Professional Documents
Culture Documents
By G.Antuan
Feb 7, 2010
(Revised March 21, 2010)
But it is our ambition here to point out that the mere possibility of
knowledge is the only necessary ingredient for knowledge to arise. This
possibility starts with the possibility of structure or order. Structure leads
to information, and information leads to knowledge. Structure could be
either randomly designed, guided by some unknown source, or as an
inevitable universal condition given the laws governing all underlying
physics. According to this last proposition, the only thing necessary is a
fundamental cause, that thing which “threw the first rock” or “blew things
into existence” or the first chunk of matter or gasses following a particular
set of unavoidable rules given time and these material elements.
It is also structure, design and order, the hidden essence within the
greatest works of art and those things we tend to consider to be beautiful.
Our subconscious inadvertently assimilates order. It is also this same order
what we perceive and enjoy when we listen to music or when we dance and
enjoy complex choreographies. It’s the essence behind our delight as we
watch the living nature around us, birds taking flight, whales
communicating, a plant flexing towards sunshine.