From: Joseph Maurer (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Sat Jul 31 2004 - 20:34:13 BST
Hi Mel
I'm Joe. I enjoyed your post very much. David pointed out how it is beyond
the focus of SOM. Very nice!
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From: "ml" <mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: MD the metaphysics of free-enterprise
>
> Paul / David:
>
>
> I may have missed an entire "back channel" in an earlier discussion, if so
> apologies, but there is a glimmer of something that I am seeing in your
> discussion that brings back recall of a synthesis that struck me the last
> time I read ZMM/Lila. Some time prior I became fascinated with Complex
> Adaptive Systems, Emergent Systems, and Evolving or self-modifying
systems.
> The property of Emergence seems to manifest in these related types of
> systems. Emergence is an unexpectedly complex behavior exhibited by a
> system that possesses or is constrained by a simple rule set. (I have
seen
> the term emergent used by some in a way that is consistent with this and
> others seem to bypass that notion in favor of a more simply one that
> indicate becoming or arriving.)
>
> It seems that the thread appearing in some of this "metaphysics of free
> enterprise - End game" discussion is pointing to this same insight. At
any
> evolutionary level, the Dynamic Quality will appear to associate itself
with
> Emergence and the Static Quality will become all other systems and the
> foundation for or the opportunity for other Emergences - not yet manifest.
>
> So, just to set my thinking in order, here is an attempt at MoQ stated as
a
> function of emergence.
>
> However the physical phenomena of mass and energy begin, become, or exist,
> the changing states of each begin to organize and respond each to the
other
> in attributes along gradients.
>
> As physical evolution and organization evolves in the turbulence and
eddies
> of entropy and complexities aggregate and chemistry accretes, there are
> natural examples of long and short-lived phenomena and systems. Those
> physical systems, which show the most emergence and duration, have the
> potential to become something more interesting in behavior and
> manifestation.
>
> One such, based on carbon chemistry in a particular set of conditions, can
> be described by later manifestations of that system as "Organic Life."
The
> explosive diversity of niches created and exploited by the members of
> organic life offer manifold strengths and strategies. Organic life when
> examined along one particular vector of analysis, information processing,
> can be found to have highly variable capacity and demonstrate strong
> emergence.
>
> Strong tropic clarity and system wide modification seems to
> characterize those life forms most capable of conversion of
> mass and energy into potential energy (Plants).
> The characteristic of Immediacy of Response to gradients is
> shared by the more motile forms (lower Bio-phagic and
saprophytic).
> Ability to process larger amounts of information more quickly and
> abstractly model potential affective behavior of other systems
> (Herbivores).
> Ability to abstractly model affective behavior conditionally, utilize
> physical parameters differentially, coordinate between other
> aware individuals, and develop new individual strategies.
> (Carnivores / Omnivores)
>
> Each level of increased awareness seems to generate and depend on amounts
of
> excess awareness of an ever larger perceptual universe. The Emergence in
> Herbivore - Carnivore - Omnivore of levels of complex behaviors oriented
> towards others of like kind becomes most intensively dynamic for behaviors
> termed now as Social.
>
> Social systems evolve to require more time, effort, learning, and energy
> from individuals. These systems demonstrate high adaptability and
evolution
> towards survival in the face of challenge and competition from other
> systems, constraints, and events. As the "foot print" of social systems
> spreads, the most dynamic behavior is found in the most emergent cultural
> situations. One extremely dynamic set of behaviors seems to abstract the
> behavior and meaning of social systems beyond simple individual or group
> action. This set of highly emergent behavior is referred to as intellect.
> I
> ntellect can process, manipulate, communicate, replicate, and affect
social
> behavior without significant physical or social action. As social systems
> before it, intellectual systems evolve, adapt, and become ever more
complex
> and detailed. Whole schools of endeavor and specialization spread
> dynamically along with the static accumulations that accompany incomplete
or
> supporting evolutionary steps.
>
> Now to step back for a moment, each level of evolution that has emerged
from
> the level before, becomes less constrained and capable of variation that
is
> baroque and rococo in flavor compared to the level below.
> However, now that we see the Characteristic of Emergence as the spoor of
> Dynamic Quality, we can actively choose to pursue the dynamic 'vector'
> without getting caught up in the more static turbulence, the interesting,
> but insignificant baroque and rococo 'decoration' of intellect. We can
aim
> at the gap in intellect where the next level will realize itself in
> emergence beyond intellect.
>
> So, we have ZEN trying to quiet the mind by showing that most of the
> function of intellection is caught up in the seductive Static Decoration
of
> low quality. It seems that there is a way to move beyond the
intellectual,
> in the experience of others, or at least to swim in the existing current
of
> the dynamic and avoid the rococo shoals. Such 'techniques' seem to seek
to
> align the physical, biologically, in the milieu of the social, through the
> intellect towards the dynamic, transcending the static patterns of all.
> CLARITY? Evolution?
>
> Unfortunately as a group we seem to allow such insights to DEVOLVE into
> religions, through which we slip into biological and social tyranny.
Oops,
> our bad!
>
> I'm sure I am missing pieces.thoughts?
>
> (other than we seem to have passsed out of free enterprise) Whew!
>
> thanks--mel
>
>
>
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