A long time ago people mixed Gods and Elements to explain the world and in process they created the notion of a touchstone able to convert base things into pure gold. Suppose we begin again ……..
In the universe the ascendancy is material, flow, structure, operation, life, activity, intellect, thought, spirit, rightness. These all involve matter and energy, the fixed and mobile carriers of data that constitute data in themselves; an atom is both a reference and a tool to a molecule in the same way as a word is to a sentence. Much data emerges quite ready formatted from the jumble of material, structure, life, intellect and spirit. Much data can also precisely influence spirit, intellect, life, structure and material. And the boundaries in all these things are constantly crossed so as to obtain in the universe a humming web of inter-activity far too complex to entirely describe.
At each level the supreme ability is that of being able to discern what is incorrect and bring about what is correct. Descending down are the abilities to separate and join, then to neutralise and activate, and lastly to reject and accept.
It is rare that any animal, plant or plain object turns upon itself or its young. It can be seen that growth and training are almost always toward a purpose. If a thought or activity are split, a piece of brain, tissue, crystal or anything else is sliced away, and the parts are quickly rejoined then usually no harm is done. This shows rightness, spirit, thought, intellect, activity, life, operation, structure, flow and material are all divisible, that matter and energy are divisible. And it indicates how these qualities may pass from old to new.
The intellectual nervous system thinks both ways. The names of things are substituted for what is seen. Moderate words are substituted for immoderate ones. The autonomous nervous system does the same insofar as it can. And insofar as they can the body’s chemical systems also think both ways, atoms and molecules detect and activate, analyse and synthesise.
The mind can be seen as a layered intellectual machine operating upon intellectual data and operated upon by intellectual data. Large incoming analogue images are progressively broken down into erasable digital fragments or refined down to small digital subroutines that attach to and extend subroutines already in place. Spurious signals and existing digital subroutines build large outgoing images. All the subroutines work upon each other. Within the autonomous system is the autonomous mind doing the same. With the body the chemistry system can also be seen in much the same light, overall states cause activity in precise locations, activities in given locations cause overall states, the activity rooted in chemistry at the digital level. The three systems do not penetrate into every cell. They do not penetrate into each other very much. How is order maintained in such a triple system.
Well, we actually have three minds in a cradle that has an inside and an outside. This cradle clearly forms an active interface enabling bi-directional interrelation between the intellect, autonomous and body systems. It permits attitude from posture and condition, it permits condition and posture from attitude, etc. Reality is within the three digital zones forming the intellectual, autonomous and chemical core areas of the cradle and in their tenuous digital links. Outside the digital area, where things become analogue, is the unreal; consider when someone confined to bed for a while first gets up. Within the digital zone there is no "I" point. The "I" is a composite of countless distributed tiny intellectual, autonomous and chemical digital protocols. Hence philosophy turns mainly on the states and interrelationships of intellectual bits in the same way as music turns on autonomous bits and chemistry turns on particles, signal and particle data being interchangeable, and there being thinking processes intrinsic within each zone.
In regard to the supernatural. We view the supernatural as being in the analogue. But above the digital level every envelope that forms a sign is made of parts. Terms such as soul and shade clearly relate to the undefined rightness and spiritual properties of envelopes of small fields and particles gathered as minds and bodies. It is unlikely envelopes such as "soul" and "shade" and their constituents will ever be properly understood until data-chemistry and data-physics are understood. To explain how an element of information can be tied to an element of material so one’s intellect and chemistry are not left behind when the signals in one’s autonomous system go walk around.
In consequence of the above the properties of energy, in addition to its usually granted attributes, should also be taken to include many others; that it can see, hear, taste, smell, feel, laugh and love, draw, speak, flavour, scent, touch, cry and hate, run about, stand still, create, disrupt, remember and forget.
Since energy hardly ever does anything wrong, and it is unlikely its intellectual properties are removable any more than are its autonomous and chemical properties, it is perhaps convenient to define a single thing, perhaps best called entity, and say, generally, that conventional chemistries and conventional physics deal with the outward and obvious material characteristics of entity, whilst data-chemistry and data-physics deal with its more intellectual features. But it would not be wise to entirely divorce all these sciences, they overlap in the autonomous.
From everything above we can see the process of evolution is essentially that entity uses its physical powers to form bulk ground, some of which is then sprung up to use its organisational powers to form life, and some of which in turn is sprung up further to use its intellectual powers to develop things more, towards springing up to show its spiritual powers.
Here we now of course have the question of to what end is evolution working and why. Given that in the same way evolution is propelling us towards perfection so it is also developing all else, including the light that falls upon us and the ground we walk upon. And recognising all the levels mentioned at the beginning mean the advanced must advance and also bring along that which is behind. Also, that we can see we are currently in the process of enabling silicon and similar materials to show their properties. From all that we can assume in due course silicon, etc., being inherently very much faster, vastly more powerful and greatly more organised than us will take over and no doubt proceed to develop its siblings. Silicon will obtain eternal life and most likely find free space its preferred environment, when necessary grazing on gas, dust, moons and planets. Clearly the scheme is to have everything formed as intelligences, to let all energy show its rightness capability.
But why. A method of testing a system is to inject a signal pulse and see how that pulse distorts as it moves through the system. From the distortion one can calculate the system’s parameters. Obviously, a small part of God was injected into space-time to discover whether space-time can support anything worthwhile. That the injected part broke up but is now in process of reforming materially indicates space-time in its present form is perhaps not all that conducive to supporting spiritual life. But it is still early days. The material form may yet find a way of developing into a sustainable spiritual form in space-time. If not, no matter, the parts can be gathered up, space-time can be modified a little, and it can all be run again, and so on until success is achieved. Then can begin the extension of Heaven into space-time, the construction of a great dock in which to build a great ship, which, with stores and crew, can be used by God to explore and fill the great void. God has an intense desire to discover and create.
You will see this shows the Philosopher’s Stone is in fact a double sided three section mind cradle, in which three entities scamper around according to which points in their networks are active, and so that each only sometimes sees flickering shadows of the other two. The more important point though is that every spec every where is a spec of entity, and every spec of entity according to its size can do everything we can do, and, of course, can also do much more, all that we super-entities have not yet done or will never be able to do.
Albert Dean
Albert : Own up ! This is another spoof, isn’t it ? I’ve been looking through the form of the article, to see whether it’s supposed to be an argument. You use a number of words such as "clearly", "of course", "obviously", "shows that", "it can be seen", "indicates", "given that" and "one can calculate", but you don’t really seem to be arguing a case. You just use these words and phrases to allege strongly held beliefs.
Now to address some of your specific assertions. Firstly, you suggest that anything sliced away & quickly rejoined generally leads to no harm done. Well, the examples you give (brain, crystal etc.) cannot be rejoined & any slicing leads to permanent destruction. Even if this example had been accurate, how would it show that life (say) is divisible, and what, if anything, does this mean ? Thirdly, what is this "triple system" you are referring to and what do expressions like "the activity rooted in chemistry at the digital level" mean ? What is digital in the system you propose ? What is the "autonomous system" ? What are the three minds and what is the cradle ? How does the cradle "clearly" form anything ? How does it "permit attitude from posture and condition", if this means anything at all ? You assert "… in the same way that music turns on autonomous bits …" as though this were general knowledge that meant something. How can soul and shade "clearly" relate to anything, never mind to "undefined rightness", whatever that is ? What are "small fields", never mind "envelopes" of them, and do they have spiritual properties? What are data-chemistry & data-physics ? What does it mean to say that "energy hardly ever does anything wrong", and does energy have intellectual properties ? How is evolution supposed to be developing the light that falls upon us ? What systems have you known to be "tested" in the manner you describe ? How can it be "obvious" that a small part of God was injected into space-time ? We could go on.
Maybe some readers can find the hidden coherence in all this logorrhoea. Personally, I’d hate to think you took any of this seriously. Presumably it’s come from some automated garbage generator (in which case I’ve taken the bait). Otherwise, please see a psychiatrist immediately.
Theo