[MD] social coherence

[David M]

Hi Gav

yet big space rock can set us back to lower levels,
so it seems there is a mix of organisation and chaos?

If it was all organisation would we have no people and only robots?

David M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gav" <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 8:42 PM
Subject: [MD] social coherence


> 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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