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People today are confused by the word spirit because the word fields quietly replaced it, and they are just as mysterious because we don’t know if they are real
by mensetmanusman 1y ago
People today are confused by the word spirit because the word fields quietly replaced it, and they are just as mysterious because we don’t know if they are real.
- gavmor 1y ago"Field" is a less mysterious term because it's not polysemous with a supernatural being (ghost) or a distilled alcoholic beverage (soluble liquid). Sure, it's polysemous with "a cultivated expanse of land", but AFAIK there is no popular, problematic pseudoscientific quackery about suggesting our bodies possess rows of oats.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoFields give breath to the math that perfectly describes reality but which isn’t found anywhere in reality. Kind of mysterious:)
- gavmor 1y ago> Wenn wir das Wesen des Baumes suchen, müssen wir gewahr werden, daß jenes, was jeden Baum als Baum durch waltet, nicht selber ein Baum ist, der sich zwischen den übrigen Bäumen antreffen läßt. — Martin Heidegger, Die Frage Nach Der Technik
- ahazred8ta 1y agoAt the time, 'spirit' was used to mean 'low-viscosity fluid' and 'vapor'. Alcohol and various distilled fluids were called spirits. He didn't necessarily mean 'intangible'.