Re: ...Science Reinvents God... by Stuart Kauffman
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Re: ...Science Reinvents God... by Stuart Kauffman         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: BradGuth
Date: Sep 22, 2008 22:03

On Sep 22, 7:14 pm, "jonathan" write.instead.net> wrote:
> "BradGuth" gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:47133fcb-3528-4b8b-8c21-2b6fe94c84b1@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
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>> On Sep 22, 5:03 pm, "jonathan" write.instead.net> wrote:
>>> "BradGuth" gmail.com> wrote in message
>
>> Nature has not answered all questions of meaning, that is unless I
>> were rich and powerful like so many Republican Mafia types.
>
>> Do mainstream lies upon lies count as nature? as after all they too
>> emerge from the supposed intelligent species of terrestrial life.
>
> You still fail to grasp the new non-linear frame of reference
> with which to examine such questions.
>
> It's the battle between the two opposite...minimums...or extremes
> that results in good. The static (evil) extreme where nothing changes
> vs the chaotic (evil) opposite where nothing ever repeats. When
> these opposite evils are hopelessly entangled, so that one can't tell
> which-is-which, is when Creation begins.
>
> static >>> dynamic <<< chaotic
> simple >>> complex <<< simple
> evil >>> good <<< evil
>
> You look around and see only lies and crimes and can no longer
> tell what is true or not. What you see as mindless horrors
> with no end or meaning, I see as the source of all beauty.
>
> Science >>> Arts <<< Philosophy
>
> Truth >>> Beauty <<< Love
>
> Complexity, which is the source of all order, is found
> when one can no longer tell if the whole is dominated
> by one extreme or the other OR when one can
> no longer tell is the whole is good or evil.
> Complexity is at a maximum when such certainty
> ...good or evil...is at a minimum.
>
> Or, in short, when the whole appears to display
> the very least amount of meaning, is when it
> has the greatest potential to create.
>
> Of course you see only evil and crimes everywhere.
> You look only at the detailed components.
> Which in any highly organized system behave
> chaotically.
>
> Simplicity or predictability in the components
> lead to systems that are chaotic and short lived.
>
> Chaos or uncertainty in the parts leads to systems
> that are stable, creative and long lived.
>
> Your view of reality is unbalanced, so is your
> perception of reality.
>
> "The Sky is low, the clouds are mean,
> A travelling flake of snow
> Across a barn or through a rut
> Debates if it will go.
>
> A narrow wind complains all day
> How some one treated him;
> Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
> Without her diadem."
>
>
>
>> ~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG

You'd certainly be prequalified as a warlord minion.

I know of many truths. How about yourself?

~ BG
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