Yet that “infinitely reducing” is infinity, not absolute. Absolute is where everything, the positive and the negative, 1+-1, cancel out. Absolute zero. The black hole at the center. Infinity is the other way, the endless events/sequence, etc.

Truth is an ideal. Some perfect state. Western culture is built around ideals, some pot of gold at the end of the narrative arc, but we never get there. For example, efficiency is to do more with less, so the ideal of efficiency would be to do everything with nothing.

God is an ideal, presumably the “all-knowing absolute,” in the words of Pope John Paul 2, but absolute is basis, not apex, so a spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The desire bubbling up, than the forms settling down. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

We are that dichotomy of desire and judgement. The head and the heart.

Like galaxies, energy radiating out to infinity, as form coalesces to equilibrium/absolute zero.

Form is definition, so there can be no perfect/ultimate form, as each is its own construct. Math seeks perfect forms, but math is map, not territory.

Epicycles, as a model of our view of the cosmos, were brilliant math, but lousy physics, as the reductionism missed important facts.

So when we seek truth as some perfect/platonic form, we are only seeing the patterns, not the processes generating them.

I better get to work, so here is an essay I wrote;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-confessions-of-a-cosmic-heretic-5cd4c044b8ea