Introduction The
belief1 that ALL (i.e. pan ≈
nature ≈ the universe) is GOD (Greek: theus), or ALL is (fundamentally) ONE,2
has been reported since about 800BCE.3 Pantheism tends to emerge in older,
more mature, thus cooler individuals given either to observing nature as a
whole4 or to abstracting a (or any) natural phenomenon towards its
essential features, namely featureless order.5 What
the ALL is6 ONE belief suggests is that ALL7
emerge from ONE (common order source8); and that,
consequently, all emerged 1’s, as localised (or context dependent)
elaborations9 of the ONE order source, are fundamentally
identical with the ONE.10 Or,
to translate the notion into modern Information
Technology language, all (identifiable,
because uniquely dis-ordered) 1’s emerge as
differential
(thus local) iterations-(as-applications)
of ONE (unidentifiable, because having
common order) Basic Creation Platform11 In other words, all (of
n) specific because differentiated hence
identifiable systems of order (continuously) emerge from one initial state Basic12 (hence unidentifiable) Order Generating Platform. The
infamous13 Irish monk, John Scotus Eriugena
(to wit, the Irishman, c. 815CE to c. 877CE), put it like this: “It follows that we ought not to understand
God and the creatures as two things distinct from one another, but as one and the same. For both the creature, by subsisting, is in God; and
God, by manifesting himself in a marvellous and ineffable manner creates
himself in the creature.” (Periphyseon, III. 678c). Translated
into modern Information Systems
Theory language, Eriugena’s observation reads as: ‘It follows that we ought not to understand
the Basic Order Generating Platform14 and
its local differential iterations-cum-applications15 as two things distinct from one another, but
as one and the same. For both the application, by running on the
General Order Generating Platform, is the platform (i.e. GOD/theus); and the platform
(i.e. GOD) by
emerging itself in a marvellous and ineffable manner, emerges
itself in the application.’ Further updated quotes of Eriugena In other words, if GOD is conceived as Basic (or ‘ground’, so Meister Eckhart) Order
Generating Platform that turns/channels initial order16 into
secondary (dis-)order17, and when its differential applications
emerge as local18 (end become initial) means of generating further
dis-order.19 Moreover
the Basic Order Generating Platform, (i.e. GOD-)as-initial (hence @ rest) set-of-constraints, happens
as blind automaton that responds ubiquitously20 and of necessity.21 And its applications22
would emerge23 as distributed network of limited further dis-order
generating automatons. All
emergent,24 from enzyme to carrot to human, hence all eco-systems,
self-adapt and self-select as renewable, disposable, self-constructed25
means ≈ tools26 that extend the continuance (i.e. as
formal survival) of the initial formless Basic Ordering Device.27 In
other words, the Basic Ordering System, that is to say, GOD as primary, hence un-emerged order
generating platform automatically (and recursively) copies and then applies
itself28 step-by-step,
moment-to-moment differentially,
thus generating secondary (dis-)order systems as quantised emergents as local (≈ niche ≈ eco) ordering
systems that function to serve as disposable means to enhance the Basic
Ordering System’s (i.e. GOD’s) basic thrust/momentum, namely
sustaining and increasing local order and thereby local continuance/survival. Thus does 21st century pantheism state that:
‘All local order generating apps29
continuously run on and emerge, step by step, from, therefore as,
one Basic (i.e. initial) Order Generating platform.’ The
local (i.e. eco-) order systems30 that survive and contribute
briefly31 to overall order survival self-select by energetically32
applying superior survival fitness.33 If you
don’t get it, try the essays on the left of this page, starting with the
conclusion, namely the Standard
Pantheist Model. © 2018 by
Victor Langheld |
1. For ‘belief’ read: an inference held more or less
strongly. A belief serves as behaviour role model. The belief/inference in
Jesus as ‘special case’ ‘incarnate son of God’ serves as cultural (hence artificial)
role model, hence as artificial intelligence template. 2. ‘ALL’ should read as: all (i.e. the total
number of) 1’s (are ONE (in principle, hence in fact). 3. In the ancient
Indian Brihadaranyaka Upanishads this
inference/belief is stated as: “Thou art That.” (Tat-tvam-asi). The latter belief
cannot serve as cultural (i.e. emerged, hence secondary order) role model
because the ‘THAT’ is undefined (i.e.
with qualities, Sanskrit: gunas). That’s why pantheism can have no actual (thus
cultural, i.e. eco-) followers. Pantheism offers no specific path or goal,
hence no salvation; cultural (i.e. eco) theisms (i.e. heno-theisms)
do. 4. Or, as Spinoza
called it, sub specie aeternitatis. Spinoza’s formulation, ‘under the
aspect of eternity’ is more appropriately updated as: ‘sub specie totalis’, meaning ‘under the aspect of all (1’s).’
Spinoza claimed that what is common to, hence the sine qua non of all, is
substance, by which he meant (undefined) ‘being.’ However, what is common to
all is not substance ≈ being but undifferentiated order! What
constrains order into disorder (i.e. secondary or alternate order caused by
turbulence as random momentum ≈ energy), namely initial order, is
usefully imagined as and named GOD. 5. The initial state presents @ maximum entropy order
of 1, in other words, as perfectly aligned/still, hence unidentifiable state.
With turbulence, for instance the BIG BANG, the initial state unidentifiable
order becomes disordered. And it’s the disorder that makes the emerged state
identifiable. In short, the universe of 1’s (i.e. me, you, all else) emerges
as ensemble of (turbulated, hence energised)
disordered states. What the human perceives as
order is in fact specific disorder (of the initial state of
maximum entropy ‘waiting’ @ the (initial state) order of 1). 6. Actually ‘are.’ As several Upanishad imprinted
philosophies, such as Buddhist, Samkya-yogis and
Jain atomistis had already established, the
experience and notion of ‘is’ (esse ≈
continuous being) happens as false observer superimposition. In other words,
at best is happens (or exists) as momentary emergent.
Cognizable God, hence the whole
universe as collective of all differential God-iterations
emerges as effect of turbulence/energy upon GOD
as @rest initial state order. 7. i.e. all defined/limited hence uncommon 1’s,
i.e. the totality (as universe) of individual/unique forms-as-bites of
emerged secondary orders. 8. i.e as initial state. An initial state presents @ max. entropy/disorder, meaning as a thermodynamic system @
(relative (i.e. god) or absolute
(i.e. GOD)) rest. For dis-order
read: an initial state randomised and so disturbed by random momentum ≈
energy. A system @ max. entropy ‘waits’ @ initial
state order that does no express until activated/animated by
energy-as-random-momentum. 9. For ‘elaborations’ substitute: (Spinoza’s) modes,
re-arrangements, re-orderings and so on. 10. i.e. because they have
(initial) order and order per se in common. In other words, all emerged 1’s
serve as fractal elaborations, i.e. as apps of the initial state order. 11. Elsewhere called either a Basic (order generating)
Operating System or simply, i.e. naively, GOD. 12. Thus general, thus common, thus undifferentiated. 13. i.e. because later excommunicated. He reverted from the
cultural God norm (model) of
Christianity to the natural GOD
norm. 14. i.e. as initial set of constraints acting as rules or
law, elsewhere called ‘Portal’, Platform or ‘Basic Operating System’. Not
that the emerged does not sub’sist but super’sists. 15. i.e. the ‘creatures’ as emergents
≈ fractal (i.e. basic rules) elaborations. 16. i.e. randomly
energised/moved order ≈ disorder ≈ chaos. 17. i.e. as alternate order of 1, hence as identifiable
unit/quantum @ min. entropy. In other words, GOD presents as unidentifiable
initial state order (@ maximum entropy) that generates n unique states of
disorder *that can be indenitifed). 18. i.e. as specific or particular ≈ niche ≈
ecological @ initial states. 19. In other words, the universe (i.e. the ALL) emerges as states or modes (so Spinoza)
of the initial state order (randomly) disordered, because at un-rest, into
perfectly (recursively) ordered new initial states. 20. i.e. as everywhere ever-ready to order random
momentum.. 21. If
one assumes that the universe initially exists as an undisturbed, hence
non-existent because unreal quantum concentrate (called aether by the ancient
Greeks) and that emerges (begins to exist) as response to disturbance and
quantum contact (which makes real), rather than as an empty space with a
something to explode and expand in it, then the arrangement (or shape, so the
Jains) of the quanta (or atoms) serves as constraint-to-order of turbulence
(i.e. the Big Bang). The constraint response to turbulence in any quantum
concentrate, and which would happen of necessity, would then be usefully named
GOD. 22. i.e. applications emerging as identical, because copied
recursively, differentials, i.e. as ‘fractal
elaborations’ operating locally as identifiable and real
eco-systems. 23. by chance, that is to say, because ‘co-dependent on
unpredictable conditions’, so the Buddha. 24. i.e. all ‘creatures’
(i.e. as real emergent) as on-going, thus surviving applications that
automatically and blindly self-select to upgrade local order, 25. i.e. self-adapted + self-driven 26. i.e. as natural intelligence templates that emerge artificial
(i.e. cultural) intelligence templates (i.e. specific role models) to
increase survival. 27. i.e. Post the Big Bang/turbulence ≈ energising of
initial state order (i.e. GOD) all emergents (i.e. gods)
eventually dissipate their energy/turbulence and decay back into the initial
@rest order platform (i.e. GOD). 28. i.e. its platform of constraints/rules. 29. i.e. all emergents, hence the
cognizable universe. An emergent (i.e. a god)
happens as the Basic Operating System (as universal constraints platform)
randomly energised and then further constrained by a local order. 30. i.e. all secondary emergents
functioning as thermodynamic, hence transient further dis-order generating
machines. 31. i.e. like one whole wave (cycle) impact. 32. i.e. forcefully, violently, mercilessly and without
pity. The Basic Operatint System, i.e. GOD is as blind as the energy-as-turbulence
that activates it. Go to: Seeing the arse
of God 33. i.e. as survival flexibility. 1. i.e. iconized as 2. (i.e. happens by means of)
constraint, order is achieved by force, i.e. violence. |