Existence: As man understands existence, it is characterized by a temporal/spatial nature.
That is it possesses dimensions. Something is said to exist when it is temporal (changing) and spatial (possibility) - God, often being defined as that phenomenon which ‘exists’ outside ‘reality’ (reality being the temporal/spatial universe), is self-refuting.
Something cannot be said to ‘exist’, that is having a temporal and spatial nature, by not existing.
The most one can say is that one imagines a Being which somehow escapes human understanding. But this depends on ignorance and blind hope more than on any reasoned argument.
Perfection: God is defined by many religions as the 'perfect Being' (omniscient, omnipotent). I would state that if there are no absolutes then everything is in a state of Becoming a Something or Becoming a Nothing. Creation then becomes an act meant to self-realize or self-correct against the ravages of temporal and spatial fragmentation (entropy).
A ‘perfect’ Being would be characterized as inert and not needing or wanting anything. It would have no reason to create at all, since it possesses the entirety of what is possible and it is unchanging (non-temporal/non-spatial).
Furthermore action is motivated by an absence, a lack. We act because we are never satisfied or because we need (we have a temporal character).
To imagine a perfect Being that acts is self-refuting. A God would have no more reason to act than a full bellied man would have to eat.
Beginning/End: The notion of a beginning or an end is rooted on the mythologies of cause/effect. The concepts of cause and effect insinuate a distance, a separation between what causes and its effect, the observer from the observed.
In essence it is a contradiction of temporal flow within spatial possibility. There is no actual separation but only relationships and flow.
The effect is the cause and the cause is the effect as they both express a temporal direction of possibility, perceived in temporal succession by a human mind that can only remain aware of one temporal direction and resulting in the eror of cause followed by an effect.
This myth causes the need for a starting point and an end point, a beginning/end and is often used as an excuse for imagining a creator who is then imagined (hoped) to require neither, in a leap of blatant double-standard thinking called faith.
In fact, the universe requires no starting point, for this would require an absolute which is absent from all sensual experiences, no more than their simile of a God requires a creator.
The Big Bang is but the event horizon of reality.
The absence of an absolute makes existence possible as a reaction to it.
The Big Bang, as a starting point is also a flawed perspective. The Big Bang is our universe’s closest approximation of an absolute Something as the Big Crunch is the closest approximation of an absolute Nothing.
Existence, as we know it, is the intermediating state between the two.
Life, as a reactive enterprise, can only exist as we know it in this temporal direction (the tumbling into Nothingness or towards an absolute Nothing – decay. Disordering being a human interpretation of growing entropy) which is characterized by constant growing fragmentation of the forces that inter-relate to create the ephemeral unities we call matter or life.
Consciousness: The mind is the product of this resistance to decay. It is a sophistication of unity trying to attain a level of order and stability within the growing entropy.
The brain and the mind it produces as a stream of thought (a temporal stream) is a tool meant to direct autopoiesis and to focus energies more efficiently towards this end - in the service of maintenance and growth or resistance to decay.
Need: an expression of lack.
Lack: the universes flux.
Suffering: the conscious interpretation of Need and therefore of flux and the stress of resisting it.
Therefore a conscious entity ‘existing’ 'outside' entropy would have no need for consciousness.
What would a perfect, omnipotent omniscient God be conscious of, except Self?
Human consciousness can also be seen as the universe becoming aware of itself or God awakening to him self.
