Well, all size fractal entities within single creative fractal hyperinfinity share the same order of creativity and power as All, ie, "Let there be light..." (said Light), so, actually I am not hoping -- but commanding.
I command probable future with juicy pleasure and vivid imagination for the pleasure and cocreative collaborative pleasure and mutual generosity of all within All -- you see, the first Mandelbrot Set, for all its infinite splendor, has so far been imagined as static, yet a minute exploration of its infinity, the same order of infinity as the continuum set of all real numbers, involves huge yet finite repetitive recursive sequences of calculations, which can never exhaust or corral the details of any infinitesimal part of it, as each part has the same order of infinity as the whole -- so the exploration of the "simultaneous" infinity of the whole allows untold infinities of paths of ever deepening repetitive recursive sequences of calculations, like rivers of "time", mathematic chains of "causes" and "effects" -- you see, here, a simple meta-model for the "simultaneous" unity of All, which is helplessly open to allow infinities of time-like histories to evolve, like "Nick" and "Rich" within a certain Big Bang self-expanding vibrating geometry bubble, which our techno shamen are forced to view in terms of at least 10 space dimensions and 1 time dimension, to explain the vagarities of self-directing forever temporarily evolving multidimensional entities, aforesaid "Nick" and "Rich", free to play in any way by arbitrary self-command -- however, crash and burn feedback eventually results in more advanced self-control decisions to accept help and guidance from, oh, happier level thinga-enigma-me's... So, this is poetry -- I said in summer, 1976, in Los Alamos after a pretty good toke, " From above and behind on the right, Infinite dimensions rush, Like marshmellows Into a brown paper bag -- But, No matter how full of marshmellows The bag is, You are not the bag. Reader, Please, Ponder this, For, if you are amused, You will be free of all evils... yes, FUN! is in deed the way... Fun! da mental... yes, we academics are sit-down comics... hopelessly Rich On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Rich, > > Your faith in progress brings tears to my eyes. I don't think the world is > one ounce better than it was when I was a kid. It is DIFFERENT, but we have > given up at least as much as we have gained. Nor do I expect it to be any > better in a hundred years. Thus, the sole rational defense of the neophilia > that characterizes FRIAM is that new stuff is FUN! In making a decision to > seek out new stuff or not, it cannot be evaluated by lofty ideals, but > simply balanced against other forms of FUN! > > I am not sure where this leaves me for a defense of higher education. It > used to be defensible on the ground that it was a place where you could tuck > away smart people so they couldn't get their hands on political power, > social influence, money, or things that explode. Now even that has gone > away. > > [sigh} > > Nick > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > http://www.cusf.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
