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Hyle

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Never heard of this word before but I bumped into it while doing a word game. I learn a lot from those puzzles, just need to know how to Google.

Aristotle must have been the sharpest knife in the drawer during his lifetime. I really like his take in this little bit of philosophical thought. I think one can see by looking at this that philosophy and science play off one another. Whether you agree or not doesn’t matter, still very cool thinking.

Excerpt : This means that hyle is brought into existence not due to its being its agent or its own actuality but only when form attaches to it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyle
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Setting aside the materialism beliefs of its practicing participants, physics' tendency is to replace a monism-like substance with "accounting", in its version of a non-represented world.[1] Some generalizing, abstract quantity or amount that's maintained throughout transactions and transformative changes of specific things.

When it instead comes to all the multiple modes of experience associated with the brain's representation of existence (and lack of any elemental "building block" apart from qualia -- which is sabotaged by that very plural status), the only common or potentially underlying factor for unifying that heterogeneity seems to be the capacity of manifestation itself -- the fact of radically different visual, aural, tactile, etc content simply presenting itself or "being there". In contrast to the hidden or "invisible" character (lacking appearances) of the supposed non-represented world (apart from the symbols and technical language of abstract description signifying the latter, mapping it, etc in a phenomenal way). 

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[1] Let's not pretend, as is the official custom or pretense, that certain areas of science literally avoid metaphysics when, since Galileo adopted the primary and secondary qualities distinction, it removed psychological properties from the concept of an objective realm (including that time-worn tradition of declaring them mental and non-fundamental affairs to begin with). The latter act is the generation of an ontological orientation. Tack on the scientific realism stances of individual physicists, too.
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