MJA --

= is not an equation of any sort. It's a declaration of the presence of an equation. All these famous equations, PV = nRT, V = IR, E=MC^2, 1+1=2, have an "=" because that symbol describes the relationship between the parameters flanking it.

There's something sort of euphoric the way you describe all of this, and I'm not trying to rain on your personal feelings.

But unless Tao means something different to you than it does to, say, Taoists, then it doesn't seem to have a place in this kind of deathly still vision of yours.

Your conception of oneness evokes Dante's beatific vision, with everything converging in god. But that's NOT Tao -- that's not a way. It may be your way, but then you're forced into the uncomfortable position of having a vision yet being forced to go through life (through a 'way'). The beatific vision is the END of the journey -- it's not the journey itself.

MJA, if you want to cut to the chase, you can simplify down to:

1 = 1

That must be the meaning of life

If you consider yourself split, how come all is equal?

Naturally mathematics unites with experience at the simple point of truth.

When science finds the equation for natures' unifying truth...

Or falsehood. Garbage in / Garbage out. Mathematics is an interpretive tool. The right side of an equation is only so good as what you plug into the left side.

The problem is that a unifying mathematical expression for all natural phenomena will not necessarily be empirically provable. Science may never find a way to summarize it all in one expression. That's why string theorists resort to all these contorted explanations with parallel universes, which is fine and dandy but it will never be empirical.

If all we know is probabilities, what makes you so certain that you're right about = or One? Your own thoughts may deceive you. Your reason can certainly deceive you.

Thanks for trying, it is good and right that we do.
Truth is much more simple than thought.
Truth with or without my thoughts simply is.
But it's Oh so simply beautiful to know.

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MJA

Mankind cannot know truth. We are too self inflicted.

Truth is much more simple than thought.

And regarding the mathematical = sign; have you ever doubted the truth of it, or only what's on the left or right of it?

Still waiting an answer for this.

True. But we have access to thought and we don't have access to truth, so it hardly matters.

It's just a symbol. I haven't doubted "the" or "it" either, but then again it's the context that matters.

Yep, still waiting.

And, by the way, there is no such thing as "truth"

You said you would wait us at unity, but to make such an statement suggests that we are split, not united. If you claim that all is one, there can be no distiction between its parts, and no parts at all.

You did not answer my question though.

That's nice. It also has nothing to do with conservation of mass.

If all is united, then how can there be individuals, and not only individuals, but also individuals who have different ideas?