Howard Bloom: Equal

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“Aristotle and Heraclitus were both right. A equals A. But A does not equal A.”

When a Frog is a River? Aristotle Wrestles Heraclitus
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)

“One plus one does not equal two.”

Brace Yourself: The Five Heresies
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)

“A does not equal A because of location. For example, location in time.”

When a Frog is a River? Aristotle Wrestles Heraclitus
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)

“If A is A, a philosopher should equal a philosopher. But that's not the way the cosmos works. Similar things set themselves apart from one another. …What's more, opposites are joined at the hip. Einstein says that most creative acts come from opposition. They come from pitting yourself against someone with another point of view. They come from the law of differentiation. And that was true of Aristotle and his law of identity, his law of noncontradiction, his construction for the base for A is A. Aristotle came up with his idea… to fling a finger in the face of another philosopher [Heraclitus]…”

When a Frog is a River? Aristotle Wrestles Heraclitus
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)

“The particles of this cosmos rock and roll to their own self-generated beat. They defy the rules of arithmetic. Protons plus neutrons… equals music. Is this harmony… entropy? …No. …it's social behavior …riddled with form. And it's so antientropic that those in the scientific world who are trying desparately to rescue entropy… call it "negentropy."”

…Entropy is a very big assumption.
Heresy Number Three
The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (2012)