Wednesday, October 20, 2010
It's Complicated
(4)
To continue with my interpretation of Gurdjieff/Ouspensky (before I get too drunk) I need to question whether 'self remembering' breaks the linear progression of complex cause-effect processes within the human brain. On the surface, it does. But it could be argued that 'self-remembering' is itself the result of cause-effect processes. Therefore, All And Everything ultimately resolves into that eternal, unbreakable chain of cause-effect. Barf. My only reply would be that 'self-remembering' breaks that chain of neurological events, eventually causing the person to deviate from previously ordained behavior. The result is that moment-to-moment 'reality' is forced to adjust, thereby creating new possibilities. But unfortunately those processes have not jumped outside the 'system of cause-effect' but have only complicated the situation.
Barf. It would seem, therefore, that 'to awaken' might be desirable on an individual level, but that the net result would be that the rest of The Universe would proceed... as... usual? Huh?
Enter Quantum Mechanics.
My conjecture in that regard is that Quantum Mechanics is substrate, with the result that 'Determinism' is a myth dissolved by quantum mechanics.
But I'm getting much too technical here... not to mention drunk.
To continue with my interpretation of Gurdjieff/Ouspensky (before I get too drunk) I need to question whether 'self remembering' breaks the linear progression of complex cause-effect processes within the human brain. On the surface, it does. But it could be argued that 'self-remembering' is itself the result of cause-effect processes. Therefore, All And Everything ultimately resolves into that eternal, unbreakable chain of cause-effect. Barf. My only reply would be that 'self-remembering' breaks that chain of neurological events, eventually causing the person to deviate from previously ordained behavior. The result is that moment-to-moment 'reality' is forced to adjust, thereby creating new possibilities. But unfortunately those processes have not jumped outside the 'system of cause-effect' but have only complicated the situation.
Barf. It would seem, therefore, that 'to awaken' might be desirable on an individual level, but that the net result would be that the rest of The Universe would proceed... as... usual? Huh?
Enter Quantum Mechanics.
My conjecture in that regard is that Quantum Mechanics is substrate, with the result that 'Determinism' is a myth dissolved by quantum mechanics.
But I'm getting much too technical here... not to mention drunk.
