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 Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject: Negative Entropy |
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| Sitaram wrote: | Life feeds on negative entropy.
Entropy is a measure of disorder and dispersion in a system. Something
which is highly concentrated and ordered with a great degree of
symmetry possesses a large amount of negative entropy. Negative
entropy possesses a great deal of potential energy which is locked up or
engaged in maintaining the high level of concentration and order and
symmetry.
Life is also a localized system of negative entropy. Life is a process or,
more specifically, a meme, which is a process with the ability to propagate
and repeat itself. That which is alive is constantly expending energy in
the process which struggles against dissolution and strives towards
replication and renewal. The tendency of all matter and energy is to
disperse and seek a common denominator; a lowest degree of
organization spread out into the greatest possible space. Jung states in his
monograph, "On the Nature of the Psyche," that matter has a psychoid
aspect which strives towards consciousness, while, conversely,
consciousness has a material aspect which yearns to be inert once again
(Freud's death wish.)
We are back to our old dynamic duo of darkness and light, chaos and
order; our superhero, Light, and his comical sidekick, Chaos. They started
out as a Vaudeville team. Next it became a book, then a play, then a
movie, and currently a television series (and entering into reruns). The
first season will be available soon in DVD.
Ideas can be memes too, with a life of their own. Ideas dwell in the matrix
of minds, in the substratum of a culture’s collective consciousness. The
living pattern of an idea or ideology propagates from one generation to
the next, just like the battlefield dialogue between Glaukos and Diomedes
in Homer's Iliad, their imagery of human generations as leaves from
season to season, but the ideologies are the acorns amongst the leaves.
Note carefully that an acorn is a kind of nut.
Most living things are parasitic upon something else, taking possession
and control of that other in some fashion and slowly consuming it.
Someone from Australia was discussing the huntsman spider in a chat
room. I did a google.com search out of curiosity and came across a
fascinating photograph of a spider and a teacup with a long worm in it.
The worm is a species of nematode parasite which infects spiders. It lives
inside the spider, feeding upon it, but carefully preserving all of the
spider’s organs so as not to kill it outright. When the worm is ready to
hatch, it fiendishly begins to absorb enough of the spider’s body fluids so
as to drive it mad with thirst, forcing the spider to seek out the nearest
water. The worm needs to be born in a body of water. The spider enters
the water and the worm bursts forth from the spider’s body, must like that
sci-fi movie, “Alien.” The spider then crawls off to die.
A black hole is a portion of a universe which is dying in some sense.
Inside the black hole is another big bang baby universe, much like a
parasite inside a spider. It is no coincidence that Hindu mythology depicts
the sleeping god Vishnu, who dreams a foaming froth of bubble universes,
as reclining on an infinite serpent named Sheshe.
Rupert Sheldrake and Shankaracharya and the Vedas are all correct in
their notion of morphic resonance, that thoughts and ideas come from
outside of us and we are like little radio or television receivers.
Shankaracharya said that thoughts pour into the mind like molten metal
into a form. The Vedas say, “May noble thoughts come to us from all
sides.” This static of thought and ideas is what escapes from the dying
universe and enters into the baby universe. This is why there is nothing
new under the sun, as King Solomon said. This is why the love being born
in Crete four thousand years ago is the love which ended yesterday in
Texas, as Thomas Wolfe wrote.
Thinking does make it so, just so. God is an idea, a good idea. God is a
savior in the sense that we are remembered. Why do prayers say,
“eternal be their memory.” Tony Alamo points out that “God remembered
Noah.” Imagination is being inchoate. What God remembers exists. Being
is thought and thought is being.
This is why the Qur'an describes Allah as “Lord of the WORLDS” (note the
plural form) and not “Lord of the world.” We might substitute the word
universes for worlds, and we may designate the universe of all universes
as the Multiverse.
This is why, in the Bhagavad-gita, Book 7, verse 7, Krishna says, “All the
many worlds are strung upon me as black pearls upon a thread (the word
sutra is the word for thread, like suture, keeping us in stitches).” A line of
thought is a thread. A series of posts is a thread. Penelope and the Three
Fates use fibers and threads to weave their tapestry.
If we shall always be remembered, then we need not fear oblivion. If
death is rebirth then there is no death.
An infinite regression was not absurd after all, but rather, quite necessary!
Escher is transferred to the shelf on Romanticism. |
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