Pan’theism up-dated for the 21st
century
The pantheist1 accepts that all he/she can observe2 (i.e. experience as personal fact)
is nature.3 Because of the seemingly unlimited creativity4 of nature some pantheists choose, for practical reasons, to call nature GOD.5 The pantheist does not
observe a supernatural entity6 (i.e. an AI generated (hence culturally expedient) GOD (such as the human generated conceptions of Yahweh or Brahman) as different from nature. In short, the pantheist
understands nature ≡ (i.e. identical with) 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 (AI generated) 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. Pantheism means: All is God, or, every
emergent in the universe applies the God/emergence operating system. Thus ‘LIFE
is 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 AI generated 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.” To avoid social friction, pantheists generally
admit to believing in God, save that theirs’ is nature itself. The AI
generated God/ruler of Judaism and Christianity has neither name nor
definition, hence as empty frame can be filled by any notion serving the
personal survival needs of the priest/interpreter/executor representing that vacuous notion. 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. Consequently, nature’s laws, as sets
of constraints, equivalent for all, are apolitical, hence culturally useless
as political means. Therefore humans invent (via AI)
politically useful laws/rules/constraints that differ from the natural ones.
(Named and defined) Gods worshipped by humans are all human artificial
intelligence survival aids solutions. 9… From the
point of (natural) view of the dependent and immature infant its independent
and mature father/mother appear supernatural (actually, superlative). 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 (indeed artificial, hence specifically
designed) GOD/Creator/Father
cum
Guide & Control System. Belief in the supernatural is a highly efficient
placebo. |