Victor’s Way

 

Pan’theism up-dated

 

 

The pantheist1 accepts that all he/she can observe2 (i.e. experience as fact) is nature.3 Because of the immense creativity4 of nature that pantheist chooses to call nature GOD.5

 

 

He/she does not observe a supernatural entity6 (i.e. GOD as different from nature).

 

 

In short, the pantheist understands nature = GOD.7

 

 

Hence the laws of nature = GOD’s laws.8

 

 

NOTE: Pantheist belief is expedient only for mature, independent adults, i.e. for dynamic self-regulating systems capable of freely applying the basic creation procedure to self-adaptation. Belief in supernatural9 Creation, Guide & Control system/entity is useful for the dependent and immature, i.e. for those transitioning (via the juvenile phase of part dependent/part independent) to free self-regulation and adaptation.10,11

 

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1… Pan = (Greek) meaning ALL.  Theos (Greek) meaning God.

2… For ‘observe’ read: register a physical response.* Nature affects (i.e. instructs) a biological system via billions of individual data instruction/contacts per second, whereby each strike makes the incoming datum real. These contacts/instructions are reconfigured by the brain as identifiable (thus cognizable) realities. The pantheist’s view is derived from science; the local theist’s is derived from fantasy and upheld by faith.

*All contacts (i.e. as quantised wave pulses = instructions = charges), both external and internal, operate as quantised wave pulse collisions @c (in a vacuum), hence are registered as physical, hence as real (hence positive).

3… The totality of all identified (because repeated or remembered) realities-as-wave-interference-patterns (i.e. made real via contact).

4… For creativity read: newly emerging dynamic complexity. Note that creativity (i.e. adaptive complexity) happens as response (to quantised turbulence = discrete random momentum).

5… For GOD (the fantasy of a supernatural entity) understand: an automatic series (or pattern) of constraints, i.e. a blind, automatic dynamic procedure (or basic operating system of fundamental physical forces) that enables the emergence of identifiable realities.

6… The ‘no GOD’ view was first proposed (and indeed widespread) in India about 2800BC by the Charvakas/ (or Lokayatas), later by Jains and Buddhists (and some Taoists), later still by the pre-Socratics and Epicure. The Charvaka mantra appears to have been: “Nature is all we.ve got. So let’s make the best of it.”

7… Since every bit/bite of nature (i.e. every identifiable reality) self-generates by means of the same emergence/creation procedure (or substrate, i.e. Spinoza’s (poorly defined) substance) each individual (thus local) emergence can be understood as a god in its own right, that is to say, as a local GOD variation or application. To wit, since nature = GOD then each bit of nature = GOD.

8… Nature’s laws are automatic and blind, thus indiscriminate.

9… From the point of (natural) view of the dependent and immature infant its independent and mature father/mother appear supernatural.

10 … In this regard see Auguste Comte’s proposal, derived from everyday observation, of the three-phase development of natural systems.

11…  Since the majority of natural (human) systems fail to achieve mature adulthood, hence the capacity of self-regulation and innovative self-adaptation, the majority’s survival mode is best served by belief/trust in a supernatural GOD/Creator/Father cum Guide & Control System. Belief in the supernatural is a highly efficient placebo.