Transcendence

From: Andrew Barton <AndrewBarton_at_compuserve.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:53:42 -0500

Peter Metcalfe> Just because Zzaburism is capable of realizing transcendent concepts (be it the RW equivalents of discovering the irrationality of two, Cantor's transfinite numbers, Russell's paradox or Godel's paradox)

What's transcendent about any of those? They're intellectually difficult to handle, but all routine for a sufficiently trained mathematician.

Godel's theorem, btw, is not a paradox. It was just surprising and inconvenient to the mathematicians of the time.

My understanding of transcendence is that it's the sort of awareness which can only be appproached through altered states of consciousness, for example through Zen meditation.

Andrew

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