Cognitive Thrift 34 – Perspectives
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/08/22
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: I don’t mean that. I’m talking about genuine individuals with those perspectives.
Rick Rosner: We all ride the arrow of time towards increasing order in lots of settings. For instance, the setting of a planet in a temperate zone orbiting a star. That’s a place that’s ripe for increasing order, and under the arrow of time increasing order is a thing we all benefit from.
And its part of what somebody like Einstein or Hawking might consider that divine beauty or divine order of the universe. That it’s a cool thing, a beautiful thing. One could almost say a godly thing without specifying an actual, like, beardy guy up in the sky that indicates order.
That feeling of evolving towards increasing order. But that being somehow at home in the world in a beautiful way isn’t a bad feeling, it’s good. You just have to – when you think about evolution and stuff, which is tough to think about because of issues like this.
You have to keep your forces kind of well-defined and avoid purpose sneaking in there. That we’re an evolving form of purpose.
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