[MD] Thus spoke Lila

[rapsncows at fastmail.fm]

Mark,


> 
> [Mark]
> What you describe reminds me of a Light Cone analogy.

[Tim]
I only vaguely remember this business about a light cone anymore, not
that I ever had any real understanding.  But, I think it would be a case
in which I would say 'analogy' is overused.  But that it by the way.


> [Mark]  This is where
> the moment depicts all past realities impinging in a single point and
> then expanding to all possible realities in the future.  That is
> everything preceding comes to together to make up the moment, and then
> helps define everything that will happen.  Of course each moment in
> every place makes this a complicated system, but it is useful when
> simplifying it to one's own moment.

[Tim]
Yes. Sure.  But I think that this happens to be consistent with RMP too,
for what it's worth.  As I understand, the whole static structure is for
one I, and DQ doesn't say how exactly we all come together.  (That is,
the intellectual dominance of the social is only an intra-personal
dominance; and on down.  For a 'society' to work we all have to bring
our patterns into DQ and do it from there.) 

> 
>[Mark] One could envision this constriction of reality into a single moment
> as a simple physical predictive occurrence, that is, one of
> determinism.

[Tim]
I don't know about that!  One might imagine that one could 'envision
this ... determinism', but I think that the living, choosing, willing
act of the I breaks that possibility.

> [Mark]  Where our current understanding of physics leaves us,
> however, is that we do not know how to predict.  This is because the
> math falls apart, and we are left only with probabilities.

[Tim]
In a post a few days ago I looked up Sidis' 'the animate and the
inanimate'.  I gave it a quick read because I couldn't put it down. 
Then I looked back at something - I don't remember where I got turned on
to it, I think it was here, someone provided a link maybe ...  Anyway, I
ended up coming upon 'entropic gravity'.  Are you familiar with these?
Any thoughts?

> [Mark]  Therefore
> in addition to all the static quality which we can conceptualize, we
> need a dynamic component which we cannot.  It is the interplay between
> these that form our reality.  As humans our attempt is to go farther
> and farther into this dynamic component and make it more static.  Gods
> of old have become physical phenomenon, leading to new Gods.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> >

all the best,
Tim
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