1. the theme of panSEMIOentheism, the cosmic
metanarrative of creation and co-creation:
the trinity asked: could we employ finitude, even, to augment values ? and
the rest is history = creation = the navajo rug (woven, purposefully, w/at
least one blemish)
what are signs, what are icons, indexes and symbols? mistaken
perceptions and memories, neuronal constellations that lose their original
algorithmic function and then nonalgorithmically present the organism with
novel behavioral responses to stimuli that are more often adaptive than not,
predicates stripped from their subjects, mistakes that evolution has
parlayed phylogenetically and that we exploit as our ontogeny
recapitulates phylogeny, as we exploit metaphor to deepen meaning
signs are neuronal replication variances (mistakes) adaptively exploited
by organisms and find their richest exploitation in the symbolic language
of humans
transformation entails the exploitation of replication variances (only errors
ostensibly but not otherwise via a robustly telic interpretation) into novel
realities that are more true, more beautiful and more good than otherwise
could be realized had the replication variance (error or mutation) never
occurred = creation or processing forth of finitude exploitation (in the most
benevolent sense)
creation is a risk-laden act that engages finitude (primarily misinformation
or replication variances) in order to augment truth, beauty, goodness and
unity
replication variances (errors) in the 3 levels of thermodynamic,
morphodynamic & teleodynamic emergence
risk-amplifications via replication variances to realize valueaugmentations
or ontological mutation yielding axiological transmutation
kenosis in service of love
exploitation of paradox (rather than paradigmatic dissolution, dialectical
resolution or practical evasion)
signs becoming Signs, "mistakes" becoming metaphors
soteriology of sacrifice, giving up the good for the better, even the best
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