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Respect Desire Worship
Respect Desire Worship
“The universe is on a journey towards infinite beauty.”
AI images of manicured vs. wild natural beauty
AI interpretation of music
The key is to draw the distinction between cooperation, in which each party co-opts something from the other in a win-win “game,” and coordination, in which the synchronized engagement of divided labor leaves no room for individual–group trade-offs, and everyone rises and falls together.
Robert Bellah: We saw in the case of Israel that Yahweh emerged gradually from being one of many other gods, even the greatest god, to the status of the one and only true God.”
Darwin: “. . . a high degree the spirit of patriotism, fidelity, obedience, courage, and sympathy, were always ready to give aid to each other and to sacrifice themselves for the common good . . . “
Darwin: “On the whole, birds appear to be the most aesthetic of all animals, excepting of course man, and they have nearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have…”—The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871)
Darwin: “Here, then, I had at last got a theory by which to work.”
Franz deWaal: “That was out of the question, he said, and besides, their society would not suit me: it was much too harsh for a human being..—”Chimpanzee Politics”
Nick Lane: “. . . the exquisite beauty of flowering plants, which swept through the world some 80 million years ago . . .”
Wm. Styron: “the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion” Darkness Visible
FDR: “. . . a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.”
Emmanuel Kant’s Awe in AI Images & Music
Causal narratives seek to knit together disparate observations, facts, and events into a coherent and inclusive whole that convincingly links later events to prior events.
William Butler Yeats: “We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”
The Metaphysical Belief Driving All Scientific Exploration
Jesus and Marx on Truth
Charles Darwin: “They are ornamented by all sorts of combs, wattles, protuberances, horns, air-distended sacs, topknots, naked shafts, plumes, and lengthened feathers gracefully springing from all parts of the body.”
Sir William Osler:” . . not the slightest dilator or contractor influence shall pass the vessels of your face under any professional trial.