>Attaching a value to the fact that all our meaning is made up is making
the
>same mistake as when we don't realize that all our meaning is made up.
>That said, life is meaningless only on one level.
>The other day I had a revelation. My first?
>The revelation was that God exists.
>It is perfectly possible, scientifically, for God to exist.
>Just as memes exist, though not based in physical reality, they are an
>emergent property of the human nervous system.
>God is an emergent property of the billions of minds on the planet.
>The Spirit is a tangible force that is created, not creator, of the human
>mind. This force exists and causes things that no individual or group is
>consciously causing, just as the human mind causes things unbeknownst to
>the underlying cells of the body.
>Complexity theory tells us that the nature of an emergent phenomenon is
>unpredictable from and unrelated to the mechanics of its underpinnings.
I see how complexity theory can lead to a sense of meaning. But,the
implications of complexity theory are that we should get religiously
devoted to a greater entity which we cannot control. I don't say that's
bad, but how is that different than devoting yourself to Jesus like the
fundamentalist Christians?
>So the fact that all our memes are empty and meaningless does nothing to
>negate the possibility of a meaningful God, an emergent property of memes.
Hasn't it happened before that something like the Forum which seems like
the greatest thing turns out to be like a cult? What seems different to
you about the complex system theory than other spiritual paths?
David R.