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Author Topic:   Transition - how to avoid becoming like Stuart Kaufmann
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09-14-2008 6:43 AM


Kaufmann is another scientist who found freedom is real.
Edge: BEYOND REDUCTIONISM: REINVENTING THE SACRED By Stuart A. Kauffman
Since freedom is an upcoming concept in many scientific disciplines, it should be of some concern how to deal with this change on a personal level, otherwise you could end up like a Kaufmann.
The following advice for the change of a generally reductionist based science to a freedom based science should make for a smooth transition.
- keep your nothing cleanly zero
Decisions come from nothing, creatio ex nihilo. You can see Kaufmanns emergence concept is a mixture of predermination and indeterminacy. So then part is from nothing, it is new, and part is from something previous. Kaufmann then melts these things together as some kind of nothing-something unity. This then leads to Kaufmanns worshipping of "reality" as a god.
- the order of acceptance: trust in your practical common knowledge about freedom first, then trust in the knowledge about it from established religion, then trust your own philosophical meandering about it, and only lastly trust science about it
Clearly when science has objective evidence for freedom, then a great pressure to accept it results. But science can be wrong, so take your time in negotiating all the problems it creates for your other knowledge in use.
- on seeing that the science about freedom is probably valid, start right away with disciplined daily prayer towards the creator whomever the creator or creators may be, if you are not already doing so
You need to invest emotion in this quickly to make the transition go smoothly and comfortably. You can already see that if freedom is real that some kind of creation is true, and having some emotion down on it beforehand, will make you better able to choose the proper religion.
And ofcourse the prayer should not be aimed at a thing, neither at nothing, but to the spirit. And what is in the spiritual domain you know subjectively by the heart, through revelation.

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