tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991493742477539656.post5271114108969431081..comments2023-12-29T05:32:36.232-08:00Comments on Begonias in the Mist: SeedsAndy Snowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11299189582586831984noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991493742477539656.post-11516680846288167002013-02-19T18:45:31.418-08:002013-02-19T18:45:31.418-08:00Oh, Bill,
I agree we need to be prepared for shif...Oh, Bill, <br />I agree we need to be prepared for shifting ground.<br />-AAndy Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11299189582586831984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991493742477539656.post-35626002474278021162013-02-19T12:08:22.435-08:002013-02-19T12:08:22.435-08:00Hi Bill,
Thanks for your considered reply. If by...Hi Bill,<br /><br />Thanks for your considered reply. If by “temporal” you mean “transitory” I don’t think the earth is “as temporal as you and I” and who knows, planets may be sentient. We can no more understand this planet than the microbes that live in our gut understand us (they do seem to have definite opinions about what I eat)<br /><br />We both know that emergent phenomena are a characteristic of a sufficiently complex system. We can believe in Stuart Kauffmann’s “self-organized emergence of collectively autocatalytic sets of polymers” or we can believe in a seed. We’ll never know for sure. I like the seed theory, it validates old legends of our father/ancestors from heaven, (a belief common among so many cultures), without being the man-with-the-big-white-beard theory.<br /><br />Maybe the double helix is the key to this mystery and all life on this blue marble (and who knows where else) has been one long progression to return DNA back to space. Seems as likely as virgin human birth or rising from the dead.<br /><br />Best Regards to you -A<br /><br /><br />Andy Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11299189582586831984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991493742477539656.post-18286111336908455762013-02-18T14:09:51.652-08:002013-02-18T14:09:51.652-08:00Good post, Andy. It was fun to read. Really like...Good post, Andy. It was fun to read. Really liked the "Stream" analogy to Life and the many stepping stones as rocks "of what we know."<br /><br />I agree with most everything stated and implied, but perhaps see the process from a different perspective (or bias?). Mother Earth, Father Sky, these concepts are founded on an eternal perspective of the planet. But, of course, this planet is as temporal as you and I. Before it was a planet, it was a hot mass of colliding space debris...meteorites, all rushing together under the powerful gravitational pull of the dust cloud that would become terra firm as we know it. All of the molecules on this planet are extraterrestrial in origin, brought here under extreme conditions of pressure and heat. We rose from the Earth, true enough, but an Earth made of the stuff of exploding stars. With more and more molecular concentration, and heat, and external energy from the Sun, the sheer complexity of interactions on the molecular scale made life absolutely inevitable. And when we find life on other worlds, we will then understand more fully our rightful place in the Universe...eddies in the swirl of your stream-of-life, here one moment, gone the next. These visions are the stepping stones, the conclusions of small discoveries within the surging tide of mystery that cradles everything we are and know. Sometimes they provide firm footing. Sometimes not. Better to be prepared for shifting ground than assume certainty in the face of such a crossing.<br /><br />I believe in seeds too, the seeds we try to understand through science. They are the laws of nature, as we know them (or not), that guide this restless tide of exuberance we find ourselves adrift in, and we, small, momentary manifestations of consciousness that came, somehow, enfolded within the mix.GlassMountainsManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588199179537746367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8991493742477539656.post-12621409914991134562013-02-13T13:24:34.212-08:002013-02-13T13:24:34.212-08:00Great post. I like the quote from "Anne's...Great post. I like the quote from "Anne's House of Dreams." I believe in the magic we see all around us.Laura Crumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15200878892304748308noreply@blogger.com