[MD] lila: chapter one

[John Carl]

Hi Brian,


Is North a noun? The destination is a noun.
>


North is a noun. But it's not a destination;  Up is a noun, but you can't
get there either.



>
> MOQ talks a lot about evolutionary directions and moral ranking but does
> not
> address why there is a direction. There just seems to be one.
>
>
I agree completely.  It's on ongoing mystery.  Why is there Quality?



> The directions I am talking about go beyond our three dimensions. They
> point to
> someplace in the future, the other side of light, where probablity rules.
>


Ah yes.  A brother morOnist.  Welcome indeed!  Randomness uber alles!  You
can help us in our crusade to save Platt from his delusions.



> I'm sure most would agree that choices, made by all living things, will
> influence a probability that something may or may not come to pass. All the
> choices, of all living things in the past and present create....somethng I
> wish
> I could see, but up to now have only been able to visualize as a sea with
> ripples or waves, this sea is on the other side of light, it is the sea of
> probabilities.
>


Excellent visuals.  I like it.  Are you sure you're not a Krimel upgrade?
 This sounds a lot like him.




> If I'm on a boat, I'll try to steer a course to away from the storm waves.
>
> It's like a feedback loop from the future. Only the farther into the future
> you
> go, the more the waves are mixed together, but the closer the future is,
> the
> waves start taking clearer shapes and intensity.
>
>
That works.  And the Prophet is the one that sees the storm on the horizon,
the tsunami above the waves.



> There is a lot more to this and I'm still working out the details.
>
> I've had personal experiences of just "knowing" what the right choice is,
> I've
> had many more and one in particular I'll write about later.
>
> Imagine a piece of paper with a line drawn down the middle, walls on all
> sides.
> Place a number of ants on the paper. Place two timer controlled devices
> above
> that would come down and smash all ants on one side or the other. Make the
> choice, which side, set the timer and watch. You have created an almost
> 100%
> probablity event for some ants. What will they do. Will they get more
> adgitated
> the closer the event comes? Will more move to one side than the other? Take
> counts every few seconds up to the event. Is there a non-random movement
> the
> closer the event comes?
>

Hmmm....


> Quantum physics deals with this at the atomic level, I think life depends
> on it,
> we just don't realize it.
>
>
Shrodinger's Ants.  I like it.



John Carl

PS: btw, when I said "not in my book" I meant literally - my lila's missing
the cover and some pages.


> On February 6, 2010 at 9:04 AM John Carl <ridgecoyote at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Not in my book, Brian.  Not in my book.
> >
> > And isn't direction a noun?
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Brian Gibson <brian at abgibson.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Lila: Final chapter
> > >
> > > "Good is a noun".....foul ball
> > >
> > > Good is a direction.
> > >
> > > More to come.
> > >
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