Wim, Rob, Maggie, Mark, all
Wim wrote:
> We REPRESENT God, yes, (or at least we should try
> to...). That reminds me of the biblical image of "man being
> created in the image of God". We ARE not God.
My favorite (non biblical) metaphorical image for Man and God: Sound and Echo.
There's a sound, and there's its echo. And the echo IS sound.
We all are diverse echoes of The Sound, and we all are sound...
(.....and universe is a beautiful symphony).
Ciao,
Marco
> Dear Rob,
>
> You wrote 21/9 11:31 -0400:
> "If the evolutionary process is the driving force for quality and
> we (consciousness) are the result of this process, don't we
> represent Quality itself. And if Quality is analogous to God.
> Does that mean that We are God?"
> Pirsig wrote in Lila ch. 11:
> "The explanation of life as a 'migration of static patterns
> toward Dynamic Quality' not only fitted the known facts of
> evolution, it allowed new ways of interpreting them."
>
> I'd say we (humans) are part of static patterns of value (an
> ecological system, a species) that are still migrating toward
> Dynamic Quality. (The patterns are still changing/dynamic, aren't
> they...?) We REPRESENT God, yes, (or at least we should try
> to...). That reminds me of the biblical image of "man being
> created in the image of God". We ARE not God. We, or rather the
> patterns we are part of, are static latches for only a bit of the
> full Dynamic Quality.
>
> With friendly greetings,
>
> Wim
>
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