Replying to LO26978 --
Dear Organlearners,
Rene (?) <renepost@wxs.nl> writes upon
>>My question now to fellow learners is:
>>Can this OO (Ordinary Organisation) XYZ emerge
>>into a LO by continuing its business as usual, i.e
>>diverting free energy to itself for its own entropy
>>production?
>How hideous it may sound, only with a surplus of
>free energy is it possible to emerge into a LO.
Greetings Rene,
There is nothing hideous for me in the concept "free energy". But I have
to admit that thinking in terms of "free energy" may be hideous too some
fellow learners ;-) What indeed becomes hideous, is when the concept "free
energy" is combinated with the mythological concept "vampire".
You are 101% right! Without the necessary "free energy", an OO cannot ever
emerge into a LO. But where does this surplus of "free energy" comes from?
This is the question which we have to anwer so as to make our lives
healthy again.
We have in in my mother tongue Afrikaans (from Dutch and Saxon origin) the
word "lus" which describes this feeling of "surplus free energy". Its
counterpart in English via Old English (Angle and Saxon) is lust. It comes
from the ancient Germanic verb "lustan". It meant originally to desire any
specific "becoming" vehemently, intensely and passionately. But then
moralists began to use "lust" as a noun to refer to inordinate longings of
a carnal and especially sexual nature. Perhaps the English may want to
throw away the "t" of lust so that the word "lus", noun or verb just like
in Afrikaans, regains this original meaning of "lustan".
Here is how I will now use "lus": An OO should lus to become a LO
otherwise it would not become one.
>You left out the spiritual part because it would
>become to complex but many 'natural' laws are
>discussed (taught) in spiritual texts.
>
>For instance in the New Testament, Mark 4:25 it is stated,
>
> To one who has [free energy], more shall be given:
> from one who does not have it, even what little he
> has will be taken away from him.
I did not focus on only the spiritual facet of "free energy" so as to
preserve the wholeness of this concept for both the physical and spiritual
complements of reality.
Thank you for your refreshing and exciting interpretation of the parable
of the talents. The Greek word "talantos" refered to a coin. Yet the
traditional interpretaion of this parable was that the "talentos" refered
to a special gift or faculty of creativity. Hence Mat 25:15 was
interpreted that the worker was given five different gifts of creativity.
(These gifts are in terms of entropic forces and fluxes intensive
qualities rather than extensive quantities.)
But this cannot be because the five talents were the same! The 5, 2 and 1
in the parable clearly point to some extensive property which has to
increase by using itself in the process. "Free energy" is indeed an
extensive quantity. It indeed uses itself (in the present cycle) to
produce more of it (for the next cycle). It can do so by the system
feeding upon its surroundings (digestor mode close to equilibrium) until
it has matured and then also do so collapsing creatively (bifurcator mode
close to chaos).
It is clear from the parable that the worker with 1 talent did not have
enough to complete the cycle of digestion and bifurcation.
>I do hope (and in a way believe) that once
>an OO becomes a LO it can't continue its
>business as usual as described in your
>SA experience.
Thank you for this answer.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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