HI Everyone,

I am just finishing reading Bobby Azarian's Romance of Reality. I 
thought I'd add these comments as I might not be able to link into to 
the book discussion that may follow. The book is amazing and I got so 
much out of the comprehensiveness of it. The big question not answered 
in the book for me is where does the human capacity for evil come from 
and I would be interested to get UTOK answers.

 From a thermodynamic / systems angle I note things like:

The environment is always bigger than the system, so it can never fully 
know itself and its environment, so error is inherent in all living 
creatures. If we can make errors we can cause harm. THat is exacerbated 
by the limitations of perception, the constraints of speed, accuracy, 
and energy, etc.

What is good at one level of hierarchy, might not be at another. I like 
to drink alcohol, but my liver doesn't like me drinking alcohol. I like 
driving fast, but he Police Officer will pull me over. The 1% do things 
that are in their interests at the expense of the 99% etc.

Matter, energy and information degrade over time introducing error.

Error and evil is not something that i after a invaded ending a golden 
age, it was baked in the thermodynamic principles from the get go. It is 
a matter of earning to live with it rather than banishing or 
annihilating it.

Regards

Victor

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Victor MacGill PhD
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Author of When the Dragon Stirs: Healing our Wounded lives through Fairy Stories, Myths and Legends
and Gonna Lay Down my Sword and Shield: A complexity perspective on human evolution from a Violent Past to a Compassionate Future

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