tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8189093100193947304..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Dreaming Along with God: To Infinity, and Beyond!Gagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8740153938796839472013-10-03T05:51:15.738-07:002013-10-03T05:51:15.738-07:00Speaking of this unconscious isness,
I'm think...Speaking of this unconscious isness,<br />I'm thinking there is some modus telos or method to its endness with respect to the presence of a telos known to the unconscious (without knowing its details or even that it is seeking it because it has no word for its mission). And that this is different than the conscious pursuit (or unaware pursuit) of the telos. The wild dreamer is very serious about its mission. It never rests, after all.<br />Just a theory.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69042190662117851182013-10-03T05:43:42.584-07:002013-10-03T05:43:42.584-07:00So what you're saying is,
Why settle for every...So what you're saying is,<br />Why settle for everything<br />when you can have it all!Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87807537204735472592013-10-02T09:12:02.795-07:002013-10-02T09:12:02.795-07:00The Gospels seem asymmetrical to me. And that this...The Gospels seem asymmetrical to me. And that this provokes meditation on them.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-68053412956128183792013-10-01T14:27:42.062-07:002013-10-01T14:27:42.062-07:00Yes, very much so. Hartshorne is big on asymmetry...Yes, very much so. Hartshorne is big on asymmetry as a key to reality. Order can be symmetrical, but information requires asymmetry. Thus, he even suggests that there must be some analogy to the arrow of time in God. I've always had a hunch that this is true, but it again goes against traditional notions of God, in which he is radically complete, lacking nothing. <br /><br />But as Hartshorne writes, "To say that 'everything' is such and such -- for example, is necessary, or contingent; absolute or relative; one or many -- is scarcely to say anything." Likewise, it seems to me that to say "God is pure act" is to not say anything intelligible or meaningful. It's pure abstraction, because in any concrete encounter with God, God is in motion (to employ the Thomistic/Aristotelian term). Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37228521059221814402013-10-01T14:01:55.528-07:002013-10-01T14:01:55.528-07:00Metaphysics doesn't take with head colds. I d...Metaphysics doesn't take with head colds. I did a quick search, and found some writings where according to Hartshorne, Nagarjuna ignores the asymmetries which are the very means of distinguishing causes from effects, premises from conclusions, etc. It seems Hartshorne was worried of the deconstructive nature to Nagarjuna's ideas and believed interdependencies must be allowed to be asymmetrical also.<br /><br />This sort of fits in with information theory too, where the chaos can never achieve equilibrium (i.e. asymmetry/dissipative structures) for the creativity to flow.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-29807775945147730142013-10-01T13:35:19.276-07:002013-10-01T13:35:19.276-07:00I don't know. I have a cold, so I can't t...I don't know. I have a cold, so I can't think straight, but it sounds plausible. I think Hartshorne would say that emptiness is just an abstraction derived from form, and that emptiness can only appear concretely as form (just as the Absolute is never encountered concretely, except in the relative). There are actually some chapters on process philosophy and Buddhism in this book, but I skipped them. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1420498348785509992013-10-01T12:53:14.860-07:002013-10-01T12:53:14.860-07:00YHVH and ain sof are not two levels, but rather, a...<i>YHVH and ain sof are not two levels, but rather, a single reality that necessarily includes both poles, i.e., more horizontal/complementary than vertical/emanationist?</i><br /><br />Do you view this in the same light as Nagarjuna's emptiness=form/form=emptiness idea? Buddhism may have other metaphysical issues, but this appears to be a similar insight.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90070864144054392232013-10-01T12:40:28.881-07:002013-10-01T12:40:28.881-07:00The dreamer, for example, is inexhaustibly creativ...<i> The dreamer, for example, is inexhaustibly creative.</i><br /><br />As are children, for that matter. Not to mention chaotic, but at least they are ordered by the need to sleep on occasion...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47627483934838100422013-10-01T11:47:29.404-07:002013-10-01T11:47:29.404-07:00I like the river analogy. The Missouri is a lot d...I like the river analogy. The Missouri is a lot different from the way Lewis and Clark saw it. It was more chaotic, less convenient for travel, perhaps more alive. As it has been dammed and channelized, it has become more useful for shipping. The levees and the straightening were meant to control floods. <br /><br />For the lesser floods, the typical annual floods, the dams and levees work fine. But when the big ones come, they actually make it worse. The river can't spread a little everywhere. Instead, the levees cause the pressure to build until it breaks through excessively and more destructively at weak points.<br /><br />What the levees have done is make us feel secure enough to build more and more in the floodplains -- forgetting they are called floodplains for a reason. <br /><br />The river will always win in the end.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com