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concept:meaninglessness-of-the-mechanistic-universemeaninglessness of the mechanistic universe
The existential consequence of the mechanistic cosmology: the world has no point, no value, no purpose, leading to despair and banality in art.
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- Central thesis linking cosmology to the spiritual barrenness of modern architecture.
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- What is it all for?gatesThe existential question that the mechanistic picture answers with 'nothing,' highlighting meaninglessness.
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- The opening chapter of The Nature of Order, Vol. 4, diagnosing the inadequacy of mechanistic cosmology and setting the stage for a new worldview that reconciles self and matter.
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- The empty continuum, the substrate from which living forms descend via structure-preserving transformations; also called the Void.