[lbo-talk] Darwinian evolution only part of story?

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Thu Jan 28 12:55:13 PST 2010


On Jan 28, 2010, at 3:39 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> ...there is no contradiction between laws leading you to a place
> beyond laws and the existence of that lawless place. That is
> precisely what...the One is in Plotinus.
>
> At 08:06 PM 1/27/2010, Shane Mage wrote:
>
>
>> Question: How do you get from a retrocalculation based on what you
>> have presumed to be the mathematical laws of nature to a state (a
>> singularity) where, by definition, those "laws" do not apply?

The question was, how do we get here from there? Science demands a mathematically specified lawful process. Neoplatonic mysticism offers a leap (an emanation).

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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