This-essay is a7902032.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %VICTIMS OF DETERMINISTIC MODELS 790203 We become victims when we confuse; a model with the reality which it models, a map with the territory it represents, a description with that which is described, a measurement with that which is measured, a word with that to which it points to, etc. It is dangerous to confuse representatives with that which they represent, for representation is not identity; a pointing is not the same as that which is pointed to. Deterministic scientific models represent limited aspects of reality; they are not identical with even limited aspects of reality, much less with all of reality. To live as if the universe is deterministic is to confuse a deterministic model of the universe---with the universe itself. To behave as if environmental factors determined our lives and their meaning---is to confuse a deterministic model with reality; and to become victims of cause and effect, rather than agents making decisions, choosing, affirming, realizing, becoming, etc. To accept a cause and effect model of the universe as identical with the universe---is to imprison ourselves in a game of seeing what we can get away with within a deterministic prison, within the bounds of the bars of cause and effect. We tend not to trust our ability to make free choices while at the same time struggling to break free of our trust in the model as reality---so that we might be free to be true to ourselves and each other. Our self-conceptions generate double binds in our self- conceptions. We may be victims of a model which purports to be the reality which it models, a model which does not grant us the freedom to recognize that the model is not identical with reality. On the basis of such a collusive model we can not escape the limitations of the model to perceive the rich fullness of reality. People who are not victims of inhumane models are free to choose what they will affirm, be, do. They do not fit themselves into machines as gears turned according to the rules of cause and effect; but through their decisions and affirmations realize the kinds of relationships which they prefer as spiritual subjects who are forming new images of what being human means. They live within the universe, not within a limited legitimate model of the universe. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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