Philosophical musings on Quanta & Qualia;  Materialism & Spiritualism; Science & Religion; Pragmatism & Idealism, etc.

   Post 107.  March 08, 2020 continued . . .

  The God Problem

   Occult versus Obvious Reality

 One answer to that ex nihilo conundrum might be that the properties of Zero are normally hidden in the infinite undefined realm of Potential — in what David Bohm called the “Implicate Order”10 — as opposed to the explicit order of physical reality. Bloom doesn’t assert that such an occult level of reality is a scientific fact, but merely something to think about. In this blog, I have expanded on that possibility, by combining Bohm’s invisible  “order”, with Quantum entanglement, and with Infinity. Which may tax the imagination of most readers. And may be why Bloom passed over it, to avoid getting entangled in super-natural interpretations of the unknown11. But he does go straight into the ubiquity of “translation” from one form to another in the physical world. I typically refer to the same phenomenon as “transformation”, because it implies a causative role for Information, which I call EnFormAction. Apparently, he’s implying that Plato’s Forms, or Aristotle’s Archetypes, or Bohm’s Implicate Order may be translated from universal to specific, from potential to actual.

Which leads him into the next chapter on “deep structures” and “fractal patterns” and “founding axioms” that reveal themselves only to modern computers capable of reiterating simple rules millions of time, until un-anticipated mathematical novelties emerge. This incessant repetition of simplicity-resulting-in-complexity is where he finds “crucial clues to the problem of how a cosmos without a god pulls off acts of genesis”. A cosmos sans god, but with a global mind, and axiomatic laws of order, and with occult sub-realities, and supernatural origins. This creative cosmos communicates in the language of mathematics and logic, based on what Bloom calls “isomorphic symbol sets”, that look different but have some essential properties in common. He doesn’t mention that
“isomorphic” literally means “same underlying Form”, as in Platonic Ideals and Aristotelian Archetypes.

Leonardo da Vinci had a knack for noticing those isomorphic commonalities between things in the world. “How does Leonardo account for this existence of a common pattern seemingly underlying the behavior . . . He puts it down to a fundamental handful of rules underpinning all of nature, underlying all of ‘Necessity’. What is that handful of rules? Leonardo says it’s called ‘Reason’. It’s the logic  . . .” Later, Galileo called those natural rules “laws”, established and enforced by God. Awed by the clear signs of Logos in the world, Leo exclaimed, “This is what guides the human discourse in the considering of divine things.” But Bloom doesn’t take the bait, and continues his argument for laws without a lawgiver.

  Yet, he does continue to hammer on the ubiquity of those metaphorical “laws” that are simply necessities. We can only understand those mysterious regularities in the figurative language of analogies between sublime and mundane concepts. “Metaphorical thinking works. But why?” he says. “The answer is in iteration. The answer is in translation. The answer is in  . . . ‘primitives’. The answer is in Ur patterns.” And “ur” refers to essential properties that were installed in the world by the creative act of the Big Bang. Metaphorically, they are the operating system downloaded from the Singularity, to control the evolutionary process that is currently computing Singularity & Simplicity into emergent Novelty & Complexity.

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Third Eye
Vision of
Occult Reality

  EnFormAction :
Literally, the act of enforming --- to fashion, to create, to cause.

10. Implicate Order :
   “The implicate (also referred to as the "enfolded") order is seen as a deeper and more fundamental order of reality. In contrast, the explicate or "unfolded" order include the abstractions that humans normally perceive.”
   In my own musings, I propose that quantum entanglement (enfolded) occurs in unitary Infinity, in which nothing is actual, but all things are possible.
   The Implicate realm may be where Virtual particles hide before they are trans-formed into Actual particles — the un-measurable state of Superposition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicate_and_explicate_order

11. Occult Reality :
   Bohm and Bloom imagine a phase of reality that lies hidden from the normal human senses. But, instead of advocating ancient occult practices, they anticipate that Science will eventually invade that spooky realm with technological insights. I think it’s already there, with Quantum Theory.

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Howard Bloom

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