glove (glove@indianvalley.com)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 19:37:19 +0100
hello all
Jonathan wrote:
Perhaps one can see the whole Universe as the ringing of a Big Bang.
What's missing in Horse's "decay" is recognition that the ringing
contains new patterns of ever growing complexity.
my comment:
Jonathan, your writing is much more perspicuous than my own...and you hit
upon a comment i was going to make myself and was trying get to in previous
posts. :) universe does indeed seem to be ringing with the aftereffects of
the big bang.
Jonathan wrote:
PS. Bo asked what I know about Sheldrake. The answer is not much, but I
believe that his untestable hypothesis about alternative communication
modes are unneeded. However, I do believe that we are influenced in
hitherto unknown ways by very mundane experiences - news items, popular
songs etc. IMO That's why the same great discovery is often made
independently by two people at the same time.
my comment:
i hope you dont mind me answering...i brought up sheldrake in another post
so i do have some connection here. i would tend to disagree with you on how
we are influenced by unknown factors. jung speculated on a collective
(un)consciousness, and sheldrake expanded on that idea and called it his
morphogenetic field theory.
there does seem to be evidence that we are
all operating in a kind of 'thought sphere' and our minds act much like
antenna, thus similar ideas can be 'plucked' from this collective thought
sphere by different individuals about the same time.
while its certainly possible in this day and age to be influenced by mundane
things like popular songs and news items, there are too many instances of
independent discoveries in the past several hundred years to
ignore...instances where there was no possible way for the 2 or 3, or more,
independent discoverers to know anything about the others, and yet they came
up with similar theories or inventions within a very short time of each
other.
this whole idea seems to fit into the TOUGH category as far as proving, but
sheldrake did offer some experiments to test his hypothesis, if i remember
rightly. i havent read
any of his writings in a long while and would have to re read to be sure.
glove
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