An anarchic self-organizing universe

[Mark Kohut]

Still wrong after all these words..and esp that great Article on Pynchon.

The word, and even the simpler adjective 'anarchic', which I used, has
other meanings as well.



On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:15 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> As an elemental force of evolution, the term "anarchy" is just stupid.
>
> Anarchy means an alternative form of government, meaning none.
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> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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."
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>> 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.
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>> 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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