At 04:05 PM 6/10/2009, you wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:14 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings John,
>
> This stopped me even as I wrote it yesterday: Differentiated or
> Undifferentiated? I came to the conclusion it was both, like the
> Buddhist's two truths, or emptiness is form and form is
emptiness. They are
> mutually dependent. The differentiated comes from and returns to the
> undifferentiated.
Marsha,
While possessing a certain syrup, your answer doesn't quite pour.
Good thing your waffles don't interest me!
suppose an infinite continuum spewed forth energy into a cosmos, some of
the energy would be chaotic and some would fall into patterns just out of
the random chance produced in such an infinite continuum and thus some
patterns would crystalize and evolve and others would be undifferentiated
blobs. In such a cosmos, differentiated and undifferentiated would arise as
you describe, but the differentiated would at heart be nothing significant
beyond what random chance produces and thus the best description of the
whole would be "undifferentiated" with illusory aspects of differentiation
apparent to consciousness (which is itself one of those crystalized,
patterned energy blobs).
So in that case, a combination of undifferentiated and differentiated is the
logical equivalent of undifferentiated.
On the other hand, if a cosmos with a differentiating pattern or mind is
actively creating patterns of differentiation out of the basic chaotic
"stuff" and leaving some of it random and some of it patterned, thus the
unity of differentiated and undifferentiated would itself be the primal
differentiation.
So in that case, a combination of undifferentiated and differentiated is the
logical equivalent of differentiated.
I did not use the word 'combination', so what are you talking
about? It sounds like so much blah, blah, blah...
And so having completed our little circle, we should be happy. But being a
guy I want my arrow to actually shoot off and go somewhere.
Watch out or it might shoot you in the butt.
Marsha
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