Hello all!
>Let's try a simple experiment:
>Take an onion, mince it up and put it in a plastic bag and take it to
>another
>room. Put it in the corner furthest from the door. Now open the bag and
>walk
>back to the door. What do you smell?
>
>Now answer the following question: Does diffusion of onion essence have a
>direction?
Hmm... But couldn't it be said that the onion's smell is working towards
occupying all spaces evenly? If you leave the onion there long enough, the
entire room would have an even distribution of the particles that cause the
onion's smell. If all of the particles were moving "away from something"
they wouldn't be evenly distributed. If we treat the onion as an
inexhuastible source of its particles, and since it's so large (compared to
a particle) i think we can, then moving away from the onion would create an
uneven distribution directly around the onion and also at the walls of the
room, either relatively few particles or relatively many.
I would tend to agree with a theory that was presented earlier, in which
life is not evolving towards some definite shape or organism (especially not
one called man), but instead is moving towards diversity, individually
speaking. But when looked upon as a group, the evolution of life is
increasing in progress towards something. Perhaps.
Besides, if life were moving towards some thing in particular, it would
completely undermine the statement that "all life is a migration of static
patterns of value towards Dynamic Quality." To be Dynamic is to be
unpredictable. We are able to predict where things will go and what will
happen because of both our static value patterns and because of the objects
static value patterns.
Brian
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