Ramanujan

The Shadow [Jung] is the transcendental for meaning; but there can not be the transcendental for truth. A transcendental for truth (as an abstract) would require instantiating an abstract class which is prohibited. But meaning requires abstraction, and the meaning is established through a reference through extension to the abstract. Then abstraction arbitrates the meaning and thus recognizes the needed relationships so we understand and can reply to the context that surrounds us. The Shadow is the ultimate abstraction and therefore the ultimate basis for all meaning. Truth is particular and trying to make an ‘abstract transcendental’ truth is impossible; perhaps absurd. And pursuing the absolute ‘truth as an abstract’ causes the loss of meaning (the context of meaning is lost). Pursuing truth, as an absolute abstract, destroys meaning. The context is the transcendental. The Shadow is our link to the context.

The shadow is the ultimate base class of our polymorphic mind. The shadow base class has definitions, equivalent to object programming classes, that provide a way for the thought, extended from this base class as a programming thunk, to be visible as a shadow (the subconscious). Once the thought is instantiated into an object of the mind these definitions are “over-written” to produce a forward image like a mirror image. This, then, is visible to the minds eye (the conscious). Our ability to relate thoughts together, i.e. polymorphism, is like images appearing through a set of mirrors in our mind. Once these images form in any grouping in the mind (that we recognize), they reveal patterns; which ultimately lead to meaning. The meaning is through extension of abstract classes. Meaning requires abstraction. The Shadow is the ultimate base class for all abstraction.

Ramanujan: “An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God.”

Heath: There is an important distinction here.

We can have meaning, as an abstraction; but we cannot have truth, as an abstraction.

Heath: “Then, for me, a concept has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God.”