The self-taming of the universe

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Roger Clough

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Jan 4, 2013, 2:22:23 AM1/4/13
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IMHO Sheldrake's morphic fields are organizing fields which result
in the self-taming or organization of random fields. So they are
anti-entropic or energy-forming. We see such taming in the formation
of planets from swirling dust particles, in the formation of tornadoes,
and in the precipitation of ice crystals as water cools. Black holes
are another possible example. Priogogine has discussed this
phenomenon in great detail.

This self-organization is caused by the overcoming of the kinetic energy
of vibration of random dispersions of particles through cooling.
In this process, kinetic energy is dissipated through the internal
attractions between individual particles. The individual attracting
forces could include electrical attractions and the forces of gravity.
Thus chance movements are gradually overcome by the mechanism
of attractions between particles to organized fields called habits or
morphic fields.

Craig Weinberg

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Jan 5, 2013, 6:35:10 PM1/5/13
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I think that there is no literal field. Self-organization requires only a capacity to experience and effect change. When a car breaks down, there is no field of organization which is going to appear and fix it - the car is fixed by the sensory-motor capacities of the car's owner and nothing else. Someone discerns that the car is broken, cares that it is broken, and is able to invest that care into electrical changes into their own brain which direct a human body to interact with its world.

If you look at a person fixing their car from the outside, knowing nothing, you might conclude that there is a field which attracts a mechanic to the car being transmitted through the telephone or some such thing, but that is only a model of the situation in which subjectivity is not accounted for. If you believe in a universe where matter lacks the capacity to sense itself, then you have to compensate by imagining that space has magical properties, hence 'force' and 'field'. Voila - a universe of emptiness haunted by unexplained tendencies with scientific sounding names.

Craig
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