An anarchic self-organizing universe

[David Morris]

As an elemental force of evolution, the term "anarchy" is just stupid.

Anarchy means an alternative form of government, meaning none.

David Morris

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On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> JT writes:
> "Anarchy itself as a term may be more descriptive than prescriptive.
> Anarchy can be viewed as randomness within the physical parameters of the
> universe. Much of current science sees life and human existence not as
> resulting from or guided by goals or a planning intelligence but by random
> activity. In that sense Anarchy is not so much collapse of order as the
> actual underlying reality. In this view the universe is ungoverned and
> ungovernable; it’s dissolution started with the accidental nature of it’s
> origin. This line of thought says we are experiencing a virtual event
> governed by rules that guarantee extinction."
>
>
> A philosopher, perhaps America's greatest, Charles S. Pierce, some of
> whose writings I know, has this basic scientific (and beyond, therefore
> metaphysical in some way) argument about the cosmos.
>
> Simplified it goes like this: The universe has to be experiencing
> (anarchic) surprises within its cosmic vastness, or else, given eternity
> enough in time, everything would ALREADY be in an entropic state. At the
> least, it is one way to question/explain the 'surprise' that the big bang
> seems to be.
>
> Pierce also did some thinking about 'self-organizing'--that anarchy
> thing--,not least in the above cosmic context.
>
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