Dear George, I was missing more of your contributions on this list lately (years?). Let me reflect to a few of your topics:
*Chaos.* A decade or so ago I was named 'resident chaotician' on another list - later changed my mind when I was disenchanted by the 'physical chaologists' who picked some 'chaotic' problems that seemed to them as calculable in the original (greek mythological) chaos: the unfathomable uncalculable (pre-geometrical?) plenitude of which the Chronos-Zeus family derived our "Kraxlwerk" (world). Since then I put 'chaos' into the maze of scale-differences (more than just SOME orders of magnitude?) that conflate our math-based thinking. We learn to think about 'chaotic' (very slowly, but we do, indeed). Thank you for leading (me?) towards Tohu-va-Bohu (what I always wrote in one 'tohuvabohu' in ANY language and applied it for some unresolvable mixup in a conglomerate. *"And God saw the light and it was good"* is translated in some other languages as "And God saw THAT the light was good" (Rabbit: which one is close to the original?) Does not underline an omniscient God. Now - your God = Consciousness is to my liking: I could not identify either of them. I consider Ccness a covering noumenon of many phenomena detected over a long cultural history and in my speculations I boiled it down to "responding to information" - self-recursively, or not. E.g. the response of an electron to a + charge etc. So it really covers the entire World as you connotation would imply for God = Consciousness. >From this position it is obvious that I am not much for the Anthropic Principle. It is a backwards thinking from visualizing "US" (as God's children?) as the main actors in the world. We are not. *Consciousness can only see order in the world that it perceives:* reminds me both David Bohm's *'ORDER'* as whatever we know of (and could arrange into the order of our knowledge) - as contrasted such *'explicit (order)'*to the *'implicit' world -- *a n d also to Colin Hales' mini-solipsism about everybody carrying as a personalized (partial) world-content (reality?) the content of one's mind *in the personally adjusted formulation.* I like to call it a *"perceived reality".* Which I find congruent with your "consciousness filters out the world from chaos". I still feel that R.Rabbit would add more content to 'God' than just consciousness. (Cf: Bruno's 'Theos'). John M On 6/17/10, George Levy <gl...@quantics.net> wrote: > > Hi Rabbi Rabbit. > > Welcome > > I haven't contributed to this list for a while but I have been reading it. > > Here is a possible connection between the Kabbalah and the Multiverse, > which I will describe in a bulleted fashion for brevity. > > The initial chaos, "Tohu va Bohu," (from which the French word tohu bohu) > is equivalent to what is known in this list as the Plenitude. > > The first light "Or" is not a physical light at all but it is the awakening > of consciousness. > > The separation that God performs (And God divided the light from the > darkness), is mediated by what is called on this list the Anthropic > Principle. In essence, the just awakened consciousness can only be aware of > the part of the Tohu va Bohu that can support the consciousness's own > existence. Consciousness can only see order in the world that it perceives. > > The sentence "And God saw the light and it was good" is interesting because > consciousness is a self referencing phenomenon. God saw the light but > consciousness also saw the light - itself. This means that God and > consciousness are identical. > > God, consciousness and the world co-emerge out of chaos. Consciousness > filters the world out of Chaos. More specifically, *any instance* of > consciousness "to be what it is" (in the human experience, with consistent > memories and logical capabilities) requires the corresponding world "to be > what it is" (to be ordered, with consistent histories and logical physical > laws). Consciousness and the world mirror each other and therefore, they are > in their own image. There can be many different consciousnesses, each one > being in fact a whole world. > > Best Regards > > George > > > Rabbi Rabbit wrote: > > Dear Jason, > > My assumption is that the Name of God, according to Abraham Abulafia, > could be made of any possible combination of the 22 letters, as long > as this name does not exceed 22 characters. This includes repetitions > of letters and any combination between 1 and 22 characters. > > Thank you for your wise remark, it was indeed not clear enough as I > formulated it previously. > > Yours truly, > > R. 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