> [Krimel]
> Well for me static and dynamic are terms that refer
> to the relative flux of
> Quality. Rate of change, if you will. If we insist
> on sticking with the
> levels then each of the levels is always in some
> state of relative change
> internally and in relation to the other levels. In
> fact the levels suggest a
> progressive rate of change as we ascend them.
Krimel, I agree with you here. I would go as far
to state that change is the impression of dynamic
quality. By noting change I would say one has been
able to staticly latch or staticly suggest something
even if this something is as vague as change. I also
see the levels, as "we ascend them" do increase in the
rate of change, thus, freeing them up for change. The
inorganic level doesn't change much. Chaos is another
topic of course, which is a dismissal of any
staticness.
[Krimel]
> I don't need to tell you about the current rate of
> change at the social
> level but an interesting article in the current
> issue of Scientific American
> Mind notes that in 30 western countries where data
> is available IQ rose
> dramatically throughout the 20th century. The
> standard tests for IQ are
> renormalized periodically so that the average IQ
> remains constant at 100.
> However, there were several such renormalizations.
> The author of the article
> suggests that what was going up was the capacity for
> abstraction and the use
> and manipulation of categories of thought. People
> 100 years ago were
> inclined to look things much more concretely than
> people of today.
> One can only imagine where this is heading. I would
> maintain that westerners
> live in a world nearly completely constructed of
> ideas, already. Perhaps
> this has something to do with our inability to
> understand or be understood
> outside of the western sphere of influence.
This is an interesting correlation between
intellect and society. Perhaps, also, western
philosophy is influenced by the Christian notion or
the Christian notion is influenced by (either way this
is a notion in society today) earth is evil, material
things are evil, and as we are swollowed up by more
and more materialistic ventures or accumulative
valuing in our daily routine (as opposed to the higher
quality pursuits of social and intellectual patterns)
the feedback between material things are bad and
material things are needed might have something to do
with getting the intellectual patterns away from a
everyday living. As in the cartoon Nemo when the
little girl loudly taps on the aquarium where the
starfish is, and the starfish keeps saying, "Find a
happy place, find a happy place, find a happy place!".
[Krimel]
> My second favorite author, William Gibson, has
> suggested that more and more
> people are spending more and more time in virtual
> space which is entirely
> synthetic. You know the kind of people I mean: those
> who spend lots of time
> in Norrath or Googleing or engaging in online forum
> discussions. Gibson, who
> has been uncannily right about such things,
> maintains that in the not too
> distant future people will be unable to distinguish
> time spent in the
> virtual world from time spent in the "real" world.
> virtual woods, without, bugs, heat or grit, unless
> you prefer them...
Interesting. I would also suggest that this
virtual can be seen readily, by me, as I notice how I
must conduct myself at work is different than how I
need to conduct myself at home. When I search for the
why's of this difference, much of it is how human
beings are maintaining and controlling each place. At
work, many people have their thoughts and input, which
create waves of how we will conduct ourselves on
campus towards the residents. Events change at work
often. Somebody gains influence in how they want
events conducted and they talk about it, and these
ways of doing events (conduct ourselves, etc...) can
be tracked down to specific people somewhere making
specific policies. I've done this tracking numerous
times. Sometimes these policies jump from person to
person. It could be somebody in the administration
building or a staff member on a unit. It depends on
if others will follow and find the policy to be
necessary. Soon many people will be conducting these
policies. On the staff level working with the
residents day and night these changes just seem to be
inconsistencies in the way the place runs, but
somebody somewhere is pushing these 'inconsistencies'
to go their way. There is a real puppet master behind
these waves of change. Sometimes it could be really
"a little birdie told me", but these are still static
patterns coalescing together amidst the flux coming
from somewhere.
By the way I feel I get these virtual moments at
times and yes I agree, that's probably due to me
stretching far into the intellect and so I stop and
feel my feet on the ground for the moment. You said
much more, I believe, than I could comment upon at
this time.
good post Krimel.
thanks.
woods,
SA
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