The Ontology Dialogues: Mark Megna

By Mark Megna

It is the transcendent Platonic Forms, Beauty, Truth, Mathematical Laws, Art, Shiva, God, Love, Free Will, Music, Greek Gods, Infinity, Oneness, Nothingness and all of the other subjective qualities that cant be quantified that produces consciousness, reality and ultimate meaning. The eternal fabric of consciousness itself is built into nature at its foundation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479730827

Mark Megna

Mark Megna is the author of 3 sports history books. "The Greatest" ranks the greatest baseball players in history by using an "absolute adjusting slugging percentage" relative to the era in which they played. It is considered the greatest formula ever invented for objectively ranking players. "All Net" ranks the greatest basketball players in history by using an objective "production per minute" formula. Controversy arose when it was determined that Charles Barkley produced more per minute than LeBron James and was therefore greater and ranked higher in history. "Leatherheads" ranked the greatest football players in history by using a subjective formula necessary for ranking skill players verse non skill players.

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Contents

What is the self?

Why is there anything at all?

What is the nature of God?

Mind

Time (Limited or Unlimited)

Space and Matter (Limited or Unlimited)

Quantum Mechanics

Free Will verse Determinism

Atomism/Void/Waves

Purpose verse Nihilism

Reality (Infinite, Yin-Yang, One, Change)

Who created the greatest Mathematical equations of all time?

Why does evil exist?

Who had the greatest idea ever?

Mindville

Greek Gods

David Hilbert’s Infinite Hotel

Tribute to Van Morrison

Metaphysical Definitions

Tribute to Elisa Tofolli

Does God Exist?

Being

Non-Being

Beethoven—Symphony No. 9

Metaphysics of Being

House On The Hill

Quantum Mind and Soul (Qualia)

Dedication is to Eternal Life.

That undefined infinite nothingness of The One.

Forward

This book is a magical reality in which all of the greatest thinkers in the history of the world discuss some of the most profound metaphysical questions. It is a real place, with real characters, in real time located in the Glass Bead Game at the House on the Hill.

-Mark Megna

What is the self?

Andre Gregory:   Did you ever wonder what the self is?

Wallace Shawn:   It’s the person that I see when I look into the mirror isn’t it?

Andre Gregory:   Is it really Wally? Is it simply that?

Wallace Shawn:   I think so. Who or what else would it be?

Andre Gregory:   Maybe it’s something bigger than just that. I mean I really don’t know Wally. You might be right but I hope your wrong in some way.

Wallace Shawn? Why do you say that?

Andre Gregory:   Well I just hope that we’re more than some little insignificant being in this vast universe. Yet, I have this over whelming suspicion that we are just some little ant in the colony going about our daily jobs until we die.

Wallace Shawn:   You shouldn’t feel that way Andre. Of course your life has meaning. Chiquita loves you.

Andre Gregory:   I know my life has meaning but does it really have meaning.

Wallace Shawn:   I don’t quite follow you Andre. What more could you want than this? I mean you love your work don’t you?

Andre Gregory:   Yes I do but there must be something Wally. Maybe I am just seeking answers to existence or something stupid like that.

Plato:   It is really all in your mind Andre or at least what your mind perceives within its consciousness. That’s who you really are.

Andre Gregory:   What’s that Plato? Existence is all in my mind?

Plato:   Yes.

George Berkeley:   That’s right Andre. Everything is in the mind.

Descartes:   That’s the only thing we know with 100% certainty.

Andre Gregory:   So, if existence is in my mind that means when I die I become a nothing again just like when before I was born.

Ayn Rand:   That’s correct Andre.

Andre Gregory:   That makes me depressed to hear that.

Ayn Rand:   It shouldn’t Andre. It should make you exuberant that you need to get on with life before it passes you by. Go tell Chiquita that you love her and start working on that next play. That’s all you can do.

Gandhi:   It is really your soul Andre that you need to be concerned about.

Buddha:   Yes, the soul is eternal. The mind is limited. Concentrate on your soul.

Roger Penrose:   It is the quantum mind which is unlimited. The quantum mind is your soul.

Alan Watts:   It’s everything.

Parmenides:   It’s the one.

Alfred North Whitehead:   It’s Qualia. That transcendent something that no one can really define.

Georg Cantor:   It’s the infinite of all infinities.

Euclid:   It’s nothing. The self emerges as a something for some odd reason as a blip in all eternity but then quickly returns to nothing upon death. It’s the craziest thing.

Hermann Hesse:   It is your essence. It is the most subtle yet glorifiable thing that you could ever imagine.

Achilles:   The self is people’s memory of you. So go do something great!

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Why is there anything at all?

Plato:   Have you ever wondered why there is anything at all?

Zeno:   Yea, why would God go through all the trouble to make a universe?

Plato:   Not only did he create a universe but he created an imperfect one as well. Does that make any sense? If you were going to make a universe and you were an all-powerful God wouldn’t you create a perfect one?

Fredrick Nietzsche:   Yea, why would you create a universe that contains evil, suffering, disease, tragedies, pain, death, insanity, etc? Why do people have to suffer horrific deaths such as by fire, drowning, cancer, torture, and all the other crazy things that you can think of.

Richard Dawkins:   If there is a God you have to lay the responsibility for all of that on him don’t you? He must be the cause of evil right?

Alan Watts:   Or, maybe the universe is just some Grand Accident and it just has turned out that way by mere chance. That’s the only thing that I can think of.