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Paolo Soleri's Glossary of Terms |
Nature (Reality)
Nature
is reality in the process of creating itself. It is then a
becoming and not a being.
But such a becoming is automatically and instantly consigned
to the past: Beingness.
Nature is the razor edge where Becoming,
the present, pours into Being, the
past. The tendency to isolate the natural world as the biosphere
from the remaining of reality is an added obstacle to the
understanding of nature,i.e., reality. Perhaps the greatest
surprise in store for nature's becoming is the emergence of
life first, of mindful life second.
Seeing the becoming of nature
(reality) as an unwarranted (non-predetermined) series of
transcendences, mineral, biological, mental.... the question
of proportionality becomes critical. Is the living an irrelevant,
puny,and short lived accident or is it the beginning of something
which impact might eventually transfigure reality in toto?
The Omega Seed Hypothesis counts
on this second outcome.
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