The pantheist’s belief
about the world The pantheist is a true mono-theist in
that she believes that all things that make up this or any universe run on and
so emerge from one and the same automatic self-ordering, hence
self-regulation and self-organisation rules set. That rules set serves as
basic operating system of creation, hence as G.O.D. The henotheist calls the
basic operating system of creation rules God. In the pantheist’s (limited and angled)
view, creation, that is to say, the universe and its content, happens as
gradual emergence of ever more complex order systems (i.e. niches) and their
real identifiable side-affects, such as the human and the human’s particular
range of interaction capabilitites. In simple terms, the process of emergence,
i.e. of creation happens gradually and bottom up with G.O.D. operating as
bottom or ground order generating function and currently the human as top
(complexity) or surface app differentially re-presenting the best, i.e. the
most complex order G.O.D. could manage under the circumstances and so far.
Because the pantheist believes that ‘all
things’ run on and so emerge (as local applications) from the basic (non-local,
unlimited, hence universal) operating system of order complexity generation,
i.e. G.O.D., she does not differentiate
between things at the basic or ground operation level. PAN, i.e. G.O.D., the basic creation
operating system, happens as limited set of rules but with unlimited application
potential, meaning application flexibility. Pan, i.e. G.O.D. self-activates
as automatic, hence blind ordering operation. The particular
qualities of the effects of ITS discrete and ever more complex ordering
operation, namely ‘the things of this world’ as identifiable realities,
emerge at random and as discrete quanta, hence are communicable, and
transient. Consequently PAN, i.e. G.O.D., as basic
and universal ordering function not yet emerged, lacks the qualities of the
emergent side-effects of higher order complexity, such as the human. In other
words, G.O.D as basic operating system lacks identity and realness, both emerging
from transaction between complex systems, hence does not appear as a person.
Moreover, G.O.D. lacks human emotions such as love, hate, mercy, anger, joy,
compassion, morality, ethics and so on, all of which emerge with increasing
complexity of G.O.D.’s, i.e. PAN’s self-manifestations.
PAN, the basic operating system of creation,
generates ever more complex emergents by differentially
copying itself to create and elaborate ever more complex order niches. These,
in turn, if compliant with the basic operating system, recursively generate
ever more complex order niches, all discrete. In that way does un-manifested
PAN as ground operation of creation gradually manifest its unlimited
differential ordering capability as actual identifiable surface structure realities. The pantheists understands, and sometimes,
if sensitive, actually senses24 that all creations are mere
transient manifestations of one and the same creation operating system. Then
she either she sits on the fence and watches in joy or horror26 at
PAN’s ever increasing and violent drive to increased order complexity and so
increased local, i.e. everyday survival perfection. Or she gets off the fence
by applying the ‘I alone am God’ stance/state and so furthers PAN’s creative
effort. Next: Pantheism,
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The pantheist’s belief
about the world The pantheist is a true mono-theist1
in that she believes that all things that make up this or any universe2
run on and so emerge from one and the same automatic self-ordering, hence
self-regulation and self-organisation rules set. That rules set serves as
basic operating system of creation, hence as G.O.D.3 The
henotheist calls the basic operating system of creation rules God.4 In the pantheist’s (limited and angled)
view,5 creation, that is to say, the universe and its content,6
happens as gradual emergence7 of ever more complex order systems
(i.e. niches) and their real identifiable side-affects, such as the human and
the human’s particular range of interaction capabilitites.8 In simple terms, the process of emergence,
i.e. of creation happens gradually and bottom up9 with G.O.D.
operating as bottom or ground order generating function10 and
currently the human as top (complexity) or surface app11 differentially
re-presenting the best, i.e. the most complex order G.O.D. could manage under
the circumstances and so far.12
Because the pantheist believes that ‘all
things’ run on and so emerge (as local applications) from the basic (non-local,
unlimited, hence universal) operating system of order complexity generation,
i.e. G.O.D., she does not differentiate between things at the basic or
ground operation level.13 PAN, i.e. G.O.D., the basic creation
operating system, happens as limited set of rules but with unlimited application
potential, meaning application flexibility.14 Pan, i.e. G.O.D.
self-activates as automatic, hence blind ordering operation.15 The
particular qualities of the effects16 of ITS discrete and ever more
complex ordering operation, namely ‘the things of this world’ as identifiable
realities, emerge at random and as discrete quanta, hence are communicable,17
and transient.18 Consequently PAN, i.e. G.O.D., as basic
and universal ordering function not yet emerged, lacks the qualities of the
emergent side-effects of higher order complexity, such as the human. In other
words, G.O.D as basic operating system lacks identity and realness, both emerging
from transaction19 between complex systems, hence does not appear
as a person.20 Moreover, G.O.D. lacks human emotions such as love,
hate, mercy, anger, joy, compassion, morality, ethics and so on, all of which
emerge with increasing complexity of G.O.D.’s, i.e. PAN’s self-manifestations.21,22
PAN, the basic operating system of creation,
generates ever more complex emergents by differentially
copying itself to create and elaborate ever more complex order niches. These,
in turn, if compliant with the basic operating system,23
recursively generate ever more complex order niches, all discrete. In that
way does un-manifested PAN as ground operation of creation gradually manifest
its unlimited differential ordering capability as actual identifiable surface
structure realities. The pantheists understands, and sometimes,
if sensitive, actually senses24 that all creations are mere
transient manifestations of one and the same creation operating system. Then
she either she sits on the fence25 and watches in joy or horror26
at PAN’s ever increasing and violent drive27 to increased order
complexity and so increased local, i.e. everyday survival perfection. Or she
gets off the fence by applying the ‘I alone am God’ stance/state and so
furthers28 PAN’s29 creative effort. Next: Pantheism,
the distributed network view of creation © 2018 by Victor Langheld |
1. Those who believe in ‘my (chosen) one God, such as
Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Shivaites,
Mahayana Buddhists and so on, are called heno-theists.
‘Heno’ meant ‘one’ (or mono ≈ 1) in ancient
Greek. The henotheist believes that only ‘one God exists’, namely the one the
henotheist has chosen or claims to have been chosen by. The henotheist’s one
selected God, as ruler or regulator, serves to create identifiable
distinctions, hence division with regard to other henotheists’ one God, thus
creating political clout. He does that by means of self-limitation (or
self-constraint), i.e. by subjection to a specific rules regimen, in the
process creating and sustaining a particular identity. The pantheist believes
that there ‘exists’ (i.e. becomes real through action) one G.O.D., i.e. one
basic and open source creation operating system, for all. So the pantheist
eliminates distinction, and so division, and louses political clout. 2. For ‘universe’ (literally: once around the
block/view) also read: world, niche, mode, quantum state, environment,
template; app; perspective, view, opinion, consciousness state and so on. 3. And which I shall from time to time call PAN. The
unlimited (in flexibility) universal, yet unqualified, i.e. without realness
(i.e. being) or identity, creation rules set was called the nirguna the Brahman in the ancient Indian Upanishads. The
saguna Brahman emerged with identifiable realness.
Pan writ small, i.e. pan, stands for god, hence for the
affect-as-quality-as-power of a fractal elaboration (such as a human or a
mouse) of the basic creation algorithm G.O.D. 4. That is to say, deus or theos; or, in
ancient India, Brahman (i.e. growth) or Atman (breath), verbally reframed as SELF or self and whose local elaboration
operates as selfie. 5. For ‘limited (i.e. narrow focus) and angled, thus
selected, view’, i.e. as consciousness, read: phantasy (or dream), Sanskrit: maya. The pantheist’s (like every human’s) view happens
as mental external or internal reality simulation (or mapping) by using
easily responded to icons representing both external and internal big (hence
unmanageable) data flows. 6. A universe (or
world as particular niche representation), and all actual worlds happen
within the brain as simulations, emerges as a momentary snap shot/still of
one’s current state of consciousness, the latter (as awareness, i.e. as
warning message) serving to monitor the most significant constituents of a
system’s survival status. 7. Thus evolution via random generation (i.e. mutation)
and goal oriented selection (i.e. by Trial by Mortal Combat) of increased
order complexity. 8. Such as love, hate, pity, compassion, jealousy and
so on. These emerge with g.o.d./pan i.e. the selfie of the SELF)
G.O.D./PAN acts prior to identifiable quality. 9. The ‘bottom up’ mode of emerging more complex
transaction systems (i.e. niches) happens by means of Münchhausen’s)
bootstrapping. In other words, the pantheist’s view of emergence/creation
happens as the reverse of that of the henotheist. 10. For ‘ground or bottom up general ordering system’
read: Basic (or universal) Operating System, i.e. a sort of
Turing Machine. 11. In short, the human, and all other identifiable
(hardware, i.e. real) ‘things’ serve as ‘skin
jobs’, i.e. as surface structures/features that provide (i.e. invite,
present as ‘come on’ for contact/copulation with) identity and act as contact
points that generate realness (i.e. is’ness
moments). In short, all identifiable ‘things in this and all universes’
happen as G.O.D replicants, i.e. as recursive
fractal elaborations of one basic ordering rules set (or template), to wit,
algorithm. In short, all ‘identifiable real things’ emerge as local G.O.D.
apps/niches, hence as g.o.d.s. (or selfies). 12. And which means that it’s the (simple) G.O.D.’s
highly complex real-time local apps (niches as self-modulations) that emerge
the qualities of everyday existence (hence of the actual universe). It’s not
G.O.D. who experiences love and compassion, hate and jealously, but the
human. G.O.D. as simple but maximally flexible basic order generating systems
emerges no qualities save by means of ITS localised self-applications. It’s
not (my one) God who is ‘great, wise, merciful, gracious, forgiving and so
on’ but (some of) God’s creations, with the human currently at the top of the
pecking order. The pantheist’s G.O.D. merely serves as basic (hence emergents free) ordering device that makes emergents and their qualities possible. The greatness and
wonder of (the pantheist’s) God emerges only gradually from the nano rules set of G.O.D., for instance, like the awesome
and wonder inspiring dinosaurs and humans from the ‘insignificant’
extremophile. 13. Or, as it says in the Bhagavatgita:
‘She sees all with an equal eye.’ In this regard see also Meister Eckhart’s
reference to the God ground (German: Gottesgrund). Likewise Eriugena
and Cusanus. 14. In the Upanishads named the nirguna
(no qualities) Brahman. Taoists named PAN ‘the Way’ or ‘Tao’. Pan is now
conceived as a Universal Turing Machine variation. 15. In other words, it navigates blindly, so to speak on
blind auto-pilot, as do all its emerged after-effects, namely the created
world. That all emerged systems navigate blindly was clearly understood by
the ancient Indians, viz. the archaic story: ‘The blind men and the
elephant.’ 16. i.e. as impermanent side-effect events/affects
responding as it were as PAN’s tangible or communicable skin, i.e. its
real-time everyday manifestations. 17. .i.e. because ‘Only random events carry
instruction,’ i.e. the capacity to affect @c and so make real. 18. i.e. momentary (hence absolutely real) as bit and
transient (hence unreal) as string (or bite, hence as analogue) of bit
moments. 19. i.e. contact, i.e. mutual instruction or strike. 20. The notion of ‘person’ (from Latin: persona, meaning mask ≈
characteristic ≈ identity) was invented by Roman lawyers. Later
Christian henotheists superimposed the ‘quality’ of personhood upon their
triple God to make the latter more human-like or so human friendly. 21. In other words, PAN’s (i.e. G.O.D.’s) most advanced
emergent state (or mode), as observed by the human, is currently the human,
as are the human’s allegedly finer, i.e. more humane qualities/virtues. These
disappear quickly if and when the human’s survival is threatened and when she
needs to revert to an earlier (less human) emergent form with a more basic
survival thrust, as happens during crises of all kinds such as sickness, war
and so on. 22. In short, the human is the best/most perfect
self-representation (or selfie) PAN/G.O.D. could emerge (i.e. bootstrap) to
date given the dodgy and unpredictable circumstances of automatic (possibly
pressurised) differential re-combination and so elaboration (elsewhere called
mutation) and of trial by mortal combat,
i.e. of de-selection. 23. Since the (original and originating quantum of)
basic operating system (of rules) of ordering is originally incomplete
(because singular, thus unprovable, hence merely virtual), hence a failure at
original perfection (i.e. achieved by completion), it transmits its
incompleteness (or original failure ≈ original
sin) to all its identical off-spring/copies. Consequently its emergents, as local ordering niches, operate as
fundamentally (i.e. originally) incomplete and driven by the need, copied
from the basic operating system, i.e. G.O.D., to achieve completion, meaning
actual self-manifestation. PAN, i.e. G.O.D. alone, therefore incomplete,
‘waits’ (i.e. as virtual unit, hence ass merely potential) to respond to
disorder by ordering it. G.O.D.s original incompleteness defines ITS original
failure ≈ original (thus mortal) sin. Non-compliance with the basic or elaborated
operating system grounding the current niche (or app) operating system
defines emerged (or venal) sin (i.e. failure). All emerged identifiable
realities operate with original sin/failure
(to complete), the more complex being driven to redemption (and
righteousness) by means of self-completion. St Augustin got the notion of Original Sin right,
but its source wrong. Adam’s alleged disobedience, i.e. his non-compliance
with the given order (and which was, after all, just a health warning, was
merely venal. G.O.D.s (i.e. the basic ordering
device’s) incompleteness was mortal failure/sin and
which is redeemed by achieving completion via an identifiable reality. 24. Sensing wholly (wholeness being absolutely, because
wholly convincing/true, thus compelling) happens by flooding the brain (i.e. the blind
auto-pilot operating as reality simulation device) with one selected datum,
actual (i.e. real) or virtual (i.e. imagined or phantasized),
be that the sense of ‘being’ (and which becomes universal being when the
brain is flooded @100%) or of ‘consciousness’ (and which becomes universal
consciousness when the brain is flooded @100%) or of presence (and which
emerges as universal presence) and so on. The Hinayana Buddhist Kasina meditation technique trains in the flooding
process. 25. The Pantheist attitude cannot but be non-judgemental
in that all creation is God and therefore perfect in itself as it is. In this
regard see Baruch Spinoza and Voltaire. 26. With joy/happiness if she takes the (PAN as)
predator, i.e. the winner position, or horror, sorrow/unhappiness (Pali: dukkha) if she empathises with the fate of the (PAN
as) prey, i.e. the loser in the trial (meaning selection) by mortal combat
and which is one basic defence, and therefore self-selection operation of
PAN. 27. All ordering, thus selection, is violent, i.e.
without pity or mercy. The qualities of pity and mercy, absent in the basic
ordering device, i.e. G.O.D./PAN, emerge the (or some) human. 28. i.e. as identical PAN copy, clone or fractal elaboration.Note the use of ‘pan’ writ small (and
standing for every identifiable reality) and ‘PAN’ writ large (and standing
for the basic operating system of rules that emerges all identifiable
realities). A similar development can be observed in the later Upanishads
when the ATMAN, wrongly translated into English as the SELF, is
differentiated as local, i.e. inner atman (i.e. the localised basic
operating system clone) and Supreme ATMAN (or universal or non-local
basic operating system or matrix), in modern translation writ as self (more
accurately described as selfie) and
SELF. |