When building a human from the bottom up, one must rediscover the Foundation. The Fundamental.
This is entirely a mystery to modern science.
Most modern scientists continue to work with SpaceTime as if it were fundamental, but scientists in multiple fields have now proven that it is not True.
SpaceTime is merely a perceptual User Interface through which we interact with something far, far deeper.
(Something like) Energy could be named fundamental, and we could build up the physical world out of it, and show Consciousness as a phenomena arising from or "on top of" the physical world.
Yet the vast majority of Energy is still Dark Energy to us, and every year as we look deeper or further we discover new surprises, and we have been entirely unable to scientifically figure out Consciousness.
Creative Consciousness can be viewed as either the highest order manifestation or random creation of an accidental physical world...
...or very near to the deepest fact from which the physical world is arising.
Conscious Agency can be viewed as either either arising from an accidental universe...
...or co-creating an intentional and intelligent universe.
Either the physical is deeper than Consciousness and supporting it, or Consciousness is deeper than the physical and supporting it.
This either-or framing is merely used to force the elementary thought experiment, because the Reality is far Deeper.
One must really get far beyond the childish notions of whether or not one “believes in God to ponder these deepest questions.
When we say Deepest, we mean that technically, as in That Upon Which The Most Other Things Depend.
When articulating a working understanding of the Universe, the Reality is that We Do Not Know.
So the fascinating thing is that Science then demands that we consciously Co-Create a Cosmology and Act As If it were True to test how well our Hypothesis conforms to Reality.
This compels us to take the risks of thinking creatively, creating hypotheses, and experimenting to see if they hold.
This is Science!
The Reality is that at the present time, we are unable to disprove the hypotheses that Consciousness is Deeper or more Fundamental that the Physical.
At a time when we cannot definitively know from a scientific perspective what is True, we must Act Out a hypothesis.
And because of the massive social and environmental risks hanging in the balance, it may be that the consequences of our experiment come with far higher stakes than we can imagine.
There is a risk to Acting As If a Conscious and Intelligent Agent were the fundamental and Ultimate Reality.
There is also a risk to Acting As If some as-yet-unknown aspect of the Physical is fundamental.
Either way, we are betting our future n a hypothesis that is unlikely to be disproven by Science within our physical lifetime.
We either Act As If there were a Conscious Intelligence creating and sustaining the universe…
…or we Act As If there were not.
By Acting As If One Is, we guide our Selves towards a much more careful, humble, and nuanced approach to Life and Consciousness in our universe.
We interact with our universe as if it was Conscious, Intelligent, and Superordinate to us, flowing from One Source to which we All, equally and without exception, have an affirmative moral obligation.
We Act As If there are eternal consequences to our temporal actions.
We Act As If Life is Sacred, precious, and imbued with Universal and Eternal Purpose and Meaning far beyond our Selves.
We Act As If we All are being Created Equal before God.
We Act As If we All are accountable to a Universal and Eternal Standard or Judge that is far greater than any of us and all of us.
We Act As If we have Conscious Agency that matters.
We Act As If the Creative Consciousness within each of us means that we are, in a deep and profound sense, being created in the Image of the One that is creating and sustaining All things.
We Act As If that Divine Spark within is All carries with it Universal and Inalienable Rights And Responsibilities that equally and to All, without exception.
We Act As If our Wisdom traditions and sacred stories were True.
We Act As If we are All here for a Reason, and that Reason is One.
If we instead take an equal step of faith and Act As If we, our Minds, and our Consciousness are arising from a purely Physical plain, it completely changes our logic, morality, and Structure of Values.
Because We Do Not Know, but we need to find out What To Do and How To Be in this Universe, in this unique Time and Place in history...
The Wisest approach, that allows us to move in a [Way] that is compatible with both our most sacred traditions and modern Science, is to view something like a Mind, something like Consciousness as prior to Energy and Matter.
This is what every culture in the world understands is meant by the word God.
The Supreme Creative Consciousness from Whom All things arise.
This is the place of the One, Who is certainly no less Conscious than the Consciousness emanating from It.
The Mind of God.
In the beginning, God…
This is not merely a religious statement.
Yes - it harmonizes with all religious tradition and insight...
...yet it is also, as far as we can currently discern, the scientific hypothesis most likely to prove True.
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