Post by TyranT on Dec 3, 2009 11:47:08 GMT -8
I wrote this as a note on Facebook over the summer, thought it was pretty interesting, thoughts and feedback are appreciated.
What if "God" is the collective sub-conscious of humanity?
What if the human mind is so powerful that, unbeknown to our conscious minds, our sub-conscious minds: all within the proximity of the our planet's gravitational pull, connect telepathically and form an all-knowing sentience with the power of over six billion minds?
Let me elaborate a little on the sub-conscious and its relation to existentialism/determinism. Our sub-conscious minds control tiny, critical alterations to our lives that can dramatically change our futures, or even save or end or lives. Picture a scene: a man leaves his house, and begins driving his car down a lightly trafficked street after dark. For a moment, he believes himself to have forgotten an item of importance, so he lets off the acceleration and slowly decelerates for a few moments until he locates the item in the glove compartment. He then resumes speed. Because of this delay, he lost several seconds of and about 30 feet. The first set of lights he nears is red, and no vehicle is waiting for it to change on either side, but a pedestrian travelling in the same direction pushes the cross button and awaits the proper signal to continue. The light for perpendicular travellers turns yellow immediately, and the green light is given to our initial travellers anywhere from 25-35 feet before our vehicular traveller reaches the intersection, but our pedestrian begins crossing immediately. A speeding vehicle, perhaps piloted by intoxication, travelling on the perpendicular street speeds past the intersection and through the red light, as well as the pedestrian. Our initial driver is in awe of the realization that, had he initially been aware of his item's location in the glove compartment, he would not have slowed and thus would have been in the path of the law-breaker and would have suffered vast injury and possibly death. Instead, the pedestrian is dead, whereas had the speeder struck the initial vehicle first, the pedestrian may have suffered a less vitally-critical injury or may have perhaps been missed completely by the two vehicle's wreckage. There are so many tiny factors at play here that lead to this very unfortunate but drastically altering event, it can be described as fate, or determinism; an unchangeable event that would seem, because of all these tiny, specific factors, to have been meant to be. What if the pedestrian had decided not to urge the crosswalk, and instead hurried across the street without pressing the button? The light would have stayed red and our initial vehicle would have stopped. The speeder would have gone through unchecked, perhaps to cause an even more tragic accident somewhere else. What if our speeder hadn't decided to have that last drink, or simply wasn't a speed junkie and liked to drive slow? What if the sub-conscious mind of the initial driver hadn't momentarily suppressed the memory of placing the item in the glove compartment? It was the free will of all three people involved in this cataclysmic event that caused it to be, and your mind, conscious or sub-conscious, is what directs your will. To guide our destiny as we see fit, by our own will, that is existentialism. This is just one example off the top of my head, so don't try to argue semantics over this hypothetical situation, this theory can apply to absolutely any situation at all, so long as this situation bears some kind of tiny impact on your life. By reading this of your own will, you are choosing to spend your time doing so, time you would have spent elsewhere had I not willed to record my thoughts on the subject. Your world wouldn't be so different, but even a tiny alteration can ignite a chain reaction of alterations that can continue indefinitely. Every time you focus your thoughts on memory of what you're reading, that's time you could have spent thinking about something else, or focusing your attention on something else entirely. One more quick example; you are with a friend in town, and it's time to part ways. As your trusted chum walks away, your mind goes off and you call out to them, as there's something you forgot to bring up in conversation. Let's say you wanted to recommend their reading of a certain interesting Facebook note you read at a previous date. This delays your friend by x amount of seconds, possibly saving their life, possibly ending it, but also possibly inspiring them to read said article and cause another set of alteration chain reactions. Your sub-conscious mind had withheld thatmemory long enough, and returned it to your conscious mind at the perfect time to share it.
We now see how easily we can, significantly or insignificantly, impact or alter the lives of whoever our will affects, and our will affects everyone we come into any kind of contact with; visual, oral, smells, sounds and feelings. The five senses. We do this without ever even knowing it, and we couldn't stop if we tried. It is our sub-conscious, and even if we died the impacts we made on peoples lives would continue to chain react and affect people we never knew. Our will lives on in that way, and it is my goal to positively impact as many people as possible, so that massive chain reactions of positivity will take place for generations after my death, so my will shall never die, and that is immortality.
Anyways, I elect that the collective sub-conscious minds work together in sentience to guide these changes. I think the human mind is, indeed that powerful that this is possible, we know very little about the intricacies and capacity of our brains, it is said we use very little of them. So, fate and free will; fate controlled by the sub-conscious and free will controlled by the conscious, work together in unison to guide all individual human destiny.
Now, there are two kinds of alterations fate and free will can construct; benevolent ones and malevolent ones. Fortune or tragedy. Good or evil. Since it is the collective minds of humans controlling fate and free will, both positive and negative occurrences, we must remember that there are righteous minds, neutral minds, evil minds, and everywhere in between. The will of the righteous mind is of just that, to have positive impacts on humanity whereas the will of the evil mind would be to have negative impacts on humanity. The neutral minds out there have neither necessarily positive or necessarily negative impacts, simply neutral impacts where none are fortuned or lost. So would it not be logical that the more righteous minds active in our collective sub-conscious, our "God", the more benevolent forces at play, afflicting positive change? If there is more evil lying in the sub-conscious of humanity than there is good, will there be greater worldwide tragedy and misfortunes to set off chain reactions of negativity that yield further evil minds and more hardships?
If there is a "God", there must be a "Devil". It is dark and light, good and evil, yin and yang, it is the balance, and it must be upheld. The sentience that is our collective sub-conscious attests to this balance, for it is comprised of all minds of humanity, good and evil. These two forces are constantly battling one another, and judging by the state of the world I'd predict a larger number of evil minds than righteous minds are in existence. But since "God" is the sentient being, who, since comprised of all minds therefore has access to all minds and is therefore all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-powerful, how can a "Devil" exist? Simple. "God" represents the combined forces of the righteous, and the "Devil" represents the combined forces of the wicked. Two alter-ego's, a part of a single sentience, eternally waging war, each aiming to create either more good or evil minds. Heaven and hell? No, only in this context do I believe that a sentient "God" can exist.
So, to wrap this up, since "God" is the collective minds of the righteous, then each and every righteous mind is a part of this "God". They are all, by definition and logic, Gods themselves. This means we walk among Gods and Devils every day, without even knowing it.
What if "God" is the collective sub-conscious of humanity?
That would make me a God. Are you a Devil?
What if "God" is the collective sub-conscious of humanity?
What if the human mind is so powerful that, unbeknown to our conscious minds, our sub-conscious minds: all within the proximity of the our planet's gravitational pull, connect telepathically and form an all-knowing sentience with the power of over six billion minds?
Let me elaborate a little on the sub-conscious and its relation to existentialism/determinism. Our sub-conscious minds control tiny, critical alterations to our lives that can dramatically change our futures, or even save or end or lives. Picture a scene: a man leaves his house, and begins driving his car down a lightly trafficked street after dark. For a moment, he believes himself to have forgotten an item of importance, so he lets off the acceleration and slowly decelerates for a few moments until he locates the item in the glove compartment. He then resumes speed. Because of this delay, he lost several seconds of and about 30 feet. The first set of lights he nears is red, and no vehicle is waiting for it to change on either side, but a pedestrian travelling in the same direction pushes the cross button and awaits the proper signal to continue. The light for perpendicular travellers turns yellow immediately, and the green light is given to our initial travellers anywhere from 25-35 feet before our vehicular traveller reaches the intersection, but our pedestrian begins crossing immediately. A speeding vehicle, perhaps piloted by intoxication, travelling on the perpendicular street speeds past the intersection and through the red light, as well as the pedestrian. Our initial driver is in awe of the realization that, had he initially been aware of his item's location in the glove compartment, he would not have slowed and thus would have been in the path of the law-breaker and would have suffered vast injury and possibly death. Instead, the pedestrian is dead, whereas had the speeder struck the initial vehicle first, the pedestrian may have suffered a less vitally-critical injury or may have perhaps been missed completely by the two vehicle's wreckage. There are so many tiny factors at play here that lead to this very unfortunate but drastically altering event, it can be described as fate, or determinism; an unchangeable event that would seem, because of all these tiny, specific factors, to have been meant to be. What if the pedestrian had decided not to urge the crosswalk, and instead hurried across the street without pressing the button? The light would have stayed red and our initial vehicle would have stopped. The speeder would have gone through unchecked, perhaps to cause an even more tragic accident somewhere else. What if our speeder hadn't decided to have that last drink, or simply wasn't a speed junkie and liked to drive slow? What if the sub-conscious mind of the initial driver hadn't momentarily suppressed the memory of placing the item in the glove compartment? It was the free will of all three people involved in this cataclysmic event that caused it to be, and your mind, conscious or sub-conscious, is what directs your will. To guide our destiny as we see fit, by our own will, that is existentialism. This is just one example off the top of my head, so don't try to argue semantics over this hypothetical situation, this theory can apply to absolutely any situation at all, so long as this situation bears some kind of tiny impact on your life. By reading this of your own will, you are choosing to spend your time doing so, time you would have spent elsewhere had I not willed to record my thoughts on the subject. Your world wouldn't be so different, but even a tiny alteration can ignite a chain reaction of alterations that can continue indefinitely. Every time you focus your thoughts on memory of what you're reading, that's time you could have spent thinking about something else, or focusing your attention on something else entirely. One more quick example; you are with a friend in town, and it's time to part ways. As your trusted chum walks away, your mind goes off and you call out to them, as there's something you forgot to bring up in conversation. Let's say you wanted to recommend their reading of a certain interesting Facebook note you read at a previous date. This delays your friend by x amount of seconds, possibly saving their life, possibly ending it, but also possibly inspiring them to read said article and cause another set of alteration chain reactions. Your sub-conscious mind had withheld thatmemory long enough, and returned it to your conscious mind at the perfect time to share it.
We now see how easily we can, significantly or insignificantly, impact or alter the lives of whoever our will affects, and our will affects everyone we come into any kind of contact with; visual, oral, smells, sounds and feelings. The five senses. We do this without ever even knowing it, and we couldn't stop if we tried. It is our sub-conscious, and even if we died the impacts we made on peoples lives would continue to chain react and affect people we never knew. Our will lives on in that way, and it is my goal to positively impact as many people as possible, so that massive chain reactions of positivity will take place for generations after my death, so my will shall never die, and that is immortality.
Anyways, I elect that the collective sub-conscious minds work together in sentience to guide these changes. I think the human mind is, indeed that powerful that this is possible, we know very little about the intricacies and capacity of our brains, it is said we use very little of them. So, fate and free will; fate controlled by the sub-conscious and free will controlled by the conscious, work together in unison to guide all individual human destiny.
Now, there are two kinds of alterations fate and free will can construct; benevolent ones and malevolent ones. Fortune or tragedy. Good or evil. Since it is the collective minds of humans controlling fate and free will, both positive and negative occurrences, we must remember that there are righteous minds, neutral minds, evil minds, and everywhere in between. The will of the righteous mind is of just that, to have positive impacts on humanity whereas the will of the evil mind would be to have negative impacts on humanity. The neutral minds out there have neither necessarily positive or necessarily negative impacts, simply neutral impacts where none are fortuned or lost. So would it not be logical that the more righteous minds active in our collective sub-conscious, our "God", the more benevolent forces at play, afflicting positive change? If there is more evil lying in the sub-conscious of humanity than there is good, will there be greater worldwide tragedy and misfortunes to set off chain reactions of negativity that yield further evil minds and more hardships?
If there is a "God", there must be a "Devil". It is dark and light, good and evil, yin and yang, it is the balance, and it must be upheld. The sentience that is our collective sub-conscious attests to this balance, for it is comprised of all minds of humanity, good and evil. These two forces are constantly battling one another, and judging by the state of the world I'd predict a larger number of evil minds than righteous minds are in existence. But since "God" is the sentient being, who, since comprised of all minds therefore has access to all minds and is therefore all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-powerful, how can a "Devil" exist? Simple. "God" represents the combined forces of the righteous, and the "Devil" represents the combined forces of the wicked. Two alter-ego's, a part of a single sentience, eternally waging war, each aiming to create either more good or evil minds. Heaven and hell? No, only in this context do I believe that a sentient "God" can exist.
So, to wrap this up, since "God" is the collective minds of the righteous, then each and every righteous mind is a part of this "God". They are all, by definition and logic, Gods themselves. This means we walk among Gods and Devils every day, without even knowing it.
What if "God" is the collective sub-conscious of humanity?
That would make me a God. Are you a Devil?