Index 
Art as Purpose Epistemology
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Entropy: Entropy seems to me to simply be the world of flowing down gradients, of course reducible energy gradients. So why teach it as chaos or randomness or “increase” “unavailable” energy? Why not call it, describe it, as a “decrease” in available energy? A “flow” from high to low, like water? Isn’t that much easier to understand? I suppose you could call the dissipation of energy concentrations tending toward homogeneity an increase in “chaos” or “randomness”, but that is a tough concept to get a handle on. "Chaos" is an arbitrary definition along a hypothetical scale from “order” to “chaotic (or unpredictable)”. A type of pleasure is release from pain just as a type of pain is release from pleasure (viparinama dukkha) – an example of the first is a good shit, the other the loss of a child. Genealogy Drawing (first sketch and final): Below left is the first sketch of thousands of Heather Sinnock’s ancestors leading over 100 to 150 generations to Adam and Eve and the Greek gods and goddesses. Right is my constructed figure in Adobe Illustator based on the sketch. Shading from outside is based on zero (black, end of ancestors), one or two known parents (shading) at 10 individuals per Illustator unit. Legends, myths, and gods are in the heavenly clouds at the top. The center of the figure shows the same data at 1 individual per unit. I planned the drawing in this journal entry and made it over the next several months. The drawing is a database of ancestry and marriage. I think it is the best database in the world for the middle ages in that it is directly tied to graphical representation. The product qualifies as "science art". | |
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