If any probability in the quantum sea is a statistical certainty, the state prior to the Big Bang is the sufficient cause of the Big Bang itself. Consciousness and will must have existed in some form from the very beginning—even if only as a potential—as an integral part of the whole. I contend that if consciousness and will are at all determining factors in the part, in the universe of space and time, it must be the result of consciousness and will existing in the aggregate of Ultimate Reality’s acting nature prior to the Big Bang, and from which they cannot be separated except by ignorance.
The aggregate bears all the characteristics of what we call “God.” “The existence of God is intelligible not because it was caused by anything or anyone, but because it flows from his essence.” In him we live, move and have our being. God is not an emergent property. It is not a personality as we understand personality, but personality itself and the source of personality. It does not have consciousness and will as we posses them; it is consciousness and will and their source. God is, as theism postulates, “the creative source of man and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world.” The moment we depart from the concept of undifferentiated reality, however, we must postulate Mind as its technique of unifying the ever-widening divergence if we are at all to account for the evolution of the material universe and the emergence of consciousness and will—human mind—in it.
I’ve never just sat back waiting for the world to give me evidence of what is true. This is something I have believed for many years now as the result of being an active participant in my personal evolution longer than many who read this have been alive. It is still being refined. The Integrated Theory of Intelligence, something that has just recently come to my attention, uses current scientific information in a way that serves to validate my own analysis and conclusions while adding to that refinement, and this because even though it doesn’t point to God’s existence as I understand it, it does posit a reasonable description of how my conception of God manifests in the universe.
There is no rational reason to dismantle my ship without a compelling reason to do so. Nothing here or anywhere else in the Sciforum has even come even close to giving me one. Most of what I’ve seen is what one might expect from ill-informed teenyboppers (like asking for proof that the universe is finely tuned or the insisting that God is an emergent property). The fact that I made some posts here therefore proves something with which many of you will agree: I’m REALLY pathetic!!!
