Hi Jonathan, Wim
thanks for your intervention, Jon.
«...this ambiguity of carbon's bonding preferences was the situation the
weak Dynamic subatomic forces needed. Carbon bonding .... was a vehicle they
could steer to all sorts of freedom by selecting first one bonding
preference and then another in an almost unlimited variety of ways.
And what a variety has been chosen.Today there are more than two million
known compounds of carbon, roughly twenty times as many as all the other
known chemical compounds in the world...»
(Lila, chapter 11)
Ok, the number of carbon atoms is constant, but apparently the variety of
its compounds is not. Was it a competition? Well I don't know. If it was,
surely the matter of the competition was not the "survival" of the (dead)
atoms. Maybe, their ability to resist entropy?
Anyway, are you ok if we say that DQ found that carbon atom was the best
inorganic pattern to be used in order to build a new level? I'd be fine with
it too. Wim?
See you,
Marco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan B. Marder" <jonathan.marder@newmail.net>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: MD Carbon
> Hi Wim, MARCO,
>
> WIM
> Carbon outcompeted other chemical elements by developing life and changed
> the face of the earth!
>
> MARCO
> Agreement 100%
>
> I disagree 100%. The current paradigm says that the amount of carbon on
> earth has stayed unchanged for thousands of millions of years. Survival of
a
> carbon atom has little to do with whether it is part of a chemistry
> professor or a lump of coal. I think that this point is a crucial one in
> separating between Pirsig's levels. As far as the carbon atom is
concerned,
> it wouldn't even necessarily "know" if it was part of a living organism or
> not.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>
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