Magnus Berg (MagnusB@DataVis.se)
Mon, 2 Feb 1998 05:04:15 +0100
Hi Platt
>I assume your pre-big-bang-non-existence-chaos is pure freedom (DQ without
>SQ) which we mortals can never hope to see in our DQ-SQ reality, but can
>only have a "dim apprehension of." Do you ascribe beauty to this
>non-existent realm as I do?
Ouch! I hope you didn't expect a yes or no answer to that one. :-)
Yes, I ascribe beauty to the limitless potential of this realm.
On the other hand, potential is all it is. I think it is immoral
to wish for such a state. It's four steps down the static ladder.
It would be like disqualifying our universe as hopeless and start all
over again hoping for a better set of initial conditions.
I ascribe infinitely more beauty to our current universe.
(Have you thought about the contradiction here? By going down the
static ladder, you're supposed to lose freedom with each step. That
works down to the inorganic level, but below that, you suddenly find
all the freedom in the world, literally!)
And I don't think such a state can be reached by climbing up the static
ladder. Sometimes I get the impression that this is what you want to
accomplish by adding new levels above the intellectual. Don't get me
wrong, I respect your quest for more levels. I would be quite immoral
doing otherwise and it doesn't really contradict the merry-go-round-idea
in my classicist essay. However, more levels can only add freedom, never
reach the absolute freedom of the pre-big-bang-realm.
>Do you think beauty plays a role in scientific
>theories about the pre-big-bang?
Of course I do! The MoQ says that beauty plays a role in all
scientific theories.
>I read somewhere where the super string
>theory has been challenged by some on the grounds that the math involved is
>too complex and "inelegant." Your comments?
I'm even more ignorant about the super string theory than relativity, if
that's possible, so I can't comment on that specifically. But generally,
if one theory predicts reality more accurate than another, I don't mind
inelegance. That is the case with Einstein's relativity vs. Newton's
absolute laws.
Magnus
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