From: Dan
Date: November 13, 2013, 10:20:39 AM EST
To: Sam
Cc: Jim Gray
Subject: Re: Vlatko Vedral and "beyond today's known rules of the universe"
Sam and Jim,
As a matter of fact, when Debbie and I visited her nephew at Oxford last year, I attended a physics lecture by VV and had an exchange with him afterwards.
My assessment reflects that of Jim's......... so near, yet so far.
Informationalism has been around, formally, for almost a century, now, but it remains an orphan, suspended between physics and metaphysics. Informally, its seeds are found at the dawn of philosophy. There is no logical middle ground, it turns out. Neutral monism, the invention of Bertrand Russell, is yet another, perhaps more philosophically robust, version of it.
These attempts to find a logical compromise between materialism and idealism are growing increasingly desperate. No one of sound mind wishes to jump off the cliff of materialism into the abyss of immaterialism. The implications can only be eschatological.
Fools rush in, Sam, where angels fear to tread......
From: "Jim Gray"
Date: November 13, 2013, 8:59:27 AM EST
To: Sam and Dan
Subject: Re: Fwd: Vlatko Vedral and "beyond today's known rules of the universe"
Sam & Dan,
I’ve read Vedral’s book and find it half useful. He attempts to explain everything with information without explaining where that information came from. He rejects God as creator because “God had to come from somewhere” and that is without explanation. Yet he accepts that information came from ???? Who knows? Not him. He doesn’t have a clue or offer an rational source for it. Beyond that problem the book is really interesting on the role of information.
As for McNeil’s note, I would suggest that his idea is well covered – and then some – by Eric Schneider & Dorion Sagan in their book, Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life. Their basic argument runs along the lines McNeil mentions about entropy, namely that life itself is an entropy manufacturing machine which is getting better and better at its job.
On Nov 12, 2013, at 11:37 PM, "Sam B Hopkins" wrote:
Dan,
Does this quote interest you (from below)?
"Vlatko Vedral, in his book Decoding Reality, sets out that there are logical possibilities beyond today's known rules of the universe. So there still remains a flicker of hope, in the painting of our darkening predicament."
And the other thoughts from this financial advisor, Terry McNeil?
Sam
ScaRZ,
How do you know then that I'm not the designated discloser? Does God want to make this easy?
noon---------
Back to the yin and yang........
Might there have been nothing? That is hardly conceivable, now is it? That is to say that there might not even have been a possibility or a potentiality. That verges on the oxymoronic or the impossible.
It is impossible that there could be no possibility.
What then is the root of possibility, if it cannot be impossibility?
The apeiron/aether seems to be the root of possibility/potency.
How then do the logos and cosmic self/soul become established, other than by bootstrapping?
IOW, there is a cosmic seed or egg, which need be nothing more than the possibility of a self-organizing principle. All else is chaos, which could well be self-annihilating. Our minds/souls are like Maxwell's demons wrt the heat bath of the apeiron.
Can there be only one such seed/Source? Logically, I suspect so. I suspect it has to do with Leibniz' II. There must be a toti-potency, which subsumes all sub-potencies. This would also be the root of the cosmic agape. The ultimate logos can be nothing other than love. How many loves can there be? It has been said that God is jealous. But can we be jealous of God? Was that not the MO of Satan? Where did it get him?
The obvious cure for cosmic jealousy is monism or monadism and apokatastasis. Even Satan must be redeemed, ultimately, in eternity. There was just a little friction wrt the Alpha. But, yes, we must KIM that the Alpha is eternal, being subsumed, but not consumed, in the Omega.
It is possible that Satan/Alpha could be viewed the indigestible grain of sand in the cosmic oyster. And also KIM that Jesus is the Alpha and Omega.
Do see Ernest McClain's 'Myth of Invariance' wherein the irrational root of 2 plays the role of satan/seed. The 'bad' seed? This is all about the exigencies of cosmic harmony. This is the ouroboric serpent in the garden, at the root of the tree of knowledge and life. This is the reset or spark gap between Omega >> Alpha. Yes, things do seem to be falling into place.
The pdf text of this important book may be found here..... http://www.ernestmcclain.net/ , but without the essential diagrams.
On further inspection, I see that quite a few of the diagrams have been retained. This book should be seen as complementing de Santillana's 'Hamlet's Mill'.
4pm---------
Certainly we can see the tonal connections between space and time. But where does matter come into this?
Is matter related to memory? IOW, matter means little w/o sapience.
What does the aether have to do with matter, pray tell? The logos? Energy? What is enegy w/o matter? Metabolism and chemistry must be considered.
How can music resonate w/o matter? Space and time alone do not suffice.
6:30---------
And light has to resonate, as well, given a space-time frame. In that same frame, there can hardly be any motion without mass. There can be no observations, or communications. Interactions are what it is about.
But then there is the other side, of course,..... dream land. How do the heavenly choirs resonate, and how do we make the transition? The materialists sure get off easy, on that score. Life is so simple for them. May I be jealous of that simplicity?
Does music provide a missing link? Via synaesthesia? It is about the harmony of the spheres. Mathematics may take on a more robust, phenomenal role.
(cont.)
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