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Human Existence and Free Will as Universal Wave Structure in Space
Jul 10th
As a freshman student of WSM I am focusing on the topic of the title the next week or so:
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Free-Will-Determinism.htm
Wave Structure of Matter describes a finite universe in an infinite space, which is a medium for the transmission of energy by quantum wave-dynamic, as the fundamental structure of all matter. All matter everywhere in infinite space has a finite spherical universe around it, which determines it directly, with radius, R. All matter is always in the exact center of its own finite spherical universe. This is called the Hubble Universe. For every clump of matter less than R distant from each other, their Hubble universes overlap incompletely but when they are beyond R distant from each other, their Hubble universes do not overlap. The significance of this follows …
Within every Hubble universe matter reciprocally determines the nature of all other matter because they mutually reverberate (fundamentally as actual standing waves) in (infinite) space as 3-D matrices consisting of 3-D points (each analogized as a quantum particle) each point being where many quantum energy waves each originating in all other such points along the path of its transmission, all moving at the speed of light in all directions in infinite space, cross each other … in this way all matter sharing some of their Hubble universe can “sense” each other.
Questions here for me 1) about the most fundamental relationship between the standing waves and moving waves, or is it an abstraction only? 2) What are the energy quantum wave transmissions (if any) under the horizon of light?
Some of this energy transfer is direct. Some of it is indirect. Transmission of energy through the wave structure of infinite space is minutely incomplete, as if there is a very slight spatial haze, which is the reason for the finiteness of Hubble universes. Clumps of matter in the infinite space are less visible to each other the closer the distance between them gets to a distance of R. They are blind to each other if they are further away from each other than R. However, a very small amount of directly invisible information does get through indirectly, both from beyond R and the shielded information closer than R.
… so I will more widely consider the historical philosophical questions of Free Will, Choice, Purpose, Morality and Human Existence and reconsider that mindstorm against the new question for me of finite information of the finite Hubble universe in the establishment of all existential energy (matter), being incomplete relative to the infinite information of WSM theory’s infinite space. The main question is whether this constitutes a non-deterministic window in general determinism.
I also want to hear Geoffrey Haselhurst’s position on the question of why the universe is mildly teleological (has purpose) against my view that it is only teleonomical (has only the appearance of purpose to us). I want to know if and how Geoff translates this appearance of human purpose into a characteristic of the fundamental structure of the universe. What is the relationship between free will, choice, and purpose, etc? How does Geoff differentiate between direct and indirect transmission of existential information? What is his view of the mind-world dichotomy?
So Murder is Reasonable
Jul 4th
Science is an abomination: not only in its pose that it represents existence semantically. It is an abomination in its delusional late historical “revelation” that humanity is not the center of the universe. Well, such idiocy! The universe does not have a center, you FOOLS! This popularized notion from science, (science = systematic ideological methodology) in smug opposition to religion (as a more archaic systematic ideological methodology) is extremely sad. The truth is that humans are the center of the universe by virtue of the FACT that our existence is what we experience. And this is the only truth we can know. That we exist. We are not of the universe. The universe is ours.
Religion is also an abomination in its fiction that the universe is teleological: that some god gives it conscious purpose. Religion as the motherlode of civilized insanity, instigates and stimulates a proliferation of other systematic ideological methodologies: The evil doing Machine or Organization or Civilization. This relentless ideological animation means we are placing the existential sacrosanct as center of authority squarely outside our own human existence in God and in Things. It allows humans to develop language in which we can delineate every material thing and action as discretely conceptual: as durable category. Religion’s teleological fallacy further allows us to draw the most bigotedly narrow causalities as closely approaching representation of existence in general. We objectify. We formally subject our own subjective existence to the existence of the cosmos by the most superficial objectification.
Summary: Religion and Science are the mainstays of Reason. Reason’s so-called “objectivity” allows us to sanctify treating each other like objects. It sanctifies even killing each other in the name of some external strategic rationalization, which maintains such action and completely masks it and covers it up.
The Evolving Teleology of Opportunistic Mysticism
Apr 26th
This post follows up on the post of 15-Apr-09, The Organization of the Human Mind.
At the forefront of facilitating this delusional process of human neural subjugation are the gurus of the enlightenment culture. In every historical reincarnation, the gurus validate spiritualism as well as materialism in one fell swoop of their culture-prostrate neural waves. Gurus are not innocent. Opportunistically selective mysticism has always had, and still has a central bearing on what is happening to humanity. Historically, the development of consciousness threads through shamanism, Neoplatonism, Christian mysticism and Buddhism, etc. I am going to use the thoughts of a contemporary consciousness guru, Ken Wilber as an example.
Wilber says he is integrating all such great traditions into one philosophy. Since Wilber is eminently concerned with the spiritual, he points out that the whole fight between the ancient and the modern is about whether the evolution of the universe takes place as a gradual reconstitution of a cosmic involution. Wilber suggests that what we perceive, as newly emerging forms of cosmic evolution are not ultimately new, but is a physical expression of ontologically pre-existing levels or dimensions of reality, ie. in the mind of God. Apart from Wilber’s more local existential thrust, to me this idea suggests the idea that the universe could be a small part of a multiverse evolution forever outside our perception. How Wilber thinks this kind of holistic spiritualism is important to humans, is similar to the question how someone thinks humanity is important to a grain of sand. How is his urgent mentality not merely the involuntary mechanical coursing-through of a mermaid’s call for humanity to integrate with the fabric of the cosmos, in the case of civilized humans, equivalent to utter submission to whatever is happening to them as subjects of civilization? How is it like the ancient institutionalist religious traditions not part of a remorseless seduction in the guise of spiritualist, cosmic immortality? What other kind of becoming is this for humans, other than being made mince meat of?
Wilber is concerned with the world-wide cultural transition between the ancient to the modern and post-modern and its natural opposition to spiritual integrationist culture because of what he sees as its unfortunate suspension of enlightenment spirituality. He notes that the significant percentage of humanity’s influential leadership now in the modern level of consciousness (according to that kind of theory) will develop further, causing the current reportedly 2% at the integrationist post-modern level of consciousness to quickly swell to 5% and 10%. It seems to me that Wilber’s mislead guru mind is trying to reinsert the opportunistically selective mysticism of antiquity into the emergent models of what integrationist consciousness means. In his recent work he tries to construct an argument in support of the ontological preexisting reality or form and its teleological implications that does not rely on the ontological principle of preexisting reality or form. In his mind he is trying to construct a purely rational paradigm that would reconstitute the highest possible level of preexisting ontological reality. Let me stress again, he calls it “cultural integration.” Wilber actually admits to trying to sell integral philosophy to what he sees as the skeptical post-modern mind by dressing it up in their language. He thinks he is smoothing humanity’s path to cosmic Nirvana.
Guru:: Wikipedia 26-Apr-09
The guru is seen as a conduit for sacred wisdom and guidance, and finding a true guru is often held to be a prerequisite for attaining self-realization. The gurudev is the concept of one’s highest consciousness as an inner teacher or intuition within the student.
Nirvana :: Wikipedia 26-Apr-09
Nirvana – Buddha described nirvana as the perfect peace of the state of mind that is free from craving, anger and other afflictive states (kilesa). The subject is at peace with the world, has compassion for all and gives up obsessions and fixations. This peace is achieved when the existing volitional formations are pacified, and the conditions for the production of new ones are eradicated. In Nibbana the root causes of craving and aversion have been extinguished such that one is no longer subject to human suffering (dukkha) or further states of rebirths in samsara.
Shamanism :: Wikipedia 26-Apr-09
Shamanism is a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world. A practitioner of shamanism is known as a shaman, pronounced /ˈʃɑːmən/, /ˈʃeɪmən/, (|ˈshämən; ˈshā-|) noun (pl. -man(s)). There are many variations of shamanism throughout the world and several common beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Shamans are intermediaries between the human and spirit worlds. According to believers, they can treat illness and are capable of entering supernatural realms to provide answers for humans.
Neo-Platonism :: Wikipedia 26-Apr-09
Neo-Platonism posit that the primeval Source of Being is the One and the Infinite, as opposed to the many and the finite. It is the source of all life, and therefore absolute causality and the only real existence. However, the important feature of it is that it is beyond all Being, although the source of it. Therefore, it cannot be known through reasoning or understanding, since only what is part of Being can be thus known according to Plato. Being beyond existence, it is the most real reality, source of less real things. It is, moreover, the Good, insofar as all finite things have their purpose in it, and ought to flow back to it. But one cannot attach moral attributes to the original Source of Being itself, because these would imply limitation. It has no attributes of any kind; it is being without magnitude, without life, without thought; in strict propriety, indeed, we ought not to speak of it as existing; it is “above existence,” “above goodness.” :: Wikipedia, 26-Apr-09.
…. compared to Aristotle’s Scientific Method – :: Wikipedia 26-Apr-09
Like his teacher Plato, Aristotle’s philosophy aims at the universal. Aristotle, however, found the universal in particular things, which he called the essence of things, while Plato finds that the universal exists apart from particular things, and is related to them as their prototype or exemplar. For Aristotle, therefore, philosophic method implies the ascent from the study of particular phenomena to the knowledge of essences, while for Plato philosophic method means the descent from a knowledge of universal Forms (or ideas) to a contemplation of particular imitations of these. For Aristotle, “form” still refers to the unconditional basis of phenomena but is “instantiated” in a particular substance (see Universals and particulars, below). In a certain sense, Aristotle’s method is both inductive and deductive, while Plato’s is essentially deductive from a priori principles.
Christian Mysticism :: Wikipedia 26-Apr-09
For Christians the major emphasis of mysticism concerns a spiritual transformation of the egoic self, the following of a path designed to produce more fully realized human persons, “created in the Image and Likeness of God” and as such, living in harmonious communion with God, the Church, the rest of humanity, and all creation, including oneself. For Christians, this human potential is realized most perfectly in Jesus, precisely because he is both God and human, and is manifested in others through their association with him, whether conscious, as in the case of Christian mystics, or unconscious, with regard to spiritual persons who follow other traditions, such as Gandhi. The Eastern Christian tradition speaks of this transformation in terms of theosis or divinization, perhaps best summed up by an ancient aphorism usually attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria: “God became human so that man might become God.”
Buddhism :: Wikipedia 26-Apr-09
Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religion and is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as “The Buddha” (the Awakened One), who was born in what is today Nepal. He lived and taught in the northeastern region of the Indian subcontinent and most likely died around 400 BCE.
Buddhists recognize him as an awakened teacher who shared his insights to help sentient beings end their suffering by understanding the true nature of phenomena, thereby escaping the cycle of suffering and rebirth (saṃsāra), that is, achieving Nirvana. Among the methods various schools of Buddhism apply towards this goal are: ethical conduct and altruistic behaviour, devotional practices, ceremonies and the invocation of bodhisattvas, renunciation of worldly matters, meditation, physical exercises, study, and the cultivation of wisdom.
