NATHAN COPPEDGE--Perpetual Motion Theory: Essays
A Defense of Perpetual Motion, metaphysical approach
Part of a response to a critic at: Critic:
“Every effect must have a cause” except being. Note that everything is being.
Apart from time there is no reason for cause. Cause is a fallacy in realizing
what exists in the present. Inevitably to consider cause is to consider
what something was or what something will become; it is to forget what
it is now, apart from those conditions. To forget the present is also not
to think of it. Yet the present is precisely the only thing that has
bearing on reality. In fact, cause is what imposes the restriction of the
present.
Apart from time the connection between objects is not linear. One may ask,
“what is the reason?” and this may be expressed in many ways. The house
was built because of certain skills, or these particular people were alive, or
the idea of house was invented ages ago, or because people wanted to live
there. There is no reasoning behind a house forming out of atoms, except on
a fabulously complex level where individual atoms, and their individual
properties considered as such, most likely cease to matter.
In a causative sense, any number of atoms defer to some larger event which
may not even participate in the same range of interactions. There’s a great
schism between a shoe causing footprints and a great explosion causing
someone to run and make them. What is atomic about an explosion causing
footprints? The explosion may be made of atoms, and the footprint may be
made of atoms, but is the causation atomic? If the footprints were not (as
they were evidently not) directly caused by the physical explosion (that is,
without a person), can we say that the person is caused by the explosion?
One might expect such a person to have energy generated by fear; the energy
may be a product of an explosion. Yet equally, we can also surmise that
similar footprints may have been created without an explosion. We certainly
wouldn’t say that this second person making the second track of footprints
was caused by an explosion. So where is the causal relation between the
explosion and the footprints, if footprints are not in essence, the product of
explosions? Does it have anything to do with energy level (for example, the
difference between exploding dynamite and eating a piece of fruit? Consider
relaxing to watch fireworks. Was energy expended to keep people from
becoming energized?) or is it more about the consistent capabilities of distinct
elements (dynamite being a metaphysical threat by going out with a bang)?
Considering “the reason” apart from time it becomes less substantial. What is
the reason for matter? What is the reason this stuff is? Is there a cause for
matter or energy? One might say more energy, but this is an endless loop
leading to something far beyond energy, so quantified as to be beyond
quantity, so beyond quantity as to not be a question of quantity. When it is
no longer a question of quantity, when number in the end, is realized as a
zero-sum game, it becomes a question of whether causation has
anything to do with time at all, or simply the imperatives of existence,
the perceptions and theatres within which matter has a role.
In such a world cause is as easily a desire, a motive to reach a destination, as
it is an impulse threaded from the depths of time. The question becomes, if it
is also as such for a machine, also acting in the realm of human
actions, can we not say that it is as logical for its cause to lie in the
future, that is, a motive or volition to follow a particular path, a means
within which the goal is not to take off, something that perhaps ended with
the Wright brothers, but rather to let go of extraneous cargo, to become
aerodynamic, to find the condition within which output, regardless of input,
is reliable. If input is minimized in such a condition, or if the condition
reaches a paradigm within which output is greater, this would be a profound
shift where cause has escaped the past, where being is concerned with its
own destinations. Out of articulation, out of nature, comes an ability for life;
perpetual energy, something I believe to be inherent in the notion of being at
all (Whence comes IS? Is there a meaning to mortal absolutes? Or
must we confess that being possesses energy, insofar as it exists, not-
existing not existing?).
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