Doug Renselle (renselle@on-net.net)
Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:32:51 +0100
Dave and TLS,
I want to share a view of the Earth's life and death process.
Let's do the SOM context versus MoQ context comparison again. Let's ask
a SOMite and an MoQite the same question and compare their answers.
Question: "Are you alive or are you dead?"
SOMite answer: "I am alive!"
MoQite answer: "Yes."
>From the SOM perspective there is only alpha and omega - beginning and
end. That is why I have been saying that SOMites are
'one-life-centric.'
>From the MoQ perspective, as Bo says, a human is a composite of all four
static levels. In DQ those levels evolve continuously. Practically
speaking and from a biological perspective the cells of which the
biological level are made continuously die and new ones are born. Every
~172 days you get a whole new you. You just are not aware at the
largest system level (you) that these sub-processes are happening.
My metaphor of the dance of Lila is the same metaphor scaled to the
universe. Some MoQites see individual life forms (and galaxies) as
cells, continuously dying and new ones being born. This is the DQ-SQ
Lila dance. It is beautiful.
There is a provocative duality twixt the MoQ metaphor of life and the
quantum physics metaphor. DQ is something like superposition. SQ is
something like realized wave functions or what we earlier called quantum
systems.
I do not know at this point in my personal evolution how to say this any
better. Perhaps in a few years... Or the next iteration...
Mtty, Dave and TLS,
and Blessed Happiness for the Holidays too,
Doug Renselle.
PS Hope to see a growing MoQ-centered TLS next year. See you then.
-- " But quantum theory has destroyed the idea that only properties located in external physical objects have reality."Robert M. Pirsig, page 14 in his paper "Subjects, Objects, Data and Values," presented at the Einstein Meets Magritte conference, Fall 1995.
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