At least the music metaphor has aesthetic appreciation, performance, and an audience. Information/computation has none of those things unless we arbitrarily add them.
Craig On Friday, January 17, 2014 4:10:50 AM UTC-5, cdemorsella wrote: > > Mostly lurking here… and have off and on for years > > Love some of the ideas floating here and the discussions; it can flow fast > and furious here… keeping up is like a full-time job lol > > > > Recently from time to time I have been poking in; hope you don’t mind me; > perhaps on occasion I can bring a perspective. > > > > Personally I think the cosmos is a musical entity even more profoundly > than it is a mathematical entity > > Vibration – perhaps is -- the motive enabler of operations, which are the > actors on values in all equations. > > What is vibration, if not music? > > > > Ahhh this mysterious vibration… this inner agitator of being, what is it > where is it? Hard to pin down eh? > > What is the observer? > > Why is it a given that we exist at all? > > > > What if our certainty of self is but a splendid illusion. When we speak of > self; we infer identity, separateness, a dichotomy between – that which we > perceive as self – and the universe the self observes. A lot of the > spiritual traditions… and the psychedelic experience… and perhaps some > empirical evidence as well allude to an un-nameable, ineffable un-seeable > yet manifest something. The Vibe! > > > > What if the universe is a symphony written large and the multiverse a > veritable panoply of musical styles and compositions. Hehe… please take all > this in the light hearted spirit in which it is given (some might say > spewed) I have tripped more and further than most.. music can sometimes on > occasion, especially when I sing bring me to a state of exceptional being > and presence and clarity of moment in moment… the idea of vibration > animating and being all does not seem all that weird or strange to me… and > the tie in to math is so elegant… harmony is math; music is about sets. The > physics of music gets right into the physics of waves and we all know that > goes deep. > > > > You could say it is the essential metaphor I prefer… we all have our > metaphors and notional constructs that support our beings and our sense of > our own selves. This is one I can rock on, and being a rocker it’s not > surprising that it rocks me. > > > > Give it away; it’s free! > > (cryptic) > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
