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 Post 52. September 30, 2018 continued . . .

    Origin of Everything

    The Science of Origins


11. “If the laws of physics are so powerful that they can create life . . . who created the laws?”

   Randomness doesn't need a cause, but laws do. Laws must have a cause.


12. “The human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact . . . “

   Children enjoy romantic myths and fantastic stories, like Santa Claus, yet adults understand they are not as-is true, but as-if fables. Politics & Religion though keep people in perpetual dependent pre-adolescence via simple primitive propaganda procedures7, including incessant repetition of fake facts and inculcated images of evil entities. Preach love, but teach fear; Preach truth, but teach lies. Faith is a brainwashing technique.


13. “He believed that religions came in two flavors – the dark, dogmatic religions that oppressed creative thinking . . . and the light, expansive religions that encouraged introspection and creativity.”
   Like Politics, Religions tend to go to extremes of Left versus Right, or Progressive versus Conservative. But the sweet spot is in the Moderate bulls-eye of the target. Creativity & Progress flourish where reason, free expression, and orderly regulation are dynamically balanced. The light is brightest in the center.


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Further Discussion of Related Topics :


Unformed
Chaos
evolves into
Enformed
Cosmos

7. Propaganda methods :
• Faith : hope & trust in un-    questioned authority
• Bold claims : Big Lie,    glorious myth, manifest    destiny
• Indoctrination : repetition,    repetition, repetition    (preaching)
• Association :
   Us = good, Other = bad
• Bandwagon :
   with us or against us
• Spin : orthodox vs    unorthodox views
• Demonization :
   the devil will get you
• Factoids : trust-me Tweets,
   slanted facts, homilies
• Cult of personality :
   dear leader, the Lord
• Authority : divine sanction
• Fear : Paranoia, God or    Satan will punish you
• Prejudice: emotion-laden    labels

In our empirical experience laws must have a cause and principles must have a principal

Gnomonic spiral symbolizes
creation of order from chaos

Further discussion of related topics :


• Humans are the most efficient dissipative structures in the world, so far. By creating artificial enformed structures (societies, technologies), we increase the controlled flow of energy, and create culture (embodied meaning) as a by-product.


• The Big Bang singularity was a pocket of order within an infinite field of potential (Chaos). Being eternal, anything could happen, including streaks of heads or tails. But for those streaks to continue for a long time, they must be reinforced with new organizing Enformy. Cycles of order/disorder are like internal combustion engines (e.g diesel) sparked by concentration of potential energy. An ongoing series of small explosions, guided by the mechanical structure, drives the cycles into linear directional motion. Thus evolution may seem to be going around in circles, but as a whole system, it seems to have a definite destination out there in the direction of perfection.

      

  CHAOS                 BANG               CREATION              COSMOS
 Potential              Dissipation         Construction            Creation

Information            Entropy              Enformy               Organism


• The Chaos/Cosmos system creates Life & Mind as a by-product of evolutionary change. Circular motion is not progressive. But when cycles are converted into a specific direction, we have progress toward a destination. Was that destiny intentional?


• In other words :

G*D = Cycles of Creation; Chaos/Cosmos; Yin/Yang

Intrinsic Difference/Distinction = Meaning

Difference = Meaningful relationship/ratio

Cosmos = Actual structure (energy flow channel)

Chaos = Unformed potential (omnidirectional)

                                Potential = Creative Power = Inclination, Intention, Difference