This is an excerpt from the transcript of a class I gave in Narrative Psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, what determines if one is justification, and one is problem solving?\u00a0 Well, as we said balancing an inequity is justification.\u00a0 Resolving an inequity is problem solving.\u00a0 Sometimes resolving an inequity is bad.\u00a0 And sometimes balancing an inequity is good.\u00a0 Good and bad have nothing to do with whether it\u2019s problem solving or justification.\u00a0 It has to do with how you approach the inequity.\u00a0\u00a0 Look at them as extropy and entropy, when you have extropy you\u2019ve got building up, getting more complex; creating an infrastructure that is more and more gossamer.\u00a0 It has more and more connections to it, and eventually if you build it big enough, it will grow too weak to support it\u2019s own weight.\u00a0 And it will collapse on itself or it\u2019s gravity in the area is not strong enough, and it will just float away and you won\u2019t have it anymore because you made it so big, that it just gets picked up by the currents of wind and taken away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buckminster Ford did some research and found that you could build a geodesic dome of a certain size that was so big that because the triangles you are creating that increase as the area of the outside, the volume is increasing as the cube, while the area is increasing as the square, and you reach a point eventually where the thing can become so lightweight compared to it\u2019s size, that the slightest breeze could make something a half a mile across just take off into the air, because of the breeze.\u00a0 And so, that\u2019s the physics of it, and the same thing happens mentally as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, there\u2019s that second force, that force of entropy that is trying to bring it all down.\u00a0 Entropy is not just a destructive force, entropy is the force that seeks unification, as opposed to complexity; instead of variety, singularity.\u00a0 Entropy tries to make things more and more simple.\u00a0 Simplify is what it\u2019s really about in terms of entropy.\u00a0 But, that\u2019s not necessarily a good thing either.\u00a0\u00a0 If you simplify enough, you get to singularity, and as we talked about earlier, when you get to singularity, then you have nothing to compare things to and it becomes completely neutral.\u00a0 When you have complete neutrality, there is nothing \u2014 no life, no thought, no movement, no inertia, no change, nothing.\u00a0 Look at the moment of the \u201cbig bang\u201d.\u00a0 Big Bang is the ultimate singularity.\u00a0 Complete expansion of the universe to an infinite degree would be complete complexity.\u00a0 It is my opinion that neither of these has ever been achieved.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n