[MD] social coherence

[gav]

yo,

i think this is pertinent to our politico/economic
discussions. it also relates to mark's pet area of
interest.

in SOM the earth is seen as non-sentient. organisms
are reduced to a sum of ther quasi-mechanical parts.
everything exists in an objective time and space that
we can chop up into little separate bits as much as we
want.

in MOQ all is ultimately one - an essentially
inseparable whole. rather than applying a reductive
mechanistic model to reality, the organic model is
better suited. mae wan ho's work here on the physics
of organisms is very helpful.

in line with ho's work, reality is seen as a series of
nested 'organisms'. 
an organism is defined as "a domain of coherent energy
storage tending towards quantum coherence".
coherence means that each part of the organism is
maximally independent (local freedom) *and* maximally
integrated into the whole (global cohesion). this is
the key concept.

with this view the earth becomes a sentient organism
of which we are integrated parts. a coherent society
of humans on earth would therefore be maximally
integrated in 'gaia' and simultaneously maximally free
at the local level. freedom at the local level
*equals* coherence at social and global levels when we
see things organically rather than mechanically. 

maximal individual freedom = maximal social
harmony/coherence. 





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