From: Patrick van den Berg (cirandar@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 22:54:15 BST
Hi David M,
--- David MOREY <us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I like very much:Their hierarchy (which is "higher" and which "lower")
> is
> simply a matter of historical chronology and -by combining with the
> idea
> that "all static patterns of value migrate towards DQ"- a suggestion
> that
> "later" patterns of value have more (or "are more had by") Dynamic
> Quality.
> (No more than a suggestion, because of the undefinability of DQ
>
> But I would suggest that the creation of matter (stuff you can kick)
> has
> been
> brought about initially by a sacrifice of freedom/quality. It is only
> after
> achieveing matter
> that the cosmos heads back to DQ. I suggest that the big bang is a
> very DQ
> situation,
> that particles have a lot of DQ hence quantum theory's structure,
> atoms have
> more SQ
> less DQ, and molecules have more SQ less DQ. Hence the stability of
> molecules,
> and their move from lots of electro-magnetic rushing about to the
> stability
> of inertia.
> This is a potted scheme of A.M.Young's suggestions in The Reflexive
> Universe.
> The SOM divide is derived from the strong SQ of everyday matter, and
> the
> greater DQ
> of particles has led to the rethinking of ideas of matter such as in
> quantum
> theory.
> Life represents a cosmic turn from increasing SQ (to create
> actuality/finite/limited/matter-like
> stuff) until we reach life and that heads off back home, i.e. in the
> direction of DQ.
Your scetch of the last 14 billion years in a few sentences reminds me
of the story of the prodigal son. What strikes me as paradoxal in the
story, is that you can argue that the return of the prodigal son creates
more happiness, than his whole trip to decadence has created
unhappiness. Why would DQ create sqs only to have them return to DQ? I'd
like to think that undivided, perhaps neutral DQ, or the quantum vacuum,
can create from this better Quality in the whole. To put it simply, if
there was first a Nothing (no static qualities at all), maybe there was
and is a creation where 'positive' or good quality outweighs the bad
qualities.
What I'm getting at: when someone walking with Einstein told him about
the possibility that the total amount of energy in the universe might be
zero, he stopped in his tracks when crossing a busy road. Anyhow, if the
answer to this question is negative, i.e. that the total amount of
energy in the universe is smaller or bigger than zero, maybe a similar
story goes for Quality (the sum of all qualities). I think the mere
possibility of this points towards a deep freedom. Maybe we can create
an sq-world towards a hell, or maybe towards a heaven, or something
inbetween. There is no determination in this, fundamentally, then, if
the Sum of qualities is not tied to a universal Law.
A sidepoint, the assumption that there must be a startingpoint of the
universe, might not be true. Some cosmologists argue that black holes
are at 'the other side' big bangs of different universes. In order to
create black holes in a universe, you need to develop stars. By a
cosmological natural selection principle, universes creating stars
creating black holes creating universes, this would 'explain' the many
stars in our galaxy spinning around a black hole, and the numerous other
stars in this universe. So maybe the Big Bang was just a birth of one
universe in many, like many human beings are getting born every hour
(some in a hell, I'd say, many others thankfully not).
Anyhow (don't know if Yale is still around, I think not?) there might
not be a beginning of Everything at all. If this is true, hurray,
infinity is in our very eyes every moment of our lives.
Anyone interested in a meta-metaphysics (of universes)? ;-)
Greetings, Patrick.
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