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Paolo Soleri's Glossary of Terms |
MCD (Miniaturization, Complexification,
Duration)
In the universe we belong, a universe
in which Spacetime is the agent
"manipulating" the media, Mass-Energy, into Being,
the MCD triad is critically determinant in creating Being,
the past. MC is the binary methodology
by way of which reality is inching
toward self-consciousness, the mind.
As mass-energy is unrelentingly stirred by spacetime in ways
that generate more and more information-knowledge (complexity)
contained in less and less spacetime (miniaturization),
reality witnesses the mineral memory
at first, then the genetic memory and "finally" the cultural
memory. Duration is taking hold,
in the sense that the past (reality) sees more and more fragments
of itself being "relived" , being remembered. Perfect remembering
is tantamount to a Second Coming.
The day I will be remembered in all the details of my becoming
that day I will be resurrected. It
goes without saying that this could only happen in a reality "purged" of spacetime.
We call this reality the past. The past
as the only being. |
