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…fruits of this capacity of the Imaginative, which possesses the ability
to create ex nihilo. The only being capable of such creation–and
whose existence is both evident and undeniable–is the human
being.
This capacity of the Imaginative creates out of nothing, just
as God created out of nothing. Yet its creation rests, on the one
hand, upon the two constitutive constants of the a priori poietic
Imaginative–time and space, which are by no means physical
data and possess no material consistency (we state this without
hesitation despite the astonishment of physicists and mathematicians)–
and above all upon reason, upon what can be rationally
realised through this capacity of the Imaginative, which is itself
the essential capacity underlying fundamental scientific research.
What does this imply? Nothing less than that the world is not
solely God’s creation; that God did not create in a perfect and
singular manner; but that the world–as no one has ever conceived
it before (not even God himself, author’s note)–can also be created
by the human mind.
What reasonable person today could deny space travel, rockets, or
the virtual world, parallel to physical reality, which has been developed
out of nothing through computer science on strictly rational,
logical, and mathematical principles? The argument that “God willed
it so” we gladly leave to dogmatists and religious zealots. The realities
created by science, realities that increasingly replace physical
reality even at the level of human subsistence, are genuinely new
worlds–creations ex nihilo. For this reason, within these newly created
worlds–technology, computer science, robotics, and the like–there
exist different relations of necessity and a different kind of truth
from the ontological truth developed by Western metaphysics. What
remains highly debatable, however, is whether ontological truth can
genuinely be replaced by these new truths of possible worlds, despite…
