Bodvar Skutvik (skutvik@online.no)
Tue, 7 Oct 1997 16:53:10 +0100
Diana wrote:
> First. Several posts recently have discussed the relationships between
> the levels. Bodvar summed it up saying that each levels raison d'etre
> is to free itself from the level below. A few others have pointed out
> how the levels depend on each other. I agree with all this but I just
> want to point out that these are characteristics or descriptions of
> the behaviour of the levels. They cannot be considered definitions of
> the levels. As Maggie pointed out there may also have been/be other
> types of value that have attempted to break away from the parent level
> but have been unsuccessful.
The riddle (if other types of responses to the various value patterns
may have tried to manifest themselves) was quite a mind-blower. I
never thought about that! For instance, after the "creation"
(whatever form it took) when Inorganic value was sovereign, what else
than "Life" could be the next step? Of course it is possible to
imagine other FORMS of life, but something totally different from
life? It beats me! And similarly; after Life had established itself,
what else than Society (cooperation among individual life) could come
on top of that? No matter how hard I speculate, I am not able to
concoct a different outcome. As the dynamic drift is always to
overcome the limitations of the parent level, what actually happened
is the only possible outcome. That is my answer, but I am open for
suggestions.
Bodvar
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