[UA] The Godhead, the IC, the Way things work and the Initial Relevance of this Conversation

[R. Menzi]

---- Kevin Mowery kemowery at earthlink.net wrote:

> Me, I believe that Rupert Sheldrake is a buffoon.
> He's never really proved morphic resonance to 
> anyone's satisfaction but his own.  But it does
> make it easy to explain both Scooby Doo and Planet 
> of the Apes.

     In the end, he is mostly able to describe some
phenonenon using a scientific lens, exposing that
there's something at work in the world that does not
seem to fit into the convinient concept of materialist
causality.  In the end, though, he attempts to
re-instate materialist causality with the idea that we
do not yet have the ability to actually observe
everything that makes up the "material" part of
causality.  The razor's edge of vitalism, but he does
steer clear of giving credit to mystic entities and
supernatural forces.

     Of course, if you're going to adapt this into UA,
that last step is where the IC comes in.

     On the man himself, I was rather amused to hear
about his excessive focus on studies that involve
sexual activity.  Nevertheless, what his idea does
explain is the way the last IC can create the world
however they wanted it, how the current one can have
their way with things, and how there can be avatars
and obsession bonuses, and mystic resonance with the
universal unconscious.



---- James McGraw pdytjem at nottingham.ac.uk wrote:

> This is the point that I took issue with. 
> A genetic trait, such as the novel behaviour 
> of milk-bottle opening, that confers an 
> advantage to the organism possessing it (and 
> what is important here is its benefit to the 
> individual organism compared to the rest of its 
> species) will spread in a population. 

     Reread your Darwin.  Natural selection only takes
place when the population is under an evolutionary
pressure.  That means without food shortage or lack of
space, or worse than usual environmental conditions,
such traits are not relevant to natural selesction. 
In oder for such a change to take place in a few
generations, even a few tens of generations, there
need to be very extreme evolutionary pressures in
their environment.

     For eaxmple, say that girls don't like having
kids with bearded men.  There are hairy-faced men and
baby-faced men.  Because the hairy-faced men have
enough razors to shave regularly, this does not
significantly affect their chances of getting some
girl to have thier kid, there is no evolutionary
pressure toward having all baby's but-faced men.  Now,
if there were a sudden razor shortage, more hairy guys
couldn't shave and they'd have an actual disadvantage
in the reproduction game, but as long as there's
enough razors to go around, it's not a factor in the
Who Gets Laid game.

     For another example, note how resistant strains
of bacteria do not become dominent unless they are
exposed to an antibiotic.  Being resistant is a really
good thing if your a bacteria, but unless something is
killing off all the ones that don't have the trait,
you there's no advantage, as compared to say the
bacteria version of being born without wisdom teeth.

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ObUA: I still say this morphic resonance thing would
make a great bit of gaming background for a non OU guy
catching on to the Godhead and the IC.



Regards,
- R. Menzi


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