefore, Being is Truth, and Truth is Mystery. Among the philosophers of the past, P. A. Florensky came closest to the problem of Truth in his well-known works The Pillar and Ground of Truth (1914) and Imaginations in Geometry (1922). In the first, he derives the word truth from the verb is, and reduces it to the verb breathe as the main sign of a living being. At the same time, he misses the fact that the meaning of the concept is much wider than breathing, since breathing, including eating air. This means that the verb exists, is already a necessary and sufficient sign of a living being and does not need additional justification.

He comes to the same conclusion that the Russian understanding of truth is "an abiding existence" or a "living being". On the basis of etymological comparisons, Florensky identifies 4 aspects of truth: Russian ontological as the essence of life, Greek epistemological as eternal timeless postulates, Roman legal as given laws, and Jewish historical as a sequence of prophecies-commandments. This shows that the truth of people is certain, but subjective. However, neither transcendental rationality (higher logic), nor sensual mystical experience, nor subconscious-mystical intuitiveness give complete certainty of the truth. For the question "What is truth?" implies "Why is truth necessary?".

Considering truth from the standpoint of the law of identity or givenness A=A, he comes to the impossibility of deriving truth as a logical dogma from itself. On the other hand, he comes to the conclusion that: 1) there is an absolute Truth; - it is an unconditional reality; 2) it is knowable, i.e. - she is unconditional intelligence; 3) it is given as a fact, i.e. is a finite intuition and has the structure of an infinite chain of semantic statements (discourse). Hence the conclusion - Truth is an intuition-discourse, containing a synthesized infinite series of bases, which, when integrated, is reduced to a unity or Unity.

In confirmation of the ambiguity of Truth, the following series of truths can be cited: philosophical - in a concept, mathematical - in a formula, geometric - in a figure, logical - in the impeccability of reasoning, physical - in a thing (matter), human - in communication, divine - in revelation, spiritual - in God, art - in perfection, historical - in the transformation of man, the truth of life - in the change of generations, etc.

“So, if Truth exists, then it is real rationality and rational reality; it is finite infinity and infinite finitude, or, to put it mathematically, actual infinity, infinite, conceivable as an integral Unity, as a single, complete Subject in itself. But complete in itself, it carries with it the fullness of the infinite series of its foundations, the depth of its perspective. She is the sun, illuminating herself and the whole universe with her rays, her abyss is the abyss of power, and not of nothingness. Truth is motionless and stillness moving. Thus, according to Florensky, Truth is the absolute of Faith or God, and this was the natural limit of the philosophical judgments of that time. In his logic, he eventually returned to the One of Plato, who suggested that the many originated from the One, justified by coming from itself.

In the discussion about the infinite, Florensky operates with the concept of actual infinity, which is a set of representations (judgments, theorems, symbols), and which is not limited by quantity, but is determined by the formulation. Examples: a closed surface of any shape, the number of points of which is infinite, irrational numbers, including world constants (Planck's constant, Boltzmann's, gravitational, speed of light, etc.), basic philosophical categories- Truth, Being, God, Meaning, etc. Here Florensky came close to the concepts of quantum theory (QT) and, in particular, to understanding the coherent state of a quantum system, which in this case is a superposition (overlay) of an infinite number of all its possible states (values), and which, at the same time, is defined as a whole .

CT considers the surrounding reality, starting from the Universe, as a closed system with "entanglement" of its states or non-locality and is described by setting the state vector (wave function). An entangled state is a special form of quantum correlation that occurs in systems or subsystems of one system that were in interaction, but separated (most often conditionally). In this state, which is a superposition of alternative states, any fluctuations in one part of the subsystem are instantly communicated to another subsystem, without energy transfer. This means that in the Universe as a whole, everything is connected with everything and everything has a meaning. Therefore, nothing in it is in vain, and everyone can feel its total unity, depending on the degree of their concentration.

Based on this, comparing the One of Plato and Florensky with a pure entangled state of the Universe, one can compare it with a state vector, the square of the density of the probability amplitude of which is equal to one, which means the probability of the existence of the Universe (Universe) is one. Hence, all the multiple is obtained by dividing the unit into parts, and in their totality, when integrated, they again give the unit. We can say that any numbers other than zero are scaled versions of one. This is what P. Florensky tried to substantiate. In turn, in zero lies the meaning of the absolute Nothing that hides Everything and is behind the manifested Unit.

The reality of the Universe is quite obvious, since we observe it "from the inside" both outside and in ourselves. So, in the light of modern scientific ideas, the philosophical insights of the past receive a mathematical justification. In the light of CT, the highest form of the law of identity introduced by Florensky, when A becomes A, by means of non-A, and which are entangled states of subsystems that are in a coherent (non-local) state at the same time A and non-A, mutually conditioned each other, and when decoherence manifests itself only one state A or not-A.

Similarly, on the basis of CT, the next level of the state of the subsystem of the Universe is associated with a state vector with an amplitude square of 2 and a probability of 0.5. This is the Level of Duality or unity of opposites, clearly manifested in the microcosm. The level of duality in the sphere of consciousness-mind corresponds to the logic of alternativeness and two-faced deities, combining simultaneous opposites.

Further, the triadic world corresponds to a level with a squared probability amplitude of 3 and a probability of about 0.33. This is our triadic three-coordinate world, which is based on approximate dynamic constants, the most famous of which are e equal to 2.72 and pi equal to 3.14. The level of consciousness is reason here must correspond to triadic logic with the included third and three-faced deities. Therefore, the Holy Trinity, intuitively established in Christianity and the Trimurti in Hinduism, immediately become clear. All these are reflections of the One in a superposition of three quantum states. In the light of CT, the justification of the three hypostases, given by Florensky on the basis of creative intuition or divine insight, and only now received scientific confirmation, becomes quite understandable. Indeed, in our reality, “the number three is immanent in truth” and there cannot be less than three hypostases, and the triadic nature is internally necessary for our world, since it gives it unshakable stability and dynamics of development. The triad created the mind of man and directed his mind between the extremes of alternatives to perfection. It is at this level that it becomes clear to what extent the principle of the triad is still unconscious of a person and to what suffering this unawareness leads.

The universal property of the triadic nature of the manifested world found its generalization in the form of the law of maxima of random series or the “law of triples” by E. Slutsky (1927). It says: in a random periodic process, every third maximum is higher than the previous ones, and every sixth is higher than the third, and so on. The law does not depend on the nature of the series itself and reflects the structural properties of reality. Numerous sequences long noticed by people are formed on this phenomenon. For example: "The Ninth Wave" by Aivazovsky, the classification of landforms from a grain of sand to the Himalayas is a multiple of 3.14 (V.V. Piotrovsky), the frequency of solar activity, the cyclicity of tectonic and climatic processes, the periodicity historical process multiple of three generations of people (72 years) and much more. This reflects the universality of quantization and fractality of our macrocosm, which are based on a periodicity approximately equal to three to the power of N. Thus, at our level of perception, the Universe is an organism that is in the mode of a quasi-random self-oscillatory process with a rhythm that is a multiple of three. More precisely, it is a pulsating spirally cyclical process, consisting in the alternation of acceleration and deceleration, expansion and contraction, intensive and extensive dynamics (leaps of development).

Thus, Florensky's statement is confirmed that truth exists and has three hypostases, but its cognition goes beyond the framework of classical logic, which, in this case, is superficial and is only a special case of a more general quantum entropy logic based on the concepts of QD. According to Florensky, knowledge “is not the capture of a dead object by a predatory epistemological subject, but a living moral communication of individuals, each of which serves as both an object and a subject for each. In the proper sense, only the person and only the person is knowable. Manifested Truth is love, which is formed from the metaphysical triad Truth, Goodness, Beauty. “Truth is a personal “I” mutual with the “I” of the Universal, Good is an action or exchange between them in the form of Love, Beauty is a contemplation outside and inside. At the same time, “I” is God the Father, acting outside and in me as God the Son, at the same time joyfully contemplating the harmony of this love, as a likeness of the small and the great in the Holy Spirit.

It is in this that the true hidden meaning of the Trinity of hypostases is revealed, when God the Father - the Word passes into God the Son - the Deed (action of love), directed by the divine Thought or the Holy Spirit. And Florensky is deeply right in that love is a substantial act that passes from subject to object and has support in it, in contrast to knowledge and mental emotions. It is in this way that divine love or creative insight descends upon a person, and this is its ontologism. Simply loving the invisible God means passively opening your heart to Him and waiting for the descent of divine love, and this is just the beginning. On the contrary, one must actively love God in a person and any living being, and only then, unexpectedly, but consciously, will the feeling of God's humanity and his love come.

Truth is a living boundless subjective universal concept and therefore it makes itself Truth in the course of its development. It is One and Triune at the same time, consisting of three aspects: praxeological, consisting in cognitive-practical activity; axiological, consisting in the highest value of life and mind; existential, consisting in the spiritual orientation to God of the whole life of a person. Simply put, Truth lies in physics, in man and in God as the highest authority.

The criterion of Truth lies in the Trinity of the One God, manifested in us as the Holy Trinity: God the Father is the Word of God, given to man as speech, God the Son, as the deed of man according to the word of God, which arose from the Holy Spirit, given to a person as the Thought of God, whose name is Love for God in man and the Living World. Everything that does not correspond to this is a distortion of Truth or Falsehood. Liars will not pass into the Kingdom of Heaven to Eternal Life, but will always be in circles of searching and gaining the Truth. The criterion of Truth is in the unity of thought, word and deed, based on love for the world of life, for man and on faith in the eternity of life, striving for a divine state. This shows how far people have deviated from the Truth, and therefore the crisis of man is the crisis of the Truth lost in the pursuit of materiality.

In answering the question, what is the specific Truth, Florensky, ahead of his time, refers to the cutting edge of the scientific ideas of his era. That is why his scientific ideas about our and the other world, set out in the book "Imaginations in Geometry", are only now becoming fully accessible to understanding. His approach to the world order is based on the properties of complex numbers, in their representation on two-sided and one-sided surfaces (planes) of various thicknesses. Using the example of a flat (two-dimensional) one-sided surface (Möbius strip), he substantiated that the reality-imaginary transition is just a change in the coordinate system, when “the body (object) turns inside out through itself”, that is, it acquires imaginary (negative or opposite) characteristics for us . At the same time, it remains real for itself and its existence already in another reality.

According to Florensky: “We can imagine the whole space as double, composed of real and imaginary Gaussian coordinate surfaces coinciding with them, but the transition from the real surface to the imaginary surface is possible only through a break in space and the eversion of the body through itself.” The difficulty of understanding here is that it is very difficult to imagine a one-sided three-dimensional surface, like a Möbius strip, but in three dimensions.

To explain this, he refers to the concepts of the theory of relativity, when, upon reaching the speed of light, the dimensions of a material body and relative time turn to zero, and the mass to infinity. Simplified, this means that the body disappears, that is, it is “equated” with the entire Universe, and a fine structure or “soul” remains, passing into another coordinate system. At the same time, Florensky suggested that such a state can be achieved not only at superluminal speeds, but also in other ways. One of them is the separation of the soul and body at the time of death, another way is to enter the state of nirvana or samati, by reducing the bodily and mental activity as much as possible, and the third way is creative insight or insight in the field of art.

To date, all these methods have received practical confirmation. The effect of speed is confirmed by the experience of astronauts during training in a centrifuge with high acceleration, when you can see yourself from the back due to the mechanical extrusion of a fine structure from physical body. The second method is confirmed by numerous described experiments. clinical death and yoga practices. An example of the third method is given by Florensky based on the description of Dante's journey through other worlds when, when descending into Hell and reaching its center, the perceived top and bottom change places (The Divine Comedy in the translation of M. Lozinsky, canto 34, stanzas 73-79), which confirms the authenticity of this creative experience. In addition, there are many other fantastic descriptions of creative penetration into another world, the most famous of which are the descriptions of J. Boehme, E. Swedenborg, D. Andreev, Yu. Petukhov. The very flourishing of science fiction and fantasy genres today is an indicator of the growth of opportunities for creative penetration into the other world.

Now let's consider Florensky's reasoning from the standpoint of modern CT based on its main directions: the theory of entangled states, the theory of decoherence and quantum information theory. Modern CT is not only and not so much a theory of the behavior of microparticles, but the most complete description of any objects of reality. In fact, this is a new fundamental worldview concept that explains matter and consciousness as a whole in terms of quantum states that are both local and non-local, linking the entire Universe into integrity.

In terms of CT, the entire Universe (universe) at the deepest or highest energy-informational (EI) level is a closed quantum system, which is in a pure entangled state, meaning "all in one, one in all". This is the complete coherence of the system or the superposition (superposition) of all its possible states (universal potentiality). From the side (as an object) it is not observable, since the system is completely balanced and is in an inseparable (inseparable) state, which can only be felt, and it is called the Absolute, Brahman, Tao, etc. Perceptibility shows that we also belong to this system and are non-local (entangled) with it.

The system is described by a complex state vector that has real and imaginary parts like a complex number. The real part of the system corresponds to Light (visibility), and the imaginary Darkness (invisibility). These are the visible and invisible parts of a single universe. At the same time, both parts of the system are invariant with respect to the coordinate system, that is, what is light in our part is darkness in another part and vice versa. The physical barrier between these parts of the system is called the speed of light. Our visible part of the Universe is arranged according to the principle of nested fractal structures or subsystems (quasi-closed structures), which differ in the degree of separability or the level of EI density (amplitude) of the parameter. The higher the separability, the more the system splits into more objects with a higher density, which we, in our world, feel like a substance, although in fact it is only a degree of EI density of a single substance. Each of such quasi-closed subsystems can, in a certain sense, be considered an actual infinity according to Florensky.

In the light of CT, a person is a dense (material) superposition (superposition) or a system of quantum states (wave functions). The evolution of this system, called life, consists in the accumulation and transmission of information. It is this process that forms multiple subtle quantum states, entangled with each other and the surrounding world, called soul and spirit. According to the UFS, these states are called the emotional-mental-intuitive complex, and in the ordinary sense they are known as the world of feelings, reason and intuition.

In everyday life, fractality is expressed in the principle of analogy (isomorphism), meaning "as above, so below", and which, according to UFS, is one of the components of the principle of evolution. This means that the evolution of any systems at key points repeats the previous evolution and is known as ontogeny repeating phylogeny. This is a reflection of the law of conservation of energy - information and is called the principle of the shortest path or energy minimization due to the growth of information. This shows that P. Florensky's ideas have been fully confirmed in modern science.

On the basis of the foregoing, as a working hypothesis, a new understanding of the true Reality or the ultimate modern Truth can be proposed. The Universe is a single quantum system consisting of visible and invisible parts. Its visible part, which is about 5% of the whole, is a purposefully arranged intelligent organism or a system formed from fractal (self-similar) subsystems nested in each other (the matryoshka principle), which are based on information. Another large part of this system is hidden from observation and represents an ideal subtle world.

The highest known expression of the informational essence of the visible Reality is the human mind (any living mind), which arose on the basis of the initially given anthropic principle. Based on the principle of analogy, it can be assumed that the highest expression of the invisible part of the Universe is also the mind, but already the cosmic one, since this is a subtle world that has opposite qualities relative to our world. These are the opposites of the earthly world and the heavenly world. Based on this, and also on the fact that the invisible part of the Universe makes up most of it, it should be assumed that the subtle form of life and mind is the main form of life in it, in the form of an eternal cosmic being.

From this it follows that the Universe is designed for the comfortable existence of the mind, in proportion to the scale and speed of universal processes. In turn, this means that the mind must have self-consciousness (personality) of the highest quality, eternal (very long) existence through direct assimilation of energy, the ability to instantly exchange information and super-high speeds of movement. However, for the eternity and immutability of the existence of cosmic beings, perhaps they have to pay by the inability to change the quality of their mind, and the impossibility of direct reproduction. Perhaps this is the main problem of the subtle world.

The corporeal form of life in the form of a man is extremely inconvenient for the Cosmos, since it creates difficulties with nutrition, breathing and perception due to the narrow range of perceived frequencies, danger due to ionizing radiation and gravity, requires a space suit and a starship. Therefore, it, apparently, is only the initial embryonic stage of its evolution, which, apparently, is possible only in material world, which is indicated by all known mythology about the "life of the gods". Therefore, it is logical to assume that the Earth and other terrestrial planets are incubators or nurseries for the creation and initial education of cosmic beings. This assumption corresponds to the basic principle of the evolution of life, which consists in death and subsequent rebirth in a new quality, which is what all known religions affirm.

At the same time, the popular problem of the "silence of space" becomes easily explainable - there is simply no one and there is no need to communicate, because what is the point in communicating "babies" at vast cosmic distances. The same with the problem of UFOs, when we are simply visited by observers from another world, in order to study the features and trends of our development.

In the light of this hypothesis, almost all fundamental problems receive a consistent explanation. human life. First of all, it is the need to cultivate the highest positive qualities or spirit, as indicated by all ancient religions. This allows you to create a stable subtle system, which is based on attachment to life, entanglement with all its aspects. This is exactly how quantum confusion in the human mind feels in reality, which becomes the basis of an out-of-body form. In addition, another life is also an activity about which we know practically nothing, but we can suspect that it is similar to ours, but operates on a cosmic scale with huge energies, significant arrays of complex information and the highest superluminal speeds. This requires an instant reaction, the highest self-discipline and responsibility with high spirituality. Our ideas about another world are similar to the impressions of a Paleolithic savage who looked into modern world through a gap in the fence and, in fact, are fairy tales.

Apparently, the formation of cosmic consciousness on the basis of the human mind is a very complex process that requires several cycles of life and special selection according to personal qualities. Such a selection is known in the form of Purgatory, Heaven and Hell, which are the stages of the test of the Soul. Those who have passed the tests continue evolution, and those who have not passed, retaining the center of the soul and freed from the burden of the past, return to rebirth in a bodily form. The main thing in this process is the development of creative abilities, independence of thinking, strong faith and breadth of soul. From this position, a significant increase in the population of the Earth means that most of the new souls do not pass the Tests and return again to the bodily form. This is a reflection of the human crisis, the essence of which is the crisis of ideas about the Truth of Life and the inability to develop spiritual qualities due to excessive commitment to materiality.

Therefore, all life must be a preparation for death, and the preparation for death consists in the fullness of life. This is the paradox and the new motivation for the development of consciousness. A lot of knowledge has been accumulated on a righteous and fulfilling life, but everyone should creatively realize them and go their own unique way. This is the ultimate Truth of the present time, which now receives not only an intuitive, but also a mathematical justification based on CT.

Truth: 1) a person is an embryonic form of a cosmic being or a mixed quantum system, consisting of material and subtle energy-information structures, that arises and begins its evolution in a physical or bodily form.
2) The formation of a stable subtle system (spirit) is possible only in the physical world, and only on the basis of personal experience through cognition, love and creativity.
3) The transition from physical to cosmic existence is called the death of the physical form (recoherence) and is a decisive test of readiness for life in another world.

Truth is always incompleteness and incompleteness, and the completed truth turns into an empty dogma. Each time has its own truth, and each person has his own idea of ​​it. However, in an expanding world, every new concept is an extension of previous ideas, meaning their translation and reading in modern language. Now the time has come for the cognition of quantum reality, which is also not final, but this is exactly how the gradual convergence of the earthly and heavenly worlds is taking place, which someday over the horizon of time will converge into the Kingdom of God on Earth. This will be the moment of realization of the ideas about the cosmic being of K. Tsiolkovsky, the resurrection of all the dead by N. Fedorov, the noosphere of V. Vernadsky, the Omega point of T. de Chardin and many other, now utopian dreams of higher meanings of the future.

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Question: Is there an absolute truth/universal truth?

Answer: In order to understand whether there is an absolute/universal truth, we need to start by defining truth. According to the dictionary, truth is defined as “correspondence to reality; statement proven or accepted as true. Some people argue that there is no true reality - only subjective views and judgments. Others argue that absolute reality or truth must exist.

Proponents of one point of view argue that there are no absolutes that define reality. They believe that everything is relative and thus no actual reality can exist. Because of this, there are ultimately no moral absolutes, no authority on which to base decisions about what is positive and what is negative, right or wrong. This view leads to "situational ethics" - the belief that "right" or "wrong" depends on the situation. In this case, what seems right at a certain moment or in a certain situation will be considered right. This kind of ethic leads to a mentality and a way of life in which what is pleasant or convenient is right, and this, in turn, has a destructive effect on society and individuals. This is postmodernism, which creates a society in which all values, beliefs, lifestyle and truth are absolutely equivalent.

Another view assumes that absolute reality or standards that determine what is fair and what is not, actually exist. Thus, depending on these absolute standards, actions can be defined as right or wrong. If there were no absolutes, no reality, chaos would reign. Take, for example, the law of attraction. If it wasn't absolute, you could take one step and be high in the air, and next time you wouldn't even be able to move. If 2+2 did not always equal four, it would have devastating consequences for civilization. The laws of science and physics would be meaningless, commercial activities would be impossible. What a mess that would be! Fortunately, two plus two always equals four. Absolute truth exists and can be found and understood.

The claim that there is no absolute truth is illogical. However, many people today support a cultural relativism that denies any type of absolute truth. People who claim that there is no absolute truth should be asked, "Are you absolutely sure about this?" By answering "yes", they will make an absolute statement that implies the existence of absolutes. That is, in fact, the statement about the absence of absolute truth is itself absolute truth.

In addition to the problem of internal contradiction, there are several other logical problems that must be solved in order to believe in the absence of absolute or universal truth. One is that people have limited knowledge and mental capacity and, accordingly, cannot make absolute negative statements. According to logic, a person cannot say: “There is no God” (although many say exactly that) - in order to assert this, he must have absolute knowledge of the entire Universe, from beginning to end. Since this is not possible, the most logical formulation would be: "Based on the limited knowledge that I have, I do not believe that God exists."

Another problem is that the rejection of absolute truth does not stand up to what our own conscience tells us, our experience, and what we observe in real world. If there is no absolute truth, then ultimately there is nothing right or wrong. Just because something is right for me doesn't mean it will be right for you as well. Although on the surface this type of relativism seems very attractive, giving each person the opportunity to set his own rules in life and do what he thinks is right. However, sooner or later one person's rules will conflict with another's rules. Imagine what happens if I decide that I can ignore traffic lights even if they are red? By doing this, I endanger the lives of many people. Or perhaps I will decide that I have the right to rob you, when you will find it completely unacceptable. If there is no absolute truth, absolute standards of what is right and wrong, and everything is relative, then we can never be sure of anything. People will do what they please - kill, rape, steal, cheat, cheat, and so on, and no one can say that this is wrong. There will be no government, no laws, no justice, because the majority of people will not have the right to elect and set standards for a minority. A world without standards would be the scariest place imaginable.

From a spiritual standpoint, this type of relativism leads to religious confusion, suggesting that there is no true religion and there is no correct way to establish an intimate relationship with God. That is why today there are often people who simultaneously believe in two diametrically opposed religions. People who do not believe in absolute truth follow a universalism that teaches that all religions are equal and that they all lead to heaven. In addition, people who prefer this worldview will strongly oppose Christians who believe the Bible when it says that Jesus is “the way and the truth and the life” and that He is the highest manifestation of truth and the only way into heaven (John 14:6).

Tolerance has become a single key value of society, a single absolute truth, and, therefore, intolerance is a single evil. Any dogmatic belief - especially the belief in the existence of absolute truth - is regarded as intolerance, an absolute sin. Truth-deniers often say that it's good to believe what you want, as long as you don't try to force your beliefs on others. But this opinion is a belief about what is right and wrong, and its proponents most certainly make attempts to impose it on others, thereby violating the principles they uphold. They just don't want to be held accountable for their actions. If there is absolute truth, then there are absolute standards, and then we are responsible according to them. This responsibility is what people are actually trying to avoid by denying the existence of absolute truth.

The rejection of absolute truth and the universal cultural relativism that comes from it is logical for a society that follows the theory of evolution as an explanation for the origin of life. If evolution is true, then life has no meaning, we have no purpose, and there can be nothing absolutely right or wrong. A person has the right to live as he pleases, and is not obliged to answer to anyone for his actions. And yet, no matter how far sinful man is willing to go in denying the existence of God and His truth, he will still face His judgment someday. The Bible says, “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth with unrighteousness. For what can be known about God is clear to them, because God has shown them. For His invisible, His eternal power and Divinity, from the creation of the world through the consideration of creations are visible, so that they are unanswerable. But how, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, and did not give thanks, but became vain in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened; Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:18-22).

Is there any evidence for the existence of absolute truth? First, evidence of the existence of absolute truth manifests itself in our minds. Our conscience tells us that the world must be built "a certain way," that certain things are right and others are wrong. It helps us understand that there is something wrong with suffering, hunger, rape, pain and evil. It makes us realize that there is love, nobility, compassion and peace that we should strive for. This applies to all people who have lived at all times, regardless of their culture. The role of human consciousness is spoken of in Romans 2:14-16: “For when the Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what is lawful, then, having no law, they are their own law: they show that the work of the law is written in them in hearts, to which their conscience testifies and their thoughts, now accusing, now justifying one another, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secret deeds of men through Jesus Christ.

The second proof of the existence of absolute truth is found in science. Science is the pursuit of knowledge, it is the exploration of what we know and the attempt to know more. Therefore, all scientific research must necessarily be based on the conviction that in the world around us there is objective reality. What could be explored without absolutes? How would one know that the conclusions drawn are correct? In fact, the laws of science must be based on the existence of absolute truth.

The third proof of the existence of absolute truth is religion. All the religions of the world strive to convey the meaning and definition of life. They are born from the fact that humanity is striving for something more than just existence. Through religion people seek God, hope for the future, forgiveness of sins, peace and answers to our deepest questions. Religion is truly proof that humanity is not just an advanced animal species. This testifies to a higher purpose, as well as to the existence of a purposeful creator who put the desire to know him into the human mind. And if the creator really exists, then he is the standard for absolute truth, and this truth is based on his authority.

Fortunately, we have such a Creator, and He has revealed His truth through His Word, the Bible. If we want to know the truth, the only way to do it is through a personal relationship with the One Who is the Truth - Jesus Christ. “Jesus said to him: I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6). The fact that absolute truth exists indicates to us that there is a Lord God who created heaven and earth and revealed Himself to us so that we can know Him personally through His Son Jesus Christ. This is the absolute truth.



Eternal Truths

eternal truth- a term meaning the irrefutability of truths in the process of development of knowledge. In this respect, Eternal Truth is analogous to Absolute Truth.

In the process of cognition, a person deals mainly with relative truths, containing only parts (aspects) of absolute truths. Metaphysics and dogmatism, considering truth independent of condition, overestimate the role of the absolute moment in truth. Such a reassessment is the epistemological basis for raising truths to the rank of eternal, irrefutable.

Religion, as an expression of extreme dogmatism, regards all its postulates as irrefutable "Eternal Truths".

the absolute is knowledge. there is nothing eternal and infinite everything is constantly changing in this essence.


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Many people, regardless of their origin, education, religious affiliation and occupation, evaluate certain judgments according to the degree of their correspondence to the truth. And, it would seem, they get a completely harmonious picture of the world. But, as soon as they begin to wonder what the truth is, everyone, as a rule, begins to get stuck in the wilds of concepts and wallow in disputes. Suddenly it turns out that there are many truths, and some may even contradict each other. And it becomes completely incomprehensible what truth is in general and on whose side it is. Let's try to figure this out.
Truth is the correspondence of any judgment to reality. Any statement or thought is either true or false initially, regardless of the person's knowledge on this matter. Different epochs put forward their

So, during the Middle Ages, it was determined by the degree of correspondence Christian teaching, and under the domination of materialists - the world. At the moment, the scope of the answer to the question, what is truth, has become much wider. It began to be divided into groups, new concepts were introduced.
is an objective reproduction of reality. It exists outside our consciousness. That is, for example, the statement "the sun is shining" will be the absolute truth, since it really shines, this fact does not depend on human perception. It would seem that everything is clear. But some scientists argue that absolute truth does not exist in principle. This judgment is based on the fact that a person cognizes the whole world around him through perception, but it is subjective and cannot be a true reflection of reality. But whether there is an absolute truth is a separate question. Now what is important is that it is intended for the convenience of its assessment and classification. One of the main non-contradictions says that two mutually negating propositions cannot be both true or false at the same time.

That is, one of them will necessarily be true, and the other - not. This law can be used to test the "absoluteness" of truth. If a judgment cannot coexist with its opposite, then it is absolute.

True, but incomplete or one-sided judgment about the subject. For example, the statement "women wear dresses." It is true, some of them do wear dresses. But the opposite can also be said with the same success. "Women don't wear dresses" would also be true. After all, there are some ladies who do not wear them. In this case, both statements cannot be considered absolute.

The very introduction of the term "relative truth" has become a recognition of humanity's incompleteness of knowledge about the world and the limitations of its judgments. This is also due to the weakening of the authority of religious teachings and the emergence of many philosophers who deny the very possibility of an objective perception of reality. "Nothing is true, and everything is permitted" - a judgment that most clearly illustrates the direction of critical thought.

Obviously, the concept of truth is still imperfect. It continues its formation in connection with the change of philosophical directions. Therefore, we can say with confidence that the question of what is truth will worry more than one generation.