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24096 | Unlike time, space is subjective. Empty space was assumed, but it doesn't exist [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Space, like matter, is a subjective form. Time is not. Space first emerged through the assumption of empty space. This doesn't exist. Force is everything. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 1[003]) | |
A reaction: I would think modern physics endorses his opinion of space. The original atomists proposed a 'void', to prevent traffic jams of atoms. Now we see space as fields, so it is never empty. |
24122 | Life is forces conjoined by nutrition, to produce resistance, arrangement and value [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: A multiplicity of forces, conjoined through a common nutritive process, is what we call 'life'. All so-called feeling, representing, thinking is part of this nutritive process to enable resistance to other forces, and arrangement, and an evaluation. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 24[14]) | |
A reaction: [compressed at the end] Since no one else seems able to define life, this is quite a good attempt. Life is certainly a sort of unification of active energies, which than share goals. |