At 12:21 PM 2/18/2003 +0000, Artur wrote:
I know that there are some people that don't agree with your new "self-organizing" ideas. I suspect that they see a contradiction between those ideas and a "guiding force" that controls everything, or something like that. But I do agree that self-organizing concepts and an emergent order do happen in OST. But for me too there is also a contradiction but in a different place. Fortunately this last post of yours gave me a clue for understanding where the "divergence" begins.
Welcome back Artur! I knew we would smoke you out sooner or later. As for this God business, I guess it can be a problem, but I don't think it has to be. For those who find a divine presence in their life experience (and I am guilty), there still seems to be plenty of room for looking at the guiding principles/forces which are operative in the cosmos. Thus, one might say that God created life, but that notion by no means eliminates sex from the equation. And if God/divinity is not part of your experience, that's OK too. But in either case, I find the Self-organizing system story/theory to be very convincing in that it offers (me at least) a coherent explanation for what otherwise seems quite inexplicable -- including the "fact" that OS works when most everything we have been taught and practiced says it shouldn't. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, MD 20854 USA phone 301-365-2093 Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
