Wednesday, January 5, 2011

notes for ways of envisioning change

linear change
historical change
spacial change
physical change
evolutionary change
technological change
inevitable change
decompositional change
entropic change
incremental change
recursive change
zeitgeist change
paradigm change
spontaneous change
divine change
predetermined change
teleological change
transcendent change
exponential change
asymptotic change


things to value in their own end:
generosity
transparency
conservation
unapology
completion
beauty
connectedness
self-awareness
expression
synthesis
articulation
dialectics
gravity
fun

if applied to one another,
these things contradict quickly.
(its a question of bottom truth)

and so the articulation of the problem is the only solution available.
Kurzweil says that humans are more attached to problems than solutions.
but that this is one of the things we will overcome in the 21st century.

I don't believe you!
real change is exponential, yes.
but I don't get yet how recursion could ever have an end.
(complicity in everything you think is wrong with the world)
hey Ray, you're more attached to the problem, too!

it's all asymptotally possible change!

historical change is linear change. all change is spacial change. spacial change is physical change. evolutionary change is physical change. evolutionary change is both inevitable change and recursive change. technological change is also spacial change, and recursive change, and physical change, and evolutionary change, and so is inevitable change. Technological change leads to zietgeist change, which looks like paradigm change, and is, but is actually just recursive change. I worry this is all decompositional change, which is to say entropic change. I have never seen spontaneous change, and I have never felt divine change, but it would be comforting to believe in teleological change. I have felt transcendent change. I struggle with change.











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