Meaning is also important

Greetings,

Free-thinking, free-conscienced, beautiful people.

Continuing to look through the mirror of art...

What appears to us today from the mirror of art,

Creating meaning,

Ah, that "meaning"

Is it edible? Is it drinkable?

If drunk, does it make us intoxicated?

Doesn't it? Of course it does....

It intoxicates not just your consciousness, but your entire being, down to your very cells.

It intoxicates, but this intoxication does not destroy you.

It causes you to be reborn within a will of steel...

You know, science explains, but it cannot create or make meaning out of the things it explains and the phenomena that occur in the connectivity of those things, because it has no emotion; because it is not exuberant and ecstatic like Dionysus. On the contrary, it is the mirror of pure reason—as Nietzsche describes in his work The Birth of Tragedy—and the order in which that pure reason finds the opportunity to manifest itself, like Apollo. Because it is concerned with the cause-and-effect relationship that brings into existence the order of the Cosmos, which is orderly. Its curiosity, interest, and relevance are to grasp and demonstrate the regularity of the cosmos's functioning within a system and integrity. We say that its entire effort is to explain, but these things it explains, do you think they just stay there in a corner? Do not think so, my dear, do not think so, you would be mistaken...

Ah, these Dionysians, these exuberant, ecstatic, and brave sons and daughters of Adam, don't these things fall into the hands of people like them? They do, my dear, they do....

Are you saying, "Professor Abidin, you've rambled on again, get to the point"....

Creating meaning is to show the infinite within the finite and to be able to provide an answer to the world into which one has been thrown. For this, it particularizes the universal and re-universalizes through what it has particularized. After sensing the external reality it experiences through its senses and filtering it in its consciousness, it reacts with nature and the universe at the level of thought, and thinks about itself, and thinks about thinking about itself. Am I a part of what I experience? Am I the thing itself? Or am I a result of what I experience?

I am both the thing I experience and its result, and I am the cause of the thing I will experience in the next stage.

So, in fact, I am something transcendent to myself within myself...

Come on, admit it... You said, "Wow, who are you, brother," didn't you...

Not just me, all of us, dear friends, all of us.

Have we arrived at the great poet Yunus?

What does our great poet say;

Do not seek me in me, I am not in me

There is a 'me' within me, deeper than me.

Well, did you see it?

Being transcendent to oneself within oneself

This is it; creating meaning.

If you ask where it is nourished, where it springs from.

Creating meaning is nourished by intuitive curiosity, it springs from there.

Come on, Professor Abidin,

It is nourished from there, it springs from there, but where is that place? You asked, I heard.

That place is vital integrity.

It is He who shows Himself bit by bit to those who know how to see, makes Himself heard to those who know how to listen, and makes Himself felt to those who know how to intuit.

Ontologically, it is not the singular, but the universal that encompasses everything. In other words, for those who cannot intuit, it is as if it were outside, but for those who can intuit, it is both inside and outside.

For the last two articles, you've plunged us into wells of curiosity. You said Alhazen, you said Leonardo. So, where is it!

George Sarton, who turned the history of science into an academic discipline, defined Alhazen as the greatest optician of all time because of his book "Kitab al-Manazir" (Book of Optics). Alhazen, who mandated that observation and experimentation must be performed to obtain truly scientific results, also conducted studies on mathematics and astronomy. Leonardo, who had features we could not finish counting—astronomer, architect, engineer, painter, and more—also observed everything and conducted experiments. Leonardo, who is popularly known worldwide for his works Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, is actually incompletely known. If you ask what makes me think of Alhazen and Leonardo together, my answer is simple.

Vitality/Living-togetherness....

Alhazen's book on vision and optics, written in the 10th century, was uploaded to the information network of life and was taken from there and used by Leonardo in the 15th century. Without this book, Leonardo could not have discovered the "Sfumato" technique, which allows for the blurring of details by creating soft transitions and uncertain boundaries, creating the feeling of looking from behind a veil of mist. And we would not be able to ask questions or think about whether Mona Lisa is looking to the right or left, or if she is smiling, in the Mona Lisa painting, which the artist completed in 3 years. I mean... Woe would be upon us....

The thing that brought countless people of science, art, and philosophy like Alhazen and Leonardo together in the vital information network was nothing other than the intuitive curiosity that wanted to create meaning. What I call creating meaning here is to move away from human-centered thinking and to make visible the vital information that is transcendent to humans and that also brings them into existence, to make the transcendent felt.

For this, observation is essential, both inward to the consciousness and to the life that encompasses it all.

Observation is the only way for us to intuit what we need to intuit, within the forms in which the universe shows itself to us in order to be grasped in its integrity. To observe and to intuit, to see the integrated mind and functioning in what we intuit, to grasp what we see and carry it to the level of consciousness. Have we arrived at the crux of the matter now...

What happens at the level of consciousness is that your own mind becomes the decoder of that great mind. As it decodes, it becomes one with it. Thus, what should be happens, and we come again to the door of the great poet Yunus...

Do not seek me in me, I am not in me

There is a 'me' within me, deeper than me.

To understand is to be within meaning by creating meaning.

And for this, to start with ourselves...

Dear Friends, then let our final words be this;

For the sake of Meaning,

It is not enough to be a fish in the sea, there must also be love for the sea....

Until we meet again, goodbye for now, right now and always, breathe with art, stay with art.