Re: entropy and bio-evo
- From: "g" <gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 18:59:34 -0400 (EDT)
"Guy Hoelzer" <hoelzer@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> in article dc1enl$1g6t$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, g at gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote on 7/24/05 6:19 PM:
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>> "g" <gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:...
>>
>> Guy,
>>
(SNIP)
> I appreciate your effort. You have obviously developed an interesting and
> unique perspective, although it may take me some time to grasp it.
Guy, you once again prove yourself a gentleman and a scholar.
Right now, I am in process of return to the cosmological drawing board.
That is, rather than advance what I have said so far, I am reviewing it and
trying to add a few heretofore unknown-to-me impirical facts.
Let me say, however, that I am convinced of one thing: that the human mind
has enough difficulty in dealing with such things as change and motion (as
opposed to things contemplated as though frozen in time and totally devoid
of outside influences); but when limits and uncertainty are added to the
contemplation of things in process of change and motion, the cognitive work
becomes still more difficult. When to the mix is added similtaneous
three-dimensional change (as in inflation of the universe, both
macroscopically and microscopically) thinking about how the universe works
can become not only bizarre (as viewed from the provenciality of daily human
experience) but downright kooky to those unwilling to open up their minds
and move with it in their imaginations.
During the trip I have just returned from, I did a lot of reading that sent
me back to the drawing board. There seem to be a number of contradictions
and logical fallacies involved in the current cosmological model which -- if
one
leaps over them with a single bound -- one can follow what lies beyond.
As I try to view what Newton (and others) did to human thought in
establishing some methods for dealing with change and motion, he (they) took
human thought from dealing with frozen (embalmed) rationales and 1:1 cause
and effect, and enabled rigorous thought about things in motion. Of course
the notion of limits and many other embellishments and refinements have been
added since Newton and Leibnitz focused on the basic formula (which Newton
did not invent, but merely learned and realized the VALUE of). To the
notion of 1:1 cause and effect has been added statistical
certainty:uncertainty in the process of motion and change. (Whoever would
think that uncertainty is peculiar only to the realm of quantum physics
should never set foot in a casino.)
Of course when we add to motion and change and limits and functional
relationships relative uncertainty, and then add relativity of time (and
space?) to that, and then add three dimensional momentum (which is what
inflation is, after all) then the contemplation of how the universe works
becomes what to the human mind is so far removed from mundane day-to-day
experience that most people do not see any reason to engage in that work.
It can be, at once, both the most exhillerating experience and the lonliest.
> Guy
>
>
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