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 20 Jun 2007 @ 22:41, by ming. Ideas, Creativity
Matt Mower talks , here too, about breakthroughs, based on Terry Frazier discussing a talk by Lisa Haneberg, who in a talk said this:Breakthroughs happen in a social context, If you aren't out actively promoting your goal or idea, discussing it regularly with friends, colleagues, and strangers and sharing your challenges, achievements, and objectives, you aren't going to make any breakthroughs.
Introverts, no matter how smart, rarely make breakthroughs, Breakthroughs do not happen in front of your face. They happen in the connections and gaps and networks that emerge from constant forward action and focus. So, is a breakthrough a social thing? I'm not sure I agree that it is, necessarily. Rather, it sounds like an extrovert speaking.
A breakthrough is, I suppose, when there's something somebody wants, and something stopping it which is somewhat complex. So, it is a problem, or dilemma, or a confused situation, where an objective is known, but not being met. Something is stuck. And then, bing, something changes, and you're at another level, a better place, where things are simpler, and things are flowing. Might be just a reframe, you suddenly see things differently. Or you acquire a piece you didn't have before. An individual can do that, or a group.
But is that inherently social? I agree that more evolved social networking could be more likely to generate breakthroughs for individuals, breakthroughs in thinking or living. The availability of more social flows might give you an opportunity for being more in the flow. They might, but they won't necessarily. And it is not like it couldn't happen without.
Personally I often need people to talk things over with in order to break through something. I need input, and I need to see ideas reflect themselves in other people before I quite know what they mean, and then I make up my own mind. But it works differently for different people. Some people need other people before they can do certain things. Other people need to be alone to do the same thing. And it isn't as simple as extrovert/introvert. One might be extroverted as to some aspects of one's life, and introverted in regards to others.
But the question of how social contexts can be more conducive to breakthrough is a very intesting one. How do you lay things out so that routine breakthroughs are the norm? More >
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 20 Jun 2007 @ 18:55, by jhs. Ideas, Creativity
We had some help the other day from people from Rome and Florence who never experienced the confront scale setup (see last post) and I tested a quad-pole configuration during a one-day workshop, with 'wanted', 'not-wanted', 'power of choice' (Eshu), and Identity. We rechecked last night with another crew (thank you for coming all the way from Genova!!).
The result is an applied confront scale for achieving a wanted goal.
It turned out to be a devastating defeat for the meme of 'Positive Thinking'. Not that I ever believed in this meme as it is being sold. In the contrary. But, until last night, I never felt I had enough proof in my hands (for myself) to honestly challenge this meme.
(Make a test yourself: check out the first hundred pages on Google on 'Positive Thinking': EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD is praising Positive Thinking and EVERYONE of those guys are SELLING books and videos on this subject!!)
In short, ANY ATTACHMENT to a desired object will result in that object to go AWAY, and NOT to be attracted. That's the fine print nobody is telling you selling their stuff. WHERE ARE ALL THOSE HAPPY PEOPLE OF THE POSITIVE THINKING fad? The answer is simple: they are winding up in the shits, and that's why they won't talk. The only one who wins is the bookseller.
There IS a winning strategy, Lao-Tzu already talked about it some thousand years ago: relinquish attachment to the positive pole and resistance to the negative and ACT as if the result wouldn't matter! In other words, NEUTRALIZE the opposing poles of your goal and GO AHEAD!
See the diagram for your other options (there are NONE, except for deliberatly resisting that what you want (Ed Dawson coined it the 'Other Pole Technology' in our book 'Polar Dynamics 1')!
Good luck! More >
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 20 Jun 2007 @ 13:17, by jerryvest. Medicine, Healthcare
Meditation Proves to Relieve Stress-
"Mindfulness requires keen observation, but it must be free from interpretation and passing judgment. Practicing mindfulness develops our usual awarenss to its most subtle level; with this awareness, we can protect ourselves against being pulled off balance by our thoughts and emotions." (Tarthang Tulku, Openness Mind, p. 118)
While discussing the mental health movement in several of my previous logs, I also introduced meditation, exercise, Martial Arts, Psychocalisthenics, massage & skillful touch, theatre, photography, art, music and dance. As we become more interested and involved in developing ourselves--our knowledge and experience of the arts and of various meditations, we can learn first hand how we can balance our body, mind and emotions while experiencing very positive feelings and healthy relationships both internally and externally. Thus, it is no surprise to learn that depression, stress and anxiety can be improved with meditation and the arts because we are 'playing a part' in the healing processes. We develop will power or determination by maintaining a daily practice of being mindful and by being engaged in many integrative health practices.
For many years, while teaching full time for New Mexico State University, School of Social Work, I taught courses in Holistic Health Practice and Integrative Health Practices every semester for many disciplines that included all of these methods. Currently, I introduce these practices with the US Army, Ft. Bliss, TX as part of the "Stress Management-Health Promotion Classes," Army Community Services and annually with our course in "Social Work Practice with Elders."
With meditation, the healing takes place with the patient or client participating in this experience. With drugs, the participant is not often considered important to the healing process, especially with the psychotropic drugs. I have abstracted a couple of paragraphs from this Buddhist Meditation website that demonstrates through research how effective meditation practices can be for improving our whole being and for relieving our pain and suffering.
Buddhist Meditation and Health
"Duangjai Gasandigun (1986) has carried out research on how our moods affect our mental health: 'the effects of meditation on mental health, measured by comparing depression in individuals between 15 and 25 years of age at the Buddhist Center for the practice of Religious Precepts (Phrathamgai Temple) in Phatumthani province. A control group of 156 people who had been instructed in meditation, had to take a test that measured their level of depression both before and after meditation. The average score showed that depression was lower after meditation. This suggests that meditation relieves stress, bringing with it the ability to analyze, understand problems and alleviate the cause of depression.
It should be pointed out that all kinds of diseases are treated with medicine or with many procedures of medical science. Some treatments use our own intentions and will power, for example, psychotherapy or the practice of meditation. In such treatments, the patient must play a part in helping himself, not simply depending on medicine. These treatments demonstrate that the mind can look after itself and have an effect on the treatment of physical disease. In this way, if a patient receiving treatment is able to understand that his sickness is physical and doesn't allow it to affect his mental health, staying calm and cheerful, then that his sickness will inevitably improved and be cured more quickly. But if a patient reverts to being low-spirited, depressed or self-piteous then the sickness will be more difficult and take longer to treat. Therefore, staying calm, clear-headed and cheerful at all times is something that can protect us from disease. Phra Dhebhavedhi (Prayut Payuddho 1993 pp. 15-16) has listed all the benefits meditation can bring both to mental and to the development of the personality: will-power, determination, stability, politeness, gentleness, dexterity, liveliness, nimbleness, cheerfulness, dignity, altruism and the ability to know oneself and others truthfully. These are the attributes of a person who has achieved perfection in both in body and mind."
[link]
Another program in Toronto, Canada, "Meditation for Health," introduces meditation and mindfulness to treat a host of symptoms that are normally treated through drug therapies. These alternatives to medical interventions have proven to be very successful for thousands of years by many cultures--our western psychologies are only now beginning to do their research that clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of these practices. Lucynda Sykes,' MD, program as described here, introduces a health practice that is not unlike many integrative health practices throughout the US, many modeled after Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's, stress reduction clinic, the University of Massachusetts Medical center and introduced in his classic book - Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness.
Meditation for Health is:
a community-based medical program in Toronto, Canada, that teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as a self-care treatment for chronic, stress-sensitive symptoms.
-a complement and support to regular medical treatment. It helps people to mobilize their own inner resources for coping and healing -- especially for symptoms no longer responding to more standard medical treatments, or for symptoms exacerbating the course of chronic disease.
-an instruction in self-regulating techniques that have been shown to change the experience of symptoms, and to promote healing by reducing the stress response in mind and body.
Has been useful for such conditions as:
o chronic pain
o anxiety and panic
o sleep disturbance & insomnia
o gastrointestinal distress
o fatigue
o headaches
o job or family stress
o skin disorders
o high blood pressure
o stress factors in heart disease"
Furthermore, Dr. Sykes introduces mindfulness that is taught throughout her workshops and sessions:
What is "mindfulness"?
"Mindfulness" is nonjudgmental, moment to moment awareness --- our experience of being here, now.
"Mindfulness can be cultivated by deciding to pay attention to things that we normally never give a moment's thought to:
.... Like the sounds you are hearing right now ....
.... or the feeling of your eyes as they scan this text ....
.... Can you feel your next breath beginning ? .............
This is mindfulness."(Lucynda Sykes, MD)[link]
These are two excellent models of health practices that can be used to replace the primary use of drugs while supporting and improving the whole health of clients, patients and participants. No diagnostic label is necessary and the participants are fully engaged in their complete process of knowing, changing and improving themselves. I suggest and recommend that mental health workers and social workers learn these various modalities so that they can be more skillful and effective. Also, they should learn to administer evaluation instruments so that what they teach can be evaluated and demonstrated in their practice.
Note: The picture was taken during one of my experiential stress management classes with soldiers at Ft. Bliss, TX. More >
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19 Jun 2007 @ 17:14, by anandavala. Science
Before joining the conversation, please read and accept this Invitation to a Conversation.
Here is a story told through quotes, comments and links related to
commonsense (naive) realism, epistemology, materialism, information
theoretic metaphysics, consciousness, empirical science, mysticism,
holistic science and also system theory. There's some fascinating
links to profound experiments into the nature of consciousness if you
don't already know about them... (The PEAR REG/GCP experiments)
Skepticism
Skepticism "is the application of reason to any and all ideas
- no sacred cows allowed... Ideally, skeptics do not go into an
investigation closed to the possibility that a phenomenon might be
real or that a claim might be true. When we say we are 'skeptical' we
mean that we must see compelling evidence before we believe."
(http://www.skeptic.com)
Furthermore "To some degree skepticism manifests itself in
the scientific method, which demands that all things assumed as facts
be questioned. But the positivism of many scientists, whether latent
or open, is incompatible with skepticism, for it accepts without
question the assumption that material effect is impossible without
material cause." (The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia
http://www.answers.com/topic/skepticism)
So materialism is NOT a skeptical position to take - because it is
based upon the unquestioned assumption and belief in the primacy of
matter. If people were to question it and not simply assert their
beliefs it could be a skeptical position but any deep questioning
soon shows it to be unable to withstand such questioning.
Commonsense (Naive) Realism
"Naïve realism is a common sense theory of perception.
Most people, until they start reflecting philosophically, are naïve
realists. This theory is also known as "direct realism" or
"common sense realism". Naïve realism claims that the
world is pretty much as common sense would have it. All objects are
composed of matter, they occupy space, and have properties such as
size, shape, texture, smell, taste and colour. [It is assumed that]
These properties are usually perceived correctly. So, when we look at
and touch things we see and feel those things directly, and so
perceive them as they really are."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_realism)
In its most common form a naive realist thinks "I ... am a
human being. There is this one physical world, the space where
everything exists and the time in which everything happens. There are
many things in this physical world, each largely separate from the
other and persisting over a span of time... My senses give me direct
knowledge of reality. If I see a chair, it is because there is a
chair physically where and when I see it. There are exceptions, like
when I am dreaming or watching a movie, but these are rare and
obviously not real. I can know things through my senses, through
thinking about things, and through communication with other people.
Other people's beliefs may be correct or not, but beliefs of people I
respect, and beliefs held commonly by most people in my society, are
usually true."
(http://www.boogieonline.com/seeking/first/yesterday.html)
It is a general tendency of naive realists to be unaware that
their beliefs are in fact beliefs. They consider them to simply be
obvious facts about the way things are. This is because they have not
yet questioned their beliefs. They are naive believers but they often
also believe that they are skeptical. It is a habitual credulous
state of mind and the habit can be very hard to overcome.
"Karl Popper (1970) pointed out that although Hume’s
idealism appeared to him to be a strict refutation of commonsense
realism, and although he felt rationally obliged to regard
commonsense realism as a mistake, he admitted that he was, in
practice, quite unable to disbelieve in it for more than an hour:
that, at heart, Hume was a commonsense realist. [And] Edmund Husserl
(1970), saw the phenomenologist in Hume when he showed that some
perceptions are interrelated or associated to form other perceptions
which are then projected onto a world putatively outside the mind."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume)
I.e. objects which are assumed to comprise the "external
world" are really objects of perception. To attribute them with
external reality is an act of belief for which there is no rational
basis. More >
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19 Jun 2007 @ 06:38, by letecia. Spirituality
In the Dianic tradition, on Summer Solstice we celebrate Goddess as
Mother/Maker and the diverse ways we create in our lives. Through movement,
trance and ritual enactment, we will work the power of fire in its many
aspects and applications: Fire as the power of the will, fire as a healing
power. Because of the possible intensity during this ritual, younger
children's participation will be limited to daughters 11 and older.
Place: Topanga Canyon (Indoors) Donation Requested: $13.00-$9.00 (sliding
scale) No woman is turned away for lack of funds. *All proceeds help fund
COA's community rituals and special events.
WHAT TO BRING:
*A red or orange jar candle (all candles must be in a holder)
*Healthy vegetarian food and/or drink to share (absolutely no alcohol
please)
*Plate, cup, utensils for the feast (In honor of our Earth Mother COA will
not provide paper goods)
*Wear comfortable festive clothing and supportive shoes (the floor at the
community house is terrible for bare feet)
Optional: Decorations for our communal altar - flowers in vases are always
welcomed
RSVP: COArsvp@gmail.com
Please leave a message including your name, phone number and the number of
women you plan to bring. Let us know if you or your guests are newcomers,
and if you or your guests will be bringing girls under 17. Womyn only.
FOR NEWCOMERS:
Newcomers are warmly welcomed! We want your experience to be optimal so we
have created these guidelines in your interest. Women new to Goddess
spirituality must be advised that the ritual is a participatory religious
service and is not structured to be an introduction to the Goddess of to
Feminist Witchcraft. The following books are suggested reading before
attending a public ritual: The Spiral Dance by Starhawk [link],
The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries by Z Budapest [link],
Ariandne's Thread by Shekhinah Mountainwater
http://shekhinah.net'Invocation to Free Women' (audiocassette) by Ruth
Barrett [link] and Felicity Flowers, Women's Rites Women's
Mysteries by Ruth Barrett [link] . These are available
at the COA Store or your local book store. If you are planning on bringing
newcomers to the ritual, please be responsible to them and COA by preparing
your guests in advance. Give your guests a general idea of what to expect so
that they can participate in benefit of themselves and all women present.
RITUAL LOCATION:
The Topanga Community House, 1449 North Topanga Canyon Blvd., in Topanga
Canyon. Please RSVP before Thursday to COArsvp@gmail.com with including your name, telephone number, and how many women you plan to bring. This is a participatory ritual is for serious seekers only. Once the circle is cast we cannot admit latecomers, so please arrive on time, Doors open at 6:30pm and will be locked at 7 pm. Carpool if possible.
DIRECTIONS:
From Pacific Coast Highway (Hwy .1): Turn onto Topanga Cyn. Blvd. and drive
into the canyon. 2 miles past the town you'll see the Community House sign
on your right. Drive up the hill to the hall and park. From the 101 Freeway
-Exit Topanga Cyn. Blvd. South and continue into the canyon for 5.9 miles.
When you see the "Pat's Topanga Grill" on your right you have about half a
mile to go. You'll see the sign for the Community House on your left. Drive
up the hill to the hall and park
*2007 Ritual Schedule*
Lammas: July 28 in Topanga
Autumn: Sept. 22 in Topanga
Crone Encounter: Oct. 20 in Topanga
Winter: Dec 22 in Topanga
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 18 Jun 2007 @ 20:37, by Unknown. Liberty, Sovereignty
"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth."
---Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre"
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18 Jun 2007 @ 15:59, by anandavala. Systems Thinking
Before joining the conversation, please read and accept this Invitation to a Conversation.
Preview of a new e-book soon to be
released.
It's a system theoretic analysis of the ego and its role in the
cult of authoritarianism, which leads to tyranny. The analysis isn't
an intellectual exploration, instead it seeks to encourage a deep
understanding of the nature of events in our lives and in the world
and to spark up a discourse amongst progressive communities that can
lead to practical and effective strategies to resolve the growing
crisis in civilisation and to navigate the transition to a new and
more sustainable civilisation.
The Gaian-Ego Hypothesis
or
Systems
Analysis of Organisation,
Ego, Control and Authoritarianism
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of
evil to one who is striking at the root."
(Henry
David Thoreau)
"The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity"
[FR].
"Truth, in its complexity, cannot be advanced if the discourse
of intellectuals conforms to a self-reproducing closed loop of hidden
assumptions." [FR]
The purpose of this analysis is to step out of the loop of subtle
dogma and to expand the scope of potential discourse so that we may
better comprehend the complexity by discerning its underlying
pattern, thereby we may see through our errors and not merely repeat
them. This overall analysis is humbly offered to help fuel a communal
discussion that can bringing together the knowledge and expertise of
progressive minds into a coherent and effective discourse that can
peacefully resolve the crisis in civilisation.
The Situation
Most human expressions, activities and inventions first arise as
thoughts and are shared via communication, therefore civilisation can
be described as the outward manifestation of a communal understanding
or a resonance of minds or a memeplex [FR].
The breakdown of communal understanding lies at the heart of the
breakdown of this civilisation. The work of rebuilding communal
understanding must ultimately be the foundation of any effective
attempt to resolve the crisis. The cause of the breakdown is complex
but ultimately stems from the corruption of public discourse by
manipulative agendas and the remedy is for humanity to reclaim that
discourse and clarify the confusions thus creating a space for
rebuilding a communal understanding. "Speech is civilization
itself.... it is silence which isolates." [FR]
From this, greater awareness will arise and collectively we will know
how to act to resolve the crisis and put civilisation on a firm and
realistic foundation.
Whilst ever the dominant discourse is corrupt the voice of reason
is just noise in the background that cannot meaningfully penetrate
the discourse and bring sanity into the overall situation. There is
already a vast body of knowledge that provides detailed evidence and
deep analysis of the many problems but these have been accumulating
for decades, even centuries, and have had minimal overall impact.
Whilst these analyses are vital in the long term, at present they are
largely impotent because the dominant discourse cannot entertain the
simple logic and has no desire to act on it even when it can.
Furthermore analysing and exposing issues one at a time is a
reactionary strategy that creates an information overload that people
cannot properly digest because there is no coherent paradigm within
which to make sense of it all. What is required is a subtler strategy
that can eventually penetrate then wall of denial.
There are rapidly growing numbers of open minds and we have the
potential to form a diverse and integrated community that can create
a parallel discourse that weakens the corrupt discourse and shifts
the balance of power. But we need a way to manage the information
overload and integrate it into a coherent and compelling communal
understanding that forms the seed of a more humane and more
sustainable civilisation. More >
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 17 Jun 2007 @ 20:09, by ming. Networking
I've seen this movie before but this sequel is different & better because it's a blockbuster and everybody's doing it Roland Tanglao, paraphrasing Tim Bray. We're talking about Facebook.
I didn't pay attention to Facebook before just recently. I'm a member of too many online social networks where I have a list of "friends", and nothing else is going on. And at first glance Facebook sounded like just another one, and one I'd be even less interested in than the others. Its positioning seemed to be about finding people you went to college with and that kind of thing, which sounded boring.
I had indeed signed up quite a while ago, and I was getting friend confirmation requests. But the problem is that the options they give you all seemed irrelevant. Normally I've met people online, maybe through blogs, maybe we were in the same network or group or something, or maybe we met at a conference. But none of those are among the choices, so I had to settle for "Met Randomly", even though it wasn't very random. So that just confirmed that it wasn't for me, and I never logged in. Until it became apparent that a lot of people I know think it is a great thing, and I actually logged in and looked around.
And, indeed, there are some things they do that lift it to a whole other level, and it isn't very much at all like Ryze, LinkedIn, Orkut, Xing or Viadeo. The first thing is that you get a feed of what changes about any of your friends. The second is that there's a whole lot of things to do, so there's a lot to see in that feed. And, thirdly, they have what they call applications. It means they've made an API that allows third parties to add modules to their hearts content, to add new functionality, which is nicely integrated with the rest of the site.
Those extra modules make me do some things I otherwise wouldn't bother doing, like rating books I've read recently, because the fact that it is shared with my friends list makes it somewhat more meaningful. None of it is particularly important stuff, but it hooks into the same principles that makes twitter or jaiku interesting. It gives me a continuous ambient awareness of what's going on within one's sphere of friends. There's a swarm kind of thing going on, where I'll catch if a bunch of others suddenly get interesting in a particular subject or a particular application or a particular group. And it does that for me with fairly minimal investment of time, as all I do is to update a few profile type of settings here and there, and I watch one stream of small updates from others I know.
So, this does point at something that's new and interesting, a new type of social interaction, and a trend for the future. But, like the other social networking sites, Facebook is an island. You don't really plug into it unless you're a member. And what if there are several places like that, and I'll had to choose. It is only going to be more permanently useful if there are open standards, and it doesn't matter which particular system I plug into. I'm interested in sharing information with my friends, but I could care less about keeping track of a list of separate websites one can network at. They would have to become more invisible. More >
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 17 Jun 2007 @ 06:42, by skookum. Ideas, Creativity
A poem...for a warm evening More >
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 14 Jun 2007 @ 13:47, by ming. Organizational Development
"The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity". -Jacob Burkhardt
What a great quote! Burkhardt was a Swiss social historian from the 19th century. He is credited with discovering (identifying) the age of the Renaissance. And for that matter also with the basic idea of being able to study and describe different periods as a whole, including culture, institutions, daily life, etc.
Life is complex, biologically, socially, culturally. The most awesome stuff that exists is complex. The universe, evolution, eco-systems, art, adventure, human culture in general, and the human mind.
That same human mind is at a crucial point in its evolution. We can consciously think abstractly. But not very well. The part of our mind we're conscious of, and that we usually identify with as "me", typically has an extremely inflated idea of its own worth and its own independent existence. That despite that it can only solve extremely simple problems, and it doesn't even know how. It over-simplifies everything, and it tends to think it is in charge.
That simple mind is also the wonderous faculty for paying attention and appreciating life, and for consciously discovering the mysteries of the universe and of human existence.
But when the simple mind gets stuck in the idea that it is in charge, and one of those simple minds end up commanding armies of millions of men, and huge economies, guiding the lives of billions, we're quite a bit in trouble. When the simple mind doesn't accept the complexity that brought it about, and it actually believes that its simple ideas are facts, and it tries to act accordingly, then we're in a lot of trouble. Yes, tyranny is when powerful rulers decide that the complexity simply is unacceptable, and it tries to control it, deny it, wipe it out. When a small group of people agree on a small list of small ideas as being the correct ones, validated by nothing much more than the voices in their heads, life is in danger. Doesn't matter much if their ideas are religious or moral or economical or political. It is the denial of the fundamental complexity of things that turns it into tyranny.
What saves us is often that those simple minds make many mistakes and miscalculations, so eventually their schemes fall apart. But it might take a while, and it is hard to predict what they take with them on the way down.
It hopefully sorts itself out in time, before it is too late. As the world becomes more complex, it gets harder to control big chunks of it without some understanding of complexity. One can still win in the short term by strategies of denying complexity, by forcing life into simple monocultural molds. But complexity has a life of its own, and there will inevitably be a certain evolutionary natural selection that takes place. The stuff that works will outcompete the stuff that doesn't work, given enough time.
And that in itself is reason for limitless optimism. Simple, rigid structures are subject to entropy. They fall apart over time, turn to dust. Wheras complexity, of the type that life is made of, regenerates, re-configures itself, it evolves, it transitions to higher orders of organization. I think I'm gonna place my bets on life. More >
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