11.13.05
A Hypercomplex System
A reader responds to World History and The Eonic Effect, at Chaos Listserve, see A Hypercomplex System
I’ve been attempting to understand your book, World History and the Eonic Effect, with a mixture of results, but I’m only about half way through it. Parts of it I’ve really enjoyed and found illuminating; you are a very eloquent writer. But other sections I’ve struggled with, wishing for more definitions, more examples, more data, and not finding as much as I would like along these lines, I periodically experience myself in a cloud of confusion (this no doubt reflects the limitations of my own background).
You are right, the account seems incomplete. It is meant to be like that, like a rain cloud heavy with potential, about to burst. However, for that very reason the material has a fullness that other treatments lack because they have to sell you on something. Instead what I do is simply map out a totality. However, it is quite easy to generate specific interpretations in many fields, but our method does this wholesale, and it is time for us to do that.The model does its business and then stops: the prime objective is to demonstrate a non-random pattern, then show that to be a valid candidate for ‘evolution’, then show how the relativity of our accounts of history and evolution suggests, no, demands, that we find something analogous in deep time, for earlier man. That is the eonic effect shows a photo finish exception to this generalized history-evolution. A component of historical/evolutionary directionality has been missed. We can at the very least beat Darwin to a stalemate, and then slowly pull ahead on the grounds that, while our facts are incomplete, the evidence of the Great Explosion, taken rightly, show us most probably precisely that missing factor.
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