[MD] Speed of Lighting, Roar of thunder...

[ADRIE KINTZIGER]

Hi , Ian, yes , crisp and clear , and also very good written of you, you'r a
good formulator.

strangely , your concluding words in the end-sentence, are about the same as
Stephen Hawking once used
towards the dynamical caracter of the univers,...hope i can find it back, i
will set this aside for now.
greetzz, Quality.
Adrie

2010/8/25 Ian Glendinning <ian.glendinning at gmail.com>

> Marsha asked of Krim ...
>
> > The MoQ is based on Darwin and the Tao?  Anyone besides you think
> > that this is so?
>
> [IG] Yes, clearly.
>
> > First, evolution has changed considerably since the days
> > of Darwin's publications, and the evolution of species is quite different
> than
> > the evolution of static patterns.
>
> [IG] Clearly again, the model of evolution has itself evolved as both
> Darwin and Pirsig would predict and continues to do so. I see no
> difference in the evolutionary processes .... I regularly use the word
> "species" to denote any static pattern. Species are "special" in the
> sense of being distinct, long-lived over multiple generations, and
> therefore self-sustaining, repairing / reproducing over many
> generations .... in all levels above the organic (not just
> biological).
>
> Clearly Darwin didn't have the benefit of  a Taoist monism at the
> heart of his thinking .... GOF phyisicalist scientific objectivism
> only .... but see above. Neither Darwin nor Pirsig, nor any of us
> (their interpreters) have it 100% right, that would be terminal. I
> tend to be less critical of that fact, but I wouldn't argue for
> perfection.
>
> Ian
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