It seems pointless for me to be writing about climate science anymore. Our runway is receding as we rush forward peddle-to-the-metal. We are entering the free fall zone - we've put extreme destructive storm roulette in charge of how our future unfolds.
Rather than get consumed by the dark side, my focus has pulled in to a more personal, introspective place. With four grandchildren entering my life over the past five years, I'm more into reminiscing about past times and lessons learned during my 69 adventurous years, and counting. Time to work on reminiscences and such. Of course, I will continue striving to explain my apparently rather unique Earth Centrist perspective.
I participate in a Philosophy Club, and tomorrow's session inspired me to write the following beforehand. (edited Dec 2 afternoon)
Is Belief in God Rational?
To me, that framing feels like a trick question of sorts.
God is a belief in itself.
God is not a Thing.
Regarding people’s faith in God - I have to wonder, how does an assumption get transmuted into a Thing?
Is a belief in a belief rational?
From an evolutionary and pragmatic societal perspective, there are a host of reasons faith in meta-physical beliefs could and does bring benefits to believers.
Regarding what God is, I have an evolutionary, bottom up, scientifically supported perspective that starts with resolving that ageless question, “Who Am I?”
I, we, are evolved biological animals, the product of half a billion unbroken years of Earth’s processes.
From the beginning all creatures have required a degree of awareness, processing and action abilities, each according to their individual biological complexity and kind. Ours is simply the most advanced mind, thanks to our incredible body and its experiences.
Still, our thoughts are the interior reflection of our body communicating with itself as it processes incoming information from within and outside. (See Solms, Damasio, Sapolski, etc. for details) It is our body and brain interacting with physical reality that produces our mind, our sense of self, all our thoughts - collectively our Mindscape.
The inevitable conclusion from the full scope of relevant biological/physical sciences is that consciousness is not a thing, it is an interaction. Our Consciousness is produced in the living moment by our living body.
Scientists have been revealing that our thoughts are born and nurtured from within our own human biological bodies.
As with the dynamo that stops producing electricity when it stops spinning - so too when our body stops living our mind/consciousness/soul ceases to be produced, after that, we become memories within those we leave behind.
It seems self-evident from the above that our God’s must be a product of our thoughts, which in turn, are driven by personal biological imperatives, ego, bias.
Our Gods are very real, still we should be very clear that our Gods belong to the meta-physical realm.
Gods are not part of this physical reality that makes up the biology of our bodies, nor the substance of this miracle planet Earth that created us to begin with, along with the rules all of that nature operates under.
Key concept: Appreciating the ‘Physical Reality ~ Human Mind divide.’
Appreciating that our living body produces our thoughts, and that our Gods are born from within our own ego-centric thoughts.
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Does Morality Require God?
How can it, if we create our own Gods?
That realization puts the responsibility right back upon ourselves.
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