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 |
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. |