Principles

[pramodbiligiri]

Since I criticise others' philosophical theories a lot, it's useful if I can provide my own general beliefs about the world.

Here's a few principles I've internalized currently:

1. The world is not an entity. It has no intent. It is purely random.
2. There is no goal or purpose.
3. There are small emergent orders within the overall chaos.
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Comments

[chandrahasa]

I believe 'Even in Chaos there is order'

"The world is not an entity. It has no intent. It is purely random"
I dont know about that but I want to believe the above is not true... Its more romantic that way :P

[fiveonehalf]

What's romantic is what people choose to do with this world of theirs, knowing that it has no intent. Its how they balance their beliefs against the overall truth that everything is random and chaos, how they live in their microcosms and what values they choose to prioritise.

[pramodbiligiri]

I agree. You've expressed it beautifully.

[fiveonehalf]

I didn't understand the fourth one. But I completely agree with the first three.

[pramodbiligiri]

The 4th one gives up on expression and trivialises it.

[anantj]

Ahhh.. Entropy.. What would we do without it ;)

[pramodbiligiri]

I think my previous comment sounded rather rude
No probs, I didn't take any offense :)

Coming to the proof of it, here goes. Of course it's not scientific ("beliefs"), but just a bunch of conclusions based on what science I know. Fairly straightforward, actually.

i)Evolution
It's taken me a while to realize what a fundamental breakthrough this was. I use it as a rationale for why humans procreate and how intelligent life evolved on earth. One of these days I plan to read The Selfish Gene to learn more.

ii)Creation of Universe
Most scientific theories behind the creation of the earth/solar system so far says it was just due to combination of gases over millions of years. That's what I meant by "purely random".

iii)Emergent order
This is a hunch. Since there are so many regular patterns in the universe (like Maths), I can only imagine some initial conditions led to the creation of these patterns. Something I haven't explored yet.

Evolution also shows how the complex can arise from the simple, over a period of millions of years

[anonymous]

Wow never knew tat I could agree with ur opnions/views ever :)

Jaya