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Silenus

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Re: Spinal Catastrophism
« on: September 11, 2020, 07:48:10 pm »
I sympathize with trying to wade into a text with as much flowery language and terminology. I cannot read Derrida. All I've read of Heidegger is "Parmenides" and that's because it was more a lecture than an expose of his thought with his own definitions, descriptors, symbols. I don't know how I will read this, but I'm curious about the central idea. The trauma of time and event on biological life.

I can't say much about searching for "truth;" I'm interested in a creating a synthesis of interpretations and representations to shine some strange light on the little we know about ourselves. I hope I will always learn in some capacity, as long as I may live.

Speaking of Heidegger, he too said to look at the ancients. I agree with the opinion. Just how much more can we know that they didn't? Their symbology was filled with meaning and many lived in a temperate climate where they thought under the stars rather than a musty church/temple, or stuffy academy. :)

Hercalitus thought that fire is within everything. That's a fair way to describe Thermodynamics, of which Land seems to interpret in his own way. It seems appropiate to say "waste" with him, as he has an (in my opinion erroneous) opinion that capitalism must be pedal-to-the-medal. Waste away!

The Maximum Power Principle of Thermodynamics, however, says that complex biological life is an efficent agent of entropy, as life strives to maximize the flow of energy within itself. Hence the Will-to-life: the drive and striving for things, generates energy consumption.

https://www.ecologycenter.us/ecosystem-theory/the-maximum-power-principle.html

http://jayhanson.org/loop.htm




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