[Ham] When I wrote that "evolution is a fait accompli" from the absolute perspective, I was not referring specifically to biological or social history on this planet, but to cosmic intention, process, and entelechy in general.
[Krimel] And I am saying that this absolute perspective does not even exist as potential. Evolution is in process. Its direction and future course can not be determined. It is as fickle as weather. It is a mystery even to God. I do not see how cosmic intention enters in although as I suspect that is what this whole exercise is all about. [Ham] There is no time without change, just as there is no locus without finitude. Absolute Essence is both "spaceless" and "timeless" because it is without dimension, change, or differentiation of any kind. [Krimel] What is without time and space simply isn't. At best it is an unnecessary hypothesis that can neither be proven nor disproven. [Ham] Creation (actualization) only appears to be a sequence of events because of our serialized, "incremental" mode of experience. [Krimel] You talk as though this mode is optional I would say it is not. [Ham] Space/time, like being/nothing, beginning/end, large/small, good/bad, pleasure/pain, male/female, birth/death, is a manifestation of the existential dichotomy, which I have defined as subjective awareness versus objective beingness. In other words, everything in existence is characterized by difference and contrariety. The primary difference is actualized by the negation of "oneness". This introduces nothingness as the difference between self and other which, of course, is S/O reality. [Krimel] If we could cancel out your negations and fixation on 'nothing' this is just plain Taoism; The Way recognized by reference to the harmony opposites. Taoism resolves the dualism of S/O by seeing the relationship between opposite or the process that is ongoing and ever changing. [Ham] Is my answer acceptable...or, at least, understandable? [Krimel] I think your account fails to 'save the appearances' and compensates by defining them as trivial. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
