At least the music metaphor has aesthetic appreciation, performance, and an audience. Information/computation has none of those things unless we arbitrarily add them.
Craig On Friday, January 17, 2014 4:10:50 AM UTC-5, cdemorsella wrote: > > Mostly lurking here… and have off and on for years > > Love some of the ideas floating here and the discussions; it can flow fast > and furious here… keeping up is like a full-time job lol > > > > Recently from time to time I have been poking in; hope you don’t mind me; > perhaps on occasion I can bring a perspective. > > > > Personally I think the cosmos is a musical entity even more profoundly > than it is a mathematical entity > > Vibration – perhaps is -- the motive enabler of operations, which are the > actors on values in all equations. > > What is vibration, if not music? > > > > Ahhh this mysterious vibration… this inner agitator of being, what is it > where is it? Hard to pin down eh? > > What is the observer? > > Why is it a given that we exist at all? > > > > What if our certainty of self is but a splendid illusion. When we speak of > self; we infer identity, separateness, a dichotomy between – that which we > perceive as self – and the universe the self observes. A lot of the > spiritual traditions… and the psychedelic experience… and perhaps some > empirical evidence as well allude to an un-nameable, ineffable un-seeable > yet manifest something. The Vibe! > > > > What if the universe is a symphony written large and the multiverse a > veritable panoply of musical styles and compositions. Hehe… please take all > this in the light hearted spirit in which it is given (some might say > spewed) I have tripped more and further than most.. music can sometimes on > occasion, especially when I sing bring me to a state of exceptional being > and presence and clarity of moment in moment… the idea of vibration > animating and being all does not seem all that weird or strange to me… and > the tie in to math is so elegant… harmony is math; music is about sets. The > physics of music gets right into the physics of waves and we all know that > goes deep. > > > > You could say it is the essential metaphor I prefer… we all have our > metaphors and notional constructs that support our beings and our sense of > our own selves. This is one I can rock on, and being a rocker it’s not > surprising that it rocks me. > > > > Give it away; it’s free! > > (cryptic) > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
