From: Steve Peterson (peterson.steve@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Feb 24 2004 - 01:24:50 GMT
Hi Mark,
You said:
> It was you i had in mind when i wrote this example. It is you i wish
> to thank for helping challenge me to be creative and think of new ways
> to explain.
no problem. :-)
> To move on a step, if the sweet and sour patterns may, by analogy, be
> said to constitute a 'static repertoire' of flavours, then think about
> a 'static repertoire' of ideas - static patterns of intellectual
> Quality? Coherence within the repertoire is pre-intellectual harmony,
> from which new and higher Quality static patterns emerge, while the
> totality of the repertoire may be said to be the snap shot static
> intellectual level, evolving in overall coherence and towards DQ.
> See how DQ motivates at coherence, and is the aim of new patterns?
Yes, I think so. I can think of DQ as a principle of betterness that
drives static patterns toward coherence resulting in the dynamic
creation of newer better patterns. Evolution tends toward DQ in the
sense of static patterns seeking coherence. It sounds like the
opposite of entropy, though. Does it work at other levels? let's
see....
> We may say the same thing regarding the other levels:
> The Inorganic has a static repertoire of existing patterned states
> (Electromagnetic, Gravitational, etc.) which evolve when SQ-SQ tension
> becomes coherent (Atoms, molecules, Stellar systems, etc.)
> The Organic has a static repertoire of existing patterned states (DNA,
> multicellular organisms, etc.) which evolve when SQ-SQ tension becomes
> coherent (Plants, Animals, that other category which is neither but
> which i cannot remember?)
But entropy says that inorganic patterns actually tend toward disorder
(less coherence?). Well, they are the least dynamic aren't they? And
under the right conditions (SQ-SQ tension?) they do become ordered e.g.
add energy.
Would it make sense to say that higher level patterns have a stronger
drive for coherence, i.e, they are more dynamic?
Do you have any thoughts about how a whole new level (type of static
pattern) evolves?
Regards,
Steve
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