Cosmos Café: Synchronicity and Modeling Time [11/28/17]

[Douggins (Douglas Duff)]

@achronon

Which is really all those who are “calling the shots” know. Richter (in the book I just read) calls it the “God complex”, we could probably also call it the “Superman syndrome”.

Oh, my…I see the 12/5 Cafe subtopic (Or, Superman vs. the Cosmic Void) and, with minimal understanding of the philosophical Ubermensch, am now waiting for the real Superman to be revealed.

From Globes, Conversation 1 thread:

@achronon

According to Richter, his (Nietzsche’s) “Superman” is the logical consequence of his postulation (following Schopenhauer) of “will” as the sole driving force. The benign aspect of this appears to be Young’s ascribing of volition to light; the malign aspect is Nietzsche’s Superman, beyond good and evil. Unfortunately, the moment we have more than one Superman about, the Hobbsian war of all against all really comes into play for all that can remain is a contest of wills among the Supermen. This is not the place to go into the details, to be sure ( though it could be worth discussing in another thread somewhere somewhen), but I wanted to mention that the question itself is extremely far-reaching and very relevant to everything that is being discussed here.

So, which values, how derived, how established, and how implemented are very important thoughts to think through.

…maybe this is what @madrush has in mind for the Cafe discussion…hope to make it there!