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Originally Posted by TinyTree I am curious as to what you mean by 'alchemy'. It seems the historic usage has meant 'transmuting one element into another' and you are using it in a way I am not familiar with.
are you using it to mean 'transformation of one thing into another thing'?
or perhaps 'transformation of one arrangment of atoms into another'?
I am interested in understanding where you are coming from. All those ideas are interesting and different. |
TinyTree, I don't know if you were talking to me or not, but I thought I'd explain my view (embryonic as it is!). I think that alchemy involved transformation, not just the elements but I found a site about the creation of an eternal flame, etc. Also, the more I learn about it, the more it drew together various disciplines that are separated now (perhaps artificially?) namely, science, art, religion and philosophy. I wonder if the search for the TOE needs to account for the artifiicial divisions that we place when we apprehend our environment and I also wonder if the various transformations that we have wrought are largely ineffective because they are only part of the equation...still searching...