vendredi, novembre 04, 2005
P.S.
I went to bed thinking that a lump of particles having positive-negative interactions (and also positive-positive, negative-negative repulsions.) could lie there and think cogito ergo sum. i'm sure when that phrase appeared, they did not realise it was just a lump of particles with attractive-repulsive forces which was doing the 'thinking'.
and this is particularly worrying. the computer, thinks in zeroes and ones, and it can display this interactive meaning full interface which you are looking at now. which seems to mean something more profound than zeroes and ones. but we were the ones who input the extra knowledge in, and we are the ones interpreting it, so it means something to us.
but as to ourselves, we are interpreting our own actions? our own thoughts? our own creations? some sort of circular logic failure here. so every single atom, sub-atom, quantum particle reacts instinctively on all the positive negative stuff they see, like zeroes and ones, and it means nothing to them. but the sum of it all means something to us. and how they react is determined by? DNA? no. by untouchable physical laws of nature. which have always been in existence. and DNA is just the evolving accidental program? and we are the manifestations of this. and we look back and understand what's going on? but was this written for us to understand?
perhaps we are allowed to understand what we can, based on our capabilities and complexity. i suppose the quantum particles know what they are doing, and 'realise' it. i suppose the DNA knows what it is doing, and 'realises' it too. and we know what we're doing. but the particles cannot know what the DNA is doing, and the DNA cannot know what we are doing. or can they? probably not.
interestingly this evolution is actually gradual! we don't jump from one level to another. so at some point, the particle is transiting towards DNA, and DNA is transiting towards human thought. so? is everything just smarter or stupider, more conscious and less conscious?
hah. amusement.
this is like pouring in ( i wanted to say "a clump of particles", but that's not very correct), a lump of energy, suspending it in emptiness, and then watching it as the energy coalesces and becomes particles, molecules, humans. and the energy gets used up slowly, and after zillions of human years, the indulgence dies off.
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anyway, i've got to go on studying before i get carried away with this. ze reality...
P.S.
[this started off as a postscript for yesterday's schizo like post. (which is absolutely not schizo.) but it got too long, and here it is a separate entity]
I went to bed thinking that a lump of particles having positive-negative interactions (and also positive-positive, negative-negative repulsions.) could lie there and think cogito ergo sum. i'm sure when that phrase appeared, they did not realise it was just a lump of particles with attractive-repulsive forces which was doing the 'thinking'.
and this is particularly worrying. the computer, thinks in zeroes and ones, and it can display this interactive meaning full interface which you are looking at now. which seems to mean something more profound than zeroes and ones. but we were the ones who input the extra knowledge in, and we are the ones interpreting it, so it means something to us.
but as to ourselves, we are interpreting our own actions? our own thoughts? our own creations? some sort of circular logic failure here. so every single atom, sub-atom, quantum particle reacts instinctively on all the positive negative stuff they see, like zeroes and ones, and it means nothing to them. but the sum of it all means something to us. and how they react is determined by? DNA? no. by untouchable physical laws of nature. which have always been in existence. and DNA is just the evolving accidental program? and we are the manifestations of this. and we look back and understand what's going on? but was this written for us to understand?
perhaps we are allowed to understand what we can, based on our capabilities and complexity. i suppose the quantum particles know what they are doing, and 'realise' it. i suppose the DNA knows what it is doing, and 'realises' it too. and we know what we're doing. but the particles cannot know what the DNA is doing, and the DNA cannot know what we are doing. or can they? probably not.
interestingly this evolution is actually gradual! we don't jump from one level to another. so at some point, the particle is transiting towards DNA, and DNA is transiting towards human thought. so? is everything just smarter or stupider, more conscious and less conscious?
hah. amusement.
this is like pouring in ( i wanted to say "a clump of particles", but that's not very correct), a lump of energy, suspending it in emptiness, and then watching it as the energy coalesces and becomes particles, molecules, humans. and the energy gets used up slowly, and after zillions of human years, the indulgence dies off.
-
anyway, i've got to go on studying before i get carried away with this. ze reality...
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