Developments in the
notion of God*
as Guide & Control (i.e. rules,
hence regulation) System (i.e. machine) The basic development phases are
recursive for all livings systems (i.e. bions) Note:
Historically few bions (i.e. living systems) reach maturity (i.e.
self-transmission completion) either because of personal incapacity or
because they exist in immature (i.e. highly incomplete ≈ backward,
meaning: closed) cultures
whose elites, both secular and religious, as with the Brahmins of India as
closed, hereditary caste system deliberately preventing development of the
downtrodden masses to maturity (i.e. to independent self-transmission via open, random
contact providing temporary completion) in their own survival interest, for
instance and in the primitive religion sodden, still mostly closed Islamist
cultures of today.
The child (indeed all emerging cultures as almost
wholly incomplete (hence
failing) bions**) transits from ‘other’
regulated dependency to self-regulation and independence,
that is to say, from theist/father (i.e. involuntary tyrannical)
‘other’-management to pantheistic or monistic (and voluntary democratic)
‘self’-management.*** Note: God* ≈ Guide and Control System (as algorithm with n recursive
self-elaboration iterations) is driven by incompleteness (signalled at the level of human
elaboration with unpleasantness/pain (Pali: dukkha)). It’s the need to achieve completeness (i.e. @ min.
entropy or enstasy
status ≈ fulfilment, in other words, (local) coherence) and avoid
unpleasantness (or achieve joy) that drives God (i.e. as-incomplete-accident (read: chaos)-regulation-machine) and all god elaborations, for
instance the human, to select its best (i.e. ‘fittest’) elaborations
(i.e. happening as random events or accidents) towards ever more relative,
meaning locally adapted completeness.**** *… For ‘God’ (as understood/experienced
by mature adults) read: a basic regulation (towards survival)
algorithm. A (not yet defined) invariant set of (abstract) rules/forces (to
wit, an algorithm) that regulates the unregulated, that is to say, a system
of rules (i.e. forces) that orders (i.e. adapts ≈ selects)
chaos/accident (towards minimum entropy) thereby giving the ordered (i.e. the
adapted selected accidental) seeming longevity (an extended (half-) life, meaning: an
increased survival
capacity) is called God. In short, God operates as a logic machine (i.e. as
selection algorithm) that creates ever increasing anti-entropy and whose
side-effect happens as increased survival capacity, i.e. as a longer (half-) life. The Logic machine’s rules
(i.e. the selection rules as God) are recursive for all of
its ever varying outputs (i.e. as creations) and
their local elaborations. **… for ‘bion’ read: a quantum
of life, i.e. a biological unit. St Augustine got ‘Original
Incompleteness’ (to wit, ‘Original sin’) right. However, following St Paul’s deliberate error, namely
that ‘sin (read: ‘incompleteness’, to wit, ‘missing the mark’) entered
life by one man’, he failed to attribute incompleteness to the first,
meaning original cause of life,
namely to the Jewish ‘Elohim’ or ‘El
Shadai’ or simply ‘El’ (elsewhere ‘Allah), i.e. God. In other
words, the 1st sinner/’failure to complete’ is God, i.e. the One who is incomplete by virtue of
being One (i.e. alone, hence without a 2nd). The
deliberate Jewish (idem Islamic) misattribution of sin to man (i.e. God’s locally
elaborated copy) rather than to God (i.e. as incomplete ‘1’), an infantile response, gave the
Christian Church absolute power and control over all humans (who were in St
Paul’s deliberate misunderstanding ‘not yet risen’ (i.e. complete) to ‘Elohim’ status though the ‘rise
of Adam’ was clearly confirmed in Genesis 3:22) and which, until the
Renaissance, the Church used to physically destroy and emotionally blight the
lives of countless humans who sought to perfect (i.e. complete) themselves
their own way. In India, the ice-cold violence of the caste system that
replaced the mature (pantheistic) Vedic unconditional injunction to ‘perfect
one’s dharma’ upheld by the Brahmin bookworm Adi Shankara, and who out to
have experienced ‘better’ and his reinforcement of the Upanishad’s
unconditional dictum tattvamasi, gave the
(lately) hereditary Brahmins like power and which they misused in like
manner. The backwards looking religion addicted self-serving leaders of Islam
continue in like manner and with disastrous results for the common people. ***…
All
cultures (and that includes religious systems) transit from birth to death,
thus from immaturity (i.e. infancy) via puberty (i.e. adolescence) to
maturity (i.e. adulthood). Maturity/adulthood (meaning:
self-completion) is attained if and when a culture
transmits (i.e. communicates) part or all of its
identity. Completion (i.e. arrival
at maturity) is signalled in the human with the various intensities of
happiness. Failure to complete (i.e. remaining incomplete, like the Primal God-as-creation-algorithm), hence the
failure to transmit part or all of one’s identity is signalled in the human
with the various intensities of unhappiness (and pain). ****… Transmission
(i.e. contact) of one’s identity to (i.e. with) an alternative event/identity
(thereby making both real) makes one self-complete, albeit momentarily. The
immortal soul as red herring © 2016 Victor Langheld |
