Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:27:57 -0600
From: hugh bone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Re: sideways - incapacity


Eric, Geof, All

A few comments on this topic:

1) Organism and Environment - What any one of millions of organisms can
"know" is a function of its senses and the particular environment stimulates 
those senses.

2) The regularities that humans observe in the world of physics, gravity,
heat, speed of light, fields and forces do not seem to change.

3) "Knowing" in humans, and perhaps other mammals, is a function of senses, 
consciousness, memory.  It occurs only in living tissue, is "represented" 
with words, images, actions, is "actual" only for one time and only for one 
place.  Scientists detect brain activity, but only the individual knows its 
thoughts and feelings.

4) In contrast to the "laws" of physics, the "laws" of living entities
evolve with individuals.  An individual is an ephemeral product of its life 
history; a product of all the events experienced during its life, which was, 
in turn, initiated by the DNA of its ancestors.

5) The essence of  "matter" is human knowledge of species evolution and the 
constancy of physics.

6) Perhaps other universes and any life in those universes would have
different physical laws and different forms of evolution.

Hugh Bone

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric" <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net>
To: <lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 10:42 PM
Subject: RE: sideways - incapacity


> Geof,
>
> I know there are some Stoic elements to Deleuze, but that is hardly a
> recommendation. In my opinion, Nietzsche was wrong about Christianity.
> It wasn't Platonism for the masses. It was Stoicism. That is why
> conservatives like Tom Wolfe (A Man in Full) have always embraced it,
> even when they couldn't stomach the washed in the blood of the lamb
> mythology.
>
> Stoicism is just sucking it in, hiding the repressive loss of pleasure
> under the splendid mask of virtue.  It is always the Stoic superego that
> tells us nature has a plan and is providential, when we know in our
> hearts that nature simply makes it up as she goes along.
>
> eric
>
>
>