{"id":480,"date":"2016-06-24T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=480"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:39:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:39:32","slug":"appendix-z16-atheist-v-potentialist-atkins-v-birnbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX Z16: Atheist v. Potentialist Atkins* v. Birnbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APPENDIX Z16:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Atheist <\/span> <\/span>v<\/span>. <\/span> <\/span>Potentialist<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
Atkins* v<\/span>. Bir<\/span>nbaum <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
consonant with Summa:<\/span>\n <\/div>\n
\u201csimplicity\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201c…The only clue we have at the outset is that the
\n \ue0c4nal\n <\/div>\n
answer will almost certainly be one of extreme
\n simplicity<\/span>,\n <\/div>\n
for only the perfectly simple can come into
\n existence….\n <\/div>\n
what we perceive of as complexity may be the
\n outcome\n <\/div>\n
of chains of simplicity<\/span>.\u201d
\n (p. 7)*\n <\/div>\n
a<\/div>\n
\u201c…Somehow matter must have been created out of\n <\/div>\n
something resembling nothing….\u201d (p. 11)*<\/div>\n
a<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Intersecting with Summa:<\/span>\n <\/div>\n
\u201cMega-or<\/span>ganism\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
\u201c\u2026our own nominally civilized, cultivated,
\n intelligent, and\n <\/div>\n
re\ue0c5ective level of life emerged when organisms
\n stumbled\n <\/div>\n
on a way of passing <\/span>on
\n intricate, unpr<\/span>edictable information\n <\/div>\n
to others around them and following them. It did so
\n by\n <\/div>\n
inventing language and effectively binding together
\n all\n <\/div>\n
human organisms, past, present, and futur<\/span>e into a single\n <\/div>\n
mega-organism of potentially boundlesss
\n achievement.\u201d\n <\/div>\n
(p.33)*<\/div>\n
b<\/div>\n
polar opposite to Summa:<\/span>\n <\/div>\n
\u201ccollapse into chaos\u201d<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\u201cAspirations… feed on (purposeless) decay\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201c….All change, I shall argue, arises from an
\n underlying\n <\/div>\n
collapse into chaos. We shall see that what may
\n appear\n <\/div>\n
to us to be motive and purpose, is in fact
\n ultimately\n <\/div>\n
motiveless, purposeless decay<\/span>. Aspirations and their\n <\/div>\n
achievement, feed on [purposeless] decay<\/span>.\u201d (p. 21)*\n <\/div>\n
a<\/div>\n
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*a<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Peter Atkins, Creation Revisited, The Origin of Space, Time and the Universe<\/span>\n <\/div>\n
(London, England: Penguin Books, 1992)<\/div>\n
*b<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Peter Atkins, Galileo\u2019<\/span>s Finger<\/span>, The T<\/span>en Great Ideas of Sciences, (Oxford, England: <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Oxford University Pr<\/span>ess,
\n 2003)\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APPENDIX Z16: Atheist v. Potentialist Atkins* v. Birnbaum consonant with Summa: \u201csimplicity\u201d \u201c…The only clue we have at the outset is that the \ue0c4nal answer will almost certainly be one of extreme simplicity, for only the perfectly simple can come into existence…. what we perceive of as complexity may be the outcome of chains of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}