Rich, David B., Roger,Walter, Platt, Thomas, et al.
I have been following your posts with interest but I am getting
increasingly frustrated with your definitions of Quality and reality.
At the risk of putting everyone to sleep with mly reiterated definition
of Quality I feel impelled to do it again.
I regard Quality as simply the driving force that resulted from the
formation of the universe. The inexorable trend toward the complete
dissapation that the universe is undergoing. The physical properties of the
universe as we think it first appeared established the range of
possibilities that were were allowed to occur. All else has resulted from
these initial conditions as impelled by Quality. According to the latest
info that I pick up the speed of the reactions in the early universe were
much faster and the process is slowing down as the universe becomes less
energetic. Even if the neutrinos now undergoing investigation prove to have
mass there will still not be enough mass in the universe to cause its
contraction. The universe is headed toward death in the sense of
distribution of energy. We are occupying the phase of materialistic
organization that is resulting in the redistribution of matter into
galaxies, black holes, and such. Heard on NPR a couple of days ago that the
origin of life has been pushed back to either 2.7 billion years or 3.7
bil-can't remember. The Australians have discovered signs of life in rocks
this old.
In any case, quality is the driving force for the march toward complete
randomness. Quality is not reality. Reality is the result of Quality.
In the inorganic universe the trend toward randomness (Quality) was
purely guided by the range of possibilities provided by the physical
conditions. As far as the inorganic universe is concerned reality is simply
the realized possibilities that occurred. We can study this universal
organization and try to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to
life.
When life came into being due to the increasing complexity and greater
range of possibilities presented then a new force came into being in the
universe. Life presents a much more complex range of possibilities. This
complexity has resulted in us. We have no assurance that we are the final
word in evolution. Indeed we may well not be since complexity, and thus
greater possibility, is increasing relatively rapidly even though the
overall universal function is slowing down. Whatever happens to us will
have to happen while we are in the present churning phase of the universe
because there will ultimastely be not enough energy in clumps to support
life, at least as we know it.
Have to go buy some tires for my wife's car. If this arouses any comment
I can probably find more to say. Ken
PS-Hope this doesn't P-- Off the mystics too much.
PPS-What happens to us if we are still around when the level of energy
falls appreciably in the universe?
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