From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 01:39:03 MDT
Will we have to build hyper-networks capable of soul-catching,
or is there a physical process already in place, existing in the universe,
and what might that be?
-Mitch
J.A. Wheeler wrote about what he called
the "Participatory Universe" process (circa 1980).
>From matter (or the universe, or the unknown) to knowledge
(mathematical of course) of the universe. And, perhaps,
from knowledge to matter again (recording the universe,
re-creating the universe). A loop. In one word: information or,
much better, in-formation. But this process is collective,
not individual. A similar process for each one of us?
scerir
In a self-reference cosmology, past, present and future
are wired together and the universe does not come into being
unless and until the blind accidents of evolution are generated
to produce the consciousness, consciousness of consciousness
and communicating community, that will give meaning
to that universe from start to finish. The universe is brought
into being by the act of participation.
-- John Wheeler
If there is no other,
there will be no I.
If there is no I,
there will be none
to make distinctions.
- Chuang-tsu, 4th Cent. B.C.
No questions? No answers!
- John Wheeler
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