John 3

The following is a cut and paste from another forum. Just thought I would bounce it off you guys to see what you think.
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Here’s a little paradigm I’ve been working on lately. Its based on intuition and speculation so all I am asking is how the idea meshes with your intuition. I have a hard time expressing my ideas so that they mean the same thing to other peoples brains as they do in mine—so bare with me here.

A common methodology to reaching a goal is to break the goal into sub-goals and the methodology into sub-methods

So imagine, if you will, the universe as one grand goal and each finite particle as a goal oriented method.

At the beginning of the universe, these base-methods (particles) are all identical and indistinguishable from one another. Their methods are defined by a simple rule that governs its forces (i.e. polarity)

Yet, space is limited and a competition ensues over who gets to be where (entropy/equilibrium). Most of this conflict results in the separation and displacement of these methods, but the nature of the base-method allows for a distinct set of possible cooperative states between interacting methods (particles).

These cooperative sets (symbiotic/synergistic orbitals) of methods (quanta: quarks, leptons, etc.) exhibit entirely new and novel methods. So while the number of individual methods (identical) in the universe is decreasing, the distinct methods are increasingly differentiating.

Once the second-level methods are stable, they compete with each other at a new level of dynamics. These new methods then compete, and while a majority of the interactions are uncooperative, there is another given set of methods that emerge from chaos that define a higher level of methods.

At a certain level (maybe hundredth, maybe thousandth) we encounter something of a cut off point where cooperative methods reach a critical state of synergy and stability (electrons, protons, neutrons, etc.). The methods that result from these methods would be the atomic scale. From the competition and subsequent cooperation of those methods come molecular methods.

The initial forces on the first-level methods are electromagnetic, but one could image that if these methods interacted around the surface of a sphere, the slight outward direction of all the polarities would result in a net-gravitational pull.

As the levels increase, the numbers of different possible competitive interactions explode astronomically. While the number of possible cooperative states increases exponentially, the ratio of cooperative methods to non-cooperative methods decreases at the higher and higher levels of complexity.

Ya still with me so far?

These levels are like octaves on a scale. Competition diffracts the sound, if you will, of material and out of the dissonance emerges whole new chords of harmony—modes of cooperation.