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Metaphysics concerns itself with our ideas about the ultimate nature and reality of phenomena. Any serious enquiry into such matters should in principle, begin with an examination of underlying metaphysical assumptions and end with their reconsideration. Few people actually bother with this exercise because metaphysics embodies a fatal flaw derived from the structure of language which has a tendency to render the exercise pointless. Metaphysics traditionally includes Ontology, our ideas about the existence or being of things. Ontology studies our ideas of what things really �are�. We could perhaps call this Metastatics instead, to differentiate it from Metadynamics, the study of our fundamental ideas about what phenomena actually �do�. No phenomena actually exhibit being. You can never catch anything in a state of just �being�. Everything has internal movement, at least on the atomic scale, and everything exchanges energy with its environment to maintain its existence. Thus Ontology or Metastatics remains an illusory and pointless exercise except where it generates useful similes that we can use as a sort of shorthand for descriptive purposes. When we ask what something �is� we really want to know what it does, or what properties it has, or what history it has.
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Can we develop a General Metadynamic which reconciles what we know about the fundamental activities of the phenomena of the universe from our knowledge of both science and magic? We need not include most of the phenomena of religion within such a metadynamic because mere psychology explains them. Only �miracles� offer any justification for the inclusion of religious data, and magic offers a better explanation for miracles than does religion. We do not need to erect a false metastatic/ontological distinction between mind and matter either. We know enough about the behaviour of the brain to understand that it acts as an information processing machine, albeit a very complicated one, and that it creates the necessary subjective illusions of self and consciousness for perfectly good evolutionary reasons. Do we have enough data for such a General Metadynamic?
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