Cosmology and the Origin of Life

Formulation of a Global View

• Relationship between Man and Nature
  • Hierarchical Linear Time vs. Connected Cyclical Time

Why Bother to Discuss this? Because some PROCESS has occurred to allow us to be bothered!

Hierarchy Nature is a succession of progessively more sophisticated niches which maybe somewhat independent of one another

Connectivity No isolation; everything which exists is part of everything else

Purpose is then to confront these polarized World Views with Scientific Data to see which is more consistent.

• Complex partnership must be maintained to avoid mutual collapse

• The Dot War

Formulation of a Cosmological Model:

The Rules:

Making Models:

Early Cultures were curious and motivated to explore the world no one was ignorant because everything was new but the process of learning can begat ignorance through the death of imagination

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