From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Sun Mar 21 2004 - 21:21:19 GMT
Hi Jim,
Your post is extremely interesting. (For me at any rate!)
There are a couple of points i wish to clear if i may?
The first is the Quality = Diversity point: I do not feel Quality =
Diversity.
Rather, i regard Diversity as optimum balance between DQ and SQ as best, or
Quality. An important distinction.
So, optimum diversity is part of the term Coherence, which is a relationship
between DQ as motivator and DQ as the goal of evolution.
The next point is, by analogy, a 'fractal' one if you like?
Coherence comes and goes - waxes and wanes on fractal - like levels of scale:
We may be discussing one species, we may be talking about a life time, we may
be talking about the whole biosphere?
What ever the patterns of value involved, there is a sweet spot or coherence
emerging.
Next point, here is the quote Jim provided:
"The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that
leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry
that it's all gone".... "'What's new?' is an interesting and broadening
eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in
an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow" (ZAMM
Chapter 1)
Mark: I feel there is an important point to be made concerning coherence
here.
It may be argued that in order to lead a satisfying life one has to be open
to ever more diverse and Dynamic experiences? Along the way, the drive for more
diversity and Dynamic experience may lead to varying degrees of either stasis
or chaos?
The way avoids extremes and welcomes coherence - that state in which SQ and
DQ dance about each other so deftly; so fine is the interplay that stasis and
Dynamism forge an exceptional state.
The question may be asked, 'Does any form of progress disrupt coherence?'
I would answer that progress aims to make more severe coherence. So, in a
sense, coherence changes but remains the same? If one, by analogy, contemplates
this in terms of fractal scale, one may taste the flavour of what i have in
mind?
Most of us do not have the opportunity to be so happy?
All the best,
Mark
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