Platt and LS,
Thanks for the help on the Purpose of the Universe, but I am still "stuck."
I too read and re-read Chapter 11, and I agree that chemistry professors and
duck billed platypi not only exhibit purpose, they are defined by purpose.
The universe is defined by purpose. But the universe doesn't have a purpose.
This is falling into the same SOM trap that Diana pointed out last month on
free will.
You wrote to Jonathan that:
"DQ doesn’t just lie around waiting for something to happen as “potential”
implies. I see it as an active force of creation, striving to make the world
better, i.e., more
beautiful, more elegant, more harmonious, more aware, more fun, more free. "
I agree with the start of of this quote, but then it splits DQ into a defined
purpose. We may indeed become as you say, or we may pass through this phase,
or we may not go there at all. Freedom and new static patterns are part of
the universe. Fun and pain. Awareness and ignorance. Harmony and discordance.
Destinations and journeys.
The more I am "stuck," the more I am convinced that Purpose and DQ are
inextricably linked. And that is the problem with defining the Purpose of the
Universe.
If DQ is the "cutting edge of experience" that contains all the "infinite
possibilities of the universe", then we are attempting to define and limit DQ
if we assign a finite purpose to the universe. A static purpose or reality
could possibly be defined ?????? But reality and the purpose of the universe
aren't static. A static universe has as much purpose as a static freight
train.
A Universe without purpose is "nothing." A universe with a definable purpose
is "potential". A dynamic, undefinable universe is reality.
The Dynamic is reality
The Dynamic is purpose
The Dynamic is quality
Defining The Dynamic is like defining the indefinite infinite.
Be Good All
Roger
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