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Arcology
School of Thought

 

Paolo Soleri's Glossary of Terms

Determinism

Determinism with all of its statistical muscles typify the fatal sound of a reality which, step by regressive step shows its own evolution as a sort of grand deception. At the beginning everything was: the blueprint was not just the map but the territory itself. The singularity and utter creational process carried on by spacetime is then a sort of cosmic farce. For the benefit of what? The What itself is there from the start, data full, knowledge full, "wisdom" full, "experience" full. What of the puny me 15 billion years in the "making", i.e., 15 billion years dwelling (in all its detail) in the deterministic hyper mind?(THE CREATOR)

Determinism, at its purest best, pre-defines, predestines, pre-dooms, all of reality. Evolution (process) and all of its fireworks are just old hat under the hat of the all "knowing" all "loving" Maker.

Determinism and animism are kin since for animism the anima has been afloat from the first day, predefined, preplanned.......

Animism
Art
Artisan
Becoming
Being
Big Bang (B.B.)
Big Crunch (B.C.)
Closed Reality
Complexification, C
Complicated (versus the complex)
Craftsman
Creation
Desirable
Determinism
Duration ,D
Equity
Eschatological Hypothesis
Esthetic Creation
Esthetogenesis
Feasible
Frugality
The Future
Grace
Interiorization
Love Project
M.C.D.
Means and Ends
Memory
Mind
Miniaturization, M
Nature (Reality)
Omega Seed
Open Reality
Opportunism
The Past
The Present
Probabilism
Religion
Residual Anguish
Resurrection
Second Coming
Self-Reliance
Self Revelation
Self-Sufficiency (Utopia)
Spacetime
Stewardship
Technology
Theology
Truth
Urban Effect
Utopia