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Friday, 25 October 2019
The Copernican revolution is not what it's cracked up to be. Just because it is easier to calculate planetary motions by taking the sun as the centre of the solar system doesn't mean that it is true to say that the earth goes around the sun. The motions are what they are relative to whatever frame of reference you choose to take. One frame of reference is better for one thing and another for an other. As far as we are concerned as earth inhabitants the sun really does go around the earth, it does so relative to out frame of reference. Contrary to the typical denigration of ego-centrism mind has a peculiar affinity for placing the centre of reality outside itself, for treating its reality as relative to something else 'more real'. This is there from birth, the structure of the ego is already other centred. In the ordinary course of things there are multiple centres revolving around each other and it is only with the greatest difficulty that we can stay with the frame of reference centred on our own awareness. Otherwise it slides around under the influence of multiple attractions, each with their copernican rationale, multiple confusions.
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