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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (56848)9/4/2002 3:32:45 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Presumably the whole is not identical to its rules of operation (the 2nd law of thermodynamics, e=mc2), but is the actually existing universe throughout time and space. It seems to me that we are left with an incomprehension of the whole, except by poetic analogy, because there is no way that can be conceived to summarize all data extended through space at a given instant, and therefore to take a snapshot of the whole, much less to monitor its progress through time. Even if we could, the human mind is incapable of processing that much information, or of following the "story" into the infinite future. Now, you may be right that we can gain some insight into our position within a broader context, but surely we cannot know how we ultimately relate to the whole, since we have no grasp of its character......
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