[MD] Reductionism

[MarshaV]

At 04:05 PM 6/10/2009, you wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:14 AM, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
>
>Greetings John,
> >
> > This stopped me even as I wrote it yesterday:  Differentiated or
> > Undifferentiated?  I came to the conclusion it was  both, like the
> > Buddhist's two truths, or emptiness is form and form is 
> emptiness.  They are
> > mutually dependent.  The differentiated comes from and returns to the
> > undifferentiated.
>
>
>Marsha,
>
>While possessing a certain syrup, your answer doesn't quite pour.

Good thing your waffles don't interest me!



>  suppose an infinite continuum spewed forth energy into a cosmos, some of
>the energy would be chaotic and some would fall into patterns just out of
>the random chance  produced in such an infinite continuum and thus some
>patterns would crystalize and evolve and others would be undifferentiated
>blobs.  In such a cosmos, differentiated and undifferentiated would arise as
>you describe, but the differentiated would at heart be nothing significant
>beyond what random chance produces and thus the best description of the
>whole would be "undifferentiated" with illusory aspects of differentiation
>apparent to consciousness (which is itself one of those crystalized,
>patterned energy blobs).
>
>So in that case, a combination of undifferentiated and differentiated is the
>logical equivalent of undifferentiated.
>
>On the other hand, if a cosmos with a differentiating pattern or mind is
>actively creating patterns of differentiation out of the basic chaotic
>"stuff" and leaving some of it random and some of it patterned, thus the
>unity of differentiated and undifferentiated would itself be the primal
>differentiation.
>
>So in that case, a combination of undifferentiated and differentiated is the
>logical equivalent of differentiated.

I did not use the word 'combination', so what are you talking 
about?   It sounds like so much blah, blah, blah...



>And so having completed our little circle, we should be happy.   But being a
>guy I want my arrow to actually shoot off and go somewhere.

Watch out or it might shoot you in the butt.


Marsha



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