X-Message-Number: 31682
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 13:49:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phil Ossifur <>
Subject: And one more one more thing-- Immortality of Humanity

The Immortality of Mankind


Now, this again, gets to a theological question, but it's a crucial one you 
can't avoid in science. It comes into the question of the immortality of 
mankind. When people die, unlike animals, they don't really die. Think about it 
in terms of creative abilities, creative powers of individuals: Now, someone has
madeaC”like Einstein or Kepler, or someoneaC”has made a discovery. How does 
that thing work? Well, he's made a discovery, and he knows how to apply it, 
presumably. He communicates it to others. Well, how does he communicate it? He 
communicates it by inducing them to go through the experience of making a 
discovery. How are discoveries promulgated in society? They're done by a process
in which a person who dies does not really die as an effective part of that 
culture, if they're creative. Because, to transmit a creative idea, you have to 
re-experience it. And what happens in society, the principles we develop, among 
skilled people, who are skilled in

 culture, skilled in science, and so forth, is that what they discover is 
 replicated in a continuing process by those who come after them. That's how it 
 occurs. That's what a culture is: It involves language, it involves all the 
 instruments by which we communicate culture, embody it.


So mankind is essentially the only known, immortal living creature on this 
planet. And immortality is expressed in the fact, that the ideas which are 
creative, actually creative, human activities, can only be promulgated by their 
experiencing them, in people who come after those who started the process of 
that particular discovery. That's the way science works! It's the way art works!

http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/2009/webcasts/3615april11_seven_points.html

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